If you are a fire boss of an underground coal mine, there are many hazardous fumes and materials that your fellow employees are exposed to on a daily basis, and your job is to reduce the risks. Fortunately, these fumes and materials are removed from the confines of underground mines with ventilation systems that use electric motors. Here's what can happen if these systems don't work properly, preventative measures to avoid these hazardous situations, and how you can test the systems to ensure they are functioning properly.
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If you run a busy construction company, you might be more worried about workplace hazards like employees working without a harness or handling heavy materials than you are about air compressor safety. Unfortunately, if your guys aren't careful about the rules, you might end up dealing with a tragedy. Here are two crucial air compressor safety tips you should teach your employees so that everyone stays safe:
1: Air Tanks Need to Be Drained After Each Use Air compressors harness pressure to power a huge range of pneumatic tools ranging from drills to paint sprayers.
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Water filtration technology has improved a great deal over the years and now