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Posted By Stewart Smith
Question Please
I am involved with the construction of a small fuel storage facility, and a question has been raised and I wondered if anyone hear could help with the answer.
Entry and exit to the tank bund areas, is there specific legislation that would cover this or would the HSWA'74 section 2 safe access and egress from a place of work do it.
It also has been suggested that a fire regulation may be in force here, supplying ready access for fire fighting and easy routes of escape for personnel in the event of a fire.
has anyone any opinions or ideas on this.
Thanks
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Posted By andy tetlow
hi stewart,
there's a possibilty that bunded areas could come under the confined spaces regs 1997, which places a lot duties on the employer.
andy
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Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Take great care with this one, there may well be other overiding legislation that covers the requirement for tank bunds. You may need to provide steps into and out of a bund as the purpose of the bund is to contain any spills of the tank contents to limit the risk of fire or explosion. Check out the design of bunds with a relevant body before making recomendations you will live to regret.
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Posted By D H
Hi - even if the bunding is outside, there is still a good chance that confined space Regs come into play. As well as the COSHH Regs, possibly working at height Regs if access is via ladders etc.As well as the Enviro regs.
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Posted By andy tetlow
further to this, the dangerous substance and explosive atmosphere regs 2002(dsear) would be useful reading too with regards to emergency plans etc.
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Posted By Stewart Smith
Hi
Thanks for your knowledgeable responses, as we understand for our situation confined space regulations are not applicable here for this to be applicable the bund wall is required to be above 1M in height and within 1M of the tank, thankfully this is not the case here.
Steps and a walkway into/out of the bund with an emergency ladder for escape is a given in the bund construction and of course all relevant DSEAR and COSHH considerations are being addressed.
Bob touched on that there might be
"other overiding legislation that covers the requirement for tank bunds" this is what I'm really interested in.
Andy made a good point on the emergency plans there could be some mileage in that avenue.
It does seem that are lots of bits 0f different pieces of legislation that should be considered.
Again thanks for the replies would love to here more opinions
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Posted By Brando
Might be way off base but is any of this in the Control of Pollution Regs?
Brando
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Posted By steve e ashton
Difficult to advise without more detail - but the most applicable 'over-riding regs' are probably the COMAH regs (Control of Major Accident Hazard). BUT you state this will be for a 'small' fuel storage installation - therefore COMAH unlikely to apply but you might like to check sched 1 to the regs at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/99074304.htm#sch1
Additionally in Scotland - sorry don't know the Eng equivalent off the top... you may also get some benefit from the Building (scotland) Act as amended:
15. - (1) Every oil storage system with a tank capacity of more than 90 litres, for the storage of fuel oil used principally to serve a combustion appliance providing space or water heating, or cooking facilities, shall be so constructed and installed as to minimise the risk of-
(a) fire spreading to the tank; and
(b) the contents of the tank contaminating any water supply, watercourse, drain or sewer.
Hope this helps?
Steve
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