Health and Safety

The FLIR GF309 is a new infrared camera specially designed for high temperature inspection of industrial furnaces, heaters and boilers. Custom-built to see through flames, the GF309 provides temperat...

ABB’s (UK) System 800xA Extended Automation controller has received KEMA certification for its IEC 61850 electrical integration interface. IEC 61850 is the global communication standard for Powe...

Combustible gas from a pipeline explosion in Canada took between eight and nine hours to burn off, although the personal safety of residents nearby was not put in jeopardy.The accident occurred near a...

Two new events have been added to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) itinerary of personal safety meetings for oil industry workers.Due to take place on October 4th-5th 2011 in Stavanger, the Inter...

Gas wastewater process plants in Pennsylvania are increasing the amount of the fluid that is recycled during the fracking process, amid concerns about the release of chemicals into drinking supplies,...

Guidance in the form of Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) sheets has been created to provide recommendations on how to maintain personal safety standards when working on offshore facil...

The Fieldbus Foundation (USA) has announced the release of DesignMATE™, a complete software tool for planning, validation and documentation of FOUNDATION fieldbus H1 segments. User-friendly Des...

In a study designed to evaluate and address exploration and production (E&P) drilling risks associated with over-pressured formations, it was found that dramatically different magnitudes of overpr...

The oil industry is just one sector where concerns about personal safety are encouraging the use of more robots, reports Frost & Sullivan.According to the analyst's publication Robots for Main...

Sierra Monitor (USA) recently displayed their full range of hazardous gas detection systems and detectors at ADIPEC 2010, the highly successful oil and gas show in Abu Dhabi. Sierra Monitor gas det...