Media Release, February 2008

Following meeting on 11 February 2008

Environment Improvement Plan (EIP)

At the TGCCC meeting on 11 February 2008, the community representatives expressed their concern that EPA has not signed-off the Environment Improvement Plan (EIP), despite it having been otherwise finalised in December 2006. The TGCCC community members stressed the importance that they attributed to the EIP as a means of oversighting the improvement to the environmental performance of the Terminals Corio facility, and EPA's key role in endorsing the EIP.

Since the TGCCC meeting, EPA have advised that every effort will be made to sign off the EIP before the next meeting of the TGCCC on 3 March 2008.

Incident reporting

As part of its monthly report to the TGCCC, Terminals included a précis of seven incidents that had occurred at the facility over the last two months. Two of the incidents involved electrical faults that sent out false alarms, and two others involved electronic equipment which erroneously shut down truck loading or prevented truck loading. These incidents caused delays and costs, but did not involve worker safety or chemical spills.

One of the remaining three incidents did involve a small spill of product vapour and another a small spray of water/product mix, fortunately without any serious consequences to environmental degradation or health and safety. The last incident involved the behaviour of a transport driver whilst picking up a load at the facility.

George Horman, Australian Managing Director of Terminals Pty Ltd, said: "A robust system of incident reporting is important to ongoing continuous improvement. Every incident is carefully examined, and action is taken to minimise the chance of it re-occurring. I encourage all staff to report every incident or near miss, so that we can improve our operational safety and efficiency." The TGCCC welcomes the open reporting of incidents and near-misses at the facility, and compliments Terminals on its approach to sharing this information with the community.

Terminals makes water savings

Terminals provided a report to the TGCCC on water saving initiatives taken at the facility. The main action has been to reduce the frequency of testing the deluge system on a sphere, where previously one sphere was tested every week. Now, all spheres are tested just once every three months, with a water saving of 320,000 litres per year. Terminals will investigate possible further savings in relation to the 10 year inspections of the spheres, which consumes 4 to 6 million litres of water.

Next meeting of the Committee

The next meeting of the Committee is on Monday 3 March 2008. It will be held at Corio Library, Cox Road, Norlane, at 6:00 for 6:30. Any interested member of the community is welcome to attend the TGCCC meetings.

Robin Saunders (Independent Chair)



	Home Page Adopted Minutes Media Releases Technical Reports About the Committee Terms of Reference About Terminals Contact Details Useful Links		Media Release, February 2008 Following meeting on 11 February 2008 Environment Improvement Plan (EIP) At the TGCCC meeting on 11 February 2008, the community representatives expressed their concern that EPA has not signed-off the Environment Improvement Plan (EIP), despite it having been otherwise finalised in December 2006. The TGCCC community members stressed the importance that they attributed to the EIP as a means of oversighting the improvement to the environmental performance of the Terminals Corio facility, and EPA's key role in endorsing the EIP. Since the TGCCC meeting, EPA have advised that every effort will be made to sign off the EIP before the next meeting of the TGCCC on 3 March 2008. Incident reporting As part of its monthly report to the TGCCC, Terminals included a précis of seven incidents that had occurred at the facility over the last two months. Two of the incidents involved electrical faults that sent out false alarms, and two others involved electronic equipment which erroneously shut down truck loading or prevented truck loading. These incidents caused delays and costs, but did not involve worker safety or chemical spills. One of the remaining three incidents did involve a small spill of product vapour and another a small spray of water/product mix, fortunately without any serious consequences to environmental degradation or health and safety. The last incident involved the behaviour of a transport driver whilst picking up a load at the facility. George Horman, Australian Managing Director of Terminals Pty Ltd, said: "A robust system of incident reporting is important to ongoing continuous improvement. Every incident is carefully examined, and action is taken to minimise the chance of it re-occurring. I encourage all staff to report every incident or near miss, so that we can improve our operational safety and efficiency." The TGCCC welcomes the open reporting of incidents and near-misses at the facility, and compliments Terminals on its approach to sharing this information with the community. Terminals makes water savings Terminals provided a report to the TGCCC on water saving initiatives taken at the facility. The main action has been to reduce the frequency of testing the deluge system on a sphere, where previously one sphere was tested every week. Now, all spheres are tested just once every three months, with a water saving of 320,000 litres per year. Terminals will investigate possible further savings in relation to the 10 year inspections of the spheres, which consumes 4 to 6 million litres of water. Next meeting of the Committee The next meeting of the Committee is on Monday 3 March 2008. It will be held at Corio Library, Cox Road, Norlane, at 6:00 for 6:30. Any interested member of the community is welcome to attend the TGCCC meetings. Robin Saunders (Independent Chair)