Gas Detection & Monitoring


By offering rental options alongside sales, even smaller firms or those under financial pressure can benefit from cutting-edge safety solutions that combine robust engineering with advanced sensor technology.


Rather than simply feeling safe, workers are able to accurately detect gases like oxygen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulphide, and volatile organic compounds in challenging environments.


FLEXIBLE SAFETY SOLUTIONS


In a world where 77% of employers expect financial pressures to affect safety budgets, such flexible models enable resilience at any level. Renting portable gas detection equipment ensures that safety remains proactive, not reactive.


It allows companies to adapt quickly to new regulations, scale up for projects, or simply replace ageing equipment without the lag that can accompany capital procurement.


For those providing safety equipment, it has never been more important to engage with your client base; to understand their wants and needs, rather than to simply give them the service you think they need.


HOW SMART MONITORING IS REINVENTING WORKER SAFETY


It was this thinking and awareness that employers were struggling to balance safety obligations with shrinking budgets and workforce shortages that yielded Dräger’s INARA system.


Deployable as a monitoring solution that combines portable gas detection, cameras and communication tools, it oversees high-risk or ‘critical’ work in real time. It is the bridge between feeling safe and being safe.


Able to be set up quickly and rented for short-term use, INARA provided expert remote oversight without the need for full-time safety staff and by integrating data capture, live monitoring, and incident response protocols, it has the capacity to address many of the safety problems employers are currently grappling with.


Rather than replacing human judgment, such technology extends it, ensuring that even under financial pressure, organisations can maintain robust, responsive safety standards.


TRUE SAFETY DEMANDS MORE THAN COMPLIANCE


With 2025 now nearly behind us, conversations around workplace safety are evolving faster than many boardrooms can keep up. A range of factors – from supply chain pressures to government policy – have combined to create a perfect storm, one that, has left some sectors struggling to maintain safety budgets while still meeting ambitious sustainability and efficiency targets.


Industrial incidents, from near-misses in offshore energy to chemical plant shutdowns prompted by outdated monitoring equipment, underscore a sobering but ever- present truth. Even small lapses can have catastrophic consequences.


In an era of economic uncertainty, where artificial intelligence, automation and remote operations are reshaping risk profiles overnight, the temptation to defer investment in safety technology to see what is round the corner is real, but it is also dangerously short-sighted.


Forward-thinking organisations are beginning to recognise this, viewing safety innovation is a continuity strategy. Whether through rental models that democratise access to advanced tools like portable gas detection or digital systems that connect human insight with live data, the companies that thrive will be those that treat safety as infrastructure, not insurance.


Crucially, the next frontier will be one of transparency and trust. As younger workers demand authenticity and accountability from their employers, ‘greenwashing’ and ‘tick-box training’ will no longer cut the mustard. Employees expect proof that safety commitments extend beyond compliance statements; that technology, leadership and culture align to make safety both visible and credible


So, while 96% of British workers may feel safe today, the real challenge for employers is to ensure that confidence is earned, not assumed. Safety must once again become a shared value so that vigilance, innovation and respect for human life never fade from view. In the end, ‘being safe’ will depend less on how well we follow rules and more on how courageously we adapt them to a changing world of work.


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