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Process & Control Today, June 2011
Portable mercury monitors hired from instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology have enabled the rapid assessment of working conditions for safety specialists undertaking vital maintenance checks on oil rigs in the North Sea.

Process & Control Today, June 2011
A Process Hydrogen Analyser from Quantitech is performing critical safety analysis in the UK’s largest ever cross sector hydrogen vehicle refuelling trial.

Process & Control Today, June 2011
Hima-Sella completed delivery of safety solutions at all 20 valve stations along the length of SABIC UK Petrochemicals’ 250km Wilton-Grangemouth Ethylene Pipeline (WGEP); one of a number of pipelines used to link ethylene production plants in the UK.

CC-Link IE Field Network with integrated safety meets international safety standards for SIL3 compliance and follows IEC61784-3:2010 for functional safety fieldbuses.

Process & Control Today, June 2011
Rotork actuators are fulfilling the all-electric specification for valve control on new gas dehydration units constructed at seven sites in the Transylvanian region of Romania. This has been achieved with ATEX certified Rotork IQT isolating valve actuators and CVA control valve actuators.

Limit and Proximity Switches monitor when Pressure and Emergency Pressure devices are relieving.

The 5100-28-IT sensor module now provides interface via HART or 4-20 mA, Modbus RS-485 or Sierra Monitor’s proprietary Sentry bus.

The People's Republic of China will be honored as the official Partner Country at HANNOVER MESSE 2012 (the Hannover Fair) in Hannover, Germany.

Machine Design, June 2011
By Lanny Berke
Even when a company has LO/TO programs in place, workers may skip LO/TO procedures that seem too burdensome or inconvenient. Many supervisors compound the problem by recognizing the difficulty and overlooking LO/TO lapses.

Design News, June 2011
Integrated safety continues to develop more potent solutions, driven by this year's deadline for complying with European safety standards which make it a requirement to calculate the performance level achieved by each safety function in a system.