To provide guidance to departments, principal investigators (PIs), and workplace supervisors regarding purchase, storage, and disposal of pressurized gas cylinders. This guidance applies to laboratory ...

Compressed gas cylinders of all shapes and sizes are used all over campus for everything from welding to research. Compressed gas cylinders pose two types of risks when used, stored, or handled. The ...

This page contains basic guidelines and rules to help ensure the safe handling and storage of compressed gas cylinders. Mishandled cylinders may rupture violently, release their hazardous contents or ...

Clinical personnel must become familiar with the properties and inherent hazards of the compressed gases used in patient care areas. Compressed gas cylinders contain varying pressures of inert, toxic, ...

Cryogenic liquids are materials with a boiling point of less than – 100 °F (-73 °C); common examples include liquid nitrogen, helium, and argon, and dry ice/alcohol slurries. Cryogenic liquids undergo ...

I would like to bring to your attention a pressing issue that has become a significant threat to our society. Recently, a fire broke out in a plaza in Karachi due to a gas cylinder explosion. Earlier, ...

Worthington Enterprises Inc. is urging stakeholders in the pressure cylinder market to heed a safety advisory issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation concerning unsafe cylinders primarily ...

Subject: Pressurized Vessels on Vehicles - Part 3 Topic: Airbag System Stored-Gas Inflators: Catastrophic Failure of Airbag System Stored-Gas Inflators During Vehicle Fires Objective: Review ...

Research personnel must become familiar with the properties and inherent hazards of the compressed gases used in the laboratory. Compressed gas cylinders contain varying pressures of inert, toxic, ...