CRS offers more choice for MOD Service leavers

Corporate Risk Systems (CRS) are pleased to announce that the MOD have now approved over 21 Health Safety and Environmental training courses and course packages for ELC funding offered by CRS. Ros Stacey UK Sales Director and MOD Account Manager said “this is excellent news for Service Leavers and ex-service leavers of the armed forces, they now have more choice in the HSE courses they would like to take as part of their resettlement into Civvy street. CRS have been training service and ex-service leavers now for nearly 10 years and each year the numbers increase by way of referral. With at least 10 new training packages on offer there is something for everyone” Ex-service leavers have 10 years in which to use their Enhanced Learning Credits (ELC) and recently more and more of the delegates attending  CRSs’ courses have left the forces sometime ago and found employment only to find it’s not quite right for them, they then look at other employment opportunities and what qualifications they may need. Ros went on to say “We recently had an gentleman who is now working as a Health & Safety Manager and the company he works for wanted him to obtain CMIOSH he had the NEBOSH National General Certificate and wanted to take the NVQ level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (considered the best route to CMIOSH) he remembered that he had not claimed all his ELC’s but with only two weeks to go before the 10 years expired he had to work fast, he contacted me and we quickly got all his documents completed and he submitted them for approval by ELCAS, the acceptance and confirmation that the funding had been awarded came through with 24hours to spare”. Ros would advise all ex-service staff whether Army, RAF or Navy ‘check your records’ and see if there is still funding for you, it could help you to a better career.

For more information contact Ros at rs@crsrisk.com and she will help you with the process.

STOP PRESS Health and safety statistics 2013/14

Published 29 October 2014 are the latest annual statistics on work-related health and safety in Great Britain 2013/14 and includes the following key annual figures:

•    133 workers killed at work.
•    1.2 million working people suffering from a work-related illness.
•     2535 mesothelioma deaths due to past asbestos exposures (2012).
•     78 000 other injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR.
•     629 000 injuries at work from the Labour Force Survey.
•     28.2 million working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury.
•     £14.2 billion estimated cost of injuries and ill health from current working conditions (2012/13).

The HSE news release provides detailed commentary on these figures and is supported by:

• the Statistics webpages
• a comprehensive set of tables
• our annual key facts publication
• 'At a glance guide'

Last Mighty Mini race of the season and 2nd place in the Ladies Championship for Caroline GIlbert

Donington Park hosted the final rounds of the 2014 Mighty Mini Championship. It was a dry but very windy weekend. Caroline managed to qualify with Paul Rhodes, she sat behind him down the long straights using his car to make a hole in the wind. With qualifying finished she was 4^th on the grid, her best qualifying of the year.
Race time came and Caroline made a great start moving up to second place on the first lap, but it wasn’t to last as the other cars ‘paired’ off they were much quicker than her down the straights and she soon dropped back the order. She spent the race fighting over 6^th place with race winners Sam Hathaway and Paul Rhodes, despite being at the front of the battle she finished at the back of it in 8^th place just 0.02 second off 6^th place.
The top 7 cars were reversed for the second race meaning once again Caroline had missed out and would start from her finishing position of 8^th for the race. She made another good start gaining a couple of position on the first lap, but once again the wind made a big difference down the straight and despite pushing with Greg Jenkins the places gained were lost coming through the chicane to finish the first lap. As Caroline started battling with Greg Jenkins and Steve Ride out they slowed each other down and the front pack pulled away. It was another classic Mighty Mini race where positions were changing at every opportunity. As the flag fell Caroline finished in 10^th place again just the width of the bumper from 9^th. A great way to end the season.
A dnf from round one and not attending the 2 rounds at Zolder meant Caroline was unable to retain the ladies tittle, but did finish 12^th overall and 2^nd in Ladies class.
Caroline is entering one more race in 2014 the inaugural BWRDC (British Womens Racing Drivers Club) Race for a Record. This will be a race exclusively for female race drivers and the aim is to get a record number of female drivers on track at one time, the race is being staged at the Silverstone circuit home to the British Grand Prix on 2^nd November.
We all wish Caroline and Team CRS good luck for the race on Sunday.

