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Safe at Work toolkit offers manufacturers of essential goods and those re-starting operations as the lockdown eases, hand hygiene best practices and robust cleaning guidelines to protect the health of site workers and reduce operational disruptions

Tork has launched a new resource hub, Safe at Work, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help businesses and essential workers Stay safe to carry on™. Tork Safe at Work is a one-stop online resource for the most up to date hygiene information and recommendations for businesses. As the global leader in professional hygiene, Tork is offering insights and resources based on decades of experience, combined with the latest public health recommendations, to help businesses prevent the spread of pathogens and keep employees safe to carry on.

The Nightstick XPP-5422G is the definition of an intrinsically safe product. This ATEX safety certified Dual-Light Flashlight is not capable of releasing enough electrical or thermal energy under normal or abnormal circumstances to cause ignition, even in a Zone 0 environment.

Power management company Eaton has introduced a new version of its revolutionary MTL SUM5 smart universal marshalling solution for use in non-hazardous area industrial applications.

Offering the same unique modular design as the original, the general purpose MTL SUM5 delivers lifetime cost savings for signal conditioning applications.  Additionally, the new configuration module makes programming far easier and faster.

Evonik is a global market leader in specialty chemicals. The company’s Oxeno site in Antwerp, Belgium is an onshore refinery that processes different C4 fractions.

These raw materials are brought in either through pipelines or ships and processed into a final product. The site works with hydrocarbons – organic compounds made up of only hydrogen and carbon. Chemicals are split and combined in reactors. In distillation columns, the difference in chemicals’ boiling points are used to separate them. These chemicals are fed through pipelines into the distillation columns and heated.

Hart Door Systems, the Newcastle-based specialist engineering company, has won multi-door orders for export to Russia, Hong Kong and Kuwait.

The contracts, which cover a range of Hart Doors’ commercial doors, are welcomed by the company’s managing director as “very welcome and a boost for the hard-working team”.

“There is uncertainty in the air due to Corvid19 but despite that we have worked hard on all management aspects of the business to be inclusive and proactive,” says Hart’s managing director, Nick Hart. “The team spirit is tremendous. We are determined to take every opportunity available to us.”

Organisations that use high pressure water jetting within their production or maintenance process can now ensure their operatives demonstrate competence.

The Water Jetting Association (WJA) has launched a new Competent Water Jetting Diploma that gives employers and clients greater assurance that services are being delivered safely and effectively.

The WJA, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2020, is the UK’s trade association for the water jetting industry and the country’s largest provider of water jetting training.

Why are so many isolating switching amplifiers and pneumatic valve terminals still installed in large control cabinets to send intrinsically safe signals and pneumatic drives from Ex zoned areas?

There are numerous concepts for planning of potentially explosive systems, such as the optimization of the zoning, the reduction in size of zoned areas or the wish to run everything out of hazardous areas into a central cabinet via cable routes.

Hawke International, a division of the Hubbell Harsh & Hazardous Group, and the manufacturer of cable glands and connection solutions, is hosting a live, interactive, online Q&A on cold flow and cable gland installation.

The 45-minute session, to be held at 10.30am (BST) on Tuesday 14^th July, will be led by a panel of experts from Hawke International, who will answer questions submitted by attendees.

In the report we cover the materials, industries and equipment involved in the 205 fires, 75 explosions, 118 injuries and 8 fatalities recorded in the combustible dust incident database in 2019.

By Nancy Westcott, President of GoatThroat Pumps

Every day industrial workers transfer potentially hazardous chemicals, such as solvents, acetones, lubricants, cleansers, and acids, from large drums into smaller containers, or into machinery.  Traditionally, such potentially flammable or combustible liquids have been tipped and poured.  Today such spill-prone, VOC emitting methods are no longer considered acceptable, safe, or compliant – not when a fire or explosion can result.