Improving safety through connectivity in gas detection
Honeywell explains how introducing a greater level of connectivity into gas detection can help optimise safety and improve productivity
It’s a (dangerous) gas
Gas detection is critical on a wide range of plants, in a wide range of industries. Brian Tinham looks at the issues with installation and particularly maintenance
Health and Safety North
Health and Safety North, the third in the regional series this year, claims to offers plant engineers a valuable learning and networking experience. Brian Wall reports
Hidden hazards
Did you know that if dry wire wool - think of discarded Brillo pads - comes into contact with a dead nine-volt battery, it can spontaneously combust? Or that dust - for that matter, even sugar or custard powder - can ignite and unleash a fireball? Or that air enriched with just three per cent oxygen is lethal - burning everything in its path at twice the normal rate?
Low-cost VOC sensors
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) perform many vital roles as fuels, solvents, feedstock and sterilants, to name a few. Monitoring their concentration is essential because of the potential health and safety risk that they pose. Alternative sensing technologies may bring down the costs involved, but care must be exercised in choosing the right one
DSEAR hazards
Although DSEAR (Dangerous Systems and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations) was enacted back in 2003, its implications for hazardous plant are still misunderstood. Barrie Church explains
Fail to danger
Most toxic and flammable gas detectors feature the fundamental flaw of failing to danger. Dr Tom Shelley looks at the problem and some useful solutions
Fire hazard
Fire in an engineering environment is likely to have far more serious consequences than in almost any other industrial premises.
Deepwater Horizon
Last month's report by BP into the causes of its Gulf rig explosion and fire, and the lessons to be learned, point to a chilling sequence of failures. Brian Tinham reports