- Laws of Fiji

[FAC 13,400] Precautions against spills and leaks6

(1) Highly inflammable liquids shall, where it is reasonably practicable so to do, be distributed in factories through pipe-lines, pumps or other installations which are in each case permanent. Where distribution of highly inflammable liquids in factories through such pipe-lines, pumps or other installations is not reasonably practicable, they shall be distributed in vessels from which liquid does not leak and as far as reasonably practicable cannot be spilled.

(2) The quantity of any highly inflammable liquid present at any one time in any workplace, plant, apparatus, or process vessel shall be as small a quantity of liquid as is reasonably practicable having regard to the operations or processes in which the highly inflammable liquid is being used.

(3) All vessels containing any highly inflammable liquid shall be kept securely closed except as necessary for charging, discharging and dipping, provided that while any highly inflammable liquid is being used in any operations or processes it shall not be necessary to keep securely closed as aforesaid any vessel which is so designed or placed as to avoid as far as practicable the risk of spilling.

(4) Where in any process or operation any highly inflammable liquid is liable to be spilled or to leak, all reasonably practicable steps shall be taken to ensure that any highly inflammable liquid which is spilt or has leaked shall be contained or immediately drained off to a suitable container or to a safe place.

(5) Any vessel which has contained any highly inflammable liquid, other than a fixed process vessel or a fixed storage vessel, shall, when its contents have been expended, be removed without delay to a safe place outside the building or to a suitably placed storeroom being a storeroom which is a fire resisting structure, provided that notwithstanding anything contained in any specification approved for the purposes of the definition of “fire resisting structure” contained in regulation 3, provision may be made in the structure of a storeroom for pressure relief in the case of explosion.

(6) All such empty vessels shall be kept in such a storeroom as aforesaid until next required for use or disposal, except where they are in constant use.