[Alice]

That ten minutes of panic is genuinely a good teacher and it sounds like you came out of it with exactly the right lesson. The storage area second kit idea is actually the more important one in my opinion because that is where larger volumes tend to sit undisturbed and a slow leak in a storage corner can go much longer without being noticed than something that spills dramatically in your main work area. I had a situation with a corroded container bottom in my storage room that had been weeping slowly onto the shelf below for who knows how long before I caught the smell. Now I have drip trays under all my liquid storage and a kit mounted on the wall right there. Crateco supplies both and they are based in Ajman so getting set up properly is not a complicated errand. Chemical spill kits specifically formulated for acidic and alkaline workshop chemicals are what you want rather than the general purpose ones designed mainly for oil.