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Awareness Package TP INC 39/20 - Recent Incidents in the Industrial and Medical Gases Industry (SAC 163)
At each meeting of the EIGA Safety Advisory Council (SAC), the members exchange information on gas industry related incidents (accidents causing injuries, property or environmental damage and near-misses). SAC discusses and analyses these incidents. This information is used by SAC to determine the priorities for safety alerts, safety information, new and revised documents, campaigns etc.
In this Awareness Package (members only) are the summaries and photographs of recent incidents discussed at SAC. Please use this information as you wish, but do not share this report outside your organisation.
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Doc 05/20 - Guidelines for the Management of Waste Acetylene Cylinders
(revision of Doc 05/13) This publication sets out the standards for the safe treatment or disposal of acetylene cylinders and reflects the priority that EIGA gives to the protection of people and the environment. The publication determines the standards to be achieved and describes methods by which these can be achieved. Methods should only be adopted where an equivalence of safety can be demonstrated.
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Doc 84/20 - Calculation of Air Emissions from an Acetylene Plant
(revision of Doc 84/08) This publication and associated .xlsx-sheet, describe a standard method of calculating air emissions from an acetylene plant. The users can input their own information specific to their plant and obtain an estimate of the air emissions, which can be used for permit applications. This publication has an associated excel spreadsheet tool that can be used to calculate the emissions.
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Doc 106/20 - Environmental Issues Guide
(revision of Doc 106/03) This Doc 106 provides guidance on the European legislation concerning the main environmental issues relevant to the Industrial Gases Industry and recommendations on good practices to control the impacts and to comply with the legislation.
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Info TS 01/20 - Transport Safety Information, an Overview
(revision of Info TS 01/13) On the road transportation of gases and equipment can often be the highest risk activity for gas companies and their providers of transport services.
Complying with the legislative and regulatory requirements of operating a transport fleet needs to be supplemented with requirements and guidance specific for the industrial and medical gases industry to prevent one of your drivers or vehicles from being involved in a serious incident. The key issues concerning transport safety have been divided into a series of key topics, one Transport Safety Information document will be published for each of these topics.
The goal is to provide guidelines for managers, drivers and other transport function personnel which, when complied with, can help prevent serious transport incidents. This publication can be viewed or downloaded on the EIGA Website by clicking here
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Info TS 02/20 - Vehicle Rollover and Other Serious Vehicle Incident Prevention
(revision of Info TS 02/13) It is critical that the managers of gas companies and transportation companies ensure that they have processes in place to reduce the risk of rollovers and other serious vehicle incidents, to avoid any impact on human life, human health, material and environmental damages.
Vehicle incident investigations have shown that the majority of these incidents are avoidable. Many of the causes are related to lack of training or knowledge; people’s ability to react to high risk situations; human behaviour, for example non-compliance with rules or safe driving practices; inadequate organisation and management processes.
This Safety Information provides advice on reducing the risk of a vehicle rollover and other serious incidents on the road and is intended for managers, drivers and other transport function personnel who are involved in transportation activities or driver training.
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Info TS 03/20 - Training: Induction and Refresher Training of Drivers, Management and Other Transport Function Personnel
(revision of Info TS 03/13) ADR (European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) requires training of persons involved in the transportation of dangerous goods in accordance with chapter 1.3 and training of the vehicle crew according to chapter 8.3.
National road regulations require training for the driver to obtain a licence or permit to operate the type of vehicle used for transport. However, the experience in the gas industry demonstrates that the knowledge and skills acquired from this training need to be supplemented with training specific for the industrial and medical gases industry to ensure the safe distribution of gases.
This Safety Information document gives advice on the type of training drivers and other transport function personnel should receive when working with products of Class 2 of ADR for the industrial and medical gases industry. It is is intended for managers, drivers and other transport function personnel who are involved in transportation activities or driver training.
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Info TS 04/20 - Transport of Gases - Contractor Management
(revision of Info TS 04/14) In the industrial and medical gases industry, the transport of gases to the customers is often carried out by contractors acting as transporters or carriers. In most cases the contractor provides personnel (for example drivers) and certain transport equipment (for example truck, semi-trailer tractor, chassis for swap bodies / containers and driver’s equipment). Hence, the contractor’s personnel are directly responsible for transport safety. The employees of the contractors also act as representatives of the gas companies towards the customers.
For these reasons, it is critical that gas companies choose their contractors diligently, train them for the transport of industrial and medical gases, monitor their performance closely and take action if they perform poorly. This Transport Safety Information provides guidance on the minimum requirements for the selection, qualification, and performance monitoring of contractors that provide equipment, personnel, and services for the transport of industrial and medical gases.
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Info TS 05/20 - Driver Recruitment Process for Bulk and Cylinder Vehicles
(revision of Info TS 05/14) The transport of gases is carried out by drivers from gases companies and/or transport contractors. It is critical for the gas companies and their transport contractors to ensure that the drivers are recruited and managed according to established requirements to minimize risks when driving bulk and cylinder vehicles (>7.5 tons).
This Transport Safety Information gives advice on recruitment of bulk and cylinder vehicle drivers involved in the transportation of gases, whether gas company employees or contractor drivers.
The requirements cover assessment of driving ability at the time of recruitment. Additional assessment on specific delivery equipment such as cranes, tail lifts, mounted forklifts and other product transfer equipment would be conducted only after drivers have received additional training on these aspects. It is intended for managers, supervisors, drivers and other transport function personnel who are involved in transportation activities or driver recruitment.
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Info TS 06/20 - Vehicle Incident Investigation Management
(revision of Info TS 06/14) In the industrial and medical gas industry, road transportation is one of the highest risk activities. Not only can road vehicle accidents result in severe injuries to gas companies’ employees, contractors’ personnel or to third parties, but operations can also be severely impaired. In order to learn from road vehicle incidents that have occurred, they shall be thoroughly investigated, analysed, documented and reported. The objective of these activities is to identify actions that will reduce the risk of these incidents reoccurring.
This Transport Safety Information provides advice on vehicle incident investigation management. This publication does not provide guidance on how to handle vehicle and product recovery after an incident. For information on this topic, see EIGA Doc 81, Road vehicle emergency and recovery.