Warehousing and storage: a guide to health and safety (HSG76): HSG76 / HSG 76 (Health and safety guidance, HSG76 / HSG 76)

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You must follow safe operating procedures designed to reduce the risk of explosion and fugitive emissions when you transfer waste from powder tankers into silos. You must use trained and competent personnel. You must clearly mark hazardous waste storage areas and provide signs showing the maximum quantity and hazardous properties of wastes that can be stored there. Ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do or do not do.” make sure you take special care so that a coupling is able to withstand the maximum shut valve pressure of the transfer pump

have programmed engineering inspections (extending to water testing if structural integrity is in doubt)You must make sure that transfers into and from tankers only take place in bunded areas designed to contain a worst case spillage. You must have emergency storage for leaking vehicles to minimise any acute incidents caused by a seal on a tanker failing. In 2009/10 the storage, warehousing and road haulage industries reported over 8500 work related accidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Local Authorities. Almost 1600 of these accidents were classified as major injuries such as fractures and amputations. Resources HSG210: Asbestos essentials: A task manual for building, maintenance and allied trades on non-licensed asbestos work You must store containerised wastes that are sensitive to air, light, heat, moisture or extreme ambient temperatures under cover protected from such ambient conditions. Covered areas must have good ventilation. This applies to any such container: No, it’s not. That’s what HSE means when they say “you are free to take other action”. However, HSE go on to state that “if you do follow the guidance you will normally be doing enough to comply with the law”.

All containers that need them should have a lid or bung, and the lid or bung must be closed except when the container is being sampled, having waste added into it or having waste removed from it.

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You must store aerosol canisters under cover in secure, well-ventilated containers, and within caged storage areas. You must also store them in a well-vented place that is not subject to extreme temperatures or direct sunlight. You must not store canisters in open containers to prevent the risk of them spreading fires by ‘missiling’ or ‘ejection’. You must make a record of any spillages. You must retain spillages within the bunded areas and collect them promptly using, for example, pumps or absorbents.