QUALITY ASSURANCE

WestAir produces all of our products following documented quality assurance procedures. Our procedures include standards for bulk gas inspection, and cylinder and dewar production including cylinder preparation, filling, delivery and customer service. All processes, equipment, training and development efforts are geared to assuring that our guaranteed specifications are consistent and accurate.

Specialty Gases

Westair’s specialty gas laboratory produces high purity pure gases and specialty mixed gases for critical applications. Our laboratory quality control facility is equipped with specially designed analytical equipment to meet stringent standards and ensure analytical accuracy. All analyzers, gauges and scales are regularly calibrated to known standards for accurate verification of gas products.

Medical Gases

Westair produces a variety of pure medical gases and medical device mixed gases. All Westair medical gas production facilities are registered with the Food and Drug Administration. Our production and inspection process is documented in our standard operating procedures for medical gas and medical device gas production. Each member of WestAir involved in the production and delivery processes of medical gases understands and complies with our procedures.

Internal Quality Management

Westair utilizes an internal quality management system to monitor and reduce the number of quality issues with regard to customer service or product quality. We record all quality incidents using a quality incident report and determine the root cause of all incidents. All incidents are recorded and tracked using a Microsoft Access database. We track the number of incidents and types of incidents on a monthly basis.

ISO 9001

WestAir is currently undergoing ISO 9001-2000 certification. At this time we are ISO 9001-2000 compliant and we are seeking final certification.