Compliant DG units for chemical, fuel and hazardous stock — ventilated, bunded and built to pass an audit. Most container yards will tell you to look elsewhere. We can get them.
The blueberry and banana country behind Woolgoolga and Coffs Harbour runs on spray chemical, and so does the cane and grazing country on the Clarence flats. A drum of anything scheduled sitting in the corner of a machinery shed is the ordinary situation, and it is also the one that gets written up the moment anyone audits the place. A bunded, ventilated unit turns that from a finding into a tick.
The second regular caller is marine and workshop — the boat yards and slipways at Yamba and Iluka, the trailer and engineering shops on the Coffs industrial estates, holding solvents, two-pack and fuel. The third is contractors on the highway and bridge programmes, who arrive with a compliance schedule and need storage that satisfies it before work starts.
The single most useful thing you can do is find out the DG class and the quantity before you ring anyone. The unit specification follows from those two facts, and matching the container to the wrong class is an expensive mistake that a return policy does not solve.
Principally two things: ventilation, so vapour cannot accumulate, and a bunded floor that will contain a spill rather than let it run out the door. Depending on class and quantity there may also be requirements around signage, separation distances, earthing and fire rating. The class you are storing determines the specification.
It is on the safety data sheet for whatever you are storing — every chemical you buy commercially has one, and the class and packing group are stated on it. Get those, plus the total quantity you will hold, and ring us. Guessing at this stage is what produces a unit that fails inspection.
Not usually standing in the row — they come in to order more often than they sit in the yard, because the specification varies so much by class. Lead time is genuinely worth asking about early rather than a week before an audit.
For most scheduled chemicals in any quantity, no. A standard container has a plywood floor and no ventilation, which is close to the opposite of what the requirement asks for. If someone tells you a plain box will do, ask them to put it in writing.
Availability moves with stock — a call gets you today's answer, not last month's.
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