Site Prep - International Installations
Health and Safety
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Health and Safety
GENERAL
Ensure that all local council, U.K. and E.C. laws and regulations are complied with. Also ensure that all recognised
safety codes are followed.
Every person working with Veeder–Root equipment is expected to take every safety
precaution possible in the installation of the TLS-IB and probes.
Contractors must ensure that supervisory personnel on the installation site are aware of their presence and
requirements, especially the provision of safe working areas and isolation from AC electrical power.
Leaking underground tanks can create serious environmental and health hazards. It is the contractor's
responsibility to comply with the instructions and warnings found in this manual.
Reference manual number 577013-578 for additional product safety information.
DANGER AREAS
If the underground storage tank to be fitted with a TLS system either contains or at any time has contained
petroleum products then the tank inspection chamber must be considered a hazardous environment as defined in
IEC EN 60079-10 Classification of Hazardous Areas. Suitable working practices for this environment must be
observed.
INTRINSIC SAFETY
The design of Veeder-Root products limits the power in the wiring to the in-tank probes and keeps this wiring
physically separated from any other. It is the responsibility of the contractor to maintain the effectiveness of these
safety features by preparing the installation site in accordance with the instructions and warnings which follow.
Failure to do so could create danger to life and property.
Circuitry within the probe and console barrier forms an intrinsically safe, energy limited system. This system makes
the probes suitable for use in hazardous locations. Probe wiring is intrinsically safe only when connected to the
TLS-IB unit.
Substitution of specified components may impair intrinsic safety.
All probe wiring must be contained in dedicated ducts.
WARNING
TLS System products will be operated near the highly combustible
environment of a fuel storage tank.
FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING WARNINGS AND SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, ENVIRONMENT,
RESULTING IN SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH.
WARNING
NOTICE
