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AusSpill Compliant Hazchem Spill Kit – 240 Litre
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AusSpill Compliant Hazchem Spill Kit – 240 Litre

120 Litre Hazchem Spill Kit – AusSpill Quality Compliant
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120 Litre Hazchem Spill Kit – AusSpill Quality Compliant

40 Litre Hazchem Spill Kit – AusSpill Quality Compliant
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40 Litre Hazchem Spill Kit – AusSpill Quality Compliant

20 Litre Hazchem Spill Kit – AusSpill Quality Compliant
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20 Litre Hazchem Spill Kit – AusSpill Quality Compliant

Spill Kit Training Pack
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Spill Kit Training Pack

Scheduled Spill Kit Refill & Maintenance
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Scheduled Spill Kit Refill & Maintenance

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Spill Kit Location Floor Sign

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.

FAQs

In general, the best spill kit is the one that not only suits the spill you have in your workplace but also one that contains the right materials and instructions for a quick, problem free clean-up. If a secondary clean up isn’t required, it makes life much easier.

Think about the quantity of chemicals you hold in your workplace, as well as the size of any prior spills that have occurred. From here, you can calculate the size of the spill kit you need. 

It’s sometimes assumed that one spill kit is enough for your whole workplace to be safe from chemical spills, but the reality is that you have to know exactly which chemicals are stored and used, as well as the quantities, so you can appropriately place as many spill kits you need, in the right places.  

The way to do this is by undertaking a risk assessment to understand your workplaces safety needs and manage them effectively. This can be hard to do alone if you’re new to the concept, but Spill Station is happy to help if you need our risk assessments.

Although each type of spill kit has its own unique contents, you can boil down what’s in the individual spill kit to these general items:

  •     Personal protective equipment such as goggles and gloves. 
  •     Trash bags to remove the used materials. 
  •     Absorbent mats.
  •     Absorbent booms.
  •     Containment items.
  •     Signage to warn of the spill. 

The best spill kit on the market for chemicals will be one that is compliant to Australian standards, and can easily clean the spill in question, without needing any additional spill kits or secondary items to clean the spill. It’ll simply be in the right place and contain all the right things to make spill management easier. 

In their very nature, spill kits are designed to keep chemicals away from waterways and the environment. By using a spill kit, you can help keep Australia’s wildlife as safe as possible. In order to maintain worker safety, spill kits often contain one time use only materials, but if correctly disposed of, they can be repurposed in the future. 

Yes, spill kits are a legal requirement in each state of Australia. Every state has its own specific laws, but they all indicate that you must have the right equipment to respond to spills without further jeopardising worker safety. If you breach these requirements, you will face fines or even jail time. 

This depends on a few different factors, such as the nature of your workplace, its unique needs and how often the spill kits are used. Most workplaces inspect spill kits multiple times a year, but this does depend on the risk factors overall. 

If you would like help with maintaining your spill kits, contact Spill Station today. We’re happy to help and educate Australian businesses in remaining safe at work.