Gas Safety on Boats
Gas Safety Presentation - By Tom Keeling
Tom Keeling completed a Master’s of Science degree in Engineering for Marine Professionals via MLA college / Plymouth University. The main project focused on LPG as a domestic fuel on inland waterways boats. The aim was to improve boater safety by reviewing key elements of gas safety, while linking design, commissioning and maintenance together as crucial factors to gas system success. There is scant academic work relating to the inland waterways, and virtually no academic research into gas safety on boats, and it is hoped this project will open the debate and encourage other projects.
Stakeholder engagement has been positive, with early outcomes including revisions to training materials, updated data tables, input to the ongoing review of ISO 10239 (including a call for a mandatory commissioning process to be introduced for new craft), as well as a paper focussing on the need to review PD 54823:2016.