Burnley College in court over employee’s life-long injuries

Burnley College has been fined £20,000 after an employee was severely injured when he fell three metres while changing an air filter on an extraction system.
The sixth form and further education college was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found it had failed to ensure the work was carried out safely, despite specialising in teaching health and safety courses.
Preston Crown Court heard that the 63-year-old engineering technician from Burnley, who has asked not to be named, had needed to put his left foot on a cabinet and his right foot on the top rung of a stepladder to reach the filter.
As he did this, on 28 May 2013, the stepladder toppled from under him and he fell sideways, hitting a bench on his way down. His back was broken in several places and he also sustained a fractured breastbone.
The employee required morphine for 12 days to manage the pain, was off work for five and a half months, and is likely to need to take pain killers every day for the rest of his life. He can now only walk short distances and has had to give up hobbies such as fell walking and DIY, which he carried out for his 85-year-old mother.
The court was told the extraction system had been installed at short notice after the college secured a new contract to train nearly 300 employees from the aerospace industry on working with sheets of carbon fibre.
The unit was needed to remove the carbon fibre dust generated by drilling and other processes but it was installed above a narrow gap between a cabinet and a fixed workbench. This meant the employee was unable to use the college’s mobile elevated work platform to reach the filter, which needed to be changed regularly.
The HSE investigation found his supervisor had witnessed him removing the filter in exactly the same way just over a week earlier, but had failed to take any action to ensure the work was carried out safely in future.
The college had not given the employee any training on working at height, and had failed to produce a single risk assessment on work at height activities since moving to a new building in 2009.
CRS says “an interesting article, ensure that all your employees receive accredited Health & Safety Training. For more information on how CRS can help you avoid these type of accidents contact us now rs@crsrisk.com

Bedfordshire vets in court after workers exposed to harmful drugs

A Bedfordshire veterinary firm has been fined after workers were potentially exposed to harmful substances found in animal chemotherapy drugs prepared at the veterinary practice over a four year period. Employees of Davies Veterinary Services Limited, including vets, nurses and support staff, were potentially exposed to the drugs as they prepared medicines to treat animals with cancer at the firm’s premises at Manor Farm Business Park on Higham Road in Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire.
The company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after it emerged the fume cabinet used for animal chemotherapy drug preparation was not used in the way it was designed for.  This meant that employees had potentially been exposed to substances that are harmful to human health and can cause cancer.
Luton Crown Court heard recently (23 October 2014) that a dangerous occurrence was reported to HSE in September 2011 after one of the vets believed that the fume cabinet was unsuitable. The investigation also found there was no system of work in place to prevent or reduce the risk of exposure to employees, that there had been no maintenance of the fume cupboard for many years and the cleaning procedures were inadequate. Staff had not been given any safety training in the safe use of the fume cupboard, and there was inadequate personal protective equipment and no monitoring systems.  This meant that over a period of over four years, from July 2007 until September 2011, staff working at the practice could have been exposed to the potentially harmful drugs.
Davies Veterinary Services Limited, of Shefford Business Centre, Hitchin Road, Shefford, Bedfordshire, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The company was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £50,378 in costs.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector Emma Page, said: “The chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer in animals can cause cancer in humans and harm unborn babies. The company had no arrangements in place to ensure employees could work safely when preparing these drugs. Around 125 people work at the practice of which a small number would have been at risk of developing cancer. Simple measures, such as an appropriately designed, maintained and serviced fume cabinet, protective equipment adequate cleaning procedures and proper training, would have prevented exposure.”
The team at CRS has over 20 years’ experience of assisting organisations to implement the COSHH Regulations (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health).  If you would value a review of your own chemicals and substances hazards and how they are controlled, contact us at 01283 509175 or advice@crsrisk.com

