Road Tanker Loading and Unloading Checklist

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To view our Loss Prevention Standard that supports this checklist, please view the following link : https://broker.aviva.co.uk/documents/view/aviva_road_tanker_loading_and_unloading_lps.pdf

1. Have specific hazard and activity risk assessments been completed and are these regularly reviewed?
2. Are the physical characteristics of the material(s) involved fully understood? • At the expected temperature and pressures within the tanker or storage vessels? • If it was 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/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 (un)loading 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, equipment, etc.? • Distance from any pumps or control features associated with the activity itself? • Other transport passing by or in close proximity? o In a roadway? • Other (un)loading stations? • Drains or similar near by? • Rivers or streams? • Nature of the surrounding areas, e.g. commercial, industrial, natural, etc.? • Overhead obstructions?
5. Does the activity expose assets and/or buildings? • Including open windows or doors? • Including ventilation air intake vents?
6. When considering the nature of the material and the location of the activity, the topography, etc., do the risk assessments need to include such things as 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 shut down buttons been located in two (2) readily accessible and safe locations? Are alarms/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/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 look for the presence of dirt, etc. before connection?
13. If multiple materials are transferred are separate hoses for each material used (are these easily identifiable/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 personnel (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, etc. all used? Is this monitored and audited?
18. Are temporary barriers to prevent vehicle or personnel movements used?
19. Is there clear and appropriate signage throughout the site and at the (un)loading 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? Emergency lighting?
22. Are other activities prevented from being completed at the same time as these operations? • Hot work or other permit-related activities? • Vehicles driving past? • Other loading/unloading if adjacent stations provided? Especially if incompatible or reactive materials.
23. Are housekeeping, vegetation growth and waste control maintained to the highest standards? Is this all maintained away from the (un)loading activity?
24. Are there formal training programmes in place for: • Normally what is expected to happen? • What could happen in a number of emergency situations? • How people are expected to respond? • Both own personnel and contractors/third parties?
25. If an organic liquid or gas, has appropriate volatile organic content detection been provided?
26. If toxic, 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/adsorb such materials?
31. Have automatically actuated sprinkler or deluge systems been provided to extinguish any potential fires? • Material fire? • Vehicle fire?
32. If located too close to other assets or buildings has exposure protection been provided?
33. If there is potential for a release or a pool fire within a contained area, has appropriate foam/foam blanketing been provided?
34. Are there monitor nozzles or water canons?
35. Are there appropriate fire hydrants in the area? o At least 2 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 practiced at least annually?
38. Do emergency plans involve: • Local public resources? • Any contractors/third party delivery organisations?