Safety Alert
Environmental Alert 005/2014
Environmental Alert 005/2014
- OPRED
- Safety Alert
- OPRED Environmental Alert 005/2014
- Environment
- Environmental protection
- Environmental monitoring and quality assuranceOperating and work proceduresPollution reportingSafety communication
- Marine waters
Summary
DECC warns that misinterpreting the calibration solution volume in oil-on-sand calculations can halve reported concentrations, potentially understating marine oil discharges and breaching permitted limits. The alert requires clear analytical procedures, personnel awareness, recalculation of affected 2014 discharges and non-compliance notifications where permitted concentrations were exceeded.
Classifications: Environmental protection; environmental safety; pollution prevention.
Classifications: Environmental monitoring and quality assurance.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Pollution reporting.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine waters.
OPRED Environmental Alert 005/2014. Themes: environment.