Australian Pipeline Industry Association - PIPELINE INCIDENT REPORT

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Thanks for providing your incident data to the Australian Pipeline Incident Database. Understanding incidents and near misses is an important tool for maintaining the pipeline industry's excellent safety record.

We are interested in your data if it meets either of the following definitions:

An INCIDENT is:
* Any damage to the coating or pipe caused by mechanical equipment or any other means, OR
* Any defect which causes a leak, requires repair of the pipe body or requires the MAOP to be reduced

A NEAR MISS is:
* Any land disturbance deeper than 300 mm within the pipeline easement (or within 6 m of the pipeline if no easement exists). Near misses includes excavation, auguring, boring, and driving of fence posts etc.

It is not necessary to report activities that are limited to the surface of the easement with only shallow or no disturbance of the ground.

This questionnaire can be rather long (depending on the type of incident being reported) and unfortunately it isn't possible to return to an incomplete survey to finish it later. If you need advance warning of the type of data required you can download a printed version of the questionnaire here:

http://www.apia.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/POG-Incident-survey-blank.pdf

The blank survey is just for information - please input your data online and DO NOT send the paper form to APIA. The blank survey form also includes pages that you may not see online because the latter includes logic to bypass irrelevant questions (eg. if you are reporting a near miss you will not be asked for details of damage to the pipe).