Petrol station work.... requirements

[sythai]

Just wondering what you need to be able to carry out work (electrical) in all petrol station areas/zones....?

Specialist insurance maybe ?
Be good at MI or is it FP these days ?
Compex ?

Reason I ask is a local branch of 3 petrol stations are fed up with their current sparky and they're looking for someone else, maybe me....

Thanku Sy

 

[mayfair]

intrinsically safe areas a total mine field worked with electronic flow meters in oil refinery set up, total headache, not that im saying it was wrong just way OTT but if it stops you and your mates becoming astronauts then so be it. Better learn about potting your terminal boxes etc.

 

[Capita]

I think you’ll find they do, they should be intrinsically safe and subject to regular testing and calibration. Forget taking your Megger and Fluke with you. You can test say a motor from the safe zone with a Megger only as long as all terminal covers are in place and gap checked. Ex and intrinsically safe equipment is a minefield when it comes to testing.

As others have said, find out the scope of the work.

Tony - I know meters require calibrating, the sentence reflects the stance from the company that they dont need calibrating as they are for indication purposes ie we (they) cant be arsed to pay for it.

 

[pauljpickering8]

S.P.A Safety passport with the forecourt add on, ive been working on shell petrol stations recently, installs are absolutely shock for somewhere so dangerous, nothing labbelled correctly in boards etc etc. If you want i coudl scan a copy of there generic safety certificate that you have to fill in each day before any work commences.

 

[old_sparky_RE]

Calibration ....haha...... I have just finished with a company that was able to have all its test equipment calibrated and retuned back to us over night!

Nothing strange there I hear you say except our kit would have to go on a 7000 mile (that’s three zero’s, OVER NIGHT) round trip, except it wasn’t!!

The company had one of the Filipino draftsmen knock out a photo shop cert for the test kit. Some stuff hadn’t been calibrated since it was bought 5+ years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!

We were working in fuel installations, munitions dumps etc.

Complain and get sacked all for a couple of £ hundred a year.

Multimillion £ company backed by a multi BILLION $ corporation!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calibration and qualifications is for mugs, its all wasting company profit.... rant over rrr: