Loading Rack Safety & Operability Review — Coastal Depot

Project overview

Following a HAZOP study that raised actions against its road loading racks, a coastal depot operator retained Ventron to engineer the close-outs: bonding and earthing verification, emergency shutdown logic, spill containment upgrades and the operating procedures to match.

The assignment blended site supervision with documentation — every recommendation had to be both installed and written into the depot's management system.

Client challenge

The HAZOP actions spanned disciplines — electrical, mechanical, civil and procedural — with a regulator-agreed deadline. Partial fixes would not close the actions; the operator needed a single accountable engineering package.

Ventron solution

We converted each HAZOP action into a work pack with drawings, materials and acceptance criteria, sequenced across normal loading operations. Earthing networks were tested and remediated bay by bay, E-stop cause-and-effect implemented and function-tested, containment kerbs and drainage corrected, and the loading procedures rewritten and trained. All actions closed on schedule.

Scope of work

• HAZOP action conversion to engineered work packs
• Earthing, bonding and E-stop remediation design
• Spill containment and drainage corrections
• Procedure rewrite and operator training support

Engineering deliverables

• Work packs with drawings and acceptance criteria
• Test and function-check records
• Updated operating procedures
• HAZOP action close-out register