Each facility will follow local regulatory requirements regarding storage and use of compressed and liquefied gas.
All compressed gas cylinders will be stored in their appropriately marked secured (chained) locations and capped when not in use. If in use, all hook-up hoses and equipment used for hot-work purposes will be inspected prior to use. Defective equipment found shall not be used, but instead, tagged out of service or repaired before being used again.
- CorSafety must develop and implement site specific written procedures for the safe installation, use and maintenance of a compressed and liquefied gas system and make readily available for reference by workers the procedures developed before requiring or permitting the use of the system. All effected staff will be trained in and how to implement the compressed and liquefied gas procedures.
- Absolutely no oil, grease or other contaminant contacts a cylinder, valve, regulator or any other fitting of an oxygenizing apparatus, an oxygen distribution or generating system.
- Oxygen is never to be used as a substitute for compressed air in pneumatic tools, to create pressure, for ventilating purposes or to blow out a pipeline.
- All regulators and its flexible connecting hose are to be tested immediately after connections to a gas cylinder to ensure that there is no leak of the gas supply. If a leak of the gas supply develops during gas welding or an allied process, the supply of gas is immediately shut off by the worker performing the welding or allied process and the work is not resumed until the lead is repaired.
- Storage compartments for compressed and liquefied gas cylinders must meet local legislative requirements
