WHO Supplement 9- Maintenance of refrigeration equipment

Technical supplement to WHO Technical Report Series, No. 961, 2011

Annex 9: Model guidance for the storage and transport of time- and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations 

Acknowledgements 

Glossary

1. Introduction 

1.1 Requirements 

1.2 Objectives 

1.3 Target readership 

2. Guidance

2.1 Associated materials and equipment 

2.2 Active and passive transport containers

2.3 Refrigerators and freezers 

2.4 Freezer rooms, cold rooms and controlled ambient stores 

2.4.1 Maintenance overview 

2.4.2 Maintaining the cooling system 

2.4.3 Maintaining insulated panels and vapour control sealing 

2.4.4 Condensation control outside the cold store enclosure 

2.4.5 Frost-heave control 

2.4.6 Cold store panel insulation 

2.4.7 Insulation for refrigeration pipes and other penetrations 

2.4.8 Cold store maintenance schedule 

2.5 Refrigerated vehicles 

2.5.1 Refrigerated vans 

2.5.2 Refrigerated rigid bodies 

2.5.3 Refrigerated semi-trailer 

2.6 Refrigerated containers 

2.7 Maintenance management 

2.8 Decommissioning 

2.9 Staff training

Bibliography

Annex 1

Checking refrigerated vehicles 

A1.1 Checking insulation on a refrigerated vehicle 

A1.2 Checking cooling equipment on a refrigerated van 

A1.3 Checking cooling equipment on a rigid vehicle or semi- trailer 

Revision history 

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