RISK AND SAFETY ANALYSIS MODEL FOR PETROL FILLING STATIONS
A petrol filling station (PFS) is a common facility that is available in urban and rural areas. It is the only source to supply fuel for automobiles. They store and sell a highly flammable liquid. A PFS has potential hazards to the people, asset, and environment. Variety of hazards such as fir...
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2012
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| Summary: | A petrol filling station (PFS) is a common facility that is available in urban and rural
areas. It is the only source to supply fuel for automobiles. They store and sell a highly
flammable liquid. A PFS has potential hazards to the people, asset, and environment.
Variety of hazards such as fire hazards, static electricity, fuel tank explosions,
transportation hazards, air pollution evoked by aromatic organic compounds are found
to be the major causes of accident/incident occurrences at PFS. The risk posed by these
hazards varies from one PFS to another. Many companies are using different risk
assessment methods to priorities hazards related to their work activities. Studies
related to address importance of safety measures at PFS was not sufficient, noticeably
in developing countries. In this study, a new risk and safety analysis model for PFS is
to be developed.
In this study, 3.5 years data of non-compliances was collected from 2500 PFS
located in various cities in Pakistan. The significant numbers of health safety and
environment (HSE) non-compliances recorded were due to various factors during
operation and maintenance of PFS. The HSE non-compliances were classified into two
categories i.e. hazards contributing factors and incident occurrences [fatality (F),
accident (A), incident (I) and near miss (NM) cases]. The hazards contributing factors
were then further classified into 8 categories. These were Housekeeping (HK),
Transportation Hazard (TH), Slips, Trips and Falls (STF), Carelessness (C), Fire Risk
(FR), Electrical Faults (EF), Miscellaneous Cases (MC) and Medical Treatment Cases
(MTC). A monthly, quarterly and seasonal categorization of HSE non-compliances
was carried out to evaluate the hazard occurrences flow pattern for the two categories.
The risk assessment of the hazards was carried out and prioritized by using three
ditTerent widely used risk assessment methods. These were, risk ranking criterion, risk
matrix criterion and as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). |
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