“When they put the mask on you
before you go under for surgery, it would be comforting to know that the
medical gas system had been properly installed. I would sure want to know that
a trained, certified plumber did the work.”
That's what my colleague, Local
12 Business Manager Harry Brett, said recently in an article, "Medical Gas:
A Matter of Life and Death," published in "The Pipeline," a
newsletter for the Eastern Massachusetts Plumbing Industry. It's something to
which we can all relate.
And yet, because of a lapse in
the Commonwealth’s laws, there are no regulations that govern the installation
of medical gas piping systems in Massachusetts. A bill currently before the
state legislature would establish regulations and bring medical gas piping systems
under the control of the Massachusetts Board of Examiners of Plumbers and
Gasfitters. The board would set standards to ensure that licensed, trained
plumbers would perform the critical work.
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