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Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:30 pm
by dodgyrog
Has anybody been made aware of the changes in the requirements for storing reloading powders?
Apparently new requirements from the Health and Safety Directorate are in force???
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:41 pm
by Sim G
No. Any idea what they are?
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:55 pm
by dodgyrog
That's what I'm asking!
I heard from an RFD that changes are coming in or are in but I can find nothing on the HSE website.
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:13 pm
by Sim G
I'd take it with a pinch of salt. I can't see anything when trawling around official, organisation or importers sites.
What did shock me was when I ended up on Edgar Bros site. The recommended retail price for Alliant powders averages at £69 a tub!!!
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:47 pm
by 1066
Did I see somewhere that 777 has been reclassified as an explosive?
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:41 pm
by Sim G
Yep. There’s a thread on here, I’m sure.
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:33 pm
by dodgyrog
Cumbria Police started this off at a visit to an RFD last week, apparently.
Nothing on the HSE website.
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:10 pm
by bradaz11
more made up rules? the containers are perfectly safe. more issues arise from calor cannisters, but there are no laws with those!
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:38 pm
by kennyc
bradaz11 wrote:more made up rules? the containers are perfectly safe. more issues arise from calor cannisters, but there are no laws with those!
actually there are quite a few laws/regs relating to the storage and use of LPG
I am forever having to remind customers of that fact
Re: Powder storage - changes to the rules
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:04 pm
by bradaz11
kennyc wrote:bradaz11 wrote:more made up rules? the containers are perfectly safe. more issues arise from calor cannisters, but there are no laws with those!
actually there are quite a few laws/regs relating to the storage and use of LPG
I am forever having to remind customers of that fact
yeah, but what I mean is no one is turning up at your house, demanding you store it differently, threating to take away all your bbqs etc