Mental health service provider fined £10K following patient fall

Mental health services provider North Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust (NEPUFT) has been fined for safety failings after a resident service user with a history of trying to abscond fell from the first floor window of a secure unit in Harlow. The 18 year old suffered two fractures to her back and a dislocated right knee after falling a distance of three-and-a-half metres from her dormitory bedroom window at the Derwent Centre on Hamstel Road on 27 July 2013. NEPUFT was prosecuted on 21 October after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the fall.
Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard the incident could have been prevented had a window restrictor on her bedroom dormitory window been properly set to the requisite 100mm.
North Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust, of Stapleford House, Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £615 after pleading guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Speaking after the hearing HSE Inspector Kim Tichias, said: “The risks of vulnerable patients falling from windows are well known. There have been a number of similar accidents in recent years, including fatalities, and any windows that are accessible to vulnerable people should be restrained so that they cannot be opened far enough to allow people to fall out. This incident is all the more serious because it involves a member of the public who was in this environment specifically to ensure her safety and well-being. Furthermore, the Trust was aware of the risks but had not put adequate safety measures in place in a timely manner. A window restrictor, correctly set to allow a maximum opening of 100mm, would have prevented this incident and the serious injuries suffered.”
Karen Fryer, Head of Consulting at CRS said that compliance with basic standards would have prevented this incident.  Working on the basis that ‘if it can happen, it will’, it was obvious to fit window restrictors.  “CRS provides regular health and safety advice to care homes and other health services across the UK.  We would be pleased to advise yours too”, said Karen.

MOD SERVICE LEAVERS NOW HAVE MORE CHOICE

Corporate Risk Systems Ltd (CRS) are pleased to announce that the MOD have now approved over 20 Health Safety & Environmental Training courses and course packages currently offered at 10 CRS training venues across the UK from Edinburgh to Southampton. Ros Stacey UK Sales Director and MOD account manager at CRS said “This is really exciting news, we have for over eight years been offering Health Safety & Environmental Accredited training course packages to forces and ex-forces service personnel, and during this time we have been asked to improve our offerings encompassing better packages and special deals for this market.” CRS has just added a NEW course package ‘NEBOSH National General & Construction Combined course, this course will be on offer from January 2015 and will save over £600 for each service leaver who wishes to book this package.
With HS2 creating over 14000 jobs in Birmingham and an array of new construction works due to commence in Hull over the next two years this course package is certainly one to be considered.
All courses and course packages are approved for ELC (Enhanced Learning Credits) funding and are run throughout the year. The CRS new course calendar will be appearing on our website shortly. You can find all the information on the approved courses at www.enchancedlearningcredits.com or visit www.crsrisk.com to book online using our newly automated system. If you prefer the personal approach give Ros a call on 01283 509175. If you have already left the forces but still have funding get in touch we can help, you do have 10 years to claim after you have left forces employment.

Bonfire Night - Organising firework displays – Stay safe

Firework displays should be enjoyable and spectacular occasions – but they obviously need some responsible planning. The good news is that there is straightforward guidance to help you.

If you are organising a major public event, you will clearly need a robust and detailed approach to planning as well as professional involvement. If you are holding a local firework display, such as those organised by many sports clubs, schools or parish councils, you still need to plan responsibly, but the same level of detail is not necessary or expected. Below are some tips and guidance to help you.

Before the event:

• Think about who will operate the display. There is no reason why you should not light a display yourselves provided it only contains fireworks in categories 1, 2 and 3. but remember, category 4 fireworks may only be used by professional firework display operators. In untrained hands they can be lethal.
• Consider whether the site is suitable and large enough for your display, including a bonfire if you are having one. Is there space for the fireworks to land well away from spectators? Remember to check in daylight for overhead power lines and other obstructions. What is the direction of the prevailing wind? What would happen if it changed?
• Think about what you would do if things go wrong. Make sure there is someone who will be responsible for calling the emergency services
• Make sure you obtain the fireworks from a reputable supplier.
• If the display is to be provided by a professional firework display operator make sure that you are clear on who does what especially in the event of an emergency
• Ensure you have a suitable place to store the fireworks. Your firework supplier or local authority should be able to advise
• If you plan on selling alcohol the bar should be well away from the display site

