Gas Information Sheets

A guide to the Australian Standards for installing commercial kitchens and appliances.

Gasfitters must apply to Energy Safe Victoria for approval to carry out hot-tapping work.

How to meet the standards about protecting combustible surfaces.

All altered, repaired or extended gas installations must be tested for leakage.

There are extra requirements when installing high pressure gas installations.

Gas installations in high rise buildings scan have extra requirements to meet Standards.

Portable gas heating for use outdoors and in public places.

How to meet Standards about purging natural gas (NG) installations.

How to meet Standards about purging liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) installations.

Walls behind commercial catering equipment must be checked to ensure they are not constructed from combustible materials.

Using hose assemblies to install and connect commercial catering equipment.

Responsibilities of gasfitters and buyers about second-hand commercial catering equipment.

Information about over-pressure protection for LPG installations.

Information about the controls required for working safely in hothouses where gas combustion products are present.

Downward facing combustible surfaces need to meet new clearances from domestic gas cooking appliances, rangehoods and exhaust fans.

Energy Safe Victoria's expectations for gasfitters when dealing with a dangerous installation

Information about the location of appliance isolating valves and consumer piping regulators.

Information to help gasfitters identify if they are doing a Standard or Complex gas installation.

Information about carbon monoxide (CO) alarms and how to use them.

Carbon monoxide (CO) measuring equipment can used to measure spillage from domestic gas appliances.

Guidance for gasfitters testing for negative pressure and carbon monoxide (CO) spillage.

Hazardous Area Classification and Gas Installations covered by Gas Industry Codes.

Area classification and gas installations covered by Gas Industry Codes.

Information about a performance-based design application when a proposed complex gas installation will vary from Australian Standard requirements.

How to get approval for an individual Type A gas appliance that is not certified under an authorised scheme.

How to identify where licensed people may influence the efficiency of Type B gas appliances.

Consumers may take up energy efficiency opportunities using Type B gas appliances.

Information about using a material like reconstituted stone as a fire resistant facing material.

Information about extra appliance-specific information that Energy Safe Victoria requires when applying for acceptance of a Type B appliance.

Information about the required scope of Type A appliance service work to meet obligations under the Gas Safety Act.

Information about the quality and adequacy of air supply when doing gas servicing work on Type A appliances.

Information about inspecting and servicing Type A appliances.

You may need to provide extra information with an application for acceptance of a gas application.

Information about the required clearances around high energy commercial catering gas equipment.

How to achieve compliant clearances between commercial catering appliances and grease filters.

How to comply when designing a consumer piping support system that varies from 'means of compliance' requirements.

Information about exemptions under the Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Regulations 2018.

Requirements for gas installations in schools where there may be appliances without flame safeguard systems.

Guidance for industry when installing and commissioning fuel cell(s) and fuel cell systems, including electrical requirements

Details information Energy Safe Victoria may require as part of a Schedule 9 application for fuel cells

This Gas Information Sheet (GIS) provides clarification for gas appliances intended to be installed at heights.