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When is some piping support movement declared as critical /detrimental for continuous operation?
Should all movements be reported & recorded for any assessment by maintenance & integrity staff?

jeem,
Piping movement which is unintended, uncontrolled, progressive, damaging to associated piping systems etc. could create a problem but not every piping movement.
Some of the movements which are intended to occur during commissioning, and then during operation gets delayed as well and can only be observed a long time after that or never happened even.
Talking about the reporting part, yes, during normal operation if some piping support which was not moved yesterday but today you saw that moving, let that be reported, and assessed by the mechanical teams.

What we do is literally report all these changes. Pipe movement is the one which has to be 100% reported. Our operators keep an eye on vibration, noise, and any other related changes. Sometimes, what happens that a one-time movement without having consistent vibrations goes unnoticed as well. At least from Operations. That is then taken care of HSE rounds, Inspection programs, maintenance works etc.

So it has to be everything which Operator should be reporting keep a single criteria of something NOT normal.
We will be having a session with our Operators on this as sometimes, they depend on planned visual inspection by static, and rotating teams to pick findings, if they qualify to be findings.

You know what, this is what I believe is our duty to arrange for our people doing the rounds in the area to time & again refresh them on such observations not to miss. More data would not harm but under reporting of something which could have been avoided from escalation could save us a near miss, incident or an opportunity.
We call in some of our Reliability guys to have with us those sessions where they identify issues just through their normal visit. Their sharing only could provide our people pointers which they can directly apply in the field or add to their devices. Operations is no doubt the frontline to face all sort of challenges in the field. Higher their level of competence, higher chances of arresting the issues well in time.

jeem wrote: 18 Jan 2026, 06:44 So it has to be everything which Operator should be reporting keep a single criteria of something NOT normal.
We will be having a session with our Operators on this as sometimes, they depend on planned visual inspection by static, and rotating teams to pick findings, if they qualify to be findings.

Yes, exactly. We reinforce that through some refreshers, but I support the idea of being interacting just not about a single topic or so but to share what mechanics /electricians /technicians come in to do with permits or without so that the part where Operations may pickup something, and support with something upfront should be straight forwardly done. I would say that this brings in some sort of cross-learning on curiosity basis as well. Operators have been showing interest at individual levels when we talk about knowing the other discipline duties. Just to know what they do.
Have you been able to conduct such sessions? How did you actually do?