Tag: Safety Highlights

EPA targeting fuel delivery exclusion zone violations

The EPA has released amended guidance to fuel transport and fuel retail operators to highlight the importance of compliance with the broadened exclusion zones and heightened risk control measures that are required...

Tanker fire on site prompts industry action

Early in the hours of Saturday morning (25 February), the industry woke to seek the images and footage of every site operator’s worse nightmare come to life, a retail fuel site ablaze...

EPA Guide on TERP requirements open for comment

The EPA NSW has released draft guidance on the requirement for Transport Emergency Response Plans (TERPs) and is seeking feedback from industry participants on this resource. “Fuel transport operators know that there is...

$160K fine for failure to enforce safety instructions

A recent case has highlighted the importance of supervision and review when it comes to staff compliance with safety instructions, after a worker was award $160,000 in damages because her employer had...

Safety Alert: Static risk on the increase

As the weather warms and the wind picks up the risk of static fires increases, and all fuel retail and wholesale businesses must ensure they are communicating this very real risk, and...

Covid isolation: requirements and payments scrapped

After 2.5 years of isolation requirements following a Covid-19 positive, isolation requirements, and the accompanying government isolation payments, come to an end on 14 October 2022. Following a National Cabinet meeting on 30...

Safety alert: Are your staff laptop cords electric tagged and tested?

WorkSafe ACT has issued a safety alert to all businesses warning that the obligation on businesses to ensure that all electrical equipment and items are tagged and tested regularly by a qualified...

Preventing Truck Fire resource released by EPA NSW

Truck fires are a serious and preventable risk of transport operations. They endanger lives, cause pollution and traffic chaos and often result in the destruction of the transport asset and its cargo. EPA NSW...
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