Environment

Hazardous Materials Management

ACOP: Approved Code of Practice

GSIUR: Gas Safety Installation and Use Regulations

HSE: Health and Safety Executive

EG: Effluent Guidelines and Standards

BS EN ISO: British, European and International Standards

Legislative, normative and informative document list at www.gassaferegister.co.uk

Carbon monoxide (CO) alarms

CO alarms are useful back-up precaution equipment they must be put with a proper installation and
maintenance of gas equipment by a Gas Safe registered engineer, these alarms should comply with BS
EN 50291 and carry the appropriate conformity marking. CO alarms should be installed, checked,
maintained and serviced in accordance with manufacturers instructions.

Appropriate fitting

It required in several regulations { eg 6(2), 6(3), 16(3), 22(2), 22(3), 26(5), 33(2) and 33(3)} for sealing-off
a gas way( Example: a passage through which gas may pass) to prevent escape of gas, such as from
open-ended pipework following disconnection of an appliance, or to seal-off the gas supply to an
appliance pending completion of work and safe commissioning.

Suitable screw-in or soldered fittings should be used for securely blank or cap-off open ends of pipes or
incomplete gas ways in appliances; conventional isolation valves or consumer emergency controls, which
might readily be opened by an unauthorized person, must not be used for this purpose.

Emergency control

The emergency control is a valve intended, located in a meter-room which is locked for security
and accessible only to a landlord, gas supplier, gas transporter and/or emergency services, cannot be
regarded as an emergency control. Where a meter is fitted, the meter control valve may be used as the
emergency control, subject to certain conditions as mentioned in ACOP.

Flues
Flues can be natural draught or fan-assisted, open or room-sealed, single or shared, or various
combinations of these. They can range from a simple individual natural draught flue to the more complex
shared room-sealed natural draught.

Gas fittings