GAS DETECTION & MONITORING
reporting, and the ability to receive reports delivered into your inbox each week with any required logs.
An added benefit of this type of technology is that it encourages the individual ‘owner’ and user of each device to take greater responsibility for not only looking after their device but for following the correct processes and procedures in relation to its use – for example, bump-testing their device at the appropriate frequency, or correctly reporting any instances where an alarm may have been activated.
Returning to the issue of compliance, a significant concern in the field of gas safety, advanced asset monitoring systems offer huge advantages in relation to streamlining and simplifying the firmware updates on devices, alongside other updates such as changes to workplace exposure limits (EH40 limits) or alarm settings. When the device is next docked, all appropriate updates and settings will be automatically configured so that the very next time the device is used it is fully up to date and fully compliant, with the history of all such updates also fully recorded for tracking and compliance purposes.
A good example of the practical benefit this type of technology brings ‘on the ground’ was recently highlighted by one of our customers in the oil and gas sector operating in the UK. A multinational company, its UK team were notified of an immediate requirement for the alarm thresholds relating to its work in environments, where hydrogen sulphide was a potential hazard, had to be altered. Without a suitable asset monitoring system in place, this would have previously required every one of the operation’s 2,000 individual mobile gas detectors
to be brought in for updates to be applied manually by connecting them separately to a computer. Instead, the update was rapidly deployed to all devices as each device was bump-tested by the user as their shift began.
“THE CAPACITY FOR CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS DUE TO WHAT MAY SEEM TO BE A MINOR EQUIPMENT ERROR ARE SIGNIFICANT.”
Another advantage of employing such systems is the ability to undertake predictive maintenance. Because each time the device is docked a full report on its operational status is recorded, at any given time the vitality of individual components such as sensors can be reviewed, with alerts set if parts are reaching end of life.
Asset management has the potential to radically improve and simplify both safety and compliance when it comes to gas detection and monitoring, reducing workloads for field engineers as well as those with management oversight, giving greater peace of mind for those with final responsibility for compliance, and ultimately – most importantly – creating a safer environment for the people working in settings where gas leaks present a safety risk.
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