WA Goldfields Fuel Farm: 6 x 20ft AS 1940 Bunded Diesel Stores

A gold operation in the WA Goldfields needed a remote fuel farm of six 20ft diesel stores, sized for its rotation cycle, that would pass the WA dangerous-goods inspection on the first audit. The standard was AS 1940:2017, layered against the operation's procurement requirements. A failed inspection holds the fuel facility's operating permit, pushes commissioning past cut-over, and triggers contractor stand-down. Every container also had to arrive with a stamped compliance pack so it could go onto the site DG register without further engineering review.

SCS engineered each unit to AS 1940:2017, drawing on our 20ft dangerous-goods containers and flammable-liquid storage for Class 3 diesel. Each had a 110 per cent bund, calculated ventilation, AS/NZS 3000 electrical with a stamped hazardous-area drawing, and a placarding schedule to the ADG Code, and shipped with a project compliance pack. The layout handled safe dispensing, ignition control, and spill containment. Built to the QA in our manufacturing process, the units were consolidated to one shipment and craned onto the prepared pad.

All six units passed the WA dangerous-goods inspection on the first attempt, and the operating permit issued on schedule. There were no remediation lots, no on-site retrofit, and no permit hold-points, and capex tracked to budget with no field-rework variation. Because the AS 1940 baseline had been reconciled against the operator overlay before the first cut, the inspection was a single audit pass. Procurement got regulator-defensibility on day one, operations got zero permit delay, and the operation added the pack to its standing reference.