Health & Safety Matters

Atex approved mass flow

Alicat Scientific offers its mass flow
meters, mass flow controllers, and
pressure equipment with an ATEX
approved -X option. With this
ATEX rating, Alicat’s precision
devices are even easier to integrate
into a wide ra

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Multi channel

New from Norbar Torque Tools is a
Multi Channel Lubro for regulating
air pressure when using pneumatic
torque multipliers and other
pneumatic tools. The device allows
the operator to undertake multiple
applications with

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Brazilian deal

ESAB has sold its first bevel cutting
system in Brazil. A VBA Expert Pro
system has been integrated into a
Suprarex plasma cutting machine
for a customer in the general
fabrication market.

The fabricator will be able

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Safe speed & standby relay

The new MOC3SA Speed
Monitor from SICK (UK)
offers improved speed
limiting functionality on
machine tool and general
rotating machinery while
enhancing the ease of set-up
and maintenance.

Competitively priced, it
e

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Ultra-narrow design

With the introduction of the SF4C-F
series, Panasonic has added 14 new
types with an ultra narrow design for
finger protection to its range of area
and safety sensors.

Mounted at the required distance
to the danger zo

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Making sense of machinery safety

On the first of January 2012 the machinery industry bid
farewell to the standard EN 954-1 and welcomed ENISO
13849. Helping machine users navigate these changes is
a collaboration between a group of machinery safety
exper

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Safety instrumented systems

Safety systems specialist Hima-Sella
has received an order for the end-oflife
replacement of Safety
Instrumented Systems (SIS) within
two processing units at Petroplus’
Coryton Refinery in Stanford-le-
Hope in Essex, En

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HAVS prevention

According to vibration safety expert
Reactec, many businesses
throughout the UK are still choosing
to simply tick boxes when it comes
to meeting safety responsibilities,
rather than making a firm
commitment to protect t

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Test team gets PAT boost

Investment in new electrical test
technology has helped building
support services company, Arthur
McKay to improve the working
efficiencies of its PAT field services
team. The company’s portable
appliance testing (PAT)

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Encouraging automation uptake

Laidler Associates, part of TÃœV
SÃœD Product Service, is lending its
support to the new Automating
Manufacturing Programme,
managed by the British Automation
and Robot Association (BARA), a
PPMA Group Association.

The

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