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Control, July 2011
By Béla Lipták
Describes both the causes of the hydrogen explosions at Fukushima and the controls needed to protect against hydrogen explosions at American BWRs.

FPM-8151H is a Class 1, Division 2 certified monitor with NEMA4/IP65 protection and a 2.8mm thick resistive glass panel.

HazardEx, July 2011
By Cliff Anderson, Detector Electronics
Hydrogen gas is very flammable and only a small amount of energy will ignite it. In fact, if leaking from a pipe at a high enough pressure, hydrogen gas can self ignite without an external energy source.

HazardEx, July 2011
By John Astad, Combustible Dust Policy Institute
Concern arises in the US with the current OSHA Combustible Dust rulemaking process. This is especially so where a multitude of combustible dust related fires in the manufacturing sector is ignored in the vein of normalisation of deviation.

HazardEx, June 2011
By Kenny Mitchell, Dron & Dickson
When it comes to the repair, inspection and maintenance of electrical equipment there are few environments where strict adherence to the correct processes and procedures is more crucial than on an offshore petrochemical asset.

South Africa Instrumentation & Control, July 2011
By Gavin Halse, ApplyIT
Can risk assessment predict if you will have an accident today?

Oil & Gas Engineer, July 2011
Evolving health and safety regulations are prompting a broad range of new initiatives within the industry, including a subsea well incident response project, novel landing string assemblies, and new guidelines to make offshore support vessels safer.

Control Engineering Europe, June 2010
Safety system integrator Hima-Sella provided 20 programmable electronic systems to protect valve stations along the 250km long Wilton-Grangemouth ethylene pipeline owned by SABIC UK Petrochemicals.

Oil & Gas Engineer, July 2011
By Glen Robertson
Many organisations within the O&G sector identify intervening as a key part of their behavior-based safety system. Some also recognize that people need to be actively encouraged and supported to intervene through initiatives.

Power-Technology.com, July 2011
In the last few months, the nuclear crisis in Japan led to safety concerns over this electrical resource, causing Germany, Switzerland and Italy to scrap plans for new reactors. The UK, which relies on nuclear for 18% of its energy supply, however, has not followed suit.