It is important you make PPE a part of your spill kit, as there may be times where someone entering the area for other purposes discovers a spill and needs short term protection to contain the spill or clean it up. The protective clothing contained in a spill kit may be less durable and will therefore offer less protection than standard PPE. Follow the instructions in the kit. Many commercial spill kits are only designed for one-off use. In this case, remember, UDR – Use it, Dispose of it, Replace it.

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Don't rely on farm tools to collect absorbents after a spill, as they are inevitably being used somewhere else when they are needed!

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Alternatively, create a simple procedure sheet that includes all the relevant emergency phone numbers to add to your kit.

Spill kits should be labelled and designated for use in handling pesticide spills only, and should be strategically placed where spills are most likely to occur. The label should list the contents, and the kit should be sealed to discourage item loss.

When you handle or mix hazardous chemicals, you should always wear appropriate PPE. Typically this should include overalls, rubber boots, gloves and eye protection.

Empty agrichemical containers in which the top has been removed make cheap and effective containment trays. If you use old containers in this way, you need to make sure they have been thoroughly cleaned and the previous contents are compatible with any product likely to be spilled.

Other safety equipment commonly found in spill kits includes a face shield, disposable carbon filter dust mask, and a chemical resistant apron.

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There are other emergency contacts than 111 that you may need to use in the case of an emergency. There are excellent emergency response plan templates available from WorkSafe and other industry organisations that you can use to enter all those contact numbers. Download it, fill it in, and place it in the spill kit.

Absorbent materials need to be effective at 'mopping up' liquids. They should be an inert material that won't react with the chemicals being recovered.

Spill containment trays are open containers used to stand ruptured drums on so that the leaking chemicals can be contained and recovered.

Spill containment socks are fabric 'tubes' filled with an absorbent material used to 'dam' areas where liquids are spilled to prevent the spill from spreading. They're easy enough to make from hessian or canvas sacks filled with a suitable absorbent material (e.g. vermiculite, zeolite) or dry sand.

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Both materials should absorb around half their volume of liquid (i.e. 20 litres of absorbent will absorb around 10 litres of liquid). Therefore, you need to consider the size of the largest chemical containers in your store when deciding how much absorbent material might be required.

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You need to look at the areas where products are stored, handled, mixed and used to determine what might happen if concentrate or mixed chemicals are spilt.

Acknowledgement: This section is adapted from HSNO brief for farmers - Spill kits' (Brief 12, May 2007), a publication in the EPA series Health and Safety in Farming.

The two most commonly available absorbents are zeolite and vermiculite. They are highly effective and (importantly) inexpensive.