For process manufacturing companies, the replacement, repair, servicing and maintenance of electrical equipment that is located within a potentially explosive atmosphere, is often time consuming and costly.Today, around 65% of all electrical maintenance carried out is corrective action and 35% is preventive. With preventive maintenance, more than 50% of all apparatus serviced is not actually broken.
UK businesses that fail to maintain their industrial doors, could not only be breaking the law but could also be at risk of lost production time, expensive breakdown costs, potentially serious accidents and even invalidating their insurance cover.
Under the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992 employers are obliged to ensure that all machinery, including industrial doors, are fit for purpose, are in good repair and subject to a programme of regular maintenance carried out by a competent person with written records kept. By neglecting the maintenance of industrial doors not only are employers, building owners and managers breaking the law, but they are also increasing the risk of a potentially serious accident.
Regional health and safety event grows with 50% more exhibitors
A free, informative guide is now available, which outlines the facts, risks and steps required by Industrial companies to help prevent dust explosions in their plants. The guide is particu-larly useful to owners, engineers and senior managers, who are responsible for health and safety and who source electrical equipment for hazardous areas within the plant.
The eight-page guide, published by explosion protection electrical equipment specialist Cooper Crouse-Hinds, provides an introduction to the subject of dust explosions, including why and when they can occur; the latest European dust standards; safety measures; who is responsible for equipment safety; dust explosion facts and statistics; and ignition data on a wide variety of dust types, including food dusts, metals and chemicals.
Breathing air is subject to medical laws. MEDBAC ( Medical Breathing Air Control) has been developed for monitoring compressed air quality in the medical field. The MEDBAC measuring device allows the continuous, electronic, microprocessor- controlled monitoring of the limit values according to the European Pharmacopoeia or HTM2022.
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Seaward Electronic has developed a new integrated testing solution to ensure the safe condition of workplace electrical equipment and appliances.
The new Advanced PATSolutions package is designed to enable electrical contractors, maintenance engineers and plant service teams the opportunity to work smarter, improving productivity and effectiveness.
The Advanced PATSolutions package is intended for those electrical engineers and contractors that have an electrical safety testing responsibility in larger workplaces where a computer-based records system is required, alongside the automatic tagging and labelling of appliances after testing.
SBES, the lone worker protection specialist, has just completed the installation of its LifeSaver lone worker alarm system at the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) building at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire near Warrington. The site is operated by the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) and is a World class facility that supports the research community by providing access to advanced facilities and extensive scientific and technical expertise.
According to Andy Goulden, an engineer at Daresbury Laboratory, this particular application was unusual as there were two distinct types of lone workers on the site that needed protection. Firstly, there were CCLRC staff who might be working alone on a shift pattern across a 24/7 period. Secondly, there were site
SBES has recently completed the installation of a diverse lone worker protection system for ExxonMobil Aviation at six airports across the UK. The system, the first of its type anywhere in the World, will protect workers either out on site refuelling aircraft or back at the operational base.
The initiative to install the SBES system has come from Paul Heald, SHE and OIMS adviser for ExxonMobil Aviation in the UK. He recognised that during a 24h period at Manchester Airport personnel were often working alone and that a solution to this
The UK based firm recently received accreditation from SAFEcontractor, a programme which recognises very high standards of health and safety practice amongst UK contractors.
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