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Emergency Planning
Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2001, employers have to assess hazards which might adversely affect employees' health and put a safe system of work in place.
Part of that system will be a plan to deal with the escape of substances into the workplace.
- The emergency plan should ensure that procedures and systems exist for a range of areas including: alarm systems, site evacuation and roll call, evaluation of hazards associated with gas escapes, etc. Learn more about the emergency plan
- When using industrial gases, advanced action planning is necessary to prepare for possible gas leaks and cylinders in fires. Leakage of flammable gases may result in a fire. In the event of a gas leak, first identify the gas and take appropriate action.
Learn more about detecting flammable gas leaks
- When using industrial gases, advanced action planning is necessary to prepare for possible gas leaks and cylinders in fires. Fires present urgent and serious risks to gas users. It is very rare that cylinders are the cause of fires but all gas cylinders, whatever their gas content, are potentially dangerous when directly exposed to a fire. Learn more about emergency procedure for fires
- In addition to Chemical Agents Regulations, Section 19 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires that employers and those who control workplaces to any extent must identify the hazards in the workplaces under their control and assess the risks to safety and health at work presented by these hazards. Learn more about risk assessment
