UNICOOL R-407C

Remove the patient from the gas source or contaminated area. Ensure rescuer safety with PPE, including positive pressure self-contained breathing apparatus. Remove prostheses. If not breathing, administer rescue breathing; if no pulse, administer CPR. Administer 100% oxygen if available. Keep patient warm, comfortable, and at rest. Monitor breathing and pulse continuously.

Symptoms: Respiratory insufficiency, pulmonary oedema.

Remove contaminated clothing. Flush with water and soap. For frost-bite: move to warmth, bathe in luke-warm water (not more than 35 deg C) for 10-15 minutes without rubbing. Apply dry gauze. Raise limb if involved. Seek medical attention.

Symptoms: Irritation, cold burns (frost-bite), necrosis (blackening of tissue).

Remove patient from gas source. Rinse with clean, cool water for at least 15 minutes, tilting head back and pouring from inner to outer corners. Ensure patient looks up and side to side. Protect with bandage if light sensitive. Transport to hospital.

Symptoms: Great pain, potential for delayed damage.

Not considered a normal route of entry. Avoid giving milk, oils, or alcohol. Contact a Poisons Information Centre or doctor. If spontaneous vomiting appears imminent, hold patient's head down.

SMALL FIRE: Use extinguishing agent suitable for type of surrounding fire. LARGE FIRE: Cool cylinder.

DO NOT direct water at source of leak or venting safety devices as icing may occur.

Containers may explode when heated - Ruptured cylinders may rocket. Fire exposed containers may vent contents through pressure relief devices. High concentrations of gas may cause asphyxiation without warning. May decompose explosively when heated or involved in fire. Contact with gas may cause burns, severe injury and/or frostbite. Contains low boiling substance: Closed containers may rupture due to pressure buildup under fire conditions. Vented gas is more dense than air and may collect in pits, basements.

Alert Fire Brigade and tell them location and nature of hazard. Fight fire from a safe distance, with adequate cover. Use water delivered as a fine spray to control fire and cool adjacent area. DO NOT approach cylinders suspected to be hot. Cool fire exposed cylinders with water spray from a protected location. If safe to do so, remove cylinders from path of fire.

Clear area of personnel. Stop leak only if safe to so do. Remove leaking cylinders to safe place. Clear area of all unprotected personnel and move upwind. Alert Emergency Authority. Increase ventilation. No smoking or naked lights within area. Fit vent pipes. Release pressure under safe, controlled conditions. Burn issuing gas at vent pipes. DO NOT exert excessive pressure on valve; DO NOT attempt to operate damaged valve.

Avoid breathing vapour and any contact with liquid or gas. Protective equipment including respirator should be used. DO NOT enter confined spaces where gas may have accumulated. Increase ventilation. Clear area of personnel. Stop leak only if safe to so do. Remove leaking cylinders to safe place.

Clear area of all unprotected personnel and move upwind. Alert Emergency Authority and advise them of the location and nature of hazard. Wear breathing apparatus and protective gloves. Prevent by any means available, spillage from entering drains and water-courses. Consider evacuation.

Prevent by any means available, spillage from entering drains and water-courses.

Release pressure under safe, controlled conditions. Burn issuing gas at vent pipes.

Consider use in closed pressurised systems, fitted with temperature, pressure and safety relief valves which are vented for safe dispersal. Use only properly specified equipment which is suitable for this product, its supply pressure and temperature. The tubing network design connecting gas cylinders to the delivery system should include appropriate pressure indicators and vacuum or suction lines. Fully-welded types of pressure gauges, where the bourdon tube sensing element is welded to the gauge body, are recommended. Before connecting gas cylinders, ensure manifold is mechanically secure and does not containing another gas. Before disconnecting gas cylinder, isolate supply line segment proximal to cylinder, remove trapped gas in supply line with aid of vacuum pump. When connecting or replacing cylinders take care to avoid airborne particulates violently ejected when system pressurises. Consider the use of doubly-contained piping; diaphragm or bellows sealed, soft seat valves; backflow prevention devices; flash arrestors; and flow monitoring or limiting devices. Gas cabinets, with appropriate exhaust treatment, are recommended, as is automatic monitoring of the secondary enclosures and work areas for release. DO NOT transfer gas from one cylinder to another.

Cylinders should be stored in a purpose-built compound with good ventilation, preferably in the open. The storage compound should be kept clear and access restricted to authorised personnel only. Cylinders stored in the open should be protected against rust and extremes of weather. Cylinders in storage should be properly secured to prevent toppling or rolling. Cylinder valves should be closed when not in use. Where cylinders are fitted with valve protection this should be in place and properly secured.

See section 5

Engineering controls are used to remove a hazard or place a barrier between the worker and the hazard. Well-designed engineering controls can be highly effective in protecting workers and will typically be independent of worker interactions to provide this high level of protection. The basic types of engineering controls are: Process controls which involve changing the way a job activity or process is done to reduce the risk. Enclosure and/or isolation of emission source which keeps a selected hazard "physically" away from the worker and ventilation that strategically "adds" and "removes" air in the work environment. Ventilation can remove or dilute an air contaminant if designed properly. The design of a ventilation system must match the particular process and chemical or contaminant in use. Employers may need to use multiple types of controls to prevent employee overexposure.

Butyl rubber gloves. Butyl rubber gloves should be used when handling halogenated aliphatics. Nitrile, PVC-coated nitrile, and PVC protective equipment are not recommended. When handling sealed and suitably insulated cylinders wear cloth or leather gloves. Insulated gloves: NOTE: Insulated gloves should be loose fitting so that may be removed quickly if liquid is spilled upon them. Insulated gloves are not made to permit hands to be placed in the liquid; they provide only short-term protection from accidental contact with the liquid.

Chemical goggles. Full face shield may be required for supplementary but never for primary protection of eyes. Contact lenses may pose a special hazard; soft contact lenses may absorb and concentrate irritants. A written policy document, describing the wearing of lenses or restrictions on use, should be created for each workplace or task. This should include a review of lens absorption and adsorption for the class of chemicals in use and an account of injury experience. Medical and first-aid personnel should be trained in their removal and suitable equipment should be readily available. In the event of chemical exposure, begin eye irrigation immediately and remove contact lens as soon as practicable.

Type AX Filter of sufficient capacity. (AS/NZS 1716 & 1715, EN 143:2000 & 149:2001, ANSI Z88 or national equivalent). Positive pressure, full face, air-supplied breathing apparatus should be used for work in enclosed spaces if a leak is suspected or the primary containment is to be opened (e.g. for a cylinder change). Air-supplied breathing apparatus is required where release of gas from primary containment is either suspected or demonstrated.

Protective overalls, closely fitted at neck and wrist.

See section 12

• Unstable in the presence of incompatible materials. • Product is considered stable. • Hazardous polymerisation will not occur.

See section 7.2

See section 7.2

See section 7.2

See section 7.2

See section 5.3

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Evaporate residue at an approved site.