Static Earthing Protection for Vacuum Tankers
Vacuum tankers provide a wide range of services to the hazardous process industries, ranging from storage tank cleaning to the recovery of combustible materials resulting from leaks and spills. A key feature of this type of service is the recovery of materials in locations with potentially combustible atmospheres.
Static electricity is a well-known ignition source within the hazardous process industries and because the (Read More)
Proven Strategies And Best Practices For Efficient Asset Management And Maintenance
An aligned approach to IT systems, asset strategy, and people and productivity has the power to profoundly impact operational and commercial success.
The T.A. Cook event “Maintenance Days Europe” is designed to reflect the latest challenges facing the global asset management community, with a user focused agenda that has been comprehensively researched with maintenance (Read More)
The High Cost of Exposing Workers to Chemicals at Point of Use
The tip-and-pour method, as well as poorly designed pumps, can expose workers to injury and companies to significant financial losses.
In the manufacturing of plastics, workers often transfer potentially hazardous liquid additives such as plasticizers, colorants, dyes, lubricants, antimicrobials, and flame retardants into smaller containers, vessels, or directly into tanks or machinery. (Read More)
By Ulf Persson, Technical Manager (Europe), Camfil Air Pollution Control
Explosive or potentially explosive dusts are a part of many industrial processes for which dust collection systems have to be designed to work. Ideally these systems should minimise or avoid the risk of an explosion, or ensure that in the event of an explosion the outcome can be safely controlled. In this article, we explore effective ways of venting and suppression.
By Ulf Persson, Technical Manager (Europe), Camfil Air Pollution Control
Part of many industrial processes, explosive dusts are the primary challenge for dust collection systems that are designed to minimise, avoid or control the risk of an explosion. In this white paper we explore the effectiveness of isolation.
A leading pharmaceutical company in Maidenhead was experiencing severe chemical attack on a pressure pot room floor. The originally applied polyurethane protective coating on the steel/aluminum checker plate floor had failed due to the spillage of flavour oils and the use of caustic soda to clean the room two to three times a day.
When millions of pounds worth of facility, equipment and production is reliant on the competency of the staff in that environment, it is fair to ask the question, actually how competent is ‘competent’ and what does that mean for potentially explosive environments?
The question is often asked “What is meant by competence?” Competence is commonly regarded to be the ability to perform the activities within an occupation or function to an expected level. For those working in potentially explosive environments this is not just to the levels laid down by the employer or owner/manager of the facility (and often these go over and above general requirements), but it is also a matter of competency measured against internationally recognised Standards
Is your Pollution Prevention Watertight?
By David Cole, Water Pollution Manager at Hydro Consultancy.
The only acceptable kind of pollution risk is one that a business can demonstrate it has taken adequate measures to protect against. Flooding, pollution spills and fires are not far-fetched disasters that are unlikely ever to befall industrial or commercial premises. They happen all the time. (Read More)
Introduction
Equipment, whether it be electrical or non-electrical i.e. mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulics is designed to be used in explosives atmospheres formed by gases and vapours or combustible dusts. These locations where potentially explosive atmospheres may be present are subject to area classification and depending on the outcome we classify these locations as zones based on frequency and duration of any release i.e. zone 0, 1 or 2 for gases and vapours environments and zone 20, 21 and 22 for combustible dusts environments.
But what happens when we have both conditions at the same time in the same location?
Peter Swan, MD of SBES, examines an often-overlooked issue
Lone working, which often takes place in isolated areas or at unsocial times, occurs across many different sectors including construction, labs, refineries, warehouses and data/server rooms. Safety of lone workers is vital for businesses, and employers have a responsibility to protect these workers, yet lone worker safety is an area that is often forgotten or neglected.
