Safety Bulletin

Safety Bulletins are periodically published to inform people about safety issues and general precautionary advice. Safety Bulletins should be used to compliment safe work method statements.

Safety Warning: Stored pressure aerosol cans can explode!

Maintenance Essentials has received a report of an exploding stored pressure aerosol can used for the general inspection, testing and maintenance of fire safety systems and equipment. An analysis of the exploding aerosol can indicates it was exposed to heat (in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle) in excess of its published safe storage temperature.