Cryogen Safety

About Cryogens -- Handling, transporting, and/or working with cryogens can involve a number of different hazards; toxicity, flammability, severe tissue damage ("cold burns"), hearing damage, and pressure/physical damage. (Even the lowest pressure cryogen system or container can become a high pressure incident.)

Knowledge of all of these hazards might be unnecessary for your particular area, but understanding cryogen types, characteristics, and hazards will heighten overal safety awareness.

Definition: cryogens are

gases that have been transformed into extremely cold, refrigerated liquids that are stored at temperatures below -100 (negative one hundred) degrees Fahrenheit.
normally stored at low pressures in specially constructed, multi-walled, vacuum-insulated containers.