AGT (Authorised Gas Tester) & GMT (Gas Monitor Training)

The Authorised Gas Tester’s role is critical in testing for and ensuring safe working atmospheres, in particular: permit controlled confined spaces, and prior to and during hot work for both open and enclosed spaces. It will enable one to read and interpret correctly information as obtained from the gas detection means available. 

Course Content: 

•  Confined space criteria
•  The type of operations being tested for flammable and toxic gases
•  The hazards of operations within an oxygen-enriched, oxygen-deficient, toxic or flammable environment
•  Carrying out a suitable and sufficient risk assessments
•  Understand the safe systems of work, how to work within the safe system of work and the associated responsibilities
• The implications of statutory and organisational requirements
•  Interpreting operational requirements
• How to select, use and care for PPE and RPE
• Accessing and interpreting operational instructions
•  The operating principles of atmosphere monitoring and measuring equipment and failure modes
•  The strengths and weaknesses of various types of atmospheric flammable and toxic gas detection equipment
•  Correct selection of aspirating or non-aspirating detectors to obtaining representative atmosphere sample
• Equipment required for testing for hydrocarbons in inert atmospheres
• Gas detector pre-start checks
•  Determining the extent of the test boundaries
• Calibrating the instruments used in atmospheric testing
•  Sources of assistance during the event of damaged or defective equipment
• ( Interpreting normal and abnormal results
• ( Documenting the results and advising relevant personnel