Category: Hazardous Area & Safety

The PowerCap Infinity is the very latest in Powered Air Purifying Respiratory technology offering 4-in-1 fully integrated protection to the head, eye/face, hearing and respiratory protection in one intuitive lightweight head...

Quite a long time ago, an employer wouldn’t even consider providing the workforce with respirators unless the environment was really toxic. Certainly not for everyday use anyway because while the job may have been a bit...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the oil and gas industry, whether upstream at the platforms or downstream at the processing plants, is one of the more dangerous sectors to be in. Fortunately, hardly any other...

With Brady’s new Safetrak, time consuming paper based equipment inspections can become a lot faster. Planning, inspecting and reporting can be streamlined, customised and largely automated in the Safetrak app to save time....

Expert in safety, Arco, is urging businesses to be prepared for potential adverse weather conditions this winter in order to help keep employees safe and avoid costly site closures. Extreme weather conditions such as subzero...

The HardCap AeroLite from JSP is the lightest, best performing, full shell Bump Cap on the market weighing less than 135g. It is designed to be worn where there is a risk of impact to the front, top and also scrapes to the side...

Industrial safety specialist Fortress Interlocks has added industrial Ethernet communications to its amGardpro range of safety interlocks The new proNET communications module, which uses the PROFINET protocol and its extension...

Fugitive gas leaks are wasteful, harmful, costly, and impossible to see without the right tools.  Optical gas imaging with a FLIR GF-Series camera is the best way to detect these leaks. Scan large areas quickly, visualize...

Thanks to their modular design, R. STAHL’s new explosion-proof 6121 series of floodlights provides users with versatile installation options. If required, the floodlights for zone 1 allow for separate installation of...

In most production or process facilities, good visibility is crucial for safety in the workplace. This is particularly true in hazardous areas. Operators in refineries, on oil rigs or in clean rooms depend on electrical lighting...

The “New Legislative Framework” (NLF) is the European Union’s current push to further harmonise legislation for technical products across the single market, and to enforce the rules more comprehensively. By...

The field of explosion protection can prove difficult to navigate due to standards, rules and regulations for hazardous areas that leave room for interpretation and misunderstandings. Some common beliefs relating to key concepts...

By designing an explosion-proof enclosure for its light curtain technology to ATEX and UL Listed hazardous area standards, SICK is offering unprecedented safety protection for high risk flammable gas, vapour and dusty...

Health and safety training company Survivex, has signed a contract with Hercules Offshore for the provision of a fully outsourced Training Management Service (TMS). The contract, estimated to be worth in excess of £500,000...

The benefits of Remote I/O are generally well known in the industrial automation world. In more recent times these benefits have been made available for Ex areas, albeit with some special challenges to solve. Large, expensive,...