Laboratory Gases (Including Piped Systems)

Our Laboratory Gases (Including Piped Systems) Safety Awareness Workshop is an instructor-led training session for up to 20 delegates. It provides all the essential safety awareness information that users of compressed gases in a laboratory or other similar environment require.

The half-day (4 hour) workshop is designed for:

• Anyone using, handling or storing gases in a laboratory environment
• Laboratory and other Managers with operational responsibilites for safety
• Managers, Supervisors and staff from all functions who are responsible for the safe use of gases
• Anyone responsible for Health & Safety

Laboratory Gases (Including Piped Systems) Safety Awareness Workshop Overview

• Why do accidents occur?
• What's in the air?
• Inert gases and oxygen deficiency
• Oxygen enrichment
• Hazards posed by oils and greases
• Hazards of flammability
• The need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Safe operation of gas cylinders
• Gas control equipment - regulators
• Owner / operator responsibilites in repsect of piped systems
• Safe handling of gas cylinders
• Safe storage of gas cylinders
• What happens when it all goes wrong

What You Will Learn

The workshop will enable participants to:

• Correctly identify gas cylinders
• Recognise how gas cylinders operate
• Be aware of the hazards of asphyxia
• Recognise the hazards posed by oxygen enrichment
• Identify flammability hazards
• Select the correct gas control equipment
• Recognise the hazards of using incorrect manual handling techniques
• Re-assess current storage procedures in line with the relevant Guidance Note
• Introduce safe working practices into your workplace

Workshop Price

The workshop is priced at £1120 for up to 8 delegates, additional delegates at £105 per head. VAT is payable at the standard rate.

A maximum of 20 delegates may attend. Certificates of attendance and delegate workbooks will be issued.

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The workshop can be run in isolation, or it can form the foundation for its related practical workshop; Connecting Regulators & Cylinder Set-up.

Please note that if none of your gases are distributed via a piped system, and are simply supplied directly from the gas cylinders themselves, our Laboratory Gases (Excluding Piped Systems) Safety Awareness Workshop would be more appropriate.