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European Industrial Gases Association
The European Industrial Gases Association, EIGA, is a safety and technically oriented organisation representing the vast majority of European and a number of non-European companies producing and distributing industrial, medical and food gases.
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Growing Talents
European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) is proud to partner with Reuters Events Renewables for Hydrogen 2024.
On 10 April at 08h00 in Amsterdam, we will be talking skills and talents in th...
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The Antwerp Declaration outlines 10 concrete actions, from integrating the EU Industrial Deal into the broader European Strategic Agenda 2024 – 2029 while complementing the EU Green Deal to fosterin...
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EIGA Winter Summit 2024 in Antwerp – A recap
"Enabling H2 together!" is our theme throughout 2024.
We kicked off the topic with our Winter Summit, which took place in January in Antwerp.
Over 180 people, expert and/or passionate about hydr...
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Let’s enable H2 together
We hope you enjoyed the EIGA Winter Summit 2024!
The EIGA Team certainly did. We are taking this opportunity to warmly thank you for attending what we believe has been an outstanding event. Actuall...
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documents
Latest Publications
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DOC 238 / 22 - Prevention of Plant Instrument and Utility Gas System Cross Contamination
This publication applies to HYCO plants and provides design and safeguards requirements of utility and instrument gas systems. It identifies the potential hazards resulting from the connections between gases, instrument gases, and the process.
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DOC 248 / 24 - Guidance for Manual Handling in Distribution Activities
Manual handling is an important issue for the industrial gases sector (including areas such as medical, food etc.). Many activities of the industrial gases industry involve manual effort which have the potential to cause harm if not properly managed. Manual handling related injuries are a major cause of lost workdays and occupational illness.
National or local regulations shall be considered separately. Applicable national and local regulations shall be applied in conjunction with this document. They shall be followed as a minimum.
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DOC 249 / 24 - Lone Working
Whilst at European level there is no specific legislation addressing lone working, the general obligations on employers under the worker safety directive, requiring task risk assessment, should consider the lone working aspects.
This publication describes and discusses tasks specific to the industrial and medical gases industry and how they can be performed safely, by a lone worker.
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