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SPCC & Secondary Containment Inspection Checklist
A field checklist for operators, company men and HSE managers. Print it, walk the tank battery, tick each line, sign it and file it with your SPCC Plan.
What is inside
Five sections you tick on site, a line for each signature, and the sources on the back page.
- 01 Containment capacity and freeboard Largest single container, manifolded tanks, rain freeboard, and what eats capacity after the berm is built. With the wall-height formula and unit conversions.
- 02 Liner, berm and walls Cracks, cuts, unsealed penetrations, and the stains and salt crust outside a berm that inspectors read as flow-through.
- 03 Drainage and valves Sealed dike drains, inspecting rainwater before it is let out, and the ditches, sumps and oil traps on the inspection list.
- 04 Tanks, vessels and piping Tank shells and foundations, the overfill safeguard, flow-through vessels, produced water tanks, valves, flanges and flowlines.
- 05 Records, training and the Plan Signed records kept three years, the facility diagram, annual briefings, the five-year review and where the Plan is kept.
- 06 Sources Every line points to its 40 CFR 112 paragraph or to the EPA document it comes from, listed on the last page.
How to use it
The SPCC rule does not set a frequency for most of these inspections. The engineer who certifies your Plan sets the schedule, using good engineering practice and industry standards, and that written schedule is the one you are held to. Run the checklist on that schedule, on each tank battery.
Under 40 CFR 112.7(e), inspections follow written procedures and the records are signed by the supervisor or inspector and kept with the Plan for three years. A dated, signed sheet like this one is that record. When you find a defect, fix it and write down that you fixed it: a found-and-repaired entry shows the program working.
The checklist is general information, not a compliance determination for your site, and it does not replace your SPCC Plan. We do not write or certify SPCC Plans; that is the job of your engineer. Where the walk turns up a liner that is past it, a berm that is too small or containment that needs rebuilding, call (940) 612-2286 and we will scope the fix.
The full explanations
The checklist is built from these articles and the sources they cite.
- SPCC Inspections on Oil Production Sites: What EPA Checks and How to Prepare
- How to Calculate Secondary Containment Volume (Worked Oilfield Examples)
- Secondary Containment Requirements: Which Rule Covers Which Oilfield Equipment
- SPCC Plan Requirements for Oil Production Sites: 40 CFR 112.9 in Plain Language