APEA 2010 Conference, Exhibition and Awards Dinner information

At a recent meeting of the N.W Branch Craig Brocklehurst (LBI Managing Director) & Keith Hodgson (LBI Project Manager) had a realisation of the value of technical discussions on topics and issues that are present in the industry today. With it comes the opportunity to talk to personnel and specialists from various areas of the industry, as well as regulators, thus providing great opportunities for increased knowledge and co-operation from subsequent networking.

It was thought “Why not re-launch the local branch for Yorkshire and Humberside?”. With major retailers based in this area and the added value from their experiences and from the many Dealer groups there is an exciting opportunity to bring vast knowledge together for all to benefit.

With the input and best practice approach from the APEA we are sure that branch meetings will be a valuable experience for all members and hopefully NEW members will benefit from the discussions and topics raised for each meeting.

We have subsequently contacted APEA colleagues and were pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm and offers of support. With this mind we are looking to set up our first meeting in March. We are based in Sowerby Bridge Nr Halifax which is approx 15 minutes from Jn24 of the M62. We have a choice of venues dependant on numbers. Watch this space!”

If you would like more information please contact Keith Hodgson at keith@lbiinstallations.com or Tel: 01422 833122/07595069922.

Eastern

The Committee would like to take this opportunity of wishing you a Happy New Year and hope it brings all good things. The Eastern Branch hosted its early Christmas lunch on December 9th at the picturesque location at Hanbury Manor near Ware, Hertfordshire.

The early christmas lunch has become one of the Eastern Branch members favourite meetings and provides a great place to network and share business experiences. The presentations on topical subjects were excellent. Jean Fincken who is Petroleum Inspector with London Fire Brigade gave the “regulators update”. This slot is certainly proving to be a valuable part of the meetings with a great deal of information conveyed to members.

Malcolm Railson of Urgent Technology explained his company’s approach to provide effective IT services and maintenance support for oil companies. Urgent Technology is a multi national company founded in 1997 and “eMaintenance uses creative technology which Malcolm showed with a live demonstration.

They are working with companies such as BP Retail providing the ability to access fast, efficient information.

Ed Wheeler, MD of Eurotank Environmental, talked about aspects of Stage II, in particular the issue of over-pressurisation of tanks, posing the question ‘is this a real problem?’.

The implementation of Stage II has resulted in the ullage spaces of some spirit tanks becoming pressurised with air and vapour for long periods of time. His presentation looked at how new and old sites are affected and what contractors and regulators should look out for when visiting these sites.

Jamie Thompson kindly stepped in at short notice to cover for one of the speakers who was unable to attend for family reasons and talked about some of the training and advice provided by the APEA to some Middle Eastern countries where a serious incident had recently occurred.

The Eastern Branch would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who gave of their time to provide us with these interesting presentations. The branch meetings are technical information workshops and qualify for CPD points so people should take advantage of this benefit when attending. The meetings are intended to be relevant to all those who are in one way or another involved with the forecourt related industry.

For the diary, the next Eastern Branch meeting and AGM is scheduled for Wednesday 31st March 2010 and will be held at The Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

Other members are also welcome to join us on the day and can bring a friend or colleague. The Eastern Branch will be electing new officers, so if you are interested in doing interesting things for fellow members please contact the secretary, likewise for nominations of branch officers. Members will receive the agenda in the normal way, which will also be posted on the APEA website. If you would like to give a presentation to our members and talk about your business or specialist technology please do contact me.

Anton Martiniussen Branch Secretary

North West

The NW branch will be holding our spring meeting and AGM at Haydock race course on Thursday 15th April. Details of the technical content for the meeting will be sent to branch members shortly.

We are extending the scope of our meeting to accommodate a number of exhibitors and we will be extending invitations to non members to encourage new membership within the North West.

Bob Conlin Branch Secretary

Scotland

Since my last report, our branch has had a very successful meeting in Inverness. Thanks to Gordon Robb for making the venue available and making the necessary arrangements and to Highland Council for hosting the meeting.

We had four presentations on the day all of which were very well received. The first of these was given by Jim Suff - Ledbury Engineering and Welding. Jim provided us with information on above ground petrol storage options and their Supervault system for self contained storage and dispensing.

Our second presentation was from Keith Norman - Petroman Limited. Keith gave a talk on the issues that some petrol stations are experiencing with fuel contamination and the housekeeping required by sites prior to the introduction of ethanol based fuel.

Our third presentation was provided by John Rome – John Rome Ltd on the importance of forecourt interceptor and drainage maintenance. John highlighted the importance of planned preventative maintenance to ensure sites could effectively deal with a large spillage if it occurred.

The final speaker on the day was Gordon Robb – Highland Council. Gordon provided us with a very topical presentation on Fireworks. He concentrated on issues relating to the correct storage and classification problems with certain fireworks.

On behalf of the Scottish Branch I would like to record our thanks to all of the speakers for taking time out of their hectic schedules to ensure that we all left the meeting with a better understanding of the topics they discussed.

Our branch committee had a meeting on the 27th January to set dates for the 2010 calendar. I will send the details to members when they are finalised.

Paul Devine Branch Secretary

Southern

Nothing to report

Midlands

Nothing to report

North East

Nothing to report

Ireland

Nothing to report

Branch Representative and Secretary Contact Details

Eastern

Adrian Holyomes - Rep HYTEK GB LTD Delta House Green Street, Elsenham Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire Tel: 01279 815600 email: adrian@hytekgb.com Anton Martiniussen - Sec ELAFLEX Ltd Riverside House, Hoddesdon Herts EN11 0PA Tel: 01992 452 950 Mob: 07831 595620 email: elaflex@aol.com

North East

Mike Silmon - Rep and Sec W O Silmon Ltd Industry Road, Heaton Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne & Wear NE6 5XB Tel: 0191 224 0777 Fax: 0191 224 0707 email: associationtreasurer@apea.org.uk

Midlands

Rob Tunnicliff - Rep 37 Victoria Park Road Tunstall Stoke on Trent ST6 6DX Tel: 07815 069846 email: rob.tunnicliff@stoke.gov.uk

Peter Emery - Sec Anchor Safety 19 Adonis Close Tamworth Staffordshire B79 8TY Tel: 07972 599 765 email:peter_emery@btconnect.com

North West

Louise Morgan - Rep Petrocom Ltd The Malthouse 48 Southport Road Ormskirk Lancashire L39 1QR Tel: 01695 572400 email: louisemorgan@petrocom.co.uk

Bob Conlin - Sec Fairbanks Environmental Ltd The Technology Management Centre Moss Lane View Skelmersdale Lancs WN8 9TN Tel: 01695 51775 email: bobconlin@fairbanks.co.uk Ian Hillier - Rep North Ayrshire Council Bridgegate House Irvine KA12 8BD Tel: 01294 324969 email: ihillier@north-ayrshire.gov.uk

Paul Devine - Sec South Lanarkshire Council Consumer and Trading Standards North Stand, Cadzow Avenue Hamilton ML3 0LU Tel: 01698 476170 Fax: 01698 476180 Mobile: 07795 090903 email: paul.devine@southlanarkshire.gov.uk

Southern

Philip Monger - Rep Petrol Retailers Association Meadowside, West End, Sherbourne St John, Basingstoke, Hants. RG24 9LE. Tel: 01256 850164 Fax: 01256 851273 email: phil.monger@ukonline.co.uk

Sue Meadowcroft - Sec 1 Rock Cottage, South Cornelly Bridgend CF33 4RN Tel: 07795 841891 email: sue@high-cross.com

Ireland

Killian Tallon - Rep Topaz Energy Ltd Topaz House Beech Hill, Clonskeagh Dublin 4, Ireland Tel: + 353 1202 8705 email: killian.tallon@topazenergy.ie

Julian Rafter - Sec Olive Engineering & Design Services Ltd The Old Egg Farm Waynestown Dunboyne Meath Ireland Tel: +353 1 8253670 email: jrafter@ipservices.ie

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Petrol Filling Stations Construction, Safety and Environmental Protection

20/21 April Manchester 8/9th June Dublin 9/10 Nov London

Petrol Filling Stations Risk Assessment, Audit and Inspection

6/7 April Milton Keynes 11/12 May Manchester 8/9 June Cardiff 15/16 Sep Dublin 5/6 Oct Derby 9/10 Nov Glasgow

Forecourt LPG Installations

18 Feb Manchester 22 April Birmingham 27 May Luton 2 Sept Milton Keynes

Electrical Installations An Awareness

23 Feb Glasgow 30 Mar Luton 27 April Colchester 25 May Bournemouth 22 June Cardiff 21 Sept Luton 26 Oct Belfast 23 Nov Sheffield

Wetstock Management

11 May Luton 8 June Glasgow 21 Sept Manchester

Explosives and Fireworks

16 Sept Luton 23 Sept Manchester 7 Oct Glasgow 12 Oct Cardiff

DSEAR

15 April Glasgow 6 May Luton 24 June Manchester

24 Sept Derby 19 Nov Bristol

9 Dec Luton

Petrol Filling Stations –Enforcement Procedures An Awareness (One day) 6 hours Continued Professional Development

15 March Luton

5 April Milton Keynes 12 April Manchester 17 May Derby 14 June Glasgow 28 June Bristol

13 Sep Birmingham 18 Oct Cardiff

Courses will be designed around the new TCB Document, Guidance for Design, Construction, Modification, Maintenance and Decommissioning of Filling Stations.

Please contact the APEA Business Manager on 0845 603 5507 or at admin@apea.org.uk if you wish to find out about purchasing a copy. APEA Members can purchase the guide at the discounted rate of £40 (non member rate £120). It is strongly recommended that attendees have access to this document during courses.

All courses can be booked online at www.apea.org.uk on the ‘Training’ page. Bespoke courses can be made available provided the minimum number of delegates is 8. This offers a discount.

For details of this and any other training enquiry, please contact: Jane Mardell - Training Coordinator, (contact details on page 3) or Brian Humm, Training Chairman Mobile: 07818 097141 email: brian.humm@london-fire.gov.uk

DSEAR Course Revised

Acting on feedback and a course review by your trainers, the DSEAR course has been rewritten for 2010.

The course now looks at the Regulations and ACoP in much more detail so that, as a person or company working with Petroleum, you will have a much better understanding not only of what the law requires, but of the guidance given on compliance.

As an Enforcement Officer you will understand what is required of employers and what you should be expecting to see in place when you inspect. It will also help you to draft letters and notices more accurately.

The course includes a module on risk assessment and the principles of carrying one out on a petrol forecourt.

Even if you have done this course before, you will almost certainly learn something new about the legislation – and we all need a refresher course to keep ourselves up to date!