Safety clothing is becoming a critical aspect of workplace health and safety regulations. In high-risk applications, particularly those involving moving vehicles or machinery, the use of specialty garments that provide high visibility is ...
Tags: AWTA, High Visibility Safety Garments, Safety Clothing
Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
The new is specially designed to help workplace duty holders to comply with the latest guidance on safeguarding against the risks posed by appliances and other equipment. The latest IET Code of Practice stresses the importance of taking a ...
Tags: Seaward, Test Equipment
Chemical Risk Management Profile from Toy Industry Forum launches. A new set of documents allows toy retailers to check the safety of their stock. The Chemical Risk Management Profile allows retailers to "assess the readiness" of their ...
A new American national robot safety standard has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Developed by Robotic Industries Assn. (RIA), the ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 standard has been updated for the first time since ...
Tags: Robot, Electrical, Electronics
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have conducted a study to better understand the risks associated with certain foods prepared in retail delicatessens. ...
Tags: Food Safety, Food
Couch Braunsdorf, an Assurex Global Partner, has announced two promotions in an effort to support the company's expansion across the country. Christopher Baker has been promoted to the position of manager for Personal Lines Department of ...
Tags: Couch Braunsdorf, Expansion
The two-day international conference on low-carbon solutions for the textile industry in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies held in Taipei, Taiwan, saw several consensus being reached by the APEC members for green solutions ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
The increasing usage of nanosilver in textiles can harm the environment since nanosilver has a higher antimicrobial efficacy as compared to bulk silver, says a recent study. Nanotechnology is considered a major means of assisting ...
Pilz said that it offers harmonised and complete safety automation solutions for primary, secondary, end-of-line packaging machinery and other related processing machines, regardless of machine or installation size.? Pilz machine safety ...
Why it is that we are only now starting to appreciate the value of big data and where all this data comes from, asks Matthew Caffrey, general manager at Chesterfield-based embedded systems supplier, DSP Design. With the advent of the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Plans for a 10-hectare solar panel farm at a former airbase in Northamptonshire have been given the go-ahead. The 25,000 solar panels at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park could provide power for more than 2,100 households a year. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, bio-oil electricity generators
The levels of acrylamide and furan in UK foods do not increase concern about the risk to human health, according to a new study conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). For the study, nearly samples from 300 products were collected ...
Tags: Acrylamide, Furan
Members of the Salvadoran synthetic textile and apparel cluster are preparing to participate in the annual American Apparel Producers' Network (AAPN) forum in which the theme will be "Apparel Made in the Americas". This forum seeks to ...
With embedded control systems, the risk of software defects becomes evermore critical and qualification of test and development tools is a useful approach for designers, writes Jeremy Twaits Oil and water - fire and ice - complexity and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Software