By Heidi Schwartz, on December 28, 2006, at 8:02 am Seventy-six-year Florida resident, American Society of Safety Engineers‘ (ASSE) professional member, and chemist Edwin Granberry, Jr., has urged officials to provide the same level of workplace safety protection for the estimated 8.5 million state and local government workers that other U.S. workers have under the Occupational Safety and Health Act at a recent public meeting on a Daytona Beach explosion that killed two workers. Florida state and municipal workers do not have the same workplace safety protection that other workers do.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) public meeting, held mid-December, was on the Bethune Point
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By Anne Vazquez, on December 28, 2006, at 7:56 am Replacing traditional round tube heat exchangers with flattened tube technology may enable the air conditioning industry to provide comfort cooling using a new refrigerant, while increasing efficiency, but not the size of the system. A recently released report from the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Institute (ARTI) characterizes how flattened-tube heat exchangers function under various environmental conditions and pressures.
“Flattened tube heat exchangers have received much attention as a possible replacement to traditional round tubes, but until now little research has been done on the thermal-hydraulic performance of flattened tubes under wet, dry and frosted conditions,” said Elizabeth Jones,
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By Anne Vazquez, on December 27, 2006, at 7:29 am The New York Power Authority (NYPA) invested about $110 million in energy efficiency and clean energy projects during 2006, breaking its previous one-year record of $103.8 million, set in 2001. NYPA set the new record in a year in which it also passed the $1 billion mark for total investments in energy efficiency and clean energy initiatives since the late 1980s.
“These two milestones demonstrate the Power Authority’s firm commitment to ensuring a reliable power supply while improving the environment and cutting our dangerous dependence on foreign oil,” NYPA president and chief executive officer Timothy S. Carey said. “This
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By Anne Vazquez, on December 27, 2006, at 7:22 am Shat-R-Shield, a manufacturer of plastic-coated safety lamps and Philips Lighting Company, a division of Philips Electronic North America Corporation, an affiliate of Philips Electronics, announced they have entered into a supply agreement. Under the agreement, Shat-R-Shield will apply its shatter resistant coating to Philips’ T5, T5 HO, T8, T12 and T12 HO fluorescent lamps along with selected incandescent and high intensity discharge lamps. Philips will distribute the newly coated lamps under the TuffGuard™ brand through its network of electrical distributors.
“Philips Lighting has seen the need to compliment their product offering with coated lamps for several years. They
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By Heidi Schwartz, on December 22, 2006, at 8:00 am An interesting seasonal factoid: How many people nationally are treated for falls, cuts, shocks, and burns due to incidents involving faulty holidays lights, dried-out Christmas trees and other holiday decorations?
A whopping 12,800, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Christmas trees are involved in about 300 fires annually, resulting in an average of 10 deaths, 40 injuries and about $7 million in property damage and loss.
Such shocking stats are why SCF Arizona, the state’s largest compensation insurance carrier, is warning workers to be careful when jazzing up their offices.
Here are some helpful hints:–Make sure your
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