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B&CE urges construction companies to train employees in occupational health, in wake of new report

B&CE1 is urging construction companies of all sizes to provide at least one employee with occupational health (OH) awareness training to ensure compliance with regulation and encourage understanding of occupational health and relevant standards, throughout the organisation.

The call follows the launch of a new report from Loughborough University Improving occupational health risk management in SMEs: the role of major projects which looked into how major projects such as the construction of the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) can support their supply chain to develop good practices in occupational health.

In light of the report’s findings, B&CE is also calling for improved training materials and increased education regarding OH obligations. (Read More)

Activated Carbon Towers Now Available From Hi-Line

Hi-line Industries, a leading UK supplier to the compressed air sector, has unveiled a range of Activated Carbon Towers to suit a number of diverse applications, including those involving breathing air equipment or food production, for example.

The new carbon towers are manufactured from the same high-quality vessels used for Hi-line’s dryers, and filled with either zeolite minerals or carbon to suit the suit the specific application. (Read More)

Clean up your compressed air

Potential risks from contamination of compressed air are taken extremely seriously by the food and drink sector. Mark Whitmore from BOGE sums up the contaminant hazards, their sources and how to tackle them.

Compressed air has multiple uses in manufacturing and processing food and beverages, serving applications such as handling, cooling, freezing, labelling, cutting, peeling, bottle filling and packaging. (Read More)

Vertical air receivers now in stock at Hi-line industries

As a company that listens carefully to changes in market demands and industry trends, Hi-line Industries now holds a range of class-leading Vertical Air Receivers in stock. The top-quality vessels are available immediately at highly competitive prices.

Currently, four sizes of Vertical Air Receivers are being stocked at Hi-line: 300, 500, 1000 and 2000 litre variants. The vessels are manufactured at Hi-line’s new factory, centrally located in Burton-upon-Trent where the company (Read More) 

ATEX ultrasonic thickness gauge certified intrinsically safe to the highest rating

This is the world’s only reliable and simple-to-use ultrasonic thickness gauge that has been certified intrinsically safe to the highest possible ATEX rating; this make it the number 1 choice for all engineers working within potentially explosive environments such as food processing plants.

Certified intrinsically safe to ATEX Marking Group I & Group II / CSA Class 1 Group A, B, C & D Division 1 (Read More)

BSRIA Instrument Solutions gets personal for worker safety in hazardous environments

Now available to buy or hire from BSRIA Instrument Solutions is the TSI SidePak AM520i personal aerosol monitor, a small, lightweight, single-channel, portable, battery operated, datalogging, light-scattering laser photometer that provides real-time aerosol mass concentration readings of dusts, fumes, mists, smoke and fog within a workers’ breathing zone.

The innovatively designed inlet conditioners increase the (Read More)

Corrosion Resistant Test Chamber Extraction

Test chambers are designed to examine various types of materials in many different ways for a wide scope of applications. Chambers may be required to measure corrosion or to test components to destruction. Their primary function is to speed up the processes to simulate time in an environment.

Finding the long term resistance to corrosion for various types of materials requires the speeding up of corrosion up (Read More) 

Air Design launches standard range of Air Handling Units

With increased demand for improved energy efficiency and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), Air Design, the leading brand of air handling units from Elta Group, has answered these requirements with the launch of PURA - a new range of standard energy recovery Air Handling Units.

Using heat and/or coolth* recovery technologies, the standard range of extruded aluminium pentapost frame Air Handling and Energy Recovery Units are able to minimise utility bills for improved energy savings and increased performance. The PURA units are suitable for both internal and external applications and in a range of sectors, from industrial and commercial buildings to healthcare and educational facilities.

The units come equipped with a plate heat exchanger or rotor and an electric heater or low pressure hot water (LPHW) coil for heat provision. For cooling, a chilled water of refrigerant coil (Read More) 

HSE Safety Alert For Mild Steel Welding Fume

The UK HSE have recently released an alert warning that exposure to mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer; and potentially also kidney cancer.. This is based on recent research by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Mild steel welding fume has now been reclassified as a human carcinogen.

What does this mean for employers? (Read More)

Brady’s Spill control guide book offers ideas on how to prepare for potential spills and what to do in case of a spill.

Uncontrolled spills can have a devastating effect on the environment, on people and businesses in the vicinity of the spill, and on a company’s future. Well prepared companies can stop spills before they cause workplace accidents, affect the health of employees and people living nearby, damage the environment and contaminate water. Investing in spill control tools can prevent major costs in fines, damages and pollution cleanup.