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Commercial diving/Handling of gases used in diving

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Relevance: Scuba diving, Surface supplied diving, Surface oriented wet bell diving.

Required outcomes:

  1. Discuss the safe storage of gas
  2. Describe the inspection and testing of HP cylinders
  3. Describe the handling of HP cylinders as well as the storage of bulk gas assets
  4. Describe the hazards, safe handling and use of oxygen
  5. Discuss the hazards of inert gases
  6. Discuss gas analysis and describe the various gas analysis techniques
  7. Explain the need for appropriate gas supplies including primary, secondary and emergency gas systems

Gas storage

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Inspection and testing of high pressure cylinders

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Handling of high pressure cylinders and storage of bulk gas assets

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Oxygen

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Inert gases

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Gas analysis

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Primary, secondary and emergency gas supplies

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