Do work vehicles need to carry a Fire Extingusher? We have several transit van type vehicles with some carrying upto 5 litres of petrol and or diesel. Can anyone tell me in plain English what the regs are and if the carrying of upto 5 liters of petrol to fill up their generator (for example) is classed as 'Carrying Dangerous Goods'. Your knowlegde is needed. Thanks Rick

Thanks Andy, I have a read of 1.1.3.3 of ADR 2011. Rick

Hi Carriage of Petroleum- the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2004 (CDG) require that Petrol should be carried in UN Approved containers (called packages) which are properly stowed on the vehicle. The packages should be marked with Flammable Diamond and with the UN number for petrol (UN 1203). Up to 333 litres may be carried as a small load which means that only general training needs to be given to the driver and that the vehicle only needs to carry 1 x 2kg fire extinguisher. These regulations do not affect purely private carriage. Les

Not sure I can agree with you, our organisation does not advocate the fighting of fires in our vehicles, a risk assessment was carried out (not by me) and found that the safest practice was for employees to exit the vehicle as soon as was possible. Delaying to retrieve, unhook, unclasp the extinguisher was seen as unacceptable, as was returning to the vehicle to fight the fire, which could go pop at any time. As such the extinguishers were removed. Better to accept the loss of a vehicle/cargo than to lose employees.