Health and Safety

New Portable Detector for Flammable Gases

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The ?Gazex developed by Gazomat™ (France) provides users with personal protection in potentially explosive atmospheres. ATEX group 1 and group 2 approved, this multifunction explosivity me...

ATEX-Rated Electrically Actuated Ball Valves Provide Safe Shut Off for Fuel Oils in Overfill Alarm Systems

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Burkert’s (Germany) 8804 ATEX- rated electrically actuated ball valves are providing the safe shut off of heating oil and diesel fuels at multiple depots operated by one of the UK’s lar...

AlertAlarm Protected for all Environments

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E2S (UK) has upgraded the IP ratings of its AlertAlarm general signalling sounder range. All sizes in the family, the A105N (112dB), A112N (119dB) and A121 (126dB) sounders are now supplied sealed...

New Multi Head Beam Detector For Wide-Area Fire Protection

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Fire Fighting Enterprises (UK) has developed the technology to allow multiple Fireray 5000 optical beam smoke detector heads to operate from one single control unit. The Fireray 5000 Multi Head has...

New Generation of Wireless Gas Detection

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A new generation of gas detection, the GenII product line is a complete set of instruments for detecting an array of gases. Backwardscompatible with the first generation of Otis Instruments’...

Poor safety to blame for Connecticut pipeline gas explosion

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Poor oversight and a lack of adequate safety regulations might be the root cause of a pipeline gas explosion at a power plant in Connecticut, it has been claimed. The catastrophe, which killed six...

Oklahoma plant closes pipeline after explosion

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An explosion at a power plant in Oklahoma has led to the closure of one of the enterprise's pipelines. While the cause of the accident is yet to be determined, the operator of the line - Oneok - ha...

Safety concerns at BP oil refinery

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BP could be hit with fines of more than $3 million (?2 million) as a result of safety concerns at an oil refinery in the US.The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administrat...

US pipeline firm settles over safety problems

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A US pipeline organisation will pay $450,000 (?290,000) in civil charges after it failed to follow safety regulations at oil plants in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. The Associated Press reports t...

Algerian pipeline explosion injures three people

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Safety control measures may have been at fault when a recent gas explosion rocked a petrochemical plant in Algeria. According to the APS news agency, the blast occurred on Wednesday afternoon (Marc...