Question

1. you have to make a decision between storing a large amount of flammable liquid or a large quantity of a potentially explosive material (but not both) What would you do?

a) store the explosive material

b) minimize the storage requirments for either the flammable liquid or the explosive material

c) minimize the storage requirments for the flammable liquid

Answer 1

Correct option is c)

A flame to turned into fire requires continous fuel sourcce which is flammable liquid. Explosive materials can ignite and may cause local fire depends on the quantity available at a single place. But if even a little flame reaches flammable liquid, it will catch fire and spreads to very large distance.

Also, since flammable liquid are volatile in nature, as it catches fire, it will turn into vapor and can produce Pressure clouds which can make secondary explosion anywhere else.

Therefore, best approach is to store explosive material in small lots at distant places.