Garages and fuel storage

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Tractor safety

26.0.2.

Hot engines should be allowed to cool down before

refuelling.

26.0.3.

After fuelling, some time should be allowed for fuel

vapours to disappear before the engine is re-started.

26.0.4.

Contact should at all times be maintained between

the metal outlet of

the

refuelling hose or the can spout, on the one

hand, and the fuel tank opening on the tractor on the other, or

other means of bonding should be ensured to minimise the pos-

sibility of an explosion or outbreak of fire due to the discharge of an

accumulation of static electricity.

26.0.5.

The tractor fuel system should be checked frequently

to detect fuel leaks. To be checked in particular are the fuel tank

seams, fuel lines, fuel filler caps, fuel line shut-off valves, chokes

and all fuel line connections.

26.0.6.

(1) Fire extinguishers should be provided on the

tractor, at the refuelling point and in the building where the tractor

is stored.

(2) The extinguishers referred to in subparagraph

(1)

should be

of the type approved for petroleum fires (i.e. carbon dioxide, dry

chemical). Carbon tetrachloride extinguishers should not be used,

owing to the poisonous gas given off.

27.

Garages and fuel storage

27.0.1.

Garages for tractors should—

(a) be adequately ventilated;

(b) have at least one outside wall; and

(c) have doors opening to the outside.

27.0.2.

Electrical installations in garages should be in con-

formity with national regulations or the requirements of the

competent authority.

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