Hey NAS1801, You raise some very valid points.
You must be a cone head.
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You say someone in MEL has already filled a landing gear strut with oxy. I find that impossible to believe. Surely as soon as they opened the oxy tap, the fitting at the strut (wet with oil) would heat up, ignite the oil, turn into a flame thrower and destroy the strut/aero!????
Check this story from the United States Fire Administration..
The pressure regulator’s T-handled adjusting screw had become difficult to move. A maintenance employee used a popular hydrocarbon based lubrication spray on the screw’s threads. The lubrication was done without the knowledge of the nursing or respiratory therapy staff who would have likely recognized the danger in applying a hydrocarbon lubricant. The next time the valve on the oxygen cylinder was opened, the heat of compression ignited the residual hydrocarbon contamination inside the regulator. The burning of the residual contamination was sufficient to start the internal parts of the pressure regulator and the brass body on fire. The health care worker who opened the oxygen cylinder was injured by the molten metal and blowtorch like flames.
Colouring the oxy cart green would be an idea. You cannot legally paint the bottles. They have to be black = international standards.
Magoo31 says
The only possible deficiency may have been in the implementation and training stage in Mel, but that is purely speculation.
Hmmm? Maybe look at who did the training at all the ports.
You also say
Extensive consultation was carried out across the network with involvement of both trades.
One has to ask "was there enough consultation". Possibly not! Sounds a bit like the ACS procedure for charging the small oxy bottles at the nitro cart. When they did their consultation, there was one BMS cone head oh&s guy on the team. As soon as he questioned their ideas, he got left out of the whole project. They didn't even talk to the oxy cave guys about the issues. Big mistake. Any cone head will tell you that procedure is a croc.