Buncefield

The investigation is ongoing and the key lessons will be included in this factsheet when the final report is available. The initial report published in July 2006 identified three areas for recommendations:

·         Design and operation of storage sites

·         Emergency response to incidents

·         Advice to planning authorities

The recommendations on design and operation of fuel storage sites were published in March 2007. The report details 25 recommendations which are grouped under six headings:

·         Systematic assessment of safety integrity level (SIL) requirements (Recommendation 1)

·         Protecting against loss of primary containment using high integrity systems (Recommendations 2–10)

·         Engineering against escalation of loss of primary containment (Recommendations 11–16)

·         Engineering against loss of secondary and tertiary containment (Recommendations 17-18)

·         Operating with high reliability organisations (Recommendations 19–22)

·         Delivering high performance through culture and leadership (Recommendations 23–25)

Recommendations 1–16 emphasise the need to increase the protection provided by primary containment systems i.e. to make sure that liquid does not escape from the vessels in which it is normally meant to be confined.

Recommendations 17-18 deal with improvements to secondary and tertiary containment.

Recommendations 19-22 deal with human and organisational factors.