GAS TEST ATMOSPHERES

Learn how to safely and effectively test a potentially hazardous atmosphere

Gas Test Atmospheres Course Outline:

This gas test atmospheres training unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to test the working atmosphere, using electronic test apparatus, to find out if it is safe for the proposed work. Working environment may be hazardous, unpredictable, subject to time pressure, chaotic and expose responders to risk, on land or water, by day or night. Workplace atmospheres may include visible and invisible hazards and hazardous surfaces.

Competencies Includes:

MSMWHS217 - Gas Test Atmospheres

Course Content:

• Identifying scope and OHS requirements

• Risk identification and Management

• Types of gas detectors

• Interpreting reading

• PPE

Who Should Attend?

Gas test atmospheres training unit is suitable for use in the following situations:

• confined spaces

• enclosed and partially enclosed spaces

• hot work

• storage tanks, silos, pits, pipes, shafts, ducts, transport vehicles and ships

• testing as part of issuing a work permit

• monitoring as part of working under a work permit

• open areas

• holding the gas tester by hand

• lowering the gas tester into a space, e.g. on a line into a hazardous area