26 Safety
Improve Site Safety and Reduce Operational Costs with a New Portable Gas Detection Philosophy
Gem Bayless, BW Technologies by Honeywell 5 Canada Close, Banbury, UK OX16 2RT Tel: +44 (0) 1295-700300 • Email:
bwesales@gasmonitors.com
In a World with so much commercial competition, it is not surprising that products are becoming more user- friendly and more value added. Today’s manufacturers need to work hard to entice customers in the crowded market places that mass capitalism has brought about.
of up to four classes of gases (H2S, CO, O2 and combustibles), without the compromise of dual sensor technology; unlike many comparable units on the market.
The device’s one-button operation with intuitive interface ensures minimal training is required.
This also provides a solution that operators are comfortable using, helping to ensure that devices online and protecting workers each day.
GasAlertMicroClip XT also features the acclaimed IntelliFlash technology developed by BW
Technologies by Honeywell. IntelliFlash provides a visual indication of device compliance, delivering an instantly accessible indication to both supervisors and operators of a device’s compliance to site standards and ensures non-compliant devices are easily identifiable; this also helps to improve operator safety and maximise device compliance on site; important aspects for today’s fleet managers and safety supervisors.
Adding Dimensions to today’s Portable Gas Detectors
These trends are affecting industries like gas detection, and this is bringing about the emergence of not only extended variety and single source solution providers but highly innovative products. In fact, today’s portable gas detection purchaser has a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of options to choose from. The devices on offer don’t just protect users from flammable, toxic and Oxygen gas hazards, they add true value in other ways such as helping to reduce the ongoing cost of gas detection and providing a minimal training solution that is easy to use. For example, companies like BW Technologies by Honeywell improve the user experience and reduce training costs by offering simple “single button” operation on all their new portable devices.
Reducing the ongoing cost of ownership is also a key concern for today’s portable gas detection
manufacturer; particularly in the global climate of financial uncertainty, we now face. Customers need to make budgets stretch further and are more focused on purchasing devices that help to reduce operational costs. Portable gas detection devices can deliver this through a number of aspects; multi-gas simultaneous monitoring capabilities, auto calibration functionality, automatic data logging and plug and play pre-calibrated sensors all help to reduce the ongoing cost of gas detection by up to 40% over a three year operating life.
Cost reductions can also help to catalyse increased site safety. For example, a reduced cost of ownership for a portable fleet can enable more operators to have a gas detector of their own for the same overall budget of the site, meaning that more lives can be protected. This also helps to drive the trend towards multiple gas detection over single gas detection, providing workers with better protection against multiple risks than ever before.
Why Compromise?
The good news for today’s customer is that choosing a cost-effective solution doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to compromise on device functionality. A device like GasAlertMicroClip XT, the latest 4-gas portable from BW Technologies by Honeywell, offers impressive protection against toxic, flammable and Oxygen gas hazards, simplified use that helps to reduce training costs and innovative functionality to help enhance on-site safety; all at an attractive price point.
In fact, devices like GasAlertMicroClip XT prove the point that you don’t have to spend a lot to get a smart solution. GasAlertMicroClip XT is the smallest, most lightweight and simplest 4-gas portable gas detector in its class, providing users with a comfortable, unobtrusive and easy to use solution to simultaneous multiple gas detection.
Despite its small and sleek design and low cost, GasAlertMicroClip XT offers superior detection
When it comes to effective portable fleet management and ensuring workers on site are compliant to site standards, devices like MicroDock II - BW Technologies by Honeywell’s automatic test and data logging station – can hep to add additional dimensions to devices like GasAlertMicroClip XT.
By automating necessary activities such as bump testing and data logging, businesses can reduce the time spent maintaining devices. A portable gas detector like GasAlertMicroClip XT can be clicked into MicroDock II’s docking station
tin a second, and the user has the option of carrying out three tasks; performing a bump test; carrying out a data transfer; or performing a calibration. Each of these activities can be carried out with a single button press and are completed in just a few moments. Test gas levels are controlled and minimal training is required to use the device, reducing the time spent testing and ensuring the portable unit is ready to detect gas effectively.
Aside from creating a simple, minimal training solution, MicroDock II can also help to reduce operational costs in a number of ways; for example, a portable unit may be being tested as much as once a day. A manual bump test could take 5 minutes to complete compared with just two minutes using MicroDock II, equating to a time saving of 12 hrs over a year. At a site where 100 workers bump test their devices once per day, this 60% time saving expands up to 1,200-hours saved in total, per year. This example highlights the fact that small daily time efficiencies can equate to considerable savings over time.
MicroDock II’s data logging capabilities also mean that data relating to portable testing can be stored and analysed; the device will keep records of the instruments that were tested, highlighting non compliant users and allowing the fleet manager greater visibility of device status.
Portable Fleets Made Easy
When combined with its accompanying Fleet Manager II software, MicroDock II adds additional dimensions of value. For example, a store manager can cut the time spent issuing a new portable device to an operator from about half an hour to just five minutes – with no paper trail or
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