DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR PETROL PUMPS ON THE BASIS OF HAZARD AND RISK ANALYSIS:A CASE STUDY IN BHOPAL

CITY

OBJECTIVES
1. TO ASSESS AND IDENTIFY THE HAZARDS IN THE PETROL PUMPS; 2. PREPARE A DMP TO MITIGATE AND CONTROL THE LIKELY ACCIDENTS; 3. AWARE PEOPLE AND WORKERS IN THE PUMPS ABOUT THE HAZARDS; 4. HELP URBAN PLANNERS; 5. AWARE THE USEFULNESS AND NECESSITY OF A DMP EVEN IN PUMPS.

SCOPES
INVENTORY OF THE STORED CHEMICALS i.e.PETROL AND DIESEL; SAFETY MEASURES AVAILABLE AT THE PUMPS AND THEIR INVENTORIES; NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS AT THE PUMPS; NUMBER OF PERSONNEL WHO GOT TRAININGS ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION EXPERTISE; NUMBER OF VEHICLES COMING FOR FUELLING; THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN POPULATION; LOCATION OF ANY OTHER HAZARDOUS INSTALLATIONS LIKE WORKSHOPS, etc. MAKING A DMP FOR THE SELECTED PUMP.

METHODOLOGIES
I. PRELIMINARY VISIT AT THE PUMPS; II. DATA AND INFORMATION COLLECTION; III. ANALYSIS OF THE FINDINGS WITH THE HELP OF ALOHA.

DMP: A WELL STRUCTURED AND DMP PLANNED DOCUMENT FOR DISASTER OR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
STEPS OF MAKING A DMP

1) HAZARD AND RISK IDENTIFICATION 2) CONSEQUENCE/VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS 3) RISK ANALYSIS 4) MANAGERIAL ASPECTS.

SURVEYED PUMPS
1) Arera Auto Center, E-5, Arera colony. 2) Sajjad Hussain Automotive Service, Mandi Road. 3) Police Welfare Filling Station, Raj Bhavan Road. 4) Satya Vijay Sales and Services, Chetak Bridge. 5) Pragati, M.P. Nagar, Zone-II. 6) Sawantika, Govindpura. 7) Durga Service Station, Link Road-2.

Hazards of petrol in the pumps:

Fire hazards due to tanker failure, collision; Fire at the time of decantation of oil due to spillage or leakage from the pipe; Fire at the storage tank lid at the time of water content checking; Fire at the filling points due to leakage or spillage from the worn and torn out pipes; VCE due to mixing of oil vapor and air in the storage underground tank; Possible explosion from the above mention fires.

Vulnerability of APP
Typical summer atmosphere of 40 degree celsius; wind speed 5m/s, 30% humidity; Released stateliquid; Released height1.5 m; Released rate90.7kg/sec; Released duration1 minutes.

Maximum Vulnerability zone131 meters.

VATE LONY

National Bank for Agricultural Development Habibganj police station

TO LINK ROAD-3 TO 10 NO. MARKET

RESIDENT IAL COMPLEX

ARERA COLONY

MMER L MPLEX

COMMERCIA L COMPEX

APEX BANK EMPLOYERS QUARTER

TRAFFIC ISLAND

TO NEHRU NAGAR

ARERA PETROL PUMP AND THE SURROUNDINGS (NOT TO SCALE)

OMMERCI AL BUILDING

AJAY TOWER

Arera Petrol Pump

BOARD COLON Y
BOARD COLON Y

NCHSE
BOARD COLONY

PARYVARAN PARISAR

GOVT. QUART ER

FINDINGS OF THE STUDY

FOR LOWER FLAMMABILITY LIMIT(LFL) OF PETROL AND DIESEL, THE MAXIMUM THREAT ZONE IS AROUND 600 M FROM THE POINT OF SOURCE. SO THE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AND INSTALLATIONS WITHIN THIS DISTANCE OF 600M SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS AND WELL-PLANNED TO AVOID ANY UNTOWARD INCIDENT IN THE TIME OF EVENTUALITY.

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Safety measures

Inventory

Distance from the nearest filling point

DCP extinguisher

2x10Kg; 1x5Kg; 1x2Kg; and 1x500g

10 m

Sand buckets

6 buckets

At the filling points

Water tanks

2x700 L

20 m (rooftop)

Alarm signal

Electronic remote control

15 m

Safety measures at APP

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Person

Responsibility

Manager/assistant manager

Activating the DMP, establishing communications with the workers, alerting external agencies, requesting external aids, coordinating the various activities of the external agencies, advising media and people.

Head worker

Coordinating the fellow workers in evacuation and rescue works, alerting surroundings, helping external agencies.

Workers/employees

Evacuation of injured workers and people, evacuation of properties, assisting the external agencies.

Organizational structure of DMP of APP

a)LOCATION OF THE CHEMICAL

b)INVENTORY/QU ANTITY
c)HAZARDOUS NATURE

1)HAZARD IDENTIFICATION

d)CHEMICAL IDENTITY
a)ENVIRONMENT

b)VULNERABLE ZONE

2)VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS

A.TECHNICAL COMPONENTS

c)POPULATION
a)PROBABILITY OF RISK
b)SEVERITY

3)RISK ANALYSIS

DMP FOR A PETROL PUMP

B.MANAGERIAL COMPONENTS

a)MITIGATION/CONT ROL MEASURES

b)TRAINING/KNOWH OW

b)EXTERNAL AIDS

a)EVACUATION

Table 4.3: Integrated DMP of a petrol pump

b)WORKERS/EM PLOYEES
a)AUTHORITY/M ANAGER/OWNER

1)ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

2)PREPAREDNESS PLAN

3)RESPONSE PLAN