MEDICAL GAS SYSTEMS
Eastwood Park says: ‘Learners are able to work at their own pace, away from the pressures of a live hospital site, while building confidence and becoming more familiar with how the tools and materials work, feel, and function.’
Able to work at their own pace Learners are able to work at their own pace, away from the pressures of a live hospital site, while building confidence and becoming more familiar with how the tools and materials work, feel, and function. Using a mixture of approaches when teaching ensures that learners are fully engaged. Beyond this, we are constantly looking at other ways to improve and adapt our practical training to reflect current issues facing Estates teams. We have added a significant amount
of new kit and initiatives at our facility, including: n Live workstations to enable learners to maintain/replace capsules, install physical breaks, replace terminal units, second fixes, and commissioning.
n Calibrate pressure switches. n Install and commission local alarms, including digital panels.
n Live working areas to carry out permit to work exercises.
n Brazing stations so that small groups can train simultaneously.
n Facilities to allow learners to install pipework and carry out purging and engineering tests on terminal outlets as specified in the HTM, using the correct test equipment.
n A central alarm workstation, creating a central alarm facility.
Medical gas alarms In response to feedback on medical gas alarms, a practical course has been developed for CPs and APs to attend to further expand their practical knowledge of fault-finding and working on alarm systems. As HTM 02-01 states, the medical gas piped system is installed to provide a safe, convenient provision of medical gases to the clinical and nursing staff. Patient safety is paramount in the design, installation, commissioning, and operation, of medical gas pipeline systems. The basic principles of safety are achieved by ensuring quantity of supply, identity of supply, continuity of supply,
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and quality of supply. The MGPS alarm system is part of
the continuity of supply principle. The warning and alarms systems are covered
in HTM 02-01 (chapter 12, part A). HTM 02-01 (2006) provided guidance on the requirement to have dedicated alarm systems. With the ongoing development
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