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REMBE Inc., the American Branch of REMBE GmbH Safety + Control, headquartered in Brilon, Germany has just moved into its new premises in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

The brand name REMBE is worldwide renowned for superior quality and performance in industrial safety solutions such as Turn-Key Dust and Gas Explosion Protection Systems and Pressure Relief Devices like rupture discs or breather valves. 

REMBE has successfully protected numerous sites across the U.S. and Canada ranging from wood manufacturing factories to critical processes in chemical, food and pharmaceutical industry.

AGL Automation Ltd are delighted to announce the Meteor MCE-MRC-EX Hazardous Area Remote Camera. 

The MRC-EX is designed for real time monitoring of hazardous area locations. Applications include monitoring the status of plant and equipment in offshore locations and visual confirmation of alarms such as water level in pumping stations. The cameras are easy to install and are controlled and configured via the MeteorCloud viewing and analysis system. The MRC-EX has also been approved for use on the Tampnet Offshore 4G Network. 

Smart-Ex® 02 users can now independently update the intrinsically safe smartphone by the Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments to Android 11, quickly and easily. Thus they benefit from the numerous advantages and brand-new functions of the cutting-edge operating system.

These include improved voice control (voice access), better management of access rights to camera, microphone and location for apps, as well as the ability to call up all connected end devices easily and manage them from a common location. From now on, security and data protection updates are carried out via the Google Play Store, comparable to app updates. This grants users maximum flexibility in controlling the updates.

Red lasers are near the edge of the visible light spectrum at 700 nanometers, and green lasers are in the center of the visible light spectrum at 550 nanometers, making them much easier for human eyes to detect.

Green lasers are up to 4 times brighter than red lasers and are visible in daylight as far as 650' (198 m) away with the naked eye and up to 1,000' (305 m) with a detector. They also produce a clean, sharp line with less scatter over long distances than red lasers.

Design – Installation – Inspection – Verification - Consultancy – Repair – CompEx Training Services

C&P Engineering Services Ltd through its turnkey electrical, control and instrumentation services design & construct complete projects and provide maintenance & additional support services to companies throughout the UK and internationally.

The company specialises in the provision of hazardous area electrical & instrumentation design, installation, inspection, maintenance, CompEx training and consultancy services which include DSEAR (Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations) Risk Assessments and Hazardous Area Classification services. 

A Yorkshire-headquartered high-voltage electrical engineering firm has pledged to address the industry’s skills gap, by launching a new apprenticeship scheme – and is in the process of enrolling its first four candidates.

Smith Brothers will provide vital hands-on experience to the quartet of trainees, which will be dovetailed by a two-year City & Guilds academic course and three years with Utility and Construction Training (UCT).

The candidates include 19-year-old apprentice HV jointer Michael McNeill – who has been working on cable pulling and HV fault work for the past 12 months – as well as a trio of trainee fitters, including Rory Sharp (18), Cameron Galbraith (19), and Bronson Taylor (17), the latter of whom worked as a trainee fitter for Smith Brothers during the pandemic.

Businesses will have an additional year to apply new product safety markings such as UKCA Ex (ATEX) for most products placed on the market in England, Scotland and Wales This applies to all goods where businesses were due to begin using the UKCA marking by the end of this year (2021).

The UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) marking allows the UK to have control over its goods regulations, maintaining the high product safety standards expected in the UK.

Recognising the impact of the pandemic on businesses, the Government has extended the deadline to 1 January 2023 to apply UKCA marks for certain products to demonstrate compliance with product safety regulations, rather than 1 January 2022. The UKCA marking replaces the product safety labelling the UK previously used while a member of the EU, such as the CE mark.

Manufacturers and engineering sites are being offered a new super-tough antimicrobial coating to improve hygiene standards while controlling cleaning costs.

Touchpoint Shield uses proven silver ion technology to destroy pathogens. Laboratory testing has shown it is highly-effective against bacteria and viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19.

Field trials have confirmed the coating is significantly more effective at controlling the growth of microorganisms than standard cleaning, at a fraction of the cost.

The coating, launched by national cleaning specialist SafeGroup, provides manufacturers with vital support and advantages as COVID-19 continues to cause significant concern, especially over the winter months.

Developed to help protect electricians from arc-flash risks up to 7kA without compromising on comfort, the new V-Gard 950 Class 2 is now available.

Falls from height are the single biggest cause of workplace deaths and one of the main causes of major injury within the workplace. Steve Dawson, working at height expert at Arco Professional Safety Services, explains the importance of training for working at height and having the right equipment

The most tragic consequences of not providing the right training and protective equipment to your work force, can be serious injury or even the death of an employee.  In 2020/21, 35 fatal injuries were due to Falls from a height, accounting for 25% of all worker deaths over the year.  Add to this the 17 deaths caused from ‘Struck by moving’ (including flying/falling objects) statistics - which can often be related to Working at Height - and there continues to be a serious need for education and training.