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MULTIGAS 8500
CAP. 3 - SAFETY CONDITIONS
3.1 IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
In installation, maintenance and technical assistance operations it is necessary to respect the
fundamental staff and workplace safety regulations.
Carefully respect all the indications included in
this manual, in the device use manual and in the
use manuals of any other equipment employed.
In particular the operator must view all the safety
prescriptions described in the use manual.
All the operations described in this manual must
be carried out by trained staff, equipped with
adequate individual protection devices.
To move heavy loads or to handle the
equipment and its components always use
gloves and clothing that may guarantee
adequate protection also against accidental
contact with the refrigerant.
To use instruments such as springs, drills, saws
etc. and to protect oneself against accidental
contact with the refrigerant, always use
protection goggles.
Smoking and using open flames is forbidden.
To manually lift loads (weights), limits are
foreseen by the enforced regulations of own
country, carefully respect the limits, above which
appropriate lifting means must be used.
Before accessing to execute operations within
the equipment, always disconnect the power
supply and use tools with insulated handles.
3.2 ENVIRONMENTAL PRECAUTIONS
Any service operation on the equipment must be carried out being careful not to disperse
R134a gas into the environment, in order to prevent the greenhouse effect and the
subsequent global warming of the planet. The release of refrigerant gas R134a into the
atmosphere is forbidden by laws that were enacted within the framework of the Kyoto
protocol.
For information only, we will mention in particular, for the European Union, Regulation (EC.)
no. 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases (regulation on F-gases).
The waste coming from the service activities must be placed in collection centres foreseen by
the enforced laws, they must not be dispersed in the environment and they must not be
disposed of with urban waste.