This training course is aimed at Pathology and Laboratory departments sites with piped medical gas systems and/or medical gas cylinder holdings.
This provides the essential training for Lab Technicians and Maintenance Technicians in handling, storing or using Lab Gas Cylinders, as required by HTM08-06 and the HSWA 1974, to ensure the safe operation and use of medical gas cylinders, their hazards and emergency actions.
The session
Duration
- Either 1 x 0.5 day session or 2 x 0.5 day sessions in the same day
Delegates
- Up to 15 delegates per session (room size permitting)
Format
- Theory, Demonstration and Test
Certificate
- Successful delegates will receive certification of completion
Contents
- Hazards of compressed and cryogenic gases
- Colour and labelling identification of Gases
- Operation of cylinders
- Safe storage and handling
- Practical session (preparation of cylinders for use)
- Introduction to piped gas systems
- Warning alarm actions and isolation valves
- Operation of emergency supplies
- Practical changing cylinders on manifolds (if required)
- Overview of the PLGS permit to work system
Assessment
- Course workshop and exercises will consolidate the course learning
- There will be a multi-choice test to conclude the training
- Successful delegates will receive certification of completion
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