hazard warning Articles
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Protect Workers, Property with Hazard Warnings in Extreme Environments
End of last year Emerson introduced its new open path gas detectors which are easy to install and commission. These gas detectors were built to help increase safety and reduce downtime by offering performance reliability over wide areas in extreme environments and an easier, faster installation and commissioning process. Extreme environments include both heavy vibration conditions and operating ...
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CLP Hazard Warning Symbol: Gas Cylinder Pictogram
In this blog, we will delve into the significance of the gas cylinder pictogram and explore the safety measures that should be taken when dealing with products that bear this emblem. Also, we will discuss the potential risks associated with gas cylinders and provide practical tips on how to store products featuring the gas cylinder pictogram to minimise accidents and ensure a safe environment for ...
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CLP Hazard Warning Symbol: Skull and Crossbones Pictogram
In this blog, we will delve into the significance of the skull and crossbones pictogram and explore the safety measures that should be taken when dealing with products that bear this emblem, denoting acute toxicity. We will discuss the potential risks associated with acutely toxic substances and provide practical tips on how to store products featuring the skull and crossbones pictogram to ...
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CLP Hazard Warning Symbol: Exploding Bomb Pictogram
In this blog, we will delve into the significance of the exploding bomb pictogram and explore the safety measures that should be taken when dealing with products that bear this emblem, denoting explosives. We will discuss the potential risks associated with explosive substances and provide practical tips on how to store products featuring the exploding bomb pictogram to minimise accidents and ...
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Potential use of transport and dispersion model output to supplement Allied Tactical Publication–45 hazard area prediction templates
Allied Tactical Publication–45(C) is the current US and NATO command doctrine for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological (NBC) events. ATP–45 is designed to warn military populations of NBC hazard by providing area–warning templates based on NBC messages. ATP–45 is designed to produce a single 2–hour hazard area template that accounts for wind speed fluctuations, but it ...
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PVC dust monitoring in packaging areas for early warning of hazardous dust concentrations
Application At a PVC powder manufacturing site, robots are used in the packaging plant to fill 25 kg bags. The company’s ATEX guidelines state that there is an ATEX Zone 22 in the area of 5 metres around the plant. The ignitable mixture of PVC powder is 50 g/m3, which can happen if a bag does not withstand the pressure and breaks when being filled by a robot. However, by the time the ...
By ENVEA
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Orange Safety Fence Barrier
Warning Barrier is also called Safety Fence, made of HDPE or PP material, with UV additives, stretching into a netting structure. Popularly offered in eye-catching orange color. Orange plastic mesh fence is widely used as mobile barrier for construction sites, road work, home and garden, new building construction, traffic and crowd control, Hazardous chemical areas, snow and sand areas. Choose ...
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How to Handle the Aftermath of a Workplace Injury
Accidents happen – it’s an unfortunate reality for many employees, who are susceptible to accidents at work, and employers, who often are monetarily liable for medical bills and reparations after the fact. While the proper precautions can significantly lessen the risks associated with workplace injuries, employers should be aware of the proper processes following an accident. To ...
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Using disaster warning tools to their best potential
Stronger links between scientific tools and the environment in which they operate can improve the effectiveness of early warning. To say there is a lot riding on disaster management is an understatement. The lives and livelihoods lost, as well as extensive damage, underscore the human, environmental, social and economic cost of extreme events that affect millions every year. [1] Consider just a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Top 5 Differences Between Micro Pulse LiDAR and Ceilometer Technology
If you are evaluating backscatter LiDAR sensors for measuring aerosols, cloud vertical structure, and planetary boundary layer (PBL) heights, what factors should you consider in your comparison? It really comes down to a choice between the traditional analog technology used in ceilometers ad the more recent advanced technology found in Micro Pulse LiDAR (MPL) sensors. To select the best tool for ...
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Don’t Turn a Deaf Ear to a Noisy Working Environment
Whether you work in manufacturing, engineering, construction, or in an office environment, the incessant noises of machinery or even noisy work colleagues can have an effect on your wellbeing after a while. But the problems associated with noise run much, much deeper than this. It can lead to severe and permanent loss of hearing, as well as a significant rise in blood pressure and stress. And ...
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Disaster Risk Reduction Day: Inclusion saves lives
Building resilience to climate change and disasters requires bottom-up, community-led response. Advocating for inclusive resilience to disaster requires sustained collaboration at local and national level, between communities, humanitarian/development actors, and government authorities. This message was reiterated by speakers marking the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2023, a ...
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Basic Principle of Safety
A basic principle of safety can be illustrated by the accident triangle. This principle states that for each accidental death that occurs, there are X instances of human injury, Y instances of property damage, and Z instances of what we will call Near Misses (in which the hazardous situation exists but an accident does not occur). Common examples of Near Miss behavior include smoking in bed, or ...
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Early warning of disasters: Facts and figures
Lucy Pearson looks at early warning systems for disasters, their uses and limits, and what accounts for the gap between warning and action. Through history disasters have destroyed lives and livelihoods, killing people and damaging homes and businesses. Disasters in the past 35 years have taken an estimated 2.5 million lives and cost more than US$1.5 billion, mainly in developing countries. [1] ...
By SciDev.Net
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Understanding uncertainty to prevent humanitarian crises
Dialogue enables scientists and communities to work with uncertain information, say humanitarian policy experts Emma Visman and colleagues. The international humanitarian and development community does not like uncertainty. Although increasingly effective in many ways, recent crises in East and West Africa have exposed long-standing weaknesses in how that community copes with uncertain ...
By SciDev.Net
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Understanding Laser Classifications and Output Levels
Mainstream, low-powered lasers that emit continuous wave beams are harmless to humans. However, there are some lasers that can cause serious damage to one’s skin and eyes. To educate and protect people from using such lasers incorrectly – in a way that could cause injury – regulatory institutions have created a classification system that establishes the level of damage that the ...
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A Quick Guide to CLP Pictograms
The CLP (Classification, Labelling and Packaging) pictograms are essential for communicating information about the hazardous properties of a substance or mixture. This article will provide an overview of these pictograms and explain how they are used in hazard communication. The CLP Regulation is a legal requirement for all substances and mixtures sold within the European Union (EU). This ...
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CLP Labelling Guidance and Requirements
Do you know what CLP labelling is and why it’s essential for businesses? If not, you’re in the right place. In this article, we will discuss what CLP labelling entails and why following guidelines is so important. We’ll also look at how companies can meet all the requirements when labelling their chemical products. Keep reading to get all your questions ...
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Top Fall Protection Priorities at Last Mile Facilities
The rise of e-commerce has changed the face of logistics. Increased demand for fast delivery has led to the need for more last-minute warehousing and distribution facilities. In this fast-paced environment, it’s essential that safety protocols are in place and enforced and that the proper fall protection devices are installed. But where should you focus your attention to ensure that your ...
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Use of molecular markers for early warning detection of harmful algal blooms
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are a biological hazard for, and can also result from, aquaculture. To minimise economic and environmental impacts, an early warning detection system is needed. In this paper, two most commonly used molecular techniques are introduced with applications and examples involving work on the putatively toxic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida. Unlike previous reviews ...
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