Health & Safety
Svantek appointed as distributor of Gilan personal air sampling pumps
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vantek has added Gilian personal air sampling pumps from US-based Sensidyne to its portfolio of occupational health and environmental noise and vibration monitoring instrumentation. Reinforcing the company’s commitment to further growth in the UK, this expanded product range will include the high performance GilAir Plus, specially designed for simultaneous high and low flow personal measurement of particulates, vapours, gases and metal fumes. The compact and lightweight GilAir Plus offers an unrivalled air sampling range from 1ml/min up to 5000ml/min without the need for any external adapters.
With patent pending QuadModeSM air sampling technology, the GilAir Plus can perform both high-flow constant pressure and flow (450-5000 cc/min) and low-flow constant pressure and flow (20-499 cc/min) with a single pump. Other key features include selectable automatic fault recovery, standard temperature and pressure correction and a real-time clock with data-logging. Svantek’s GilAir Plus has numerous
ease of use benefits including intuitive menu, keypad interface and large back- kit display for quick and simple pump setting adjustment. Once the instrument is set up, the keypad can be locked to prevent tampering. A convenient and innovative SmartCalSM features provides automatic pump calibration. When sampling at altitudes of up to 8,000ft above or below sea level, GilAir Plus has the capability of automatically correcting the flow rate for altitude changes to maintain constant flow accuracy of +/- 5% over this barometric pressure range. This permits GilAir Plus calibration at ground level and sampling at high elevations or deep mines without loss of flow accuracy or the need to calculate and use manual correction factors. GilAir Plus is the only personal air sampling pump with this capability. A third smaller than traditional personal air sampling pumps and weighing less than 580g, the GilAir Plus provides superior operator comfort. An integrated belt clip securely attaches the pump in a horizontal position, allowing workers a full range of motion to perform a wide variety of task
without interference or discomfort. The GilAir Plus dock provides charging and communication functions for the STP and datalogging models. Once docked, the PC application allows users to review datalogs, generate sampling reports, manage sampling programmes, and create pump set-up profiles that expedite deployment of large pump fleets. The SmartCalSM feature uses the dock as a communication link between appropriate calibration devices and the GilAir Plus. SmartCalSM automates calibration and records pre and post sample calibrations in the pump’s datalog. Gilian CONNECT is an industry-leading PC application for managing air sampling data and Gilian Plus Series pumps. Tel: 01296 682040
www.svantek.co.uk
Personal Safety Charity urges: ‘Sign up for Lone Worker Conference’
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ational personal safety charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust is urging companies to sign up for its free one day conference where they can learn how to put lone workers’ safety on the agenda without upsetting their business. The charity is hosting the full-day conference in partnership with British Gas on Wednesday 3 June 2015 in Leicester. The conference will provide companies with expert, practical advice on how to maintain the safety of their lone and frontline workers without compromising on the efficiency or effectiveness of their business. A lone worker is anyone who works on their own, without direct supervision or support at any time, such as staff and volunteers working alone on site or separately in premises, shops, or kiosks. It also includes people working outside normal office hours e.g. cleaners and security staff, or flexi-time office workers who may find themselves alone at work. Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s Commercial
Building & Facilities Management – May 2015
Manager, Lara Wilks-Sloan said: “It is estimated there are nearly 4 million lone workers operating in the UK at any one time (Office of National Statistics). “So it’s not a question of should we be being doing more for lone workers, instead the question should be what is the best we can possibly do and how can we share best practice that already exists – and that is where this conference comes in.” The day will include a range of speakers as well as practical sessions with experts on a wide range of issues such as how to create lone work policies that work; lone worker tracking and tracing systems and data protection and how to comply and protect lone workers. The conference is aimed at larger business with 300 or more lone workers and is likely to be relevant for operations and fleet managers and people who work as heads of security or health and safety. Companies that have already signed up include Danone, Royal Mail,
Transport for London and Travelodge. Lara
added,
“Employees want to be safe in the course of
their work and employers
have a moral and legal duty of care to do as much as possible to keep their staff safe. “Employees who are well trained in how to spot potential risks and how to manage threatening situations, are better equipped to make safer choices in the face of aggression and violence at work. Similarly, organisations benefit from a safer and more productive workforce, and avoid damaging litigation claims.” Places are limited so businesses interested in attending are urged to email
roishe.milne@
suzylamplugh.org or call 0207 091 0014 to reserve a place.
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