Publications
Using Portable Electronic Combustion Gas Analysers for Investigation Reports of Fumes -
Contents include:
- Competence requirements
- Responding to gas user’s concerns
- Basic safety considerations
- Combustion characteristics
- Responding to major incidents (death or major injury)
- Portable electronic combustion gas analysers
- CO detector types
- CO detector activation
- Attendance at the property
- Using portable electronic combustion gas analysers
- Appliance investigation
- Ambient air and combustion performance measurements
- Combustion performance action levels
- Unsafe installations
- Reporting findings
Using Portable Electronic Combustion Gas Analysers – Servicing and Maintenance
Contents include:
- Introduction
- Competence requirements
- Background to the use of portable electronic combustion gas analysers
- Safety considerations
- Principles of combustion
- Portable electronic combustion gas analysers
- Using portable electronic combustion gas analysers
- Performance measurements
- Identifying and dealing with unsafe situations
- Definition
Probing into Fumes : The gas industry has agreed ‘best practice’ for the use of portable electronic combustion gas analysers (ECGAs). This article reviews the recommended procedures, the typical features of the instrumentation, and presents a scenario that illustrates the way an operative can use such an instrument to best effect in dwellings when responding to a report of fumes. read the article in full >> Probing into Fumes (pdf file)