Health and Safety Issues at Buncefield Oil Terminal

Health Safety & Environment
in the Energy Industry and
The Downstream Oil & Gas

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
1. Issues of health and safety faced at Buncefield.......................................................................4
2. Comparison of health, safety and environmental theories and actions....................................6
3. Recommendations on the successful management of safety and risk management in
company.....................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Safety and security at the workplace is the most important things to make the business
effective and efficient. Every company make sure that their business operation will not harm
anyone so that they start various strategies of health and safety for protecting the people from
hazardous issues. This report determine the health and safety of the Buncefield Oil Terminal is
the biggest company which supplies oil and fuel in large quantity. This file includes the issues of
health and safety which is experienced at the Buncefield. Different theories and practices of
health, safety and environment are explained in this report. Successful management of safety and
risk in the Buncefield is the element of UK downstream gas and oil sector. Different problems
related to the safety and health of accident at Buncefield in 2005 are analysed and determined in
this report. There is also the evaluation of how the accident of company will influenced the oil
and gas sector of UK. The accident at the gas and oil industry is the biggest and powerful
explosion which is occurred in UK. Exacerbation of asthma, sore throat, cough, shortness of
breath are most common health problems which is happened due to accidents.
MAIN BODY
1. Issues of health and safety faced at Buncefield.
The blast of the Buncefield which occurs in the large fire that powerfully affects over the
storage tanks which is 20. this pollution will affects the health of the people in short and long
term. There are the two department of emergency and accident which is near to the place where
accident is occurred. The fire is burned for many days and cover the large section of England in
pollution. Explosion and fire is the main causes of health problem which is due to the blast. The
workers and the people in the industry faces the health problem which is due to flammable gases
and vapours. Flammable gases which is released from the blast of tanks in the industry and it is
in the form of vapours and hydrogen sulfide these gases will affects the health of people
adversely (Al Hashmi, 2017). Due to ineffective management system of health and safety in the
company will leads to the problem accident. Measurement of the performance is necessary which
is used to track the safety and security in the business operations. Oil and gas industry have to
use the effective procedure, conditions and environment which protects the workers of the
company from the
In the process of tank filling the management system does properly followed and it is
deficient. Before this fire incident the pressure is increases on the people working in the

company. The people of UK are suffered from various health diseases because the fire was did
not stopped for many days. At this period of time medical treatment is given to the 244 people in
the department accident and emergency (Baldwin and Black, 2016). All the people who are
admitted in the emergency department are divided into three parts such as workers, public and
services of emergency. The senior manager of the company gives advised to their worker that
they go and take check-up in the A&E departments due to adverse effects of smoke on health of
the people.
Symptoms of fire are identifies in the 120 people like 62% people are suffered from the
problem of respiratory system. 18% people are faced the problem of headache, 33% faced
injuries and 8% people are faced the issues of anxiety which affects their health. This incident is
happen because the tank was overfilled and large amount of gasoline is overflowed due to
accident and there is the formation of vapour cloud and this will result in the huge explosion
(Allford, 2016). The explosion of fuel makes the gases positioning in he environment so this will
affects the system of respirator in the public.
The most common problem of health is due to the irritation in the respiratory system like
exacerbation of asthma, sore throat, shortness of breath and cough. The company faces the
problem in the instruments of safety and it will increases the issues factors of human. This will
affects the environment of the country and greater number of people are faced the problem due to
the blast at Buncefield. The company further decides to implement new safety systems in the
business operations to measure and prevent the nature and health of people from this kind of
incidents in the future (Almond and Esbester, 2019). Effective and efficient management is
required in the company for the protection of the health, safety and environment while working
in the business atmosphere.
The incident of oil and gas industry will affects the mental health of the people also
because the gases which occur in the environment which is harmful for the health of people. The
employees who are working in this environment of workplace are faces the stress, exhaustion
affected the mental and physical health of people. These gases is highly affects the environment
and it will makes the
The main impact on the health are the problems headache, anxiety and symptoms of
respiratory. Most of the injuries are seen in the people who are working in the Buncefield
because they did not aware about the health of people working in the workplace. This will leads