What Types of Construction Safety Equipment Should You Prepare?

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Preparing appropriate types and enough quantity of construction safety equipment is one of the important steps you have to do to ensure safety during construction work inside your work area or chemical plant.

You may rely on your daily safety equipment to fulfill the requirement of construction safety equipment. But, it is not enough. Take a moment to think about it.

Construction work is much different from your daily plant operation. You will need different types of safety equipment.

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A Better SDS Filing With SDS Binders

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You may handle hundreds of Safety Data Sheet (SDS) inside your chemical plant. This is as the consequence of using hundreds of hazardous chemicals for the production process. All the SDS should be managed properly; otherwise you and your workers could be in danger when handling these hazardous chemicals.

Proper management of SDS means making those SDS available at every point of use. They are usually used in areas of incoming inspection, production, warehouse, laboratory, etc. And the existence of SDS binders could greatly help to create proper management of SDS.

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H2S Monitor – The Key Factor to Controlling H2S Hazards in the Workplace

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What has happened at Tianyuan Manganese Corp in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui at the end of the year 2010 has reminded me of the H2S hazard and the importance of the H2S monitor.

In that accident at work, according to the initial accident investigation, three people died which was caused by H2S gas poisoning. H2S was released when employees were mixing manganese carbonate and sulphuric acid at the plant site.

H2S or hydrogen sulfide has a specific odor like a rotten egg at the concentration of below 1 ppm in air. However, its odor can not be used as the H2S detection method. A reliable and continuous H2S monitor or H2S detection device is exactly required to avoid H2S poisoning.

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Hazards of Sodium Hydroxide – The Important Facts You Must Know

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Sodium hydroxide is one of the most important chemicals in the world. It is widely used in various industries; pulp and paper, textile, food, pharmaceuticals, personal care, water treatment, etc.

According to GlobeNewsWire.com, the market size of this chemical reaches USD 36.17 billion in 2018. And it is predicted that in the year 2027, the market size will become USD 59.24 billion.

However, besides its important role, sodium hydroxide is a hazardous chemical that we need to handle with care. Otherwise, its chemical hazards will harm our safety and health.

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11 Warehouse Safety Tips 2021 – How to Stay Safe in the Pandemic

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In this post, you will find practicable warehouse safety tips on how to stay safe and healthy while operating a warehouse during the Covid-19 outbreak.

This topic is very important because once one of the warehouse workers being infected by Covid-19, most of the warehouse activities will be disturbed.

Workers’ productivity will drop significantly. Maybe warehouse operation continuity becomes unclear.

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The Secret of Successful PPE Management in The Workplace

Successful Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) management will affect directly the overall performance of safety in the company. Simply because PPE protects workers from various kinds of hazards.

Even though PPE is not the first level of hazard control method, however according to hse.gov, every year there are 9,000 PPE-related accidents caused by improper PPE usage or not wearing PPE.

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H2S Exposure Chart – A Quick Way To Know H2S Toxicity

H2S EXPOSURE CHART

H2S exposure chart is a very important tool to know the toxicity level of H2S or hyrogen sulfide.

As a very toxic gas, H2S is very deadly since it can kill person in a few seconds if the person is exposed to a high level of H2S gas.

This gas has a specific smell like a rotten egg. Unfortunately, you cannot see the gas, since it is a colorless gas.

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Lab Safety Rules – 47 Basic Safety Rules to Follow to Stay Safe

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Following lab safety rules is the key to laboratory safety. On the contrary, ignoring these rules will lead to workplace incidents.

The ability to follow these rules starts with knowing and understanding them well.

So, in this post, I am going to show you basic lab safety rules that every laboratory analyst must know and understand to stay safe.

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10 Must-Have Lab Safety Equipment For A Safe Laboratory

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To operate a safe laboratory, you shall provide essential lab safety equipment before doing any activities in there.

If you fail to provide such equipment, you are running the laboratory with a high risk, which may endanger you and other laboratory members.

So, you have no choice. You must provide these must-have lab safety equipment.

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