Safety Alert
Jacking of flat bottomed storage tanks
Jacking of flat bottomed storage tanks
- HSE
- Safety Alert
- HID2-2011
- Lifting OperationsStructural and Asset Integrity
- Structural and asset integrity
- Lifting operations
- Storage tanks
- Contractor managementLifting planRisk assessment
- ConstructionDownstream and process industries
Summary
Following a storage tank slipping sideways on its jacks without injury, this alert examines planning and contractor assurance for tank jacking. It addresses ground stability, wind loading, structural stiffness, floor-weld stresses and additional support, with particular scrutiny of work beneath raised floors and consideration of finite element analysis.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Lifting operations; load lifting; hoisting.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Contractor management; contractor assurance.
Classifications: Lifting plan; lift planning.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
HID2-2011. Themes: lifting operations, structural and asset integrity.