Lightning warning systems July 2005, Innopro (Div. of Engenamic) Lightning poses particular and potentially serious threats to personnel working or deployed in exposed areas, for example in the mining, agricultural, aviation, sports, forestry, petrochemical, telecommunications ...
Lots of gas at Vodaworld July 2005, Sensor Special Risk Technologies Vodacom Midrand has recently undergone a major revamp of its fire protection in the cellphone switching centre in the Vodaworld complex.
The need to efficiently protect a major switching centre of this ...
Records protection guidelines July 2005 When a fire occurs, most people tend to consider its effects from the point of view of direct physical damage only. However, some time after a fire the inevitable consequential losses begin to be felt. ...
Symbolic safety signs guidelines July 2005 Introduction
Signs are used in buildings for imparting information to the occupants which is not obvious or apparent in any other way.
Safety signs are a particular type of such signs which are displayed ...
DiData goes with gas July 2005, Alien Systems & Technology The Dimension Data campus, covering 75000 m2, is located north of Johannesburg in Bryanston and contains administrative offices, Telkom patch rooms, a network operations centre, IT workshops and equipment ...
Fire equipment and sprinkler pump house management July 2005 What is the most likely element to fail when it comes to managing and monitoring fire protection equipment? Unfortunately it is the old cliché of the `weakest link' and it is normally the human factor. ...
All about Pyrogen July 2005 Pyrogen arose out of the development, in the former Soviet Union, of a solid fuel for rockets. This fuel provided propulsion but no trailing heat or flame path to guide heat seeking missiles or alert ...
Education and training July 2005 What is the status of fire engineering in South Africa? The fact of the matter is that it is in a far more embryonic stage compared to most of the developed countries. There are no formal fire engineering ...
Upgrading safety standards in central Jo'burg July 2005, Masc Solutions A South African company with mining interests worldwide had, over a period of many years, installed a number of disparate fire detection and gaseous suppression systems throughout its many buildings in ...
Industrial housekeeping guidelines July 2005 Every year countless fires start when waste materials are ignited by smoking materials, hot surfaces, electrical arcs, short circuits, and mechanical sparks. Not only is industrial waste the most common ...
Emergency lighting July 2005 The National Building Regulations (NBR) includes regulations concerning emergency lighting. A code of practice was subsequently published by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS 0114-2) to provide ...
Preventing warehouse fires guidelines July 2005 A few examples of major warehouse fires together with supposed causes are listed:
1. A fire in a jute warehouse in Durban caused damage in excess of R2m. Contributing factors to the extent of the damage ...
Hot work guidelines July 2005 Welding operations have been the cause of numerous serious fires over the years. Many serious accidents have been caused by cutting or welding being performed on closed drums, tanks or other receptacles ...
Portable fire extinguishers July 2005 Most fires, if detected early enough, can be easily extinguished through the prompt application of the correct type and appropriate quantity of extinguishing agent. Portable fire extinguishers are designed ...
Mixed outside storage guidelines July 2005 Causes of fire
The known causes of a number of major fires which have occurred over the years in South Africa involving outside storage, indicate a definite need for more effective control by management ...
Shut the door on fire spread July 2005 It makes economic sense to utilise the talents of fire team members wherever possible. Training exposes them to a broad fire safety base. They therefore know more about fire than any other employee.
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Notifier introduces Onyx ExitPoint May 2005 Notifier, a manufacturer of commercial fire alarm technology and life safety systems, has announced its Onyx ExitPoint audible exit technology. This latest advancement in life safety technology improves ...
Line of Pb-free PCB hardware to meet increasing global requirements 20 April 2005, Vepac Electronics, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services Bivar now offers a line of snap-in and vertical, standard-mount card guides, PCB ejectors and handles, all manufactured in compliance with WEEE and RoHS PB-Free materials and processes. With the new PB-Free ...
IDC Technologies donates R25 000 in manuals April 2005, News IDC Technologies, the engineering training provider, donated engineering manuals valued at R25 000, to Mangosuthu Technikon and the Vaal Triangle Technical College, in March 2005.
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