EIGA's Safety Advisory Council has been notified of an incident where a driver of a carbon dioxide road tanker sustained very serious head injuries that endangered his life.
Within the Industrial Gases industry we are very familiar with the hazards of gases including pressure and the physical state.
All gases, unless they contain sufficient oxygen, can kill by asphyxiation.
The 12th Adaption to Technical Progress (ATP) of the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation will apply from 17 October 2020.
This new legislation has been signed into law. It will come into force from 1 January 2021.
Companies are required to take reasonable measures to prevent emergency situations such as fires or leaks from happening, but emergencies are still possible on any site.
The International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) has developed a harmonised guideline for elemental impurities, Q3D in pharmaceutical products which includes medical gases, referred to as ICH Q3D. This is an adopted guideline from the European Medicines Agency.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued a Safety Alert highlighting the risk of misleading gas detection readings associated with the use of sampling tubes with pumped gas detectors.
