Updated BFPA Technical Guide for Accumulators

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27 June, 2019

P54 Guidelines to the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 and their Application to Gas-loaded Accumulators – Issue 5:2019 have been revised and updated by BFPA’s TC1 Accumulators Committee. This document give advice to users regarding the requirements of the Regulations and its aim is to help ‘competent persons’ decide upon the required frequency of examination. Main amendments are:

Article 13 2014/68/EU entered into force via CLP Regulation 1272/2008 and other amendments since 19 July 2016

Approved Codes of Practice (ACoP) Decision tree

This guide is available now and is freely downloadable for members (log in to Member Only pages of our website) or non-members can purchase it for £35.00 from the BFPA website www.bfpa.co.uk/publications

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