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Gary
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Incidents
IRF-1216-0002
– Loss of containment of Firefighting Foam at Truck gantry Plant B
during routine monthly checks. Only a small amount of foam was lost.
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Ian
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How does it
indicate the valve is shut?
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Gary
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Really only
when you are unable to turn the valve any more.
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IRF-1216-0003
– Non GM Hocan Canola Oil (for the organic market) – product was
put into incorrect tank during shipping discharge. No documentation was
received by Terminals giving direction to redirect and keep product
separate. Subsequent insurance claim.
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IRF-1216-0022
– Storm water flooding. Due to very heavy rainfall and the
guttering being choked by gum leaves from the trees on the nature strip along
McKenzie road rain water was restricted from draining away and subsequently
overflowed the gutters and back into office area. Currently looking at
bird netting and have cleaned out the gutters.
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IRF-1216-0023
– DP Cell comparison check every month came back with incorrect
readings. DP cell checks are cross checked against actual dips
operators perform. Terminals are putting new nozzles on roofs with dual
radars so that one cross references the other on every tank. One will
be High High – independent level and high level and cross reference
between the two. Nozzles are in the process of being put on tanks to
fit the radars to the tanks. 76 tanks on site, 8 completed to date. The
radars will be self checking to 1 mm.
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Faye
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Manual checks
suggest you do not have confidence in the Citect system.
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Gary
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Customers
request independent manual dip.
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Michael
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They give an
actual measurement and not just an alarm.
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Gary
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Numerical
output – one will be hard wired. Have to be on different circuits
to maintain independence – Ullage measurement.
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Faye
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Measuring the
space as it increases or decreases? When you are filling do you also
require manual dips?
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Gary
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Yes we
do. Statutory Checks for customs for products under bond and also for
auditors (e.g. ethanol).
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IRF-1216-0028
– Operator stood up and had a back spasm. No lost time injury.
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IRF-1216-0034
– Vapor hose not connected and by-passed while loading flammables.
Counselled casual operator, stood down for 2 weeks, until completion of
competencies.
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Faye
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Did he
recognize the dangers?
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Gary
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Yes he knew
he was in the wrong and couldn’t explain why he did it. Retraining
process.
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IRF-0117-0001
– Combustor divert and high inert duct pressure. Combustor
converted to carbon during a hot Saturday. All tanks started
venting. Particular tank vented reached 4.5% oxygen, warning given over
5% oxygen causing an alarm. Oxygen sensors did what they were supposed
to do and diverted to carbon. Fan circuit breaker to carbon beds
tripped. All tanks locked to prevent cross contamination.
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Electrician
found circuit breaker had tripped due to hot day.
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Faye
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4 problems
– were you on site by yourself? Nothing to say problem 5,6 and 7
could occur.
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Gary
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My problem
was the fan failure.
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Faye
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Things were
escalating quicker than you could resolve by yourself
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Gary
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Biggest
concern was tanks venting and causing odor
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Ian
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Only thing
you didn’t do was to find out what happened at carbon beds.
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Faye
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What happens
if you went home and the whole thing happened again?
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Gary
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Outcome of
incident during upgrade on PLC and manual fan start. Troubleshooting
fault manual now put in place to record faults and outcomes. If I had
not got the situation under control I was calling in an electrician.
Safety interlock was the problem. Worst situation would have been for
an emission as that would have impacted on neighbors.
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Ian
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Strikes me
strange you have a monitoring company.
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Robin
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In the event
that Terminals had not employed Integrators would you be made aware of the
incident anyway?
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Gary
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No. We
can dial in and have a look and check system. New alert system will
alert via internet, SMS, 3rd landline telephone. It will
have a contact tree. We still need Integrators to maintain the system.
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Michael
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When you say
dial in, is that through Outlook?
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Gary
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VNC viewer
that loads through an app.
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Robin
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Would someone
without your experience have handled it so expeditiously?
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Gary
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Yes, Rory Quinn,
Wayne Cook and Don McKenzie are all able to have dealt with the same
situation. Fault book will record incidents and solutionsn to reduce
time.
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IRF-0117-0004
– OH&S representative made an inappropriate reporting request
concerning IRF-1216-0034 (see above). After the casual operator was
stood down, the OH&S representative asked could management forget about
reporting incident given it was close to Christmas? Such a request, if
accepted, would undermine the importance of the strict safety policy on site,
and compromise worker safety. The Union delegate was happy with steps
Terminals took.
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