Key Safety Policies
KSP 1.03 K-1 Loading & Delivery Policy
PURPOSE: To ensure the safe loading and delivery of kerosene and avoid customer property damage and loss of life or severe injury to our employees or customers. The procedure is as follows:
PROCEDURE:
- PRIOR TO LOADING: Drivers are to verify trailers to be loaded with K-1 Kerosene are free from residual gasoline products or gasoline vapors. NEVER load K-1 Kerosene behind gasoline. K-1 Kerosene always needs to follow a diesel fuel load to prevent gasoline vapors and/or product left on truck from being mixed with the K-1 Kerosene, which could result in harmful and potentially lethal ignition.
- PRIOR TO DELIVERY: It is imperative that you know which tank contains K-1 Kerosene at a delivery location. Reliable Tank Line must take every possible action to ensure that we are able to identify each tank that we deliver into. When you are making a kerosene delivery, make sure the tank is marked, if it is not, then get verification from the site manager. Each K-1 tank should have a short piece of chain connecting the fill cap and fill pipe. The chain should have a round metal disc with K-1 stamped on it. If the tank is not marked, double check to make sure it is the K-1 tank. Then make a note on your trip ticket and tell your dispatcher that it is not marked. We will send someone to mark the tank.
- If it is determined that you did not report an unmarked K-1 tank, it will be a $500 deduction against your current period DSB Payout.
- If gasoline is dropped in a K-1 tank or mixed on the truck, the employee involved must shut off the flow at once. If the product has been dropped into the tank, the driver must notify the location personnel immediately so that no product is purchased from that tank. The driver must then notify his/her Terminal Manager for further instructions.
- EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION DUE TO NEGLIGENCE: If an incident occurs in which a driver drops gasoline in a K-1 tank OR delivers mixed K-1 product and leaves the location, he/she will be terminated from employment for the first offense. If a driver drops gasoline in a K-1 tank on a second offense, he/she will be terminated WITHOUT regard to 1.03 C Penalties below. Otherwise, not following this procedure carries the following penalties, in addition to being sent home the rest of the work shift:
PENALTIES:
1st Violation: 1-day suspension and $1000 deduction from current period DSB Payout.
2nd Violation: 3-day suspension and loss of current period DSB Payout.
3rd Violation: further disciplinary action, up to and including, termination of employment.