HazardEx - for safety, health and hazardous area professionals
HazardEx - for safety, health and hazardous area professionals. 10 October 2024. Federal investigators in the US found life-threatening hazards at a Nebraska grain cooperative, where workers faced risks of fire and explosions due to the company allowing a build-up of combustible dust and failing to maintain effective dust collection systems ...
Two dead following hydrogen sulphide leak at US refinery
20 hours ago · Two dead following hydrogen sulphide leak at US refinery. 18 October 2024. An investigation is underway after two workers were killed in a fatal chemical leak at a refinery in Houston, Texas on 10 October. The incident occurred at the 312,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park refinery operated by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).
Why every organisation should care about hazardous area training
Jan 16, 2024 · Why every organisation should care about hazardous area training. 16 January 2024. In this article, Matt Taylor, Training Manager for Alderley, discusses hazardous area training and offers several examples to show why it is so important and why it matters to every organisation, regardless of size.
HazardEx - Battery technology for hazardous environments
Jan 14, 2022 · Battery technology for hazardous environments. Author : Luke Halton, Ex Dynamics. 14 January 2022. Batteries have become a huge part of our lives with their use in everyday items such as mobile phones and laptops and this trend looks set to continue with their ever-increasing use in this data-driven era and push to move to electric vehicles.
Keeping lone workers safe in hazardous environments
Sep 25, 2020 · The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR) defines a hazardous environment as ‘any place in which an explosive atmosphere may occur in quantities such as to require special precautions to protect the safety of workers’. Put simply, any environment where there are flammable gases, mists, dusts, liquids or vapours ...
HazardEx - ‘IS’ or ‘XP’ – understanding the technology
IS is a protection concept based around limiting the available electrical energy so that sparks cannot occur from a short circuit or failure and cause the ignition of an explosive atmosphere. A typical IS circuit, found in a fixed process control instrument, comprises a permanently located device within the explosive area which, in turn, is ...
HazardEx - About Us
About Us. Hazardex is the brand name for a suite of products dedicated to the provision of the latest information specifically relevant to those companies and individuals responsible for safe operations within hazardous area environments around the world. HazardEx: The Journal was launched in January 2002 to provide the global hazardous area ...
HazardEx - Case Studies
A highly dextrous, Jenga-playing robot with a human touch used to maintain a fusion energy machine has met its identical superhero twin for the first time. Both known as MASCOT, the identical manipulators are being put through their paces in a series of practice ‘rescue missions’ where each saves its stranded sibling to limit potential ...
Intrinsically safe Ethernet gives access to hazardous areas
The 9400 Series delivers Intrinsically Safe power over Ethernet allowing live connection and disconnection of the end device in Zone 0 and Zone 1 hazardous areas typically reducing the cost of installing the LAN in hazardous areas by 40%. The series comprises a wireless LAN access point, managed Ethernet switch, copper to fibre media converter ...
HazardEx - Ithaca Energy and Eni UK complete merger
21 hours ago · 16 October 2024. Ithaca Energy has announced the completion of its “transformational combination” with substantially all of Eni’s UK upstream oil and gas assets, excluding East Irish Sea assets and CCUS activities. The new company will rival Harbour Energy, which last month completed its takeover of Wintershall DEA, as the biggest UKCS ...