SAFETY ISN’T NEGOTIABLE – The Southern African Gas Association ensures the safe operation of industrial gas systems

South Africa has its fair share of gas-related incidents reporting fires and explosions costing domestic, commercial and industrial facilities millions of rands. However, these statistics say nothing of numerous other smaller events that occur and go unrecorded, such as boiler fires, process oven failures, piping ruptures, non-conforming installations, and non-suited/non-approved equipment among others. These have been the cause of unpublicised damages and injuries. Unfortunately, action is often only taken on these issues after some large and tragic event occurs.
The Pressure Equipment Regulations (PER) Reg. 17 states: “No person shall…