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Process safety: enclosures firm goes double Dutch

Added: 5 Apr 2016

One enclosures manufacturer creates solutions for two very different companies.

Process safety: smart enclosures

Rob Smith | Added: 4 Apr 2016

Materials specification and innovative design are modernising the enclosures market, writes Robert …

WEG enclosure

WEG launches ‘endurance’ enclosure

Added: 1 Apr 2016

Motor and drive technology manufacturer WEG has launched IP55-rated enclosures for its CFW701 varia…

The small matter of nanomaterials safety

Rob Smith | Added: 21 Mar 2016

Nanomaterials have the potential to ignite, explode and cause serious damage to human health. There…

Hazards 26

Process safety event heads to Edinburgh

IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) | Added: 2 Mar 2016

The Institution of Chemical Engineers’ (IChemE) process safety conference, Hazards 26, takes place …

GSK

Bang tidy: process safety

Added: 1 Feb 2016

Safe demolition job reaps reward for drugs manufacturer, GSK.

Food Greencore

Food firms facing greater safety fines

Added: 1 Feb 2016

Guidelines that came into effect today could result in manufacturers receiving far greater fines fo…

Process safety engineer

Process safety: cleaning house

Rob Smith | Added: 19 Jan 2016

Failure to recognise hazards in process plants could prove fatal, writes Robert Smith.

Bespoke panel 'enhances valve safety'

Bespoke panel ‘enhances valve safety’

Added: 17 Dec 2015

Smith Flow Control has developed a custom-built operating panel that moves the control and operatio…

Process Safety November 2015

Process Safety November 2015

Added: 17 Nov 2015

This edition of Process Safety looks at personal protection equipment and how to safeguard against …

man in a hard hat apprentice

Cogent extends safety strategy

Added: 10 Nov 2015

Industry body Cogent Skills has updated its process safety management competence programme.

Cogent safety courses

Safety course targets hazardous chemicals

Added: 14 Oct 2015

Cogent is running a training course for managers and supervisors in the process industries.

Safety first

Safety first: regulatory challenge

Added: 14 Oct 2015

A tangle of new regulations is causing headaches for those in charge of process safety, writes Loui…

Nuclear plants facing cyber threat

Added: 5 Oct 2015

Vulnerabilities within nuclear plants are putting the industry at risk of cyber attacks, a report p…

Pilz seminar

Food & bev machinery safety seminar

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Automation technology supplier Pilz is hosting a free machinery safety seminar on the 5th of Novemb…

People Power

People Power: oil & gas skills drive

Added: 11 Sep 2015

Low prices are hurting the oil & gas industry, and in particular the North Sea. John McKenna looks …

Elfab

Elfab to showcase at SPE 2015

Added: 19 Aug 2015

Leading manufacturer showcases its superior rupture disc technology at SPE Offshore Europe 2015.

Ed Davey tweet

Fracking to be ‘fast-tracked’

Added: 13 Aug 2015

Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd and communities secretary Greg Clark have today anno…

Condition monitoring

Hidden assets

Added: 11 Aug 2015

When it comes to protecting assets, monitoring those hard-to-reach places need not be a hit and mis…

Process safety July 2015

Process Safety July 2015

Added: 21 Jul 2015

This issue of Process Safety looks at whether a new generation of detection devices can help reduce…