A caravan park with a bulk LPG tank and a cylinder cage is a DSEAR site. So is a hotel with a beer cellar full of CO2 and a kitchen on bottled gas. Most owners have never been told.
A holiday park with a bulk LPG tank and a cylinder cage, or a hotel or pub with a kitchen on bottled gas, is a DSEAR site as well as needing a fire risk assessment. The assessment looks at the LPG storage and supply and the kitchen gas, zones the places that need it, checks ignition sources and ventilation, records the controls, and covers the CO2 in the beer cellar on the same visit.
Above-ground and underground tanks supplying a park, hotel or rural pub. Separation distances from buildings, boundaries and ignition sources; the zoned area around the tank, the fill point and the vent; what is allowed inside it. The supplier's installation certificate is not a DSEAR assessment.
Park cylinder exchange cages, the patio-heater store, the hotel's spare bottles. Ventilation, segregation, ignition sources, signage and who has the key.
Beer cellars carry cylinders and often a bulk CO2 vessel. CO2 is an asphyxiant rather than flammable, but the cellar gas installation, its ventilation and the alarm are part of the same assessment and the same visit.
Commercial kitchens on LPG bottles rather than mains, particularly on parks and in rural inns. Interlocks, isolation, cylinder location and the extract system.
Standby generators with day tanks, red diesel for park plant, petrol for tools. Storage, dispensing, bunding and the zone around the tank vent.
Marina-side parks and hotels with a fuel berth or a petrol store for site vehicles are running a small filling station, and the assessment treats them as one.
The fire risk assessment notes the LPG tank as a hazard. DSEAR asks a different set of questions: where can gas be released, how far does the explosive atmosphere extend, what zone is that, what equipment and activities are allowed in it, and what is the basis of safety. That produces a zoning sketch and an equipment check that the fire assessment does not. Pembrokeshire County Council's site licensing officers and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service both know the difference, and insurers are catching up.
We do both in one visit. The two documents are written to agree with each other, which matters when an inspector reads them side by side.
Parks that shut for winter change their fuel picture twice a year — tanks refilled, cylinders delivered, plant brought out of store. A pre-season review of both assessments is the sensible pattern, and reviews of our own reports are charged at a reduced rate.
Coastal parks from Amroth round to Newport, the Tenby and Saundersfoot hotels, harbour pubs, and the inns and farm B&Bs inland are all within the county and travel is included. Groups with several sites are quoted as one job.
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The supplier's installation and the periodic tank inspection cover the tank. DSEAR is the employer's duty to assess the risk from the gas on the premises — release, zoning, ignition sources, controls — and the supplier does not do that for you.
Yes. There is no threshold quantity in DSEAR. A small pub is a short assessment and it is normally done in the same visit as the fire risk assessment.
CO2 is not flammable, so the explosive-atmosphere part does not apply, but the cellar gas installation and asphyxiation risk are assessed alongside the LPG and kitchen gas in the same document, because that is what an inspector expects to see.
Yes, and we recommend it. One visit, two documents written to agree with each other, one invoice.
No charge for the conversation. Most quotes go out the same day.