Plant safety - Articles - Page 9

Flooring

Striking the right balance underfoot

Durable, safe, affordable and aesthetically pleasing flooring choices keep processes up and running.

February 6, 2013

Flooring is fundamental to every processing plant, but depending on the application, food and beverage manufacturers have unique needs related to hygiene, durability and compression and tensile strength.

Particulate monitoring system

February 6, 2013

BinMaster’s Model BM-30 LGX particulate monitoring system provides continuous emissions monitoring, baghouse filter leak detection and process particulate flow monitoring.

Safety cable pull switches

February 6, 2013

Aplus Finetek Sensor’s belt conveyor safety cable pull switches provide a switching system to isolate the power to conveyor system and other equivalent process equipment in the emergency condition in the event of torsional belt movement due to uneven side loading.

Baghouse performance analyzers/controllers

February 6, 2013

FilterSense’s B-PAC baghouse analyzers and controllers provide a combination of features to help powder processing, air pollution control and dust collection users meet regulatory compliance.

Parmalat fined under Canada’s Occupational Health and Safety Act

The company failed to take reasonable precautions before facility maintenance

Shane O'Halloran

January 25, 2013

Parmalat Canada Inc. was fined $100,000 under Canada’s Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker received first and second degree burns while checking a pipe system.

Tyson Foods

CDC: Tyson Foods chlorine gas incident due to employee language barrier

Spanish-language employee couldn’t read warnings on chemical barrels.

Shane O'Halloran

December 11, 2012

Tyson Foods disputes the findings, saying the employee was misidentified.

Tequila producer finds safe, efficient way to add dry ingredients

Wayne Labs

October 4, 2012

Twin flexible screw conveyors do the heavy lifting of ingredients to the top of mixing tanks.

The proof is in the paperwork

Richard F. Stier

October 4, 2012

Processors must understand not only what materials are being moved through their plumbing systems, but how these lines are designed and laid out.

Tech Update: Preventing dust explosions

Wayne Labs

September 10, 2012

While understanding the physics of dust explosions can require college math, using the old eyeballs and some simple cleaning tools can go a long way in preventing a catastrophe.

New technologies boost plant safety

September 10, 2012

Plant explosions often grab the news headlines, but dust explosions in grain handling facilities and other plant mishaps don’t always make the national news.