On the day of the event:

• Recheck the site, weather conditions and wind direction
• Don't let anyone into the zone where the fireworks will fall – or let anyone other than the display operator or firing team into the firing zone or the safety zone around it
• Discourage spectators from bringing drink onto the site
• Don't let spectators bring their own fireworks onto the site
• If you will also have a bonfire at the display then you should:
• Check the structure is sound and does not have small children or animals inside it before lighting it
• Not use petrol or paraffin to light the fire
• Have only one person responsible for lighting the fire. That person, and any helpers, should wear suitable clothing e.g. a substantial outer garment made of wool or other low-flammable material.
• Make sure that the person lighting the fire and any helpers know what to do in the event of a burn injury or clothing catching fire
• Never attempt to relight fireworks. Keep well clear of fireworks that have failed to go off

The morning after:

• Carefully check and clear the site. Dispose of fireworks safely.

Finally enjoy the event.

Barnet building business turns ‘blind eye’

A Barnet building firm has been fined after it ‘turned a blind eye’ to potential asbestos hazards being faced by its workers, who were converting an old pub in Victoria Road into flats.
Westminster Magistrates were told (8 Oct) that concerns about health and safety on the site were raised by local people, who were also worried about the risks to passers-by.
An Inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited on 4 March 2013 to check conditions, and enforcement action regarding unsafe work at height and inadequate fire precautions was taken against MP Builders Ltd that day. The firm was also asked to provide information about how they were managing the asbestos risks on site, but HSE heard nothing from them.
As a result, HSE visited again on 22 March and served an improvement notice on the company, giving them four weeks to provide the workers with the training they needed to enable them to identify materials that might contain asbestos if found during their refurbishment works, and to know  how to deal with it correctly. The deadline was later extended by a week.
MP Builders failed to comply and, despite assurances to the contrary, its failure to comply persisted, remaining in breach of the notice right up to the date of the prosecution.
MP Builders Ltd of Games Road, Barnet, Herts, was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £4,500 in costs for breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
After the hearing, HSE Inspector Stephron Baker Holmes said:
“The improvement notice was straightforward. It was simple and inexpensive to comply with, by providing training to employees liable to be exposed to asbestos. NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety
“If the company had any doubts or questions, it had ample opportunity to ask them and I would have done all I could to help. Instead it apparently buried its head in the sand.
“As well as not meeting the extended deadline, the company continued in its failure to provide any evidence of compliance at any time during more than a year. It seems MP Builders just turned a blind eye to its responsibilities.”

A guide to workplace transport safety re-issued (HSG136 third edition)

CRS is pleased to announce the re-issue of HSG136; a guidance document which provides advice for employers on what they need to do to comply with the law and reduce risk in workplace transport safety. It will be useful for safety practitioners, as well as managers, supervisors, employees and their safety representatives, as well as contractors, vehicle operators and other organisations concerned with workplace transport safety.
The new guide is much shorter and more streamlined than the previous edition and includes advice on your general legal duties and information on health and safety management. There is also more specific advice on controlling risks associated with workplace transport, which has been restructured into three main areas:

• Safe site (design and activity)
• Safe vehicle
• Safe driver

The new edition has been updated to take account of new advice on workplace transport safety and also to reflect changes to relevant legislation and associated guidance. There are new sections on multi-deck vehicles and multi-site deliveries, as well as minor changes to other sections, such as on weighbridges and sheeting.  A copy of the new (v3) guide can be downloaded free from http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg136.htm?eban=govdel-publications&cr=08-Oct-2014

Construction company fined and costs £200K after worker run-over by nine tonne truck

