Site survey and Risk Assessment
By Marketing Team
Posted in May 13, 2021
Ambipar Response were approached by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) and a local engineering firm to assist them in the safe removal, transport and disposal of over 700 litres of redundant diesel from decommissioned fuel storage tanks at the lifeboat station in St David’s, Pembrokeshire.
The RNLI operate 238 lifeboat stations around the UK and Ireland, each providing safety cover for coastal waters.
The lifeboat station in St David’s was built in 1912 and is a simple, yet extremely versatile, building clad in corrugated steel and housing the Tyne class lifeboat (Garside 47-026) and several fuel tanks.
Project Works:
Ambipar’s specialist response team mobilised from our base in Milford Haven and arrived on site to conduct a site survey and Risk Assessment / Method Statement along with the lifeboat station manager and representative from the engineering firm.
The diesel was drained into 20ltr containers which could then be loaded on to the station’s cable cart and transferred to the upper access area.
The redundant diesel was then transferred into an IBC for onward transport and disposal.
Results:
As a licenced waster carrier, Ambipar successfully removed, transported and disposed of over 700 litres of old diesel from decommissioned fuel storage tanks.
