Posted By iainf check out the dsear 2002 regs. they state you must do a risk assessment and put in control measure to eliminate or redue the risk. i would stay storing outside would reduce the risk considerably. iain

Posted By Robert K Lewis Gary Once you have checked the contents of the HFL&LPG regs for advice you can forget them as law. They were repealed by DSEAR 2002 and this is the legislation that is to be met. You can use everything else as good practice. I think you need to explore the use of competent advice in this area before anything goes ahead Bob

Posted By Steve Clark Surely the implimentation of CAD and ATEX within DSEAR would reflect the requirements of the old HFL&LPG when carrying out a risk assessment to determine what "reduce the quantity of dangerous substance to a minimum" means? If this is not the case, where do you go for a lead on what is a minimum. If the argument is that it should be only that required for use, then for how long? An hour, shift, day... DSEAR raises all sorts of questions that have to be answered and from recent personal experience, the HSE doesn't want to answer them - responding with it's up to your risk assessment; that is until something goes wrong. Basing your judgements on similar legislation, although repealed, when no other or limited guidance exists is as good a starting point as any other. I recently went to HSL at Buxton for a presentation on DSEAR and took the oportunity to ask some questions, guess what - yep, didn't get an answer for my particular problem. I feel that there is still a place for prescriptive legislation within a framework of risk assessment rather than just relying wholly on judgement; hindsight seems to be the friend of the enforcement of risk assessment legislation. Cynical???