How to further reduce the specific risks related to the use of the different refrigerants ?
To further reduce the specific risks of these different refrigerants, additional investments are and will be required, to comply with health and safety regulations or with environmental commitments. In terms of good use of money, it will be in most cases by far cheaper to reduce the global climate impact of refrigeration units by decreasing significantly their HFC emissions and by improving their energy efficiency than to implement and monitor continuously the necessary safety measures needed to keep at its minimum the risk of toxic or explosive refrigerants. It must also be noted that potential liabilities issues progressively introduced in the EU legislation will strongly favour the use of safe HFCs versus hydrocarbons and ammonia.
