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Shoulder colours identifying what is in a cylinder.
Also known as: Gas cylinder coding, Oxygen cylinder colour
Medical gas cylinders are identified by shoulder colour, and the colours differ between countries: oxygen is white in Britain and green in the United States. Cylinders are also shape-coded at the valve so that the wrong gas cannot be connected, because colour alone has failed.
Identify the contents of a medical gas cylinder by the colour of its shoulder.
Contexts: Medicine
Differ between countries, with oxygen white in Britain and under ISO and green in the United States, which is a documented hazard for transferred equipment.
Contexts: Medicine
Are backed by a physical pin index at the valve, so that a regulator for one gas cannot be fitted to a cylinder of another — a safeguard added because colour coding alone proved insufficient.
Contexts: Medicine
A cylinder with a body of one colour and a shoulder painted in a contrasting colour, with a stencilled name.