Safety / HAE

An expanded Finder relay range on offer from distributor JPR Electronics includes standard and low profile, PCB socket mounted relays and DIN Rail versions with LED indication of actuation. SPCO and DPCO contacts are available with current ratings across the range from 1.25 to 16A and operating voltages of 5, 12 or 24VDC and 110 and 230VAC.

The availability of the industry’s only certified Intrinsically Safe (IS) digital isolators based on IEC 60079-11:2011 standards, has been announced by Analog Devices. The 4-channel ADuM144x series digital isolators with iCoupler technology are suited for designing electrical equipment for use in hazardous areas.

  Time consuming paper based equipment inspections can become a lot faster with Brady's Safetrak. Planning, inspecting and reporting can be streamlined, customised and largely automated in the Safetrak app to save time.

A ‘partnership’ is how many suppliers of products and services would like to describe their relationships with their customers, but in actual fact to most customers they are just regarded as the ‘supplier’. Becoming a true partner in any business relationship is a two-way process and develops over time building on trust, honesty, mutual understanding and a commitment from the supplier to offer the customer solutions that genuinely meet their needs.  

A wide range of power tools that use lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, from leading manufacturers such as Bosch, DeWALT and Makita are now in stock at distributor RS Components. These power tools are ideal as a replacement for those that currently run on nickel-cadmium (NiCd) batteries, which have been widely used in power tools for many years.

Elevator buckets that become worn and damaged through typical manufacturing operations may contaminate the food with fragments and particles of various sizes. The potential for contamination has increased industry demand for all plastic parts that come into contact with food directly or indirectly to be detectable and compliant with food industry standards and specifications.

Banning the use of hexavalent chromium for surface treatment of components will have effect from September 2017, thanks to the European Union’s REACH regulation. Exemptions may be granted only in exceptional cases, such as military aviation applications. Less toxic aluminium surface treatment processes have been developed to replace the use of chrome, such as TSA (tartaric sulphuric acid) and PSA (phosphoric sulphuric acid).

A new Kitemark for Balustrades has been launched by BSI, the business standards company.The first organisations to achieve the ‘BSI Kitemark for Protective Barrier Systems (Balustrades)’ are Delta Balustrades, Phoenix Balustrading, part of Cooke Brothers and Q-Railing.

Presenting the latest developments in its range of explosion proof, hazardous location and intrinsically safe audible and visual warning devices for the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, E2S Warning Signals will be on stand A9, Hall 1 at OMC, the Offshore Marine Conference, Ravenna, Italy, from 29th-31st March 2017.

  At the forthcoming Smart Cities 2017 conference, Chubb Fire & Security will address the important role of innovative security solutions in connected cities.