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In an age where smartphones are ubiquitous, their utility extends far beyond typical everyday use. When used in industrial areas such as oil and gas, chemical plants and pharmaceuticals, standard electronic devices could pose serious explosion risks due to the presence of volatile or flammable materials in the environment. Which means usage of any standard electronic devices, including your smartphones could potentially cause an explosion.

Hence intrinsically safe/explosion-proof smartphones has been viewed as a crucial innovation in ensuring communication and safety in explosive hazardous environments.

What is an Intrinsically Safe Smartphone?

Continue reading What you need to know before buying an Intrinsically Safe Smartphone

There isn’t an industry in operation today that shouldn’t be concerned about safety. Since employees are the most valuable resource for any business, be it your favorite little corner coffee shop or on board huge maritime vessels transporting highly volatile chemicals, precautionary measures are never to be taken lightly. Continue reading Buyer’s Guide For Industrial Safety Products Part 1 – The Basics

Industrial-type waste probably isn’t something you have lying around the house. Nowhere in the family refuse bin would you typically find shards of metal, pipes, and remnants of conveyor belts mixed in with last night’s dinner scraps and piles of unwanted credit card offers.

While those bright white sacks that line your garbage can are fine for general household refuse, they’re not built for the kind of waste that most industrial environments produce, Continue reading Why Regular Trash Bags Aren’t Suitable For Industrial Waste

Surprises come in two varieties. There are the good ones, like expected birthday parties and bonuses on our paychecks, or finding a crumpled up, forgotten about $20 bill in a pair of jeans pulled fresh from the dryer.

Expensive car repairs and impromptu doctor visits are more of the type that we’d probably like to avoid if at all possible. Add to that list the excruciating pain felt when grabbing a hot pot or pan that’s been sitting on a stove burner. Continue reading Red Light, Green Light: Using Traffic Light Temperature Labels to Prevent Burns

The glass windows that surround brick-and-mortar shops allow passersby to sneak a peek into the inventory of a business. Those same windows also allow the sun’s warming rays to create all-natural mood lighting which can help create a sense of joy, all while brightening the spirits of employees and customers alike.

But those same windows can be areas of opportunity for thieves, Continue reading Protecting Your Glass With Anti-Shatter Film

Tape generally has one purpose to fulfill, and that’s to stick things together. Whether it’s a stack of Christmas gifts or on steam-filled pipes located onboard an ocean liner, if it doesn’t adhere to the surface it’s applied on, then that particular roll of tape hasn’t lived up to its promise. Continue reading What’s Wrong With My Tape?

Practically all companies around the world are powered by an infrastructure built around delicate electronic components, highly sophisticated technological information systems, and computer software that allows system management and monitoring at the touch of a button.

But there’s something else that’s just as important, Continue reading How Pipe Tapes Can Protect Your Business

To those not directly involved with the industrial sector, the thought of tapes as a means of safety may not even come as an afterthought. But to the men and women that earn their living employed in the warehouses, marine vessels, and other such settings around the world, tape can make all the difference. Continue reading 10 types of tapes that enhances your safety.. and their Uses

The act of metal detecting is curious and quaint. For some, it’s a fun way to spend an afternoon in the backyard unearthing treasures buried from eras gone by. But metal detectors can also prevent a night of music and festivities for concertgoers from coming to a screeching halt with catastrophic consequences. Continue reading Using Metal Detectors for Fun & Safety