Posted By Homer
I have been advised that we are not permitted to store more than two 5 litre containers of petrol on site, we were using the standard 5 gallon gerry can up to now which you can still readily buy. Is this limit correct?

Posted By Ron Hunter
The advice is reasonable in the context that further storage would need a closer consideration of location, fire, containment etc. but there is no prescriptive limit applicable to construction sites that I'm aware of.
Very old (1920's) legislation inferred a limit of 2x1 gallon containers in a private vehicle, and this same limit may still be applied within retail filling station conditions of licence. Perhaps this is where your adviser is translating these limits from?
I would not support the use of jerry cans for storing petrol, (a) you should not be permitted to use these at retail petrol filling stations, they are not usually appropriately marked to indicate highly flammable content, and (c) they do not have the integrated pouring spout which comes with plastic 5l containers, increasing spillage and fire risk.
There's also the problem of confusing petrol with derv in similar containers!

Posted By Robert K Lewis
Whatever the amopunt stored you will still be subject to the Oil Storage Regs 2000. Therefore you will need some form of bunded pallet or other container able to hold the volume of the largest container. Full bunds will be required when the container size is over 200litres, ie 45 gallon in old money.

If you holding large volumes though one has to ask why. Diesel is the best fuel in most situations as the storage issues are significantly less. I certainly would be unhappy with much more than a couple of gallons of petrol on site for use with small tools.

Bob