Portable Gas Monitors- new ways to use them
All of us a ware of portable gas monitors, those instruments with the built in sensors that give out an alarm in case they detect the presence of a gas (or fail to detect a sufficient level of a gas like Oxygen). We all know how to use them. We use portable LEL meters, before [...]
New wireless instruments can improve safety monitoring
There is now yet another generation of instruments on the market-wireless! The developments in instruments are faster than what a traditional chemicals manufacturing plant was used to. First we had pneumatic/hydraulic & mechanical instruments, then analog instruments, then digital “smart” instruments, fieldbuses and now wireless. However, in this case these may prove to be very [...]
Use Gas Detectors to improve safety-lessons from an industrial accident
This post shows how easy it can be, to build-in safety into your plant, by using the right kind of gas detector. Continuing our “Case study” series, we show below how a simple gas detector, had it been installed, could have easily prevented a major industrial catastrophe.
The video below show the US Chemical Safety Board [...]
Welcome to Industrial Plant Safety!
Welcome to this online magazine (blog) on Industrial Plant Safety ! Here, you will find a lot of useful information regarding industrial plant safety, that includes safety equipment, industrial safety systems, fire & gas systems, hazardous areas, intrinsic safety, explosion protection, safety instrumented systems and so on. In fact, everything under the sun that [...]
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