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Safety Technology encompasses all the new technologies now being applied to workplace safety: mobile apps, wearables, machine sensors, cloud-based software, predictive analytics, 3D printing, robotics, real-time employee monitoring and tracking, PPE tracking with embedded sensors, etc.

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eCompliance

eCompliance Releases eLearning on Mobile Platform

The newly launched platform will provide 200+ courses for workers to receive training any time, anywhere
May 28, 2020

eCompliance, the software for strengthening safety culture, releases the newest edition of their eLearning on Mobile Platform with access to 200+ courses that can be taken any time, anywhere.


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XFLO combustible dust collector
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Featured Product: Combustible/Explosive Dust Collector

May 26, 2020
Gold Series X-Flo industrial dust collectors safely handle all the fine, fibrous, toxic and combustible dusts. When equipped with a Camfil explosion vent, they offer the highest combustible dust explosion protection in accordance with NFPA and ATEX standards.
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Training Strategies

Focus on safety standards when creating equipment

Elements of design
Luiz Shida
May 13, 2020
Machinery and OEM designers know that building safety into their equipment is a fundamental requirement. To ensure a consistent approach, the ISO 13849 standard provides guidance for machinery control systems that are applied to provide safety functions for machinery.
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Safety Tech

EHS software about more than compliance

Embrace new processes
May 13, 2020

Pamala Bobbitt, Vice President of Product Marketing at Cority, says, “One of my passions is helping people understand how technology can support, not re-create, their programs.” ISHN asked Bobbitt some questions on how companies are adapting to EHS technology.


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Digitization reduces risk, optimizes safety lifecycle

Digitization reduces risk, optimizes safety lifecycle

Automated approach
A.M. (Tony) Downes
May 6, 2020
In the process industries, poor safety performance has significant business implications. Plants need a comprehensive approach to the safety lifecycle addressing key requirements ranging from HAZOP studies, to operations and maintenance, and finally revalidation with the plant’s historian and maintenance data.
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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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Get your hands on the right safety gloves

Safety gloves, correctly sized and engineered with the correct materials, defend workers from virtually any type of hazard
Carrie Halle
April 1, 2020

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, injuries to hands accounted for nearly 25 percent of all lost-time industrial injuries - a total of 110,000 annually. Seventy percent of those injuries resulted when an employee was not wearing safety gloves, while the other 30 percent of hand injuries occurred while an employee was wearing the wrong kind of gloves.


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Safety Technology

ISEA work group begins the process

A standard for connected worker issues?
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Dave Johnson
April 1, 2020
ISEA – the International Safety Equipment Association – is moving forward with a connected worker task group of member companies -- all safety equipment manufacturers -- to decide what actions are needed to ensure and advance safety in the broad, rapidly expanding field of connected worker devices.
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