Accidents involving exploding boilers have killed people, damaged plant and affected production. These accidents resulted from problems such as inadequately designed boilers, wrongly sited or wrongly installed boilers as well as boilers that were not correctly operated or maintained.

As the manager of a workplace, you have a duty to manage the risks associated with that workplace. If there is a boiler installation on your premises, you must ensure it remains safe.

An efficient, reliable boiler is an essential requirement for many businesses, and the downtime caused by a failed boiler can have a major effect on production, plant and people.

Dave Kilpatrick from the CEA Said:

The word ‘boiler’, in everyday use, covers a wide range of equipment, from simple domestic hot water boilers to boilers housed within a power generation plant
to convert fossil fuel to electricity. Generally, domestic hot water boilers do not produce steam and should operate at low pressure. While some combination boilers now operate at the pressure of the incoming cold water mains, this is still far below the normal operating pressure of steam-raising boilers.

This leaflet applies to steam and high temperature hot water boiler plant (operating above 0.5 bar pressure and a temperature of 110 °C). It describes a process which you, as a manager, can apply to assess if your boiler installation can continue to be operated safely.

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