Please be careful when handling or storing fuel for any purpose: • Contact with petrol or LPG can burn or irritate skin or eyes and stain or dissolve certain fabrics. • If your clothing is splashed with fuel, saturate the area with water and remove the clothing slowly (to avoid static electricity) as soon as possible. Hang out to thoroughly air before washing. • If fuel splashes on your skin, wash with soap and water. If fuel gets in your eyes, wash out with running water for at least 15 minutes. If pain persists, seek medical attention. • Prolonged exposure to vapours can adversely affect health. • Always label and store fuel containers in a cool, well ventilated location out of children’s reach. • It is illegal to pour fuel into drains or sumps due to the potential environmental damage and the risk of explosion. Filling Containers
For your safety and that of the site staff, please adhere to the following:
• Fill only properly labelled containers which have been stamped to say they are
approved to carry flammable liquids. These are available from service stations, hardware or camping stores. Fuel can ‘eat’ or ‘melt’ ordinary plastic and glass is breakable.
• By law, filling non-approved or incorrectly labelled containers from dispensing pumps is illegal.
• Do not fill containers on the back of a truck deck, trailer, ute, in car boots, etc.
• When filling a portable container, manually control the nozzle valve and fill slowly throughout the process to reduce the chance of static electricity build-up and minimize splattering / spilling.
• Shell policy is that we will fill up to 25-litre containers only. The above measures are designed to reduce risks of injury from:
• sparks caused by static electricity build-up
• lifting of heavy containers
• use of non-approved containers. Refuelling Petrol Vehicles
Take care when opening the fuel cap on your petrol vehicle. Under certain conditions, static discharge from some types of clothing may ignite petrol vapours
from your vehicle tank.
LPG
• LPG is colourless and has a distinctive smell so that leaks can be easily detected.
• If you detect an LPG leak, press an emergency stop button and advise staff
immediately.
• By law, staff are not permitted to refill LPG bottles where the test date stamp is
more than 10 years old. Our staff can advise you where the nearest approved
testing station is located.
• Staff are also not permitted to fill bottles with signs of rust and/or dents.
• Before connecting to your car, always check that the vehicle fill point and nozzle
connections are clean and in good condition.
• Take care when connecting the nozzle to your car to ensure it is not cross threaded.
• Avoid direct contact with LPG which can cause cold burns.
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