Many professions, work environments and tasks involve activity above or even below ground level, meaning workers are exposed to the risk of falling a distance liable to cause injury – or even death.
As well as a moral obligation to ensure those workers’ safety, employers must comply with myriad legal duties with regard to work at height. (Read More)
A+A: Maximum load support with the new safety harness from Capital Safety
Capital Safety, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of height safety and fall protection equipment, will for the first time be presenting the most comfortable, lightest-wearing, truly innovative safety harness ever created at the A+A Work Safety trade fair in Düsseldorf. (Read More)
High Efficiency Dust Collector Gives Compact Design, Cleanable Filter & ATEX Protection
The new Quad Pulse Package PX dust collector from Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC) offers high performance in a compact unit designed for pharmaceutical, chemical and other processes that produce hazardous dusts in high concentrations. (Read More)
Are your spill pallets legally compliant for use in the UK?
In 2001 the UK saw the first Oil Storage Regulation enacted for England, since then both Scotland and Northern Ireland have enacted their own regulations and Wales currently have theirs in draft.
Although each regulation is country specific they do share many key points including the capacity of the sump of a secondary containment system, typically these are in the form of spill pallets manufactured from steel or rotationally moulded plastic designed (Read More)
For decades there have been major advances in the improvement of safety products. With respiratory protection, for example, fit testing has led to better and more suitable facemasks.
Eyewear has also seen a great deal of evolution from the days of basic traditional “safety specs”. Adjustment in temples, nose bridges and even the means of attachment itself all continually evolve, improving fit and comfort along with the all-important lens technology, (Read More)
New, improved safety sign printers: because safety means the world to you
The new BBP™35 Multicolour Sign & Label Printer and BBP™37 Multicolour and Cut Sign & Label Printer support safety and operations professionals to quickly create a safer, more productive facility with multi-colour and multi-shape signs and labels.
The printers offer great colour and cutting capabilities as well as a simple, automatic label setup and intuitive touchscreen to make any sign on demand and on-site. (Read More)
SCOTT SAFETY DEFINING WHAT’S NEXT IN SAFETY AT A+A 2015
With the mission to define ‘what’s next in safety?’, Scott Safety is back at the A+A trade fair in Dusseldorf (27th – 30th October 2015, Dusseldorf, Germany) to showcase the latest technologies, concepts and future-thinking surrounding industrial gas detection and breathing apparatus solutions (Hall 06, Stand F33).
The event, which attracts over 63,000 global industrial professionals, will be the launchpad for Scott Safety’s latest addition (Read More)
Svantek’s Sv200 Ideal For Monitoring Noise At Ports
Fully integrated solution with built in web server for unattended long & short term measurements provides live data 24-hours a day, seven days a week
An increasing number of UK ports, including Felixstowe, Port of Tyne and Peterhead, are benefiting from high performance environmental and occupational health noise measurement instrumentation from Svantek UK Ltd (tel: 01296 682040; www.svantek.co.uk). (Read More)
Draka doubles storage space with Combilift and Aisle-Master
Draka is a brand of the globally successful Prysmian Group and its facility in Aberdeen supplies oil rigs and drilling platforms with a wide range of power, telecommunications, instrumentation and control cabling, and specialises in providing custom cut lengths from a little as a few metres up to 20,000m reels. (Read More)
AirBench release VertEx Booth – High Efficiency Containment Booth
AirBench Ltd are pleased to announce the release of our new modular booth designed for attachment to the VertEx cross-draught system.
Using the new modular booth construction, a full environmental containment booth can be built rapidly from standard parts. (Read More)