A major construction company has been fined for safety failings after a worker was critically injured when he was run over by a nine tonne dumper truck. David Windsor, 62, of St George, Bristol, suffered life changing injuries, including severe brain injury, in the incident at a building site at Mount Wise, Devonport, on 7 October 2010. He also sustained facial fractures, serious injuries to right arm, fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis, leg fractures and foot injuries all on his right side where the dumper ran over him. The injuries were life changing. He spent two weeks in intensive care, a month in a high dependency unit and was finally discharged home from a brain injury rehabilitation unit in April, 2011 – more than six months later.
Oxfordshire-based JB Leadbitter was sentenced recently (19 September 2014) after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company failed to adequately manage and control workplace transport. Plymouth Crown Court heard that Mr Windsor, a delivery driver, was delivering a mortar silo to the Leadbitter site, a former MoD property where 159 new homes were being built. He was wearing high-visibility clothing, but was hit by the dumper as he was crossing the site to return to his lorry.
HSE established that there was no segregated, defined area provided for people on foot like Mr Windsor. JB Leadbitter, as the Principal Contractor for the site, had not produced or put in place a suitable traffic management plan to ensure the separation of vehicles and pedestrians using the roadway at the site.
JB Leadbitter and Co Ltd, of Grange Court, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, was found guilty of breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The company was fined £100,000 and ordered to pay full costs of around £100,000.
HSE Inspector Jonathan Harris, speaking after the hearing, said: “This terrible incident has left Mr Windsor with significant and lasting injuries and could easily have led to his death. It is unlikely he will be able to return to work again. Simple forethought and planning could have avoided this happening. JB Leadbitter failed to identify risks to site workers and visitors, such as delivery drivers, in their construction phase plan and made no provision for segregating site vehicles and pedestrians at the top end of the site. Other workers on this large site were frequently exposed to serious risks as a result of this lack of planning. Workplace transport incidents are the second most common cause of serious and fatal incidents in the construction industry, yet they could easily be avoided by having proper plans in place and provision for pedestrians on site.”
Stephen Asbury, Managing Director with CRS commented that on average, seven workers are killed every year as a result of collisions with vehicles or mobile plant on construction sites. He said that over 90 were seriously injured.

Salford recycling firm fined £10K plus costs over worker's crushed leg

A recycling firm has appeared in court after an employee almost lost his right leg when it became trapped in a machine at a Swinton factory. Nearly a year after the incident, doctors still do not know whether the 41-year-old from Middleton, who has asked not to be named, will ever regain the full use of his leg. Roydon Polythene (Exports) Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found workers at the plant at Junction Eco Park were routinely put at risk when they tried to remove blockages.
Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard today (26 September 2014) that the employee had been trying to clear a jam in a glass sorting machine on 16 October 2013. He was lifted in a mobile elevating work platform, similar in appearance to a cherry picker, before climbing out of the basket and onto a conveyor belt, more than four metres above the ground. As he tried to clear the blockage, his right leg was drawn into the machinery.  His leg remained trapped for more than two hours while emergency services tried to cut him free. He sustained significant crush injuries, requiring multiple operations to try and save his leg.  The court was told that it had become routine for workers to climb from the lifting basket onto the conveyor belt to clear blockages from an unguarded part of the machine. There were also no guard rails around the edge of the conveyor to prevent employees from falling to the ground below.
Roydon Polythene (Exports) Ltd, of Rake Lane in Swinton, was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £1,221 in prosecution costs after pleading guilty to single breaches of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and the Work at Height Regulations 2005. The charges relate to failing to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery, and failing to put measures in place to prevent workers falling from height.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector Jackie Worrall said: “A worker has suffered severe injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life because his employer failed in its duty to ensure he stayed safe at work.  This wasn’t a one-off incident. Instead, workers were routinely expected to climb onto the conveyor belt to clear blockages from an unguarded part of the machine, putting their lives at risk. It was therefore almost inevitable that someone would be injured, either by becoming trapped in the machine or falling to the ground below.  Roydon Polythene should have carried out a proper assessment of the risks facing its employees, and taken action to put safety measures in place. If it had then the worker’s injuries could have been avoided.”
CRS said: “We urge companies using dangerous machinery to take advice on health and safety and to assess risks properly.  Losses and fines like these can be avoided.  Health and safety – despite the myths – is not onerous or difficult.  Our specialist advisers can provide organisations with a healthcheck-type of review that will give peace-of-mind as well as prioritising any essential actions.  Thereafter, our SafetyShare service which provides as little or as much of a health and safety professional’s time as needed, can provide on-going support to make sure that good standards are maintained.  High value for one low-cost fee. It is much cheaper and effective than employing a safety officer.” Contact Ian Cliffen at 01283 509175 or advice@crsrisk.com

