What is HSE’s role in ensuring the safety of the Milford Haven pipeline?
The operator of the pipeline, National Grid Gas, has a duty to ensure that the pipeline is designed, constructed and operated safely. HSE’s role is to enforce health and safety law and to ensure that the risks are properly controlled. We do this by setting land use planning zones around the pipeline and associated above ground installations (AGIs), assessing the pipeline design, and undertaking inspections during construction and operation. Under The Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996, the pipeline operator must notify HSE of any new cross-country pipeline which is to be constructed as part of the National Gas Transmission System (NTS) – this is known as the pre-construction notification. The operator must send a further notification 14 days before gas is introduced into the pipeline – the pre-operation notification. When HSE received the Milford Haven Pipeline pre-construction notification we advised local authorities of appropriate land use planning controls along the route of the pip
