Compliant Hazchem Spill Kits

When spilt, hazardous chemicals can cause massive issues. This includes contaminating waterways, endangering ecosystems and threatening public safety, not to mention worker safety. With this in mind, a Hazchem spill kit is vital, it’s what serves as the first line of defence against spills, after the correct safety measures of course.

Chemical Spills Are Dangerous
No matter how big or small, every chemical spill has the potential to cause harm to people and the environment. This can stem from toxic chemicals that cause serious injury or death if inhaled or ingested. Other chemicals are highly flammable and pose fire risks. Understanding the danger from chemicals is important to assess risk and respond correctly.

Chemical Response is Vital
If you have a proper spill response in place, you can have peace of mind in knowing that your workers, the environment and the facilities are all kept safe in the event of an emergency. By training staff in this spill response, you’re ensuring the proper people can take charge in the event of something dangerous happening.

Know How to Plan
Before placing the spill kit, you need to be aware of the following. If you’re confused as to where the spill kit should go, you can always ask Spill Station to aid you with an audit.

1. Understand the quantity of the chemical.
2. Know which type of chemical it is, to use the right spill kit.
3. Know where the chemical is spilt so you can see potential risks.

Know How to Respond
Here at Spill Kit, if you need help understanding how to respond to a spill, we can help with training. That being said however, this is the general information you need

1. Alert the workplace and evacuate the area if required.
2. Assess the risk and liquid split.
3. Confine and contain the spill.
4. Stop the leak if it’s safe.
5. Contact first responders if additional aid is needed.
6. Clean the spill following the instructions in the spill kit.
7. Report the spill internally to the relevant people.

Minimise the Risk of Spills
The reality of the situation is that prevention is more important than anything above. This means minimising the amount of chemicals you have in your workplace overall. Once you’ve removed as many risks as possible, you can then assess where the existing chemicals are and place spill kits accordingly.

Remember, spill kits require regular maintenance and refills, and if you need help with this, once again, Spill Station can help.

What Does Spill Station Offer?
To put it simply, Spill Station takes the effort out of spill kits. This means you can just buy the appropriate amount of quality complaint spill kits, which come in varying sizes, from 400 L to 20 L, with cabinets, wheelie bins and carry cases offered, depending on the size you need.
If you buy ready-made complaint spill kits, you don’t need to worry about checking compliance, and can just get on with work.