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Everyone can make a mistake. Just giving examples of what could happen. Those are all examples I have seen on some of the US groups most of which would never happen to us or anybody with the right knowledge and application of that knowledge. A lot can be avoided by using the correct PPE etc but nothing is 100% perfect without a perfect operator 100% of the time.
Gloves get torn or develop small holes (not impossible to happen without the operator noticing), fittings get worn. Pressure may be built up from hoses / containers sitting in a warm van with residual chemical inside them.
I am not trying to teach you to suck eggs. Anyone (who may be very inexperienced) could stumble across this post and hopefully gleen a small amount of information or at least take away some things to think about.
All ppe should have a pre use cheak and then be sighned for after use to say that it’s ok then cheaked before it’s used again , but not many peopke would do it : we always do pre and after checks Ime not bigging myself up it’s the way that things are done in the fire service and I have implemented that In my own buisness we use 1000 s of ltrs of hypo each year and have done so for many years and haven’t had any accidents I put this down to the fact that we have and use the correct ppe and appropriate training and done the above . Yes I accept accidents can happen but if all precautions are taken it should be very rare : I very promminant person on hear put up a post a while ago about getting hypo in his or an employees eye ? Cannot remember which now and he was surprised as he was wearing ppe however when Handeling products like this goggles and a face shield should be used this is then dramatically reducing the possibility of getting it in your eyes , this isn’t criticising the individual but just using this as an example of how Evan a professional experienced person can get caught out
if inexperienced people are reading this they need to know how to safely use what is a relatively safe product by doing some quite easy research it’s not hard to get the info you need to work safely
I feel that some on hear don’t want to share that information and I understand why as some posts people put on hear show quite clearly that they shouldn’t be using it as they haven’t got a clue what they are doing , helping someone like that isn’t helping them it’s ebabeling then to hurt themselves or others.
We are all responsible for our safety that of employees, members of the public , customers etc ime quite happy to help anyone but they need to have a certain amount of knowledge before they start using some of theses products