AS 4484—2004

AS 4484—2004

Australian Standard™
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Gas cylinders for industrial, scientific,

medical and refrigerant use—Labelling
and colour coding
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee ME-002, Gas Cylinders. It
was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 11 June 2004.
This Standard was published on 13 August 2004.

The following are represented on Committee ME-002:

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Wholesalers Association

Australasian Institute of Engineer Surveyors
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Australian Gas Association
Australian Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association
Certification Bodies (Australia)
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Department for Administrative and Information Services, S.A.

Fire Protection Association of Australia
Institute of Materials Engineering Australasia Ltd
Pressure Equipment Associated Incorporated
Victorian WorkCover Authority
Welding Technology Institute of Australia
WorkCover New South Wales

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 AS 4484—2004

Australian Standard™
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Gas cylinders for industrial, scientific,

medical and refrigerant use—Labelling
and colour coding

Originated in part as AS 1942—1976.

Previous edition AS 4484—1997.
Second edition 2004.

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Published by Standards Australia International Ltd GPO Box 5420, Sydney, NSW 2001,
Australia
ISBN 0 7337 6228 X
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PREFACE
This Standard was prepared by the Australian members of Joint Standards
Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee ME-002, Gas Cylinders to supersede
AS 4484—1997, Industrial, medical and refrigerant compressed gas cylinder identification.
After consultation with stakeholders in both countries, Standards Australia and Standards
New Zealand decided to develop this Standard as an Australian, rather than an
Australian/New Zealand Standard.
This revision incorporates revised colour coding requirements for medical gas cylinders,
generally in accordance with ISO 32:1977, Gas cylinders for medical use—Marking for
identification of content. This provides a means to identify certain medical gas cylinders by
shoulder colour only.
This Standard references the Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods By
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Road and Rail (ADG Code) and the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and
Poisons [Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)] to enable the labelling requirements of
various authorities to be met.
This Standard specifies the legible identification of the cylinder with the name or
abbreviated symbol or, where applicable, the refrigerant number of the contained gas and
specified colours for the external cylinder surfaces.
The refrigerant numbers specified in this Standard are identical with those given in
ISO 817:1974, Organic refrigerants—Number designation.
Certain gases have both refrigerant and industrial applications, e.g. ammonia, carbon
dioxide, sulphur dioxide (R764), and may be listed in Table 1 or Table 4, or both. The
allocation of identification colours then depends on the application for which the gas is
intended.
The term ‘normative’ has been used in this Standard to define the application of the
appendix to which it applies. A ‘normative’ appendix is an integral part of a Standard.
 3 AS 4484—2004

CONTENTS

Page
1 SCOPE........................................................................................................................ 4
2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS.................................................................................. 4
3 DEFINITIONS............................................................................................................ 5
4 LABELLING .............................................................................................................. 5
5 COLOUR CODING .................................................................................................... 6
6 COLOURS—INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC GASES .......................................... 7
7 COLOURS—MEDICAL GASES ............................................................................. 12
8 COLOURS—REFRIGERANT GASES .................................................................... 19
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APPENDIX A COLOUR SPECIFICATION DETAILS ................................................... 22

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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

Australian Standard
Gas cylinders for industrial, scientific, medical and refrigerant use—
Labelling and colour coding

1 SCOPE
This Standard specifies the requirements for labelling and colour coding to identify the
contents of compressed gas cylinders for industrial, scientific, medical and refrigerant
gases, which are used in accordance with AS 2030, Parts 1 and 2.
Colour coding includes special identification for eductor tubes to indicate liquid
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withdrawal.
This Standard applies to gas cylinders of water capacity in the range 0.1 kg to 150 kg.
Cylinders above this size may follow this Standard.
This Standard does not apply to cylinders used for self contained underwater breathing
apparatus (SCUBA), self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), or fire extinguishing
agents and portable fire extinguishers. For identification of these cylinders reference should
be made to the relevant product or application Standard.
Gases intended for non-medical breathing purposes may use the same colours as medical
gas cylinders.
The colour coding requirements of this Standard do not apply to liquid petroleum gas
(LP Gas) cylinders in a cylinder of 12 kg water capacity or less, which are usually
considered for domestic use and are finished in a range of colours.
The colour coding requirements of this Standard do not apply to cylinders which are either
imported for use but not refilling in Australia (colours of country of origin are applicable),
nor for cylinders which are imported for the specific purpose of filling for export.

2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
AS
2030 The verification, filling, inspection, testing and maintenance of cylinders for the
storage and transport of compressed gases
2030.1 Part 1: Cylinders for compressed gases other than acetylene
2030.2 Part 2: Cylinders for dissolved acetylene
2473 Valves for compressed gas cylinders
2473.3 Part 3: Outlet connections for medical gases (including pin-indexed yoke
connections)
2700 Colour Standards for general purposes
NOHSC
2012 National code of practice for labelling of workplace substances
Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (ADG Code)
Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons, General requirements for
labels for medicines, Order No. 69 (TGA document)
Pantone Matching System (PMS)

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