The tripartite partners (Government, employers and workers) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) express their great sadness at the immense loss of life and serious injuries caused by the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Teleflex's ISO-Gard Mask with ClearAir technology. The ISO-Gard Mask is designed to reduce waste anesthetic gas (WAG), exhaled by the patients who are recovering in ...
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Now a day's people tend to construct higher buildings to cope with the modern environment these has greatly increased the threat of falling for workers working on these high buildings. As a result the U.S occupational safety and health ...
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Industrial dust collectors are designed to handle high-volume dust loads in manufacturing plants or processing facilities. The presence of dust and other particles in air can prove detrimental in more ways than one, reiterating the ...
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Tactus Technologies, a spinoff company from the University at Buffalo, has developed a first-of-its-kind virtual reality training program for forklift operators, a product that company officials expect will reduce work-related injuries and ...
New production plant for special TROSIFOL automotive glazing films to be ready for operation at the end of 2013 At its Troisdorf location, Kuraray Europe GmbH is investing some EUR 20 million in a new production line for TROSIFOL films ...
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A new safety standard has been published for the use of lanyard and harness restraint systems on forklifts. On February 23, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard ANSI/ITSDF B56.1, clause 4.17 was revised. It now requires all ...
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Pro Mach division Axon will introduce a Category 3 safety-interlock system for the ThermoPoint steam heat tunnel for Latin American businesses. Developed in the US by the National Fire Protection Association and the Occupational Safety ...
As an indicator of the continued economic recovery of the material handling, supply chain and logistics industry, U.S. and international attendees registered in record numbers for ProMat 2013—the premier North American manufacturing ...
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In the U.S. construction industry, almost two workers per day on average died while on the job, according to the latest available statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor for 2011. The real number for that year was 721 fatalities, the ...
The European Union’s controversial REACH legislation on the safety of chemicals has been challenging chemical producers and their raw material suppliers since it came into effect five years ago. Initially the major concern was that ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg,Germany says that 19,500 of its Oslon SSL series LEDs have been installed in 975 lamps in the 63.1km2 Xishan Duerping coal mine in Shanxi Province(China's'home of coal').Replacing traditional ...
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Shenzhen General Technology use LED technology to reduce Energy, Maintenance and Accidents Osram’s versatile Oslon SSL series are applied in Xishan Duerping coal mine lighting in Shanxi Province, the so-called “home of ...
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In order to strengthen its manufacturing capability for textile chemicals, DyStar plans to transfer the production from its plant in Hangzhou to the multi-purpose manufacturing site in Nanjing. The state-of-the-art plant in Nanjing ...
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The right automated dispensing systems can drastically cut your overhead costs regardless of whether you belong to the medical, automotive, aerospace, or assembly line manufacturing sector. What do all of these industries have in common? ...
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