Our ref:
18-E-0117
File ref:
5443652
26 March 2018
S C McKee
[FYI request #7472 email]
Dear S C McKee
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
Thank you for your request via email, made under the Official Information Act 1982,
dated 17 March 2018.
You have asked:
1) Whom did you inform about the storage of the ecotoxic baits in the Liquor King
building? (from June 8th to October 17th)
2) When you read the MSDS, why did you not prepare an emergency response plan
knowing that in the worst case scenario of a warehouse fire, extremely toxic gas
(hydrogen fluoride) would be produced, requiring evacuation of anyone in its
path?
3) When you read the MSDS, you would have read that firemen attending a fire of
the baits would have to be trained in the use of breathing apparatus. Why did you
not check with the fire chief that they had that equipment and that his staff were
trained in the use of breathing apparatus?
I refer you to my previous response of 26 March 2018 where these same questions have
been answered.
Yours sincerely
David Speirs
Director, Operations
Hauraki Waikato Taranaki Region
Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
Kirikiriroa / Hamilton Office
Private Bag 3072, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
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