Industrial Fire Prevention

Risk Assessments Made Easy From Occupational Health & Safety, ohsonline.com Risk Assessments Made Easy Every business should carry out regular risk assessments, and there's no excuse not to with the Risk Assessor App, which is free to download on the App Store. It makes the process easy and produces a clean, easy-to-read report in PDF format. It's important to keep the assessments up to date, so the App syncs reminders for future assessments with iCal. Risk assessments are a vital step in protecting your business, its workers, and anybody who might be affected by risks in the area. They provide a platform to focus on risks that really matter in the workplace, the ones which have potential to cause injury or harm. In most instances, straightforward measures can be taken to control risks. An example would be ensuring that spills are cleaned up promptly to prevent people from slipping, or perhaps something as simple as closet drawers being kept closed to e...

From the HazardEx website, a good overview of hazardous materials, fines, explosion vents. HazardEx - Dust to Dust Dust to Dust 28 February 2011 Author : J GALE Dr Julian Hought of risk management specialists, HFL Risk Services, explains the hidden dangers of flour and other dry ingredients and how we can guard against potentially fatal explosions. Every year an estimated 2000 dust explosions occur in factories and refineries in Europe. There are approximately 50 reported dust explosions in the UK alone – that’s roughly one every single week. But these explosions are not solely the preserve of chemical or wood processing companies. A staggering 24 per cent of them occur within the food industry. In fact dry ingredients such as flour, custard powder, instant coffee, sugar, dried milk, potato powder, soup powder and cocoa powder have been responsible for 120 deaths in the past 30 years. All dust explosions are preventable. However in order to prevent them you first ...