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Display System Gets The Message Across About Work Place Hazards

Providing information and communicating with staff and colleagues in the workplace is essential, particularly when hazards, incidents or near-misses occur which may impact on others.

An effective, low-cost solution to ‘getting the message across’ is the Near Miss / Incident Reporting System available from T Cards Direct which is an easy way to manage and document health and safety issues.

Compliance and accountability is becoming increasingly important in the work place and this system provides a record and history with traceability from the time the incident occurred. The standard display board is available in a 3 column format with standard 50 or 30 cards deep and measures 409mm wide and is supplied fully assembled, complete with headings and 200 Incident T Cards. (Read More)

Ion Science Expands Marketing Team To Enhance Global Delivery Of Gas Detection Instrumentation

Ion Science is continuing to increase headcount with a newly expanded marketing team to enhance global delivery of its occupational health and environmental gas detection monitoring instrumentation.

The Cambridgeshire-based company has appointed Emily Lane and Gracia Scott as Marketing Assistants while Andrew Scott joins as Multi-media Designer. (Read More)

BSRIA Announces The Passing Of Reginald Brown, Head Of Energy & Environment, BSRIA

It is with great regret that BSRIA has announced the passing of the Head of its Energy & Environment team, Reginald Brown, who passed away at home on Thursday after a short illness.

Reginald joined BSRIA in 1989 and was Head of Energy & Environment from July 1993. He was a popular and highly regarded expert in his field which was acknowledged within BSRIA, its members, the wider (Read More) 

Clean, Safe & Hygienic Materials Handling

Materials handling specialist J D Neuhaus (JDN) can provide a whole host of innovative hoist solutions for working environments that demand high levels of cleanliness and hygiene.

Industries such as food, beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical must all conform to strict regulations when it comes to clean working practices. Utilising the appropriate materials handling equipment, therefore, is a paramount requirement and to meet this, JDN has created a (Read More) 

Global Shop Solutions Names Nick Knight Sr. Director of Customer Services

Global Shop Solutions, a developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software simplifying manufacturing for 40 years, has named Nick Knight as the firm’s new Senior Director of Customer Services.

At the age of 16, Knight began his career in the manufacturing industry when working at a machine shop in Houston, Texas. While there, he gained extensive experience using (Read More)

One And Two Input Counters Simplify Applications In Hazardous And Safe Areas

BEKA associates new one and two input pulse Counters can economically perform industrial counting functions in hazardous and safe areas.

 All models have large easy to read displays with optional backlighting, isolated synchronous pulse and 4/20mA outputs, plus dual alarms.

The two input Counters can display the sum or difference of the inputs in engineering units and when configured for use (Read More) 

Intertek approved as a Certification Body and Test laboratory for non-electrical equipment for use in hazardous areas

Intertek, a leading total quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, is now an approved International Electrotechnical Commission Explosive (IECEx) Certification Body and Test laboratory and can provide global third party approval on non-electrical equipment for use in hazardous areas. (Read More)

Hydraulic Skidding System Completes Emergency Operation at Electrical Plant

St Louis, Missouri-based heavy rigging and haulage specialist HWP Rigging used a Hydra-Slide HT500 system to skid a failed transformer out of an electric generating facility and replace it with a new one during an emergency callout recently.

One of the Missouri plant’s four generators was out of service due to the failing step-up transformer, which increases the voltage of electricity that is generated by the turbine so it can be transmitted (Read More)

Bespoke IECEx and ATEX approved resistors

Resistor manufacturer Cressall has demonstrated its design and manufacturing capabilities by producing specialist neutral earthing resistors (NERs) suitable for use in explosive atmospheres.

The NERs meet the international IECEx and European ATEX specifications and allow generator manufacturers and end users to protect distributed generation systems. This ensures regulatory compliance and peace of mind for companies operating in explosive environments. (Read More)

Dialight Introduces High Efficiency Zone 1 SafeSite® High Bay

New Certification Allows for Use in New Hazardous Environments in Europe, Middle East, and Australia

Farmingdale, NJ (June 8, 2016) – Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the global leader in LED lighting technology, today unveiled the first-ever High Efficiency ATEX/IECEx Zone 1 SafeSite® High Bay. Each high bay feature Dialight’s latest world class in-house designed power supply and a full 10-year, (Read More)