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Safeguarding Leisure Sector Workers From Corrosive Workplace Hazards
It is estimated that the average UK family spends a staggering 22% of their weekly budget on leisure activities, placing huge demand on the industry. In such a rapidly growing sector there are a plethora of arduous hygiene processes used to maintain ...
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Common hazardous substances that need safety showers or eye/face wash equipment
Every year, thousands of workers are injured or suffer ill effects due to hazardous substances. Employers are responsible for taking effective measures to control exposure to these substances and to ensure proper procedures are in place in the event ...
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Combatting Bacteria Growth in Safety Showers and Eye/Face wash equipment
Emergency safety showers and eye wash stations are essential for sites where workers could come into contact with hazardous chemicals. In some environments providing this life saving equipment can be challenging, for instance locations where a ...
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Benefit from the updated STD-40K/45G mobile safety shower
Ensuring you have the right emergency safety equipment can be challenging, especially if your site does not have easy access to a clean potable water supply. Water pressure can also be an issue for a lot of sites.For a lot of locations, portable ...
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The Importance of Tepid Water
The European standards, EN15154 and the international standard for safety showers and eye/face wash equipment, ANSI Z358.1-2014 specify that water delivered by an emergency safety shower must be tepid. What is tepid water? Tepid water is ...
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Are your safety showers ready for winter?
It’s important to know how seasonal weather changes affect your safety equipment, especially if placed outdoors. With some sites closed due to regional and national lockdown, it’s more crucial than ever that you inspect and maintain ...
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Enhancing Safety at Outokumpu - Case Study
Background Outokumpu are the global leader in stainless steel, boasting the widest product portfolio in the market. With 100 years of expertise in metals and mining, they aim to become the best value creator in stainless steel. They supply a myriad ...
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Diminishing the risks at data storage centres
Data centre sites store computing and networking equipment for the purpose of collecting, storing, processing, distributing or allowing access to large amounts of data. Used by the likes of Microsoft and Facebook, the size of these sites range from ...
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Facing hazards in the fast-paced food industry
The food & drink industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK, contributing more than £28bn to the economy every year. This industry and its employees face increased demand from a constantly growing population. As pressure to ...
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Ensuring safety in the ever-growing e-liquid industry
Vaping has made its mark as one of the fastest growing industries of the 21st century. With the number of vapers globally climbing from just 7 million in 2011 to a staggering 41 million in 2018 and a market worth an estimated £15.5 ...
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Drilling down into chemical hazards in the mining industry
Industries worldwide rely on the steady supply of minerals and metals harvested by the mining industry such as coal, iron ore, bauxite, and potash. Though the final products of mining may not be hazardous, there are many chemical risks that mine ...
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Ensure You`re up to Speed with Chemical Safety in the Automotive Industry
The global automotive industry manufactured a staggering 98.1 million vehicles in 2018. In Europe alone, the sector provides direct and indirect jobs to 13.8 million Europeans, representing 6.1% of total EU employment. With chemical hazards present ...
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Hygiene facilities vs Safety Showers
Health and Safety guidelines surrounding hazardous substances and decontamination can often be vague. Guidelines often recommend the provision of ‘hygiene facilities’ or ‘washing facilities’ to ensure potentially harmful ...
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Protecting People in the Printing Industry
Due to the fast-paced, deadline-driven nature of the printing industry it can often be easy to overlook the need for health and safety equipment. The UK is the world’s fifth largest producer of printed products, with around 120,000 employees ...
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Why do I need to activate my safety showers and eye/face washes weekly?
Weekly activation of your emergency safety showers and eye/face wash units is paramount to ensure that all emergency equipment is operating properly. This process is stated as a requirement in European and International standards (EN15154 and ...
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Are your safety showers ready for winter?
It’s important to know how seasonal weather changes affect your safety equipment, especially if placed outdoors. With winter approaching, are your safety showers ready? Are the feed pipes lagged and traced? A freeze-protected safety shower ...
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Safety Showers for the Fertiliser Industry
The fertiliser industry uses extremely hazardous materials in their production processes. Common industry chemicals like anhydrous ammonia can cause burns and inhalation hazards. Others like ammonium nitrate pose a risk of fire and explosion. In ...
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Combatting bacteria growth in emergency tank showers
Emergency safety showers and eye wash stations are essential for sites where workers could come into contact with hazardous chemicals. In some environments providing this life saving equipment can be challenging, for instance a consistent supply of ...
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Protecting the Workforce of the World`s Largest Chemical Producer - Case Study
Background: The largest chemical producer in the world is comprised of subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries, operating six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, the ...
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Tailored Emergency Safety Showers for Remote ‘Super Giant’ Oilfield - Case Study
Background The Tengiz oilfield in Kazakhstan is one of the deepest developed super giant oil fields in the world, with further expansion projects in the pipeline. The aim of the Future Growth Project is to increase the daily ...
