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continuously checks itself for sensor connections, low battery, circuit trouble, low flow, and calibration errors. The GX-2012 can interchangeably operate on either a Li-ion battery pack or an alkaline battery pack. The batteries are simple to replace requiring no tools to access the removable battery compartment or pack.
CB type sensors are intended for use below the LEL and are typically scaled from 0-100 % LEL. The full- scale indication therefore is the minimum concentration that could sustain combustion.
Their compact yet very rugged design makes Riken Keiki confined spare monitors ideal for Confined Space Applications where ease of use and reliability is of high importance.
So where does this leave us in terms of confined space access. Looking back over what has so far been said, just because the regulations say that other options should be ‘considered’ it does not mean that industry is yet in the position where all of its participants appreciate that this is part of the regulation and not just a ‘suggestion’. Perhaps there is a need to ‘beef up’ the regulations to ensure that confined space entry becomes the ‘last resort’ option after all others have been properly
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investigated.
There will always be a need for highly trained and effective teams of workers with the skills to make entry into confined spaces. So, the regulations must be kept up to date and made effective as suggested previously. It can only be assured that alternate options are investigated, particularly by those who have limited knowledge of alternatives, if they are made to make these investigations under law.
The training facilities must also be kept in place to ensure the highest level of safety and expertise when confined space entry is used as the last resort, as this will always be a dangerous occupation in some way or other.
However, there should be in place, and this article has tried to ask the question is it in place, the mind-set that this has to be the final ‘the buck stops here’ option. No matter how much effort, regulation and training is put into place to protect the safety of such a workforce the likelihood of danger is ever-present and there will be accidents, injuries and potentially deaths using confined space entry as an operational option. Fiscal measure cannot be placed ahead of the safety of the workforce involved in any one project and often in the modern world the cost of the alternative can much less than the client might expect now that there is an established family of other methodologies. These could well also be more cost-effective in the longer term as the life expectancy of the modern technologies is often claim to be that much longer than older traditional methods. But, if these alternative methods are not known about, fully understood and applied to the right circumstances the industry will not move forward into the 21st century effectively and at the best cost and more important than any other consideration - safely.
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