Fuel-Safe Bus Depot Safety Systems
Development into safe working practises on the fuel island. Yellow Box traffic light system. Again using the knowledge gained developing Petroman & petro-link applications for the oil industry the fuel-safe comes out of the same mold.
A requirement was found for a control of vehicles pulling on the fuel island during fuelling periods (shunt) in bus garages. The fuel shunt is usually between 1800hrs & 0400hrs depending on fleet size.
At certain periods during the night buses would arrive back at the depot at around the same time, thus creating a backlog or queue on the roads around the depot. For this reason some bus companies installed high speed fuelling systems such as Identic. Buses are filled within one or two minutes so with this amount of traffic the fuelling personnel were at risk.
A particular hazard was checking the engine oil at the rear of the bus. There has been unfortunate accidents where fuellers have been killed or injured due to a following bus running into the back of the fuelling bus. For this reason the bus companies developed the YELLOW BOX area located in front of the fuel island. No bus should enter the box until the fuel island is clear.
Traffic light systems have been developed to control entry into the YELLOW BOX. Fuel-Safe was developed with intelligence to cater for the ever variety and length of buses such as the new Citaro 'Bendy-Bus'.
Fuel-Safe installation at London Central's Bexleyheath Bus Garage East London. 8" LED lamps are used to reduce maintenance. Note the Identic CE-90mk4 terminal in the background together with spill free and manual nozzles. The installation of the fuelling equipment was 1999. The fuel island still remains clean and dry.
London United's Hounslow Bus Garage, linking into existing traffic lamps to save on cost. Installed 2005
Peckham Bus Garage , Downstream Fuel-Safe installation at London Central's Peckham Bus Garage. 2006
Downstream Fuel-Safe & Bus Wash Control installed 2006 at East Thames Buses Ltd. Mandela Way, Bermondsey London.
The bus wash is isolated during refuelling.
Downstream Fuel-Safe at Merton Bus Garage London