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Items Tagged with 'portable gas detector'

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portable gas detectors

Detectors now smarter and lighter

Rick Pedley
July 14, 2022

Safety managers should know how important it is to keep workers mobile in the field without leaving them vulnerable to hazardous gases. The technology behind portable gas detectors is getting smarter while the devices themselves are getting lighter.


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Portable gas monitors benefit from wireless technology

Portable gas monitors benefit from wireless technology

Always on
Rick Pedley
May 6, 2020
Today’s consumers are no strangers to wireless technology. We can send and share updates with the touch of a finger. Automatic alerts and notifications remind us to pay our bills, lower the thermostat, and even take our medication. So why not apply the same technology to the portable gas monitor industry?
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gas monitor testing instruments

You need to know your gas monitor testing instruments are reliable

Bump test basics
Rick Pedley
March 2, 2020

Modern day portable gas detectors are quite reliable and accurate. For enhanced worker safety and to be fully compliant there is a little known concept called bump testing. Bump tests are crucial when it comes to protecting your workers from hazardous gases and other air-borne toxins.


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Wearing portable gas detectors Place detectors in the breathing zone

Wearing portable gas detectors: Place detectors in the breathing zone

Rick Pedley
November 2, 2019

Breathing hazards such as hazardous gasses can be a danger to all types of workers, including those in the oil and gas, water treatment plants, metals refining and processing, and chemical plants. To keep safe working in these environments, workers need to carry a range of personal protective equipment.


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How to combat alarm fatigue

How to combat alarm fatigue

Do your monitors “cry wolf”?
Kyle Krueger
September 30, 2019

One thing all portable gas detectors have in common is alarm tones. One alarm tone is used to indicate gas hazards, albeit with varied frequency or volume for Low/High/TWA/STEL warnings. An alarm for carbon monoxide sounds the same as an alarm for Lower Explosive Limit, oxygen, and hydrogen sulfide.


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Industrial Scientific sells Oldham Fixed Systems to Industrial Safety Technologies, LLC

September 5, 2013
Industrial Scientific Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement with Industrial Safety Technologies (IST) for the sale of its Oldham fixed-point gas detection business.


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