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CoGDEM Comment - CoGDEM Grows Its Membership

Mar 07 2016

CoGDEM is the Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring, a trade association with a membership of around sixty companies involved in the gas detection industry. We are pleased to have ILM/ETP (the publishers of this IET magazine) as an Associate Member, so we now place a regular column of news from the gas detection industry in IET magazine.

Attentive readers of these articles may recall that two years ago we publicised CoGDEM’s 40th anniversary. CoGDEM had been formed in 1974 by the UK's leading gas detector manufacturers of the day to become the co-ordinating body of the gas detection industry, representing the collective interest to Government, BSI, and other trade and professional bodies. Prior to CoGDEM’s formation, there had been no mechanism to produce consistent standards for the performance levels of gas detection instruments. This was of particular importance to the UK’s industry regulators in the mid-1970s, with great expansion of North Sea oil and gas exploration and production occurring simultaneously with the global oil crisis.

These days, CoGDEM’s member companies are involved with industrial, commercial and domestic gas detection and analysis. As well as instrument manufacturers, CoGDEM has members who develop and manufacture gas sensors, produce bottled gases for calibration, certify and test gas detectors, distribute, install and train users all over the world.

When we publicised our 40th anniversary two years ago we had a membership of around fifty companies, but this has continued to grow to a point where 2016 now sees a membership of around sixty companies. In the last few years the existing members have been joined by gas detection instrument and system suppliers GDS, IGD, Frontline Safety, Shawcity, A1-CBISS, Scott Safety and Dara Solutions, as well as sensor manufacturers SST Sensing, DD Scientific and Figaro Engineering. A complete list of all member companies and relevant contacts can be seen on the publicly accessible membership page of our website www.cogdem.org.uk .

Companies may have differing reasons for joining CoGDEM, but the key advantage of belonging to this trade association is the ability to be actively involved with the process of creating, maintaining and updating standards and regulations that affect the world of gas detection.  In the industrial safety arena for example, our members have been strong contributors to the CENELEC Working Group that has fundamentally rewritten the standard for the performance of toxic gas detectors, EN 45544. The first three parts of this standard were published in 2015 and the standard is now much more useable by manufacturers and test laboratories. The fourth and final part of the standard is the guide for use of toxic gas detectors, and is expected to be published this year. This will be a very useful guidance document for those who select, install, use or maintain toxic gas detectors in workplace applications. A future edition of this IET magazine will contain an article giving details of the EN 45544 family of standards, written by the convenor of the standard’s Working Group. Many of those Working Group members are now contributing to a new IEC standard which will cover similar ground, IEC 62990.


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