The Electricity network safety management system standard provides guidance and nationally recognised requirements for the development of an Electricity Entity's Safety Management System. It is used to define how an entity manages the safe design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of its electrical network.

It applies to electricity entities, which includes electricity distribution and transmission networks. It may also be applied to railway electricity networks.

The core of AS 5577 is Formal Safety Assessments (Generic Hazard/Risk assessment), utilising the hierarchy of control is vital for an effective safety management system.

The Formal Safety Assessments need to cover the entities activities relating to the following:

• Network planning
• Site safety management
• Network safety management
• Network structural integrity
• External interference management
• Fault condition monitoring and response
• Change of operating conditions and remaining asset life review
• Substations operations and maintenance
• Emergency response

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