Articles tagged with Industry

I watched the safety video, filled out and signed a few forms, passed through security, donned the hard hat, safety suit & protective eyewear- ready...

Piper Alpha was a large oil production platform in the North Sea about 170 kilometers northeast of Aberdeen. In 1976 the platform began producing oil...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work takes place on April 28, 2016. The day was declared by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to promote...

On March 20th a major gas leak occurred on a North Sea oil platform. More than 1670 kg of gas leaked out from a fractured steel pipe over the course...

From 2018 new electrical regulations will take effect for the use of intrinsically safe equipment in potentially hazardous locations. These...

One of the key challenges that has affected the adoption of communications technology offshore is the lack of mobile networks and lack of coverage,...

On the 19th January, three employees of the giant Brazilian state owned oil company, Petrobras were hurt in an explosion at a refinery outside...

In 2010, a spark caused a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. In this case, 29 miners were killed. It was the worst...

The technical IEC Committee has published the new installation standard for potentially explosive atmospheres EN 60079-14:2014. The contents concern...