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• Innovative Fire Protection Solutions For Compact Storage With WAGNER At LogiMAT 2024

  15-02-2024 17:11 via thebigredguide.com
  Modern intralogistics is characterized by space-saving storage, efficient processes, and flexibility.For this reason, more and more logistics facilities are using automated compact storage systems that ensure optimum utilization of the available storage space.degree of automationThe high degree of automation guarantees efficient processes, and the scalability of the systems creates flexibility. However, these benefits are accompanied by fire safety risks. For example, if a fire is caused by a de
  
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• Codelocks Stress The Wide-Ranging Impacts Of Fire Door Regulations On UK Businesses

  15-02-2024 17:06 via thebigredguide.com
  Newbury-based lock manufacturer, Codelocks was visited by Laura Farris, Newbury MP, last week to discuss the critical implications of proposed changes to fire door testing requirements for UK businesses.The proposed changes from the Department for Leveling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) will see a move away from testing to the British Standard BS47622 in favor of testing solely to the European Standard EN1634-1. The change is expected to have negative consequences fo
  
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• Teledyne GFD's Revolutionizing Methane Detection In Industrial & Utility Markets

  15-02-2024 13:31 via thebigredguide.com
  Teledyne Gas and Flame Detection is introducing a new infrared (IR) sensor for its class-pioneering OLCT 100 XPIR (explosion-proof IR) fixed gas detector that will bring the advantages of stable and reliable methane detection measurements to the industrial, utility, and laboratory markets.Methane detectionMethane poses many threats. Not only does it form potentially explosive mixtures with air, but it can also prove harmful to humans and the environment. For these reasons, many sectors
  
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• OSHA’s Emergency Response Standard Update Threatens Volunteer Fire Departments

  15-02-2024 08:52 via thebigredguide.com
  On December 21, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it will issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modernize the agency’s ‘Fire Brigades’ standard. This standard was first published and last updated in 1980.This proposed updated standard would issue several new requirements that would be very burdensome, and in many cases impossible, for volunteer fire departments to comply with. Specifically, there would be proh
  
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• BAFSA Celebrates 50 Years Supporting The Sprinkler Industry

  15-02-2024 08:37 via thebigredguide.com
  BAFSA kicked of its 50th anniversary celebrations at the House of Lords last week with a special lunch in the Attlee Room to mark the occasion.The association which was founded in 1974, invited 50 key stakeholders from across the fire safety sector and honored guests including, Lord David Goddard, Sir Ken Knight, Bob Blackman MP and Ann Jones OBE.BAFSA’s 50th anniversary celebrationsThe lunch saw the ‘premiere’ of a short 50th anniversary video, narrated by broadcas
  
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