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EIGA 216/20 – ICH Q3D risk assessment report – Elemental impurities in medicinal gases

01/10/2020 News Publications

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.

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HSE Safety Alert – Gas Detectors

17/09/2020 News

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.

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BEIS Guidance for placing goods on the market from 2021

02/09/2020 News

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have published guidance for placing goods on the market from 1 January 2021.

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HSE – RR1159 – International Association for Hydrogen Safety ‘Research Priorities Workshop’, September 2018, Buxton, UK

20/08/2020 News Publications

This report describes the outputs of the International Association for Hydrogen Safety (IA HySafe) Research Priorities Workshop (RPW) held at HSE, Buxton, UK, in September 2018.

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SAFed Fact Sheet 1, Potential hazards from water hammer and risks from failures at dead legs

01/07/2020 News Publications

The Safety Assessment Federation (SAFed) have published Edition 2 of Fact Sheet 1.

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SAFed PSG 15 Guidelines for competent person. Repairs or modifications to pressure systems.

01/07/2020 News Publications

The Safety Assessment Federation (SAFed) have published Edition 3 of PSG 15.

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BCGA issue revision to Code of Practice 42, Implementation of EIGA carbon dioxide standards

24/06/2020 News Publications

Revision 3: 2020 has been issued for CP42 which implements the documents published by the European Industrial Gases Association.

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BCGA issue Guidance Note 29, Medical gases. The management of medical oxygen in domiciliary use.

18/06/2020 News Publications

This document covers the supply of medical oxygen for domiciliary use, supplied to patients in their home, care home or other domiciliary facility.