_API_MPMS_16.2_1994_2012.pdf

No roproduction or notworking permitled without liconso from IHSNot for RosaleSPECIAL NOTES1.API PUBLICATIONS NECESSARILY ADDRESS PROBLEMS OF A GENERALNATURE.WITH RESPECT TO PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES,LOCAL,STATE,AND FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS SHOULD BE REVIEWED.2.API IS NOT UNDERTAKING TO MEET THE DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS,MANU-FACTURERS,OR SUPPLIERS TO WARN AND PROPERLY TRAIN AND EQUIPTHEIR EMPLOYEES.AND OTHERS EXPOSED,CONCERNING HEALTH ANDSAFETY RISKS AND PRECAUTIONS.NOR UNDERTAKING THEIR OBLIGATIONSUNDER LOCAL,STATE,OR FEDERAL LAWS.3.INFORMATION CONCERNING SAFETY AND HEALTH RISKS AND PROPERPRECAUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO PARTICULAR MATERIALS AND CONDI-TIONS SHOULD BE OBTAINED FROM THE EMPLOYER.THE MANUFACTUREROR SUPPLIER OF THAT MATERIAL,OR THE MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET.4.NOTHING CONTAINED IN ANY API PUBLICATION IS TO BE CONSTRUED ASGRANTING ANY RIGHT.BY IMPLICATION OR OTHERWISE.FOR THE MANU-FACTURE.SALE,OR USE OF ANY METHOD.APPARATUS.OR PRODUCTCOVERED BY LETTERS PATENT.NEITHER SHOULD ANYTHING CONTAINEDIN THE PUBLICATIONS BE CONSTRUED AS INSURING ANYONE AGAINSTLIABILITY FOR INFRINGEMENT OF LETTERS PATENT.5.GENERALLY,API STANDARDS ARE REVIEWED AND REVISED,REAF-FIRMED,OR WITHDRAWN AT LEAST EVERY FIVE YEARS,SOMETIMES A ONE-TIME EXTENSION OF UP TO TWO YEARS WILL BE ADDED TO THIS REVIEWCYCLE.THIS PUBLICATION WILL NO LONGER BE IN EFFECT FIVE YEARSAFTER ITS PUBLICATION DATE AS AN OPERATIVE API STANDARD OR.WHERE AN EXTENSION HAS BEEN GRANTED,UPON REPUBLICATION.STATUS OF THE PUBLICATION CAN BE ASCERTAINED FROM THE APIAUTHORING DEPARTMENT TELEPHONE(202)682-80001.A CATALOG OF APIPUBLICATIONS AND MATERIALS IS PUBLISHED ANNUALLY AND UPDATEDQUARTERLY BY API.1220 L STREET.N.W.WASHINGTON.D.C.20005.Copyright C 1994 American Petroleum InstituteNo roproduction or notworking permitled without liconso from IHSNot for Rosale