Aboveground Storage Tanks - Safety Compliance Checklist

The app prompts the user to identify the scope of the ASTs at a site, and evaluating the tanks and their surroundings. Undertaking these steps is key to early leak detection and leak prevention, as well as evaluating when clean-up efforts needs to be undertaken. Evaluating the scope of ASTs includes noting the number of them at a site, identifying their current disposition (active, temporarily inactive, permanently out of service), and the date of installation. General checklist items about storage tanks include evaluating the area surrounding ASTs, ensuring leak detection equipment works, checking for spill prevention technology, checking inlet and outlet piping, and more. To ensure adherence to the Environmental Protection Agency's stormwater regulations, it is important that certain items be checked off including the closest building, property line, or well, and areas where stormwater runoff could be contaminated if a spill occurs. To ensure the safety of workers, the app checks that first aid is readily available and that personal protective equipment (PPE) is available and used. The app has many other checklist items that ensure that containment of any hazardous materials in liquid storage tanks found aboveground is a priority, and that prevention and early detection of leaks are properly addressed.