Road Tanker Loading and Unloading Checklist

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1. Have specific hazard and activity risk assessments been completed and are these regularly reviewed?
2. Are the physical characteristics of the material or materials involved fully understood? • At the expected temperature and pressures within the tanker or storage vessels? • If it were released at expected worst- and best-case atmospheric conditions? • Is it a liquid, gas or solid? • Is it explosive, flammable or toxic? • Does it create static? • Is it likely to cause erosion or corrosion to the transfer network? • Is it water miscible? • If a gas or a vapour is generated, is it heavier than air?
3. If multiple different materials are loaded or unloaded from the same station, are any materials reactive or incompatible with each other? Are appropriate precautions taken to minimise the materials from interacting?
4. Does the nature of the tanker loading and unloading station increase the risk posed, due to: • Nature of the surface and its porosity? • Gradient of the surface? • Distance from exposed assets including buildings, tanks, and equipment? • Distance from any pumps or control features associated with the activity itself? • Other transport passing by or in close proximity? • Being in a roadway? • Other loading and unloading stations? • Drains or similar nearby? • Rivers or streams nearby? • Nature of the surrounding areas? • Any overhead obstructions?
5. Does the activity expose assets and/or buildings, including: • Open windows or doors? • Ventilation air intake vents?
6. When considering the nature of the material and the location of the activity, do the risk assessments include the maximum and minimum expected: • Wind conditions? • Ambient temperature? • Rain fall? • Snow or ice? • Humidity?
7. Are there appropriate process controls and hardwired interlocks?
8. Have emergency manual shutdown buttons been located in two (2) readily accessible and safe locations? Are alarms or warning indicators clearly labelled and regularly checked?
9. If a liquid or a solid, has containment been provided for at least 110% of the capacity of the largest container or 25% of their total storage capacity, whichever is the greater?
10. Do barrier walls or fire compartment walls need to be provided around the activity, or between it and any exposures?
11. Aside from any interlocks on the vehicle, are physical restraints used to prevent vehicle movement?
12. Are connecting hoses or piping of appropriate length and condition, and are these formally inspected and maintained? Are couplings, hoses and seals regularly examined to ensure compatibility, and to check for the presence of dirt before connection?
13. If multiple materials are transferred, are separate hoses for each material used, and are they easily identifiable and labelled?
14. Are earthing and bonding straps provided? • Are these interlocked to prevent material transfer? • Are there earth continuity indicator lights? • Is this formally inspected, tested and maintained?
15. Are activities always completed by trained site operators and road tanker drivers? Are all road tanker drivers provided with site induction training?
16. Are formal recorded inspection, testing and maintenance activities completed for all items in the process, including the vehicle?
17. If the area is classified, are appropriately rated devices, equipment, vehicles, clothing and footwear used? Is this monitored and audited?
18. Are temporary barriers used to prevent vehicle or personnel movements?
19. Is there clear and appropriate signage throughout the site and at the loading and unloading points?
20. If there is the potential for materials to enter drains, are appropriate covers used? What about for an emergency release?
21. Is there appropriate lighting, including emergency lighting?
22. Are other activities prevented from being completed at the same time as these operations, such as: • Hot work or other permit-related activities? • Vehicles driving past? • Other loading or unloading if there are adjacent stations? Especially important if they involve incompatible or reactive materials.
23. Are housekeeping, vegetation growth and waste control maintained to the highest standards? Is this all maintained away from loading and unloading activity?
24. Are there formal training programmes in place for: • What is normally expected to happen? • What could happen in a number of emergency situations? • How people are expected to respond? • Both own personnel and contractors or third parties?
25. Has appropriate volatile organic content detection been provided for any organic liquids or gases handled?
26. Has appropriate toxic material detection been provided?
27. If more than one material is transferred, have all physical characteristics been considered for the detection systems?
28. Is appropriate automatic fire detection provided?
29. Where any detection is installed, have interlocks been provided to safely and automatically shut down material transfers?
30. If there is concern for gas or vapour escape, have automatically and/or manually activated water curtains or water sprays been provided to knock down or absorb such materials?
31. Have automatically actuated sprinkler or deluge systems been provided to extinguish any potential fires, including: • Material fire? • Vehicle fire?
32. Has exposure protection been provided for any other assets or buildings nearby?
33. If there is potential for a release or a pool fire within a contained area, has appropriate foam or foam blanketing been provided?
34. Are there monitor nozzles or water cannons?
35. Are there appropriate fire hydrants in the area, with at least two located in opposite directions? Is the available water supply known and considered acceptable?
36. Are formal emergency response plans in place? Do these consider: • What could fail? • What could go wrong? • How it could escalate?
37. Are emergency plans practised at least annually?
38. Do emergency plans involve: • Local public resources? • Any contractors or third-party delivery organisations?

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