Pembrokeshire County Council is the Petroleum Enforcement Authority. Where it needs to enforce, the HSE says it does so through DSEAR.
Petroleum spirit kept for retail or for a business needs a petroleum storage certificate from the council. It is renewable, it is site-specific and it is inspected.
The certificate regime governs whether you may store it. DSEAR governs how, and it is the legislation an enforcement notice is most likely to be written under.
Classification of the hazardous areas around tanks, vents, fill points and dispensers is required by DSEAR regulation 7 and is what an inspector will want to see when asking whether your equipment is suitable.
They are outside the petroleum certificate regime but firmly inside DSEAR. Plenty of Pembrokeshire depots and farms hold no petrol at all and still need an assessment.
Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock and Haverfordwest between them hold most of the county's commercial fuel storage, and the older sites are the ones whose original classification drawings have usually been lost.
A hazardous area classification with drawings showing the extent of each zone, a DSEAR risk assessment covering the substances, the ignition sources and the controls, a review of whether the equipment in each zone is suitable for it, and a dated action plan ranked by priority.
The drawings are part of the work, not an extra line on the invoice. An assessment of a petrol site without the zoning is not much use to anyone, least of all to an inspector.
Pembrokeshire County Council. The council is the Petroleum Enforcement Authority for the county, which means it issues and renews petroleum storage certificates and inspects the sites that hold them. It is not the HSE, and it is not the fire service, though all three take an interest.
It is the enforcement route. The HSE puts it plainly: where a Petroleum Enforcement Authority needs to take enforcement action at a retail or non-retail filling station, that action is taken through the relevant health and safety legislation, for example DSEAR. Your certificate and your enforcement risk run through the same set of regulations.
If you keep petrol, yes, and that includes non-retail sites. Diesel and heating oil are a different matter, because they are not petroleum spirit, but they are still dangerous substances under DSEAR and still need assessing. A great many Pembrokeshire yards hold both.
The tanks and lines and their integrity testing, the dispensers and emergency switches, wetstock reconciliation, the classification of the hazardous areas and whether the equipment inside them is right for the zone, and the arrangements for deliveries. The zoning drawing is the document that ties most of it together.
It helps with familiarity and hurts with paperwork. Older sites have usually been through several owners and the original classification drawings have often gone. Reconstructing the zoning is one of the commonest pieces of work we do on established sites.
The petrol does not stop being petrol while the chargers go in, and adding electrical infrastructure to a forecourt is exactly the kind of change that needs the zoning checked first. It is a new work activity in the DSEAR sense.
Forecourt zoning, dispensers, vents and delivery arrangements in detail.
Bunded tanks, bowsers and yard dispensers away from the retail regime.
How the zones are worked out and what the drawing has to show.
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