Hazards related to petrol fuel stations during operation and maintenance

• Main Authors: Ahmed, M.M., Kutty, S.R.M., Khamidi, M.F., Dominic, P.D.D.
• Format: Article
• Published: Construction Research Institute of Malaysia 2013
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84926480031&partnerID=40&md5=cd8e7caffa7356535be30386ef52ab83; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/32784/

Petrol Fuel Station (PFS) is a kind of facility within urban and rural environment that stores and sell flammable/hazardous material. At PFS availability of flammable and hazardous materials and operational activities poses significant risk to the human life, company assets, and environment. A minor negligence can cause any catastrophic event that may leads to loss of human life, degradation of company reputation and harmful impacts on environment. Attention to handle these hazardous activities varies from operation to operation and companies to companies, it also depends upon safety culture of an organization. The hazards related to PFS also found different in different period of a year. Limited literature was found pertaining to hazards related to operation and maintenance of PFS. A study conducted and one year data collected from PFS located in different areas of Pakistan. During one year duration 1203 noncompliances were recorded. These non-compliances were categorized into 8 main elements and termed as Hazard Contributing Factors (HCFs). The classification of non-compliances based upon HCFs was carried out on seasonal basis. The paper will highlight the variation of HCFs in different seasons of the year. The result of study helps Health Safety and Environment (HSE) professionals to highlight non-compliances in different seasons of the year and take remedial and preventive actions to make PFS safer.