Guidance

Petrol: incident management and toxicology

Information on petrol (also known as gasoline), for use in responding to chemical incidents.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 July 2014
• Last updated: 5 June 2025
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  1. 5 June 2025

     Notice about toxicological overview review added.

  2. 29 October 2024

     The content of the Incident Management document has been updated. Toxicological Overview page has undergone a HTML format update – the content within this page has remained unchanged.

  3. 31 May 2024

     'Petrol: general information' document removed due to new UKHSA guidance superseding it.

  4. 14 August 2019

     Updated incident management document.

  5. 18 October 2016

     Uploaded petrol: general information.

  6. 11 May 2016

     Updated version of incident management and removed compilation PDF.

  7. 1 July 2014

     First published.

Documents

Petrol: toxicological overview

HTML

Petrol: incident managment

Ref: GOV-17528

PDF, 210 KB, 20 pages

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