Specifying emergency showers and eyewashes is a challenging task. While many of us have done it for years, the challenge comes from increasingly stringent regulations and almost daily advancements in the state-of-the-art response products available. There is also the seemingly constant increase in the risks we face on the plant floor. It often seems every technological advancement or manufacturing process improvement brings a considerable amount of added risk.
Specification of emergency equipment comes down to addressing the things you have to respond to, such as mandated regulatory hurdles. But it should also address those things that you should do in nurturing the safest environment possible at the lowest cost, with the least amount of maintenance and downtime. That’s where the challenge comes in.