Spill Response
True or False:
Life safety is the most important consideration during any emergency.
What is True?
True or False:
All drums/totes/tanks/materials should be labeled.
What is True?
This type of permit authorizes the plant's operation with the state.
What is an air permit?
This is what BMP stands for:
What is Best Management Practice?
Name your environmental representative and how would you contact them?
What is Kelsey Worley - Phone/Text/Email?
Each site should have this type of spill kit.
What is an oil only spill kit?
True or False:
All of the Houston area facilities have the same SPCC Plan.
What is False?
Each facility that meets the requirement to have an SPCC Plan must have its own plan specific to the facility.
Name at least 2 types of dust suppression we use at the facilities:
What is: Water sprays, water truck, sweeper, wheel wash, traffic patterns (vehicle speed), etc?
True or False:
It is okay to store batteries outside.
What is False?
Batteries should be stored inside and off the ground.
This type of containment is required for oil drums.
What is secondary containment?
You could use this at a facility to put a compromised drum in to mitigate further impacts.
What is an overpack spill kit?
This is the minimum amount of oil spilled to require reporting to the state.
What is 25 gallons?
This equipment is used to clean silt or dust (also known as track-out) from the roads.
What is a sweeper?
Placing drums onto wooden pallets or plastic spill trays/containment prevents this from occurring.
What is corrosion, causing leaks/spills?
Name at least 3 items that can be located in a spill kit.
What is: absorbent socks/booms, absorbent pads, absorbent pillows, yellow bags, kitty litter, etc.?
The team must respond to an oil spill and have decided it is safe to proceed (i.e. no threat to human safety). What is the FIRST step to this process?
What is get the spill kit?
This is the minimum amount of oil spilled to require reporting to the EPA.
What is 42 gallons?
Name the most noticeable form of non-compliance.
What is dust emissions?
Name at least 3 environmental concerns we could see/find/experience at a jobsite?
What is: Dusting, Track-Out, Leaks/Spills, Illicit Discharges, Housekeeping Concerns, etc.
Name a type of structural control that can be used to FILTER stormwater.
What are rock berms or straw wattles/hay bales?
List the steps we need to complete when any spill occurs.
Hint: LOGIC
What is Look, Obstruct, Gather, Inform, Clean-up?
This is the Federal (EPA) regulation regarding the storage and handling of petroleum products.
What is Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC)?
Name 3 primary areas of concern for dust emissions.
What is: stockpiles, roads, transfer points?
Explain how controlling traffic patterns at the site is a BMP and explain how this can help with housekeeping?
What is controlling where vehicular traffic drive, simplifying water truck pathways, and reducing dust emissions? This can reduce track-out from the facility and significantly reduce with FOD mat and wheel wash maintenance, etc.
This is when stormwater leaves the site through a non-designated outfall location.
What is an illicit discharge?