Explosion in Beruit

[Highland Mule]

Granny can buy, transport and store petrol. Nobody asks to see her storage premises or expects her to keep records.
The degree to which safety regulations are created and applied is to a large extent an inverse function of the effect they will have on the governments popularity ratings, hence they will have no hesitation to make life unnecessarily difficult for those people such as farmers who only make up a tiny proportion of the electorate while they will allow the masses to consume ethanol, race motorcycles on the roads etc even though these are activities that have killed more people than ammonium nitrate ever did.

Granny can keep and store up to 30litres of petrol at home or at work. Any more and she must notify the relevant authorities. Petrol is not a string oxidiser though, and whilst a conflagration is impressive, it does not carry the explosive potential that a strong oxidiser does.

You and I (or indeed Granny) can store up to 25 tonne of AN, and up to 150 (from memory) of compound fertiliser without notifying the relavant authorities. I'd say that the rules for AN are significantly less stringent than those for petrol.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Yes,how much plutonium stored at Sellafield?

Fudge loads. UK has the largest stockpile of civilian grade plutonium in the world I believe.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Only all of those 'thousands of other potentially hazardous materials' would need to be and are legally stored or transported under far more stringent regulations than those UK farmers currently have to work under; The current historic UK agricultural exemptions are long overdue for a review and rightly so.

Just because something is stored or transported under stringent regulations it does not eliminate the risk , only lessens it. The European Chemicals Agency investigated 700 chemical users in 2019 and found two thirds of the companies were failing to comply fully with the EU safety regulations.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Just because something is stored or transported under stringent regulations it does not eliminate the risk , only lessens it. The European Chemicals Agency investigated 700 chemical users in 2019 and found two thirds of the companies were failing to comply fully with the EU safety regulations.

Do you have a link for this? I'm assuming the UK did not apply as this is all governed by HSE and their baliwick?

 

[Muck Spreader]

Do you have a link for this? I'm assuming the UK did not apply as this is all governed by HSE and their baliwick?

No, apparently the UK is one of the worst offenders after Germany, probably just down to the respective sizes of the industries.

Named: major brands ‘breaking EU chemical safety law’

Major cosmetics, food, medicine and plastic producers across Europe are breaking the law by using millions of tonnes of chemicals without completing important safety checks, according to an analysis of government files.

eeb.org

 

[Cheesehead]

No, apparently the UK is one of the worst offenders after Germany, probably just down to the respective sizes of the industries.

Named: major brands ‘breaking EU chemical safety law’

Major cosmetics, food, medicine and plastic producers across Europe are breaking the law by using millions of tonnes of chemicals without completing important safety checks, according to an analysis of government files.

eeb.org

Depends how honest the countries are as some prefer to keep things in house so to speak as have been seen in other events evidence on the ground hasn't fitted official statistics or reports.

 

[deleted user 837354]

No, apparently the UK is one of the worst offenders after Germany, probably just down to the respective sizes of the industries.

Named: major brands ‘breaking EU chemical safety law’

Major cosmetics, food, medicine and plastic producers across Europe are breaking the law by using millions of tonnes of chemicals without completing important safety checks, according to an analysis of government files.

eeb.org

Looks like a massive push from the Green movement that is ensconced in the EU.

 

[Highland Mule]

No, apparently the UK is one of the worst offenders after Germany, probably just down to the respective sizes of the industries.

Named: major brands ‘breaking EU chemical safety law’

Major cosmetics, food, medicine and plastic producers across Europe are breaking the law by using millions of tonnes of chemicals without completing important safety checks, according to an analysis of government files.

eeb.org

Tried to read that, but gave up when hyperbole reached level 11 and they equated glyphosphate manufacturing with Bhopal. Nothing more than the rants of a bunch of environmental activist goons with no credibility, I’m afraid.