Macclesfield firm who ignored their own safety advice is fined over worker's drill injury

A Macclesfield manufacturer has been fined for safety failings after a worker’s hand became entangled around a factory drill. Stormguard Ltd, which produces a range of drainage products, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found it had ignored warnings by its own health and safety officer about how the machine was being used.
Macclesfield Magistrates’ Court heard the 36-year-old worker from Macclesfield, had only been working at the Chester Road factory for a couple of weeks when the incident happened on 16 October 2012. He was using the drill to produce metal sills, used to deflect rainwater from the bottom of doors, when the glove on his right hand became caught, pulling his hand around the rotating drill bit. The third finger on his right hand was dislocated and fractured, and his little finger was also fractured.
The HSE investigation found that the guard on the drill was inadequate and that it had become common practice for workers to wear gloves while using the drill, despite the risk of gloves becoming entangled being well known in the manufacturing industry.
The court was told that Stormguard’s own health and safety officer had identified inadequate guarding on the drill in a written report over a year before the incident. He also raised the issue of workers wearing gloves while using drills. However, no action was taken to tackle these issues.
Stormguard Ltd, of Chestergate in Macclesfield, was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £4,377 in prosecution costs after pleading guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector Deborah Walker said: “There was simply no need for this incident to have happened, especially as Stormguard’s own health and safety officer had raised the issue with the company. The employee was lucky to escape with relatively minor injuries, but they could easily have been much worse. Workers at the factory were regularly using the drill without an adequate guard and while wearing gloves so there was a high risk that someone would be injured. There’s absolutely no point in manufacturers hiring health and safety officers if they’re not going to listen to their advice. Risk assessments should be acted on – not put on a shelf to gather dust.”

New laws on storing petrol from 1 October 2014

Petrol is a dangerous substance; it is a highly flammable liquid and can give off vapour which can easily be set on fire and when not handled safely has the potential to cause a serious fire and/or explosion. This means there is always a risk of a fire and/or an explosion if there is a source of ignition nearby, for example a naked flame, an electrical spark or similar. Because of these risks, storing petrol safely is covered by legislation; and these new laws apply to you from 1 October 2014 if you store petrol.

What is the law on storing petrol safely?

The Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014 (PCR)  which came into force on 1 October 2014 apply to:

• workplaces that store petrol where petrol is dispensed, i.e. retail and non-retail petrol filling stations; and
• non-workplace premises storing petrol, for example at private homes, or at clubs/associations (or similar).

Petroleum Enforcement Authorities (PEAs) (formerly Petroleum Licensing Authorities (PLAs)) are responsible for enforcing the Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014. They also continue to enforce DSEAR at workplaces covered by PCR. This means that there is no change to the current enforcing arrangements. The safe storage and use of petrol in workplaces is also covered by the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR).

 

Who does this apply to?

Information on how the Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014 applies to the following groups:

• If you are an owner/employee of a petrol filling station
• If you store petrol at home, or at a club/association or similar premises
• If you design, manufacture or supply portable petrol storage containers
• If your workplace stores but does not dispense petrol

 

What does this legislation replace?

The Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014 combine, update and replace all previous legislation on petrol storage. The existing health and safety responsibilities remain the same; anything that is still relevant is included in the 2014 Regulations.

What has been withdrawn?

• List of old petroleum legislation.
• Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) COP6 – Petroleum-Spirit (Plastic Containers) Regulations 1982. Requirements for testing and marking or labelling.
• Approved Document L93 – Approved tank requirements. The provisions for bottom loading and vapour recovery systems of mobile containers carrying petrol.

 

New guidance

New guidance on portable petrol storage containers  is available giving practical advice on the design, construction, materials and marking or labelling of containers as required by the regulations.