Gas Cylinder Handling and Safety

Health & Safety is paramount in our Industry and we at ENERGAS, pride ourselves in being at the forefront of promoting Safety to all our Staff. RegularTraining Sessions include Emergency Drills, Cylinder Inspection, On-site Safety audits, updating on recent Legislation, Product and Application knowledge.
 
Our Delivery Team operate within the Carriage of Dangerous
Goods by Road Regulations 1996 and are trained to ‘ADR’ standards.

Advice on Health and Safety

Advice on Storage

Purpose built Vehicles with Tail-lifts

Cylinder Identification Charts available (European Standard Colours to BS:EN 1089-3)

Latest specification Cylinders

Applications Advisory Service

Safety – (Cylinder Information)
New European Regulations (EN 1089-3) governing the colour coding of transportable gas cylinders are due to come into force across Europe. These new Regulations will replace the old UK standard BS 349 colour scheme.

What does it mean?

The result will mean you will see some dramatic cylinder colour changes to certain of our product ranges.
The changes will be phased in over the next few years.

ENERGAS plan to have all cylinders painted in the new colours within the next five years.

The new system is based on providing a European wide conformity on colours for the shoulder of a cylinder (top) this will be particularly valuable in identifying cylinders in an emergency situation when the cylinder label is not clearly visible.

New Cylinder Shoulder Colours

Flammable Red 
Oxidising Blue 
Toxic Yellow 
Inert Bright Green 
Argon Dark Green 
Oxygen White 
Nitrogen Black 
Carbon Dioxide Grey 

IMPORTANT!!
It is very important for you and your staff to read the cylinder identification label attached to the cylinder. This is the primary means of identifying the cylinder and its contents. The cylinder shoulder colour is an acceptable means of identification, only in a safety or emergency situation.

Do not use any cylinder until the label has been inspected.

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