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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 essential in the work place and a simple T Board can provide a record and history with traceability from the time the incident occurred to the issue being signed off. All through the process the status is shown providing transparency which in turn encourages staff engagement.

Work Gloves for Healthy Hands that deliver Precision and Protection

Snickers Workwear now has an extensive collection of Work Glove styles in a wide range of sizes, developed for different workplaces and tasks - designed for dexterity, durability, comfort and precision.

Snickers Workwear = Comfort = Wellbeing and Improved Performance.

The 2021 LITEWork clothing range delivers great thermal comfort in warmer months with light, quick drying fabrics that will keep you cool and comfortable all day.

The new range of ‘Rip Stop’ shirts are stretchy and breathable, offering UPF50+ sun protection – great for craftsmen who work long hours outdoors. While 37.5© fabric technology in the mid-and base-layer garments have features for efficient ventilation and moisture transport to keep you comfortable all day.

The new enclosures of the EJBC series are characterized by a multi-step joint that allows the installation in areas with danger of explosion and/or fire due to the presence of all the Gases of Group IIA - IIB - IIC classified as Zone 1, 2, 21, 22. 

This is the element that distinguishes the new EJBC series enclosures from the historic EJB series enclosures characterized instead by a flat flanged joint and suitable for the IIB + H2 gas group.

The handling of bulk solids poses many challenges. One of these challenges is the enormous amount of dust that is created by conveying and processing the different products. In order not to unnecessarily strain the process and employees on site and to expose them to risks, these enormous amounts of dust get extracted.

This is the first step in the direction of fire and explosion protection, because dust clouds of flammable powders in the right mixture ratio to oxygen always represent a great danger.

As part of a digitization offensive, a petrochemical company in East Asia searched for the perfect mobile device for its access management. Ease of use, efficiency and security – the Tab-Ex® tablet series for hazardous areas from ECOM Instruments scores well on all of these criteria and helped to significantly speed up the processes.

South Korea's industry is going digital – one reason for this change are definitely the incentives provided by the South Korean government. For companies in the oil and gas industry as well as in the petrochemical industry, the challenge is to adapt the technologies required for the digitization of processes to their special requirements especially in terms of safety. The devices have to be certified for DZ1 and DZ2, to name just one challenge.

Medical environments, whether that’s the development, manufacture or packing of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, must be monitored to the highest levels to ensure complete compliance and safety for staff and end-users. ION Science’s range of fixed PID sensors can measure VOC outputs on multiple large sites or single key areas, using world-leading gas detection technology. 

With ventilation continuing to dominate the news agenda, a leading ventilation specialist is stressing the importance of monitoring pollutants beyond just CO2.

CO2 is a widely used indicator of room occupancy and the need to ventilate, which according to Elta Fans has proved useful in encouraging more engagement with improving IAQ. However, as structures become increasingly energy efficient and airtight, there is a danger that other types of outdoor air pollution will become trapped in these spaces.

AirBench, the UK’s leading manufacturer of downdraught benches and cross-draught systems, is pleased to announce the release of VertEx VX – an ATEX rated version of the popular VertEx cross-draught system.

For the fifth year in a row, the team at Dust Safety Science has compiled and analyzed combustible dust incidents from around the world.

As of December 31, 2020, they captured almost 1000 incidents in their  incident reports along with a detailed analysis of the materials, industries and equipment involved.