A petroleum storage certificate is not a DSEAR assessment. You need both, and they answer different questions.
A filling station needs both a petroleum storage certificate, issued in Pembrokeshire by the county council as petroleum enforcement authority, and a DSEAR risk assessment. The certificate covers the storage; the DSEAR assessment covers the whole site, tank chambers, vents, dispensers, deliveries, the shop and the ignition sources around them, and sets the zoning the equipment must match.
The petroleum storage certificate governs the keeping of petrol and is issued by the petroleum enforcement authority. DSEAR is the employer's duty to assess the risk from dangerous substances and to classify hazardous areas. Passing an inspection under one does not satisfy the other.
The delivery connection and the surrounding area, and what a tanker driver is standing in during a delivery.
Vent position and height set a zone that people rarely think about because it is above head height and out of the way until something is built next to it.
The pump housings and the area at ground level around them, where vapour will sit.
Confined, below grade and the classic Zone 0 or Zone 1 location on any forecourt.
Exchange cages and bulk installations, usually assessed by the LPG supplier and rarely joined up with the petrol assessment.
Not DSEAR, but the same visit. Fire risk assessment duties apply to the shop, the store room and any flat above.
Pembrokeshire has a number of small independent and village forecourts, often combined with a shop, a workshop or a farm business, sometimes with accommodation above.
Those combinations are exactly where the paperwork tends to have gaps, because each part was set up at a different time by a different person. The assessment needs to treat the site as one place rather than three.
Both, and they are not the same thing. The petroleum storage certificate is issued by the petroleum enforcement authority and governs keeping petrol. DSEAR is the risk assessment duty on the employer. Holding a certificate does not discharge the DSEAR duty, and this is the most common misunderstanding in the sector.
For Pembrokeshire it is the county council. They inspect and issue the storage certificate. Fire safety in the shop and the building sits with Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, and health and safety generally with the council or HSE depending on the activity.
The zoning does not change, but the emergency arrangements do entirely. If nobody is on site, the assessment has to say who responds, how quickly, and what the remote monitoring actually triggers.
Yes. Any change to the tanks, the pumps, the vent positions or the layout changes the release sources and therefore the zones. New equipment is also the moment to check the ATEX category is right, while it is still cheap to change.
Both belong in the same assessment. Forecourt LPG exchange cages, bulk LPG where fitted, and the chemicals stored at the jet wash are all commonly left out because they are not petrol.
How zones are drawn, and what a zoning drawing should show.
Forecourt cages and bulk installations.
Which duty covers the shop and which covers the tanks.
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