Panama Project Puts Mechan On Map In The Americas
Rail depot equipment specialist, Mechan, is expanding its export horizons and preparing to ship its very first order to the Americas.
The Sheffield-based manufacturer is supplying heavy lifting equipment to the Panama City Metro, as part of a major project to construct a second line in the republic’s capital.
Mechan is working with parent company, CIM Group, to deliver a set of 20 12-tonne lifting jacks, four turntables and 40 (Read More)
Don’t Slip Up: Protecting Against Slips And Trips
We’ve all done it. You’re running where you shouldn’t be, you aren’t paying attention to the environment around you, or you’ve opted to wear a new, slightly too slick pair of shoes. Suddenly the floor gives out beneath you, you lollop around like a newborn giraffe, and you try not to fall over.
Yet taken together, slips, trips and falls were the most common cause of non-fatal injuries in the workplace in 2016/17, (Read More)
Watch Your Step: Protecting Against Slips, Trips And Falls
Slips, trips and falls are the most common cause of injury at work, causing 29% of all non-fatal injuries to employees.
Slips, trips and falls are the most common cause of injury at work, causing 29% of all non-fatal injuries to employees . Despite this, slip and trip accidents tend to be seen as an avoidable, reasonable risk, something to expected throughout the everyday working routine. With 70,116 non-fatal employee injuries under RIDDOR last year… that equate to more than 20,333 injuries by slips, trips and falls, does this sound simple and avoidable to you?
Wearing the right type of protective footwear could be the key to decreasing these figures. (Read More)
Straightpoint Offers Two-Year Warranty as Standard
Straightpoint (SP) is offering a two-year warranty as standard on its full range of load cells and other force measurement equipment, effective 1 April 2018.
SP customers could previously extend their warranty from one to two years if they completed a registration form upon purchase of a product, but the 24-month term is now honoured as standard across the catalogue of products, from the best-selling Radiolink plus load cell to its latest innovation, (Read More)
New Kalrez® 7375 Range Of FFKM Sealing Products Offer Outstanding Properties & Performance
The new DuPont™ Kalrez® 7375 innovative FFKM sealing products provide high temperature as well as broad chemical and water/steam resistance properties.
Sealing performance, reliability and safety are ensured for applications in the most demanding industrial, chemical and general industrial fields of operation. These high performance perfluoroelastomer O-ring components (Read More)
Svantek Launches Low Cost SV 307 Noise Monitoring Terminal
Designed for permanent noise monitoring and featuring an integrated Class 1 sound level meter with GSM modem in removable waterproof casing
Svantek UK one of the leading manufacturers of noise and vibration instrumentation for environmental and occupational health monitoring applications - has launched the SV 307 integrated Noise Monitoring Terminal (NMT) designed for permanent noise monitoring applications. (Read More)
Cortem Group: new LED lighting fixtures and floodlights for Zone 2 EVNL and EVNL-B series
Cortem Group is pleased to present the new EVNL and EVNL-B series lighting fixtures and floodlights suitable for plants in Zone 2 (Gas) and Zone (21), 22 (Dusts), keeping cost reductions at the foreground, improving the product quality and increasing the lighting features.
As the Product Manager, Gianpaolo Scanferlini, explains: “Among the features on which Cortem Group aims to stand out (Read More)
Glamox launches LED navigation lights with estimated service life of 100,000-plus hours
Lighting solutions specialist Glamox has launched the Aqua Signal Series 60 and Series 61, two long-life LED navigation lights with integrated countdown systems.
Navigation lights are all about safety. Glamox has developed Series 60 and 61 to eliminate any concerns about failing lanterns. Series 60 and 61 navigation lights are designed to last for 100,000 hours at (Read More)
Top Considerations For Design And Build In Hazardous Environments
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, the citizens of Pompeii were not prepared for the devastation that followed. Having lain dormant for the last 71 years, the Italian authorities continue to prepare for the next eruption from one of the most dangerous active volcanos in the world.
Here, Paul Mannion, project engineer at engineering solutions provider Boulting Group, explains the considerations that should be made when designing for builds in hazardous environments.
The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmosphere Regulations 2002 (DSEAR), defines a hazardous area as “any place in which an explosive atmosphere may occur in quantities such as to require special precautions to protect the safety of workers”. It is vital that precautions are taken when constructing, installing and using apparatus in areas that have been defined as hazardous. (Read More)
The Connected Worker Gas Detection and Personnel Tracking Combined
Gas detection has evolved through many iterations from the birth of the Davy Lamp in the 19th Century through to the 4 gas monitors of today the goal has been the same; keeping people safe from potentially life threatening exposures, asphyxiation or explosion.
With each evolution there has come new methodologies and with a recognition of risk there has often been a (Read More)
