Everyday Hazmat User’s Training Guide
Long Description
This image illustrates the floor plan to be used when storing flammable solids outdoors and describes the requirements to be used for storage. These requirements are described as follows:
- No more than 125 pounds of flammable
solids per control area.
- Control areas no closer than 20 feet to an alley, gravel road,
street, or highway.
- Have a proper fire extinguisher outside if dispensing flammable solids
within 50 feet of a storage
area or structures.
- Recommend control areas are no closer than 50 feet to a structure (inhabited
or uninhabited), with the gradient sloping away from building.
- Control areas no closer than 20 feet to a property line.
- Remove weeds
and combustibles
within 15 feet of
each group.
- If the property is larger than 10,000 square feet, you may have a maximum of two control areas if they are separated by 50 feet; if the property is larger than 35,000 square feet, additional control areas are permitted if they are separated by more than 300 feet.
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