Products

Signs of the times

Workplace equipment provider
Slingsby believes many businesses
are risking prosecution
by not having sufficient
safety signs in place
despite them being one
of the cheapest and
easiest ways of
preventing workplace acc

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Versatile PAT tester

The latest addition to Seaward’s
range of portable appliance testers
incorporates a range of electrical
safety tests to ensure that workplace
electrical equipment does not pose a
danger to users.

The new hand held Pri

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Good vibrations

Tests carried out by the HSE have
demonstrated that vibration
exposure for operators using
pneumatic torque multipliers to
tighten wheel nuts was 10 times
lower than when traditional impact
wrenches are used. The Norbar

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Emergency stop

A modular Emergency Stop (E-stop)
is the latest addition to Fortress
Interlock’s eGard range of access and
control products. The E-stop module
can simply be combined with any
controls, switches and/or interlocks of
the

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Have FAITH, it meets SIL3

An FMEDA Report by Exida has
shown the Netherlocks Partial Stroke
System to meet SIL 3. The report
showed the FAITH (Fail Action Integrity
Test Handling) system to be very
reliable, with 0 Fail Safe Detected, Fail
Safe

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Standards warning

Many machine manufacturers may be
inadvertently relying on out-of-date
standards to demonstrate compliance
with the Machinery Directive warns
safety and compliance consultant,
Laidler Associates.

Only standards harmon

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Photoelectric sensor

New from SICK (UK), the
WLL180T photoelectric sensor with
fibre-optic cable boasts a response
time of just 16µs and has been
developed to enable rapid, reliable
object detection of fast production
processes, even in har

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Limit switches

Rockwell Automation has added to
the Allen-Bradley 440P limit switch
family with rugged metal-bodied
models in a compact
22mm housing.

The 22mm compact
metal 440P limit
switches offer
economical
international-style

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Oseco rupture discs available from Elfab

Elfab has confirmed that it will
continue to supply replacement
Oseco rupture discs to Oseco
customers in Europe and the rest of
the world (ROW).

Halma, parent company of Elfab
and Oseco, implemented a group
rupture

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Online resource

A new on line technical resource,
which provides an easy, structured
way for specifiers to access the
technical information they need
when designing machine safety
systems and storage areas has been
introduced by Troax.

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