Throughout history, technological advances have underpinned improvements in product performance and the humble Emergency Safety Shower is no exception to this rule, placing Hughes Safety Showers / Hughes North America at the vanguard of this vital safety equipment technology. Capitalising on license-free 2.4 GHz wireless technology, the Hughes Sentinel Electronic Control Unit, facilitates the cost effective integration of remotely located Hughes Emergency Safety Showers or Eye Washes, into a centrally managed plant asset, ensuring additional safeguards to effect an immediate response when lone casualties operate emergency facilities.
By automatically providing continuous status information to the plant control room, the Hughes Sentinel ensures that the Emergency Safety Shower or Eye Wash remains in a fit condition to do its job and crucially, informs emergency staff when it is in use so they may give the necessary assistance. It also helps to support a Plant Manager’s legal responsibility for health and safety, by logging that the necessary servicing and shower flushing activities required under the American National ANSI Z358.1 2014 standard have been performed. Automated flushing of the shower supply water is also possible under the control of the Hughes Sentinel, or can be done on demand from the control room to ensure that optimum water temperatures are available when needed.