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Carriage of dangerous goods and use of transportable pressure equipment regulations 2007 (SI 1573) Schedule 1 and DfT DR6 guidelines
Following the purchase of PSL
(Yorks) ltd of Selby in July 2006 and the transfer
of their field based testing technicians to us,
E&S are now heavily engaged in providing a professional
inspection and road tanker testing programme to fleet operators
against the above regulations.
The service:
We will conduct a full road tanker inspection and test covered by the CDG 2007 regulations, including EPRV valves tested in situ using a proprietary test unit (patent pending) against our approved written scheme of examination. We have UKAS accreditation (No. 311) as a Type A Inspection Body – see www.ukas.com under Accreditation Bodies (Inspection Bodies) for the full scope, and visit www.dft.gov.uk under Tank Inspection Bodies. |
The road tanker test will be undertaken at
clients' premises by our highly skilled and experienced
technicians. Clients' fleet details can be
entered into our secure and confidential national
data base so that we can take complete management responsibility for ensuring all road tanker tests are conducted
to their schedule (including any re-tests), with
E&S being the communication hub between maintenance
workshops and customers. |
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A signed test result form is
left with clients on completion of a test, followed
up with our formal authorised test certificate.
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Legislation:
The Approved Tank Requirements
require all road tankers manufactured after September
1996 which carry petrol to be tested for 'leakproofness',
and the 2004 Carriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations
require a periodic examination in accordance with
the operators suitable 'Written Scheme'.
The old system involving a 'competent
person' to undertake tank inspections expired
in July 2006. Now only Inspection Bodies that
have been (provisionally) appointed by DfT following
UKAS accreditation, or have an application in
place for accreditation, may undertake inspection
& examination of old tanks i.e. those manufactured
pre May 2004.
Unique testing system:
E&S have developed a unique
method of testing vapour tightness using low-pressure
inert gas, linked to an intrinsically safe data-logging
sensor, which automatically records all information;
the data is retained on file to provide an essential
audit trail.
The system is entirely science
- based and 'tamper proof', thus ensuring integrity
of the data and gives clients the confidence that
subjectivity is eliminated.
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