explosion safety News
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EU ministers adopt action plan enhancing explosives safety
The EU Council has adopted the EU Action Plan on Enhancing the Security of Explosives. The Action Plan is based on the Commission's Communication of 6 November 2007 on enhancing the security of explosives and has been adopted following intensive negotiations between the Member States and the Commission. Vice-President Jacques Barrot thanked the Council Presidency, which showed strong commitment ...
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SolidAT gains IECEx Quality Assurance (QAR)
Solid Applied Technologies (SolidAT) has recently gained IECEx Quality Assurance. This assurance from IECEx qualifies SolidAT plants to manufacture products which are intended for use in explosive atmospheres. The IECEx qualification is in addition to existing ATEX and FM qualifications for EX equipment. SolidAT selected to implement IECEx quality assurance as a step towards the certification of ...
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Explosion-proof tires are usually a name we call it
Explosion-proof tires are usually a name we call it. The explosion-proof tires have a professional term called runflat tires. When we are driving on the road, the tires are the most vulnerable. This tire can ensure more safety during driving. . It is achieved by strengthening the side walls to achieve high-speed tires, even if pressure or puncture, can still ensure safety during driving. The ...
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EHS This Week: New MSHA Mine Safety Rule, Nurses Tackle Workplace Violence and More!
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: $2.19 Million Federal Grant Goes to Pennsylvania for Pipeline Safety MSHA Proposes New Mine Safety Rule Explosion at Alberta Oilsands Processing Site Nurses fight back against workplace violence and bullying EHS This Week Resources For more ...
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NIOSH Publishes Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan
On December 20, 2013, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published a document entitled Protecting the Nanotechnology Workforce: NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan, 2013-2016. NIOSH describes the document as “the roadmap being used to advance basic understanding of the toxicology and workplace exposures involved so that appropriate risk ...
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Preventing an Explosive or Flammable Safety Hazard
There are over 1,300 craft distilleries throughout the United States and it is predicted that there will be another 1,000 startups in the next 5 years. Every distillery has the potential risk of creating an explosive environment during the distilling process when ethanol is produced. Ethanol is a highly flammable liquid, and when released into the air produces a flammable vapor. An explosive or ...
By ENMET, LLC
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Combustion analyzer for rough environments
Based on decades of experience and customer feedback, NEO Monitors has designed an Ex-d certified tunable diode laser (TDLS) analyzer. The instrument is based on the proven LaserGas™ III platform, and is for those that need CO-monitoring in combustion processes. In combination with LaserGas™ III SP O2, the analyzer is the answer to any combustion process where increased explosion ...
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Create Safer Chemical Processes at Scale by Using Thermal Analysis Techniques in the Lab
Thermal runaway reactions have played a primary role in several severe chemical plant accidents in recent years. Learn how methods including differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and reaction calorimetry (RC) can be used to investigate chemical processes in the lab in this free, live webinar from METTLER TOLEDO. A new live METTLER TOLEDO webinar on May 19th ...
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Dual Sawmill Explosions Raise Safety Concerns over Combustible Dusts
2012 has been a challenging year for the wood processing industry across North America. There have already been two sawmill explosions and fires in Canada that have resulted in dozens of injuries and killed four workers. The suspected culprit in both cases was combustible dust. According to the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), “In addition to the health ...
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Intelligent pump monitoring for chemical engineering from Colfax Fluid Handling
Colfax Fluid Handling, a business segment of Colfax Corporation (NYSE: CFX) will demonstrate its commitment to Industry 4.0 with an exhibit of its new intelligent platform for condition and operation monitoring at ACHEMA fair. Known as IN-1000, it will be on display at hall 8.0, booth D63. The platform was developed specifically for Allweiler pumps that are used in operationally-critical and ...
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WESTON Awarded Omaha District Corps of Engineers Contract
WEST CHESTER, Pa.- Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) today announced it has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District for Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) Services at projects located throughout the United States and its territories. WESTON is one of five firms selected to compete on the Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Multiple ...
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Geotech sets the industry standard with ISO 17025 Calibration and five days servicing
Geotech is a trusted manufacturer and supplier of portable and fixed gas analysers for a wide range of industries. With our vast network of established international distributors, we are able to supply to and support our customers in over 60 countries worldwide. We offer a total support package for our entire product range from our UK-based Service Centre. The in-house dedicated and ...
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The New Delta Hybrid Efficiency Booster & Security Fanatics
Pneumatic conveying systems for bulk materials, e.g. in the food industry, chemical and process engineering, cement and lime industry, and many others, have to reconcile a multitude of requirements - hygiene, explosion protection, robustness, product safety, efficiency, etc. - with one another. Home game for the new Delta Hybrid. The oil- and absorption material-free rotary lobe compressors with ...
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Dust Explosion Leaves Two Workers Severely Injured in Phoenix
Last week, two workers from a Phoenix design business were severely injured when a dust explosion occurred while they were cleaning wood dust from the loft area of the business. The injured workers were taken to a local hospital suffering from 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Wood dust is a common cause of combustible dust explosions in the work environment. They occur when wood dust, which are fine ...
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NRDC Report: U.S. Nuclear Safety Regulators Ignore Severe Accident Hydrogen Explosion Risks Despite Fukushima Tragedy
Three years after hydrogen explosions wreaked havoc in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is still not adequately protecting American nuclear reactors from the risk of similar hydrogen blasts in a severe accident, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). As the report explains in detail, tons of combustible hydrogen can ...
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EHS This Week: Rail Safety Improvement Act, EPA Toxic Spill, Massive Explosion in China and More!
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: Massive Explosion In China Tianjin EPA Spills Toxic Wastewater Into Colorado’s Animas River The Rail Safety Improvement Act & Positive Train Control NIOSH to examine vehicle crashes in Oil & Gas Industry Listen to the full podcast on our ...
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Self-contained, pre-frabricated, research and test laboratory with explosion relief, safely houses workers, volatile combustible materials and test equipment
SAFETY STORAGE containment units specially designed to house volatile fuel test chambers and equipment are used to isolate the hazardous material testing laboratory from other departments on an industrial campus to underscore a corporate commitment to safety. Executive management and corporate investors minimize risk and gain peace of mind by fully containing gas cylinders and containers of ...
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CMT for high resolution vapor intrusion monitoring
Background Vapor intrusion refers to the movement of volatile chemicals from the subsurface into the indoor air of overlying buildings. The most common source is groundwater or soil contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs emit vapors that migrate into pore spaces of the soil and upward into the overlying environment. Generally, vapors enter buildings through cracks and openings ...
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CMT simplifies Vapor intrusion monitoring
Vapor intrusion refers to the movement of volatile chemicals from the subsurface into the indoor air of overlying buildings. The most common source is groundwater or soil contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs emit vapors that migrate into pore spaces of the soil and upward into the overlying environment. Generally, vapors enter buildings through cracks and openings in the ...
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Fatal Wood Dust Explosion the Focus of BC Safety Authority Report
It was just over one year ago when a wood dust explosion took the lives of two mill workers and injured twenty others in Burns Lake, British Columbia. The explosion and fire also destroyed the sawmill facility. In response, the B.C. Safety Authority (BCSA) released a recommendations report about the incident last month. The report makes nine recommendations to improve the identification and ...
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