Overview

The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) Pictogram is ‘Gases Under Pressure’

  • Compressed
  • Liquified
  • Refrigerated
  • Dissolved

Under the GHS, there are four types of gas cylinders: compressed, liquified, refrigerated and dissolved. In order to know what requirements apply to these cylinders, you need to be able to recognize them. Next we will examine each of these types of cylinders in turn and how one type differs from another.

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