Is anyone aware of a recent incident involving a UK hospital patient being found deceased under a toppled oxygen cylinder? Apparently this was a large (G sized) cylinder. This has been the subject of an NHS Estates alert but I am surprised not to have seen it mentioned in any journals such as SHP or the online resources. Maybe I have just missed it?

Almost all of the mainstream safety magazines/journals tend to report prosecutions or coroners reports rather than safety alerts that are issued by multitude of organisations, therefore I am not surprised that a DH Alert dated 28 July 2010 regarding "Unsecured medical gas cylinders, including cylinders on trolleys" has not been covered. It is also a no brainer that such cylinders have to be secured when there is an interface with personnel http://www.dh.gov.uk/pro...groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_118095.pdf All DH safety alerts can be accessed at:- http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/.../Estatesalerts/index.htm The solution is to have a website for all "official" safety alerts, but who is going to co-ordinate that??