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Road Safety Delareyville disturbingly, the lack of knowledge of the potential dangers posed by a petroleum spill by both the site | 3
staff and the general public. The current EAP was based on emergency support in primarily urban
areas where the response time from the depot and support was within an hour with various options
Situated 300km from Johannesburg, in the North West available. This site is approximately 3 hours from the Tanker Services Kroonstad depot which
Province of South Africa, lies the ‘sleepy’ maize and peanut transports the fuel and support clean-up crew respectively. The concept was therefore to educate and
highlight the dangers of spills and flash fires at a garage; and secondly to help the retailer action their
farming town of Delareyville. own EAP with the local emergency services
What they were witnessing was a joint venture between
On the morning of 19 April 2017, the locals were After 2 months of planned meetings between Tankers Services, Shell and the local community, it was
Tanker Services and Shell. This simulated a mock spillage
greeted to scenes that looked like an action movie: exercise at the service station – that resulted in a flash fire of decided that this event would be filmed and the findings would be used as
Police blockaded roads while ambulance and a car, leaving the driver of the vehicle, as well as the garage a learning toolkit. The actual event was a massive success in creating public awareness and learnings
Hazchem teams attended to a ‘fire’ that broke out at a and staff, with injuries. adapted into depot specific emergency action plans.
Shell Service Station where a motorist was injured. A special thank you to all the role players in the planning and execution of the mock exercise: the
The need for the mock exercise stemmed from a recent
The roads were quickly filled with alarmed spectators, event at the same garage earlier in the year. The follow up management of Tanker Services Fuel and Gas, the staff at Tanker Services Kroonstad - including the
but this reaction changed into confusion when they BVO, the staff at Shell, the Shell retailer and staff, the camera crew, all emergency services in
investigation identified major flaws in the current emergency
noticed the camera crew and a number of people Delareyville, Sanral and the local community.
action plans and, more
standing in Visi-Vests, taking notes.
