A safety warning about illegal recovery bottles: How do you recognise a single-use refrigerant bottl

A safety warning about illegal recovery bottles: How do you recognise a single-use refrigerant bottle?

Look out for single-use refrigerant bottles, says RLNZ chair Matt Birch. They look similar but do not re-use them for recovery

These bottles are not correctly are missing the required all reusable refrigerant advises the user of the cylinder. Return these do not reuse them.

Sources and important refrigerant bottles WorkSafe’s (February 2020) is an excellent testing, filling, handling valves and fittings.

Section 4.2 Permanent extinguishers should be refrigerant bottle is single-use, conjunction with HS Regulations

The following markings clearly marked with character Regulation 15.43.

• the standard to which

• the cylinder manufacturer’s

• the serial number of low-pressure fire extinguisher,

• the test pressure

• in the case of a permanent

• the water capacity

• the tare weight

• in the case of a liquefied

• the month and year cylinder

• the cylinder record number the special record number

• the mark of the recognised party)

• the month and year in accordance with

• the mark of the test inspection and/or test

• Refer to Section 4.7

Sources and important information for identifying safe refrigerant bottles

Woksafe’s guide to gas cylinders’ (February 2020) is an excellent source to approving, testing, tiling, handling, and storing gas containers, valves and fittings.