Module M14 · Track 5 Safety & professional practice
Unsafe situations & emergencies
Responding to gas escapes and unsafe situations, and reporting what you find.
Start 14.1: Gas escapes and emergency actionsSyllabus mapping
- CCN12. Gas emergency actions and procedures
- CCN18. Unsafe situations, emergency notices and warning labels
- MLPA1.2 Gas emergency actions and procedures
- MLPA1.8 Unsafe situations, emergency notices and warning labels
- Level 3Unit 305 Gas safety principles
- Level 3Unit 306 Specific core installation and maintenance
Learning outcomes
By the end of this module, learners can:
- M14.1Respond correctly to a reported gas escape or smell of gas.
- M14.2Classify unsafe situations as Immediately Dangerous or At Risk under the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure (IGEM/G/11), and take the required actions.
- M14.3Use warning notices and labels correctly and record customer notification.
- M14.4Identify incidents that must be reported, and to whom.
Topics
- 14.1
Gas escapes and emergency actions
What to do when gas can be smelt, step by step.
Draft1 artefact - 14.2
The Unsafe Situations Procedure
How the industry procedure works and who it applies to.
Draft - 14.3
Immediately Dangerous, At Risk, and situations that aren't unsafe
Classifying what you find and the action each category requires.
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Warning notices and labels
Completing notices and labels and recording the customer's response.
Draft - 14.5
Reporting: RIDDOR and the Gas Emergency Service
Which incidents must be reported, and to whom.
Draft - 14.6
Carbon monoxide incidents
Responding to suspected CO poisoning and what to do afterwards.
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