How Is Gas Monitored in Confined Spaces?
Due to their enclosed nature, confined spaces represent unique challenges when it comes to ensuring workplace safety. Concentrations of combustible or toxic gases can quickly build up to unsafe thresholds, while oxygen levels can quickly be depleted. As a result, it’s imperative that site owners implement robust protocols aimed at...
Why Is Refrigerant Detection Important?
There are a wide variety of gases and chemicals used as refrigerants in the cold storage, refrigeration and freezer sectors, as well as in any industry or workplace where air conditioning is in place. These gases provide a vital service in cooling the environment in question, but can pose a...
What Is Fence Line Monitoring?
Petroleum refineries, chemical plants, construction sites and other industrial facilities necessarily generate a lot of chemicals and gases. Due to the fact these sites are often located in or near residential areas, there is understandably much concern about the effect that the industrial emissions may have on local air quality...
Safety On Hydrogen Refuelling Stations
Hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) are static systems and the leak points for hydrogen are most likely to be valves, connectors, and the flexible hoses. It is advisable to use fixed gas or flame detection equipment sited close to these locations. Public HRS stations are likely to be in the open air...
Contaminated Land And The Vital Role Of Portable PIDs
Portable photoionization detectors (PIDs) have become an important tool in the management of many contaminated land remediation projects, and the following article will explain the reasons behind their popularity, despite the challenges presented by field work. Remediation sites frequently present soil samples with high levels of humidity, which interferes with...
Industry Overview: Waste to Energy
The waste to energy industry utilises several waste treatment methods. Municipal and industrial solid waste is converted into electricity, and sometimes into heat for industrial processing and district heating systems. The main process is of course incineration, but intermediate steps of pyrolysis, gasification, and anaerobic digestion are sometimes used to...
Overcoming the Challenges of Gas Detection in Cold Weather
With chilling months right around the corner, you might be concerned about a number of things: driving conditions, keeping your home heated, shoveling the driveway. For people who work outside, winter weather can pose a range of risks, from hypothermia to slipping on ice. However, if atmospheric hazards are a...
Construction and Key Gas Challenges
Workers in the construction industry are at risk from a wide variety of hazardous gases including Carbon Monoxide (CO), Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2), Methane (CH4), Oxygen (O2), Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s). Through the use of specific equipment, transport and the undertaking of sector specific activities, construction is a...