Transporting welding or cutting gases to site?
Tradesmen working in construction and service industries often transport portable units of oxyacetylene or propane cylinders to site. This needs to be done safely to protect you and other road users.
Do you recognise the transport hazards caused when you:
- wedge cylinders behind equipment on the tray or only tie them down loosely?
- keep regulators attached to cylinders?
- leave cylinder valves open?
- carry hoses full of flammable gases or oxygen?
The risk of gas regulators being hit during transport is real. Potentially deadly consequences include rocketing cylinders and the formation of hazardous atmospheres.
Leaking cylinders of acetylene and propane can form flammable mixtures in air that are readily ignited by static electricity, an electrical spark or a flame. Any fire will burn faster with a ready supply of oxygen.
Follow your gas supplier’s recommendations for transport and get the job done safely.