Bulk tanks that have sat in the same corner of the yard for thirty years are the ones nobody has ever assessed.
Red diesel, heating oil, petrol for small plant, LPG for crop drying and, increasingly, standby generator fuel behind commercial premises.
None of it is exotic and all of it is in scope. What makes farm and depot work different is that installations are old, undocumented, and were put in before anyone thought about vent positions or what runs past them. The assessment is usually less about dramatic findings and more about writing down, for the first time, what is actually there and what would happen if it failed.
Farms are employers. The moment you have staff, contractors or a diversification business on the site, the workplace parts of the holding are covered like any other workplace.
On the Milford Haven Waterway and across the Cleddau catchment, a failed bund reaching a watercourse is taken extremely seriously and costs far more than the tank. We flag that alongside the fire and explosion findings, because in practice it is the one that decides whether anything gets done.
If you employ anyone, yes. The farmhouse is a private dwelling and outside it, but the yard, the workshop, the fuel store and any diversification business are not.
Diesel has a relatively high flash point, so a cold tank is a lower vapour risk than petrol or solvent. That does not put it outside DSEAR, and the vent position, the fill point, the bunding and what is stored nearby all still matter.
Yes, and it is one of the more commonly missed items. Day tanks, their fill arrangements and the room they sit in all belong in the assessment.
Grain drying brings both a dust risk and, where LPG or oil fires the drier, a fuel risk. Both belong in the same assessment.
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