The Bulletin

MAGAZINE - June 2023

APEA (The Association for Petroleum and Explosives Administration)

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Letters to the Editor

Be Clean. Be Seen. Increase Sales

Are You Concerned About Equipment Uptime? You Should Be

Fire Suppression & Environmental Risk Assessment for Coach and Bus Terminals with Electrically Powered Vehicles

Important Note to all Members regarding APEA Email

Ski Resort Refuelling Centre – Andorra Need To Quickly Refuel Your Snowmobile or Snow Plough?

Midas Mis-Fuel Avoidance

GRP Storage Tanks - Where Are They Now…?

Petrol Station Development - How Did It All Start?

The Deposit Return Scheme – Recycle Today for a Better Tomorrow

Obituary - Gerry Risbridger 6th April 1929 to 27th February 2023

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APEA Live 2023 Conference, Exhibition and Awards Dinner

Opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily the views of the Association. The technical content is not an official endorsement by or on behalf of the APEA and are entirely the views of the authors.

2023 is Blue Book revision year. Each chapter is being reviewed by a committee of specialists, revisions proposed and agreed, and sections redrafted. I don’t think this will be see as many changes as we saw with revision 4 but it’s important that every section is scrutinized and updated as appropriate. Once each section has been reviewed and changes proposed then it goes out for peer review before being published. It still seems prudent to leave some developing areas to be covered by supplementary guidance at this stage – who knows where the future of “future fuels” will lead?! Personally, I think it’s fantastic that we have a member organisation that puts so much effort into developing its own industry.

There has been much discussion recently regarding “drop-in replacement” fuels – such as HVO to replace diesel or DME as an addition to LPG. I think some more investigation will be needed before the entire industry is happy that these can truly be simple like-for-like replacements.

And the EV charging saga continues with challenges getting the network upgraded while chargers are shoe-horned into the strangest of places on forecourts. We all have to remain diligent to ensure that we don’t build what appears perfectly reasonable on paper only to have the dreaded general public manage to park somewhere we hadn’t envisaged and mess up our plans!

As the summer approaches this will, hopefully, be followed by

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Mobile: +44 (0) 7815 055514 email: admin@apea.org.uk autumn(!) and thoughts of APEA Live. Plans are, of course, well underway for that very important event but I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that it also signifies our Annual General Meeting and time for National Council elections so I’m giving you plenty of time to think about joining us.

On a completely different note, I was made aware of something by an industry colleague that I think is pretty amazing. We have spent years talking the talk about Health and Safety. Lots of different buzz words and phrases to try to demonstrate how important a life skill understanding the principles of health and safety is. We also all know that it is difficult to “teach old dogs new tricks” so let’s start young! I am guessing this is one example of something seen elsewhere in the country but what a great idea – a health and safety education centre for children. This one is in Milton Keynes provides interactive, immersive experiences for children and young people focused on key areas of safety. Their scenarios currently include:

•Fire Safety

•Home Safety

•Online Safety

•Road Safety

•Railway Safety

•Choices and Consequences

•Car Safety

•Personal Safety

•First Aid/Recovery Position

•Water Safety

•Safe Places to Cross

•Bullying & Shop Theft

I think it would be fantastic if we could help them to add construction safety. The organisation is a charity and is called The Safety Centre (Hazard Alley). I will be making them our charity for APEA Live and engaging with them to see what we can do to help. I also thought I would raise this now as I’m aware that any charity we choose may hit very close to home for some.

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Andy Kennedy

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Editor

Brian Humm

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