industrial hygiene air sampling News
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Getting TUFF on industrial health risks!
Casella CEL is expanding its portfolio of dust monitoring instrumentation with the launch of a new personal air sampling pump for occupational and industrial hygiene roles. TUFF by name and tough by design, the pump is designed to be belt -worn by staff to measure their exposure to dust as well as fumes, gases or vapours. It compliments the popular APEX range of pumps, which will continue to be ...
By Casella
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Explosion, Flash Fires, and Deaths Caused by Combustible Dust Were Preventable, Says Federal Panel
Management at a Tennessee metal powders factory knew about the dangers of combustible dust before three accidents there killed five workers and injured three, concluded the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) last week. Airborne iron powder ignited and caused flash fires in a Hoeganaes Corp. plant in Gallatin, TN in January and March 2011. In May, hydrogen leaking from a corroded pipe exploded, ...
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EMSL Releases Combustible Dust Poster
EMSL is pleased to announce the release of a new Combustible Dust Testing poster available for distribution on the company’s website: www.EMSL.com. The poster is free and is a great informational resource for those in industries with combustible dust hazards, including food, grain, wood, pulp, paper, plastics, pharmaceutical, rubber, metals and fossil fuel power generation. The ...
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Pumps Vs Real Time Measurements; no time like the present
Hands up to all those who can remember a time before the personal air sampler (PAS)? Not many I guess, but then they only do commerically date back to the early 1960's in Europe and the US, at a time when the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) only had a few hundred members. The history of personal air sampling instrumentation The personal sampling pump was developed under ...
By Casella
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