Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure

User Generated

grqql1989

Science

Description

Sometimes an SPCC plan is expensive to develop and update with every process change. Should every manufacturing facility have a SPCC plan? What are the pros and cons of establishing and maintaining such a plan?Suppose there was a moderately large gasoline spill in the evening shift and the spill was left, as is, overnight; the evening shift manager planned for the day shift supervisor to address the spill. By morning, the spill had gradually seeped into a nearby creek and impacted its water with petroleum hydrocarbons. As you know, small creeks flow into large streams and rivers. Some kind of cleanup has to be initiated quickly. Whose fault is it? Is the supervisor on duty at fault? Is the manufacturing facility environmental & safety manager at fault for not having a SPCC plan? What kind of superficial drainage pattern or other controls would have helped prevent impact to the creek? Would a SPCC plan have prevented or minimized the environmental impact of this spill? What other actions are required by the facility as a result of this spill?


User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.

Explanation & Answer

Attached.

Running head: SPILL PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND COUNTERMEASURE

Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure
Name
Institutional Affiliation

1

SPILL PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND COUNTERMEASURE

Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure
An SPCC is a document that describes the measures than an oil manufacturing company
has taken to prevent, contain and clean up any oil spills that might have or may occur. A
professional engineer must certify the document. It is not a requirement that all the
manufacturing companies have the SPCC plan since it is an expensive process of acquiring and
designing but there are those firms that must own the plans.
If a company has aggregate aboveground petroleum that has a capacity greater than 1300
gallons of it has undergroun...


Anonymous
I was struggling with this subject, and this helped me a ton!

Studypool
4.7
Trustpilot
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4

Related Tags