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.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have published guidance for placing goods on the market from 1 January 2021.
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.
The Safety Assessment Federation (SAFed) have published Edition 2 of Fact Sheet 1.
The Safety Assessment Federation (SAFed) have published Edition 3 of PSG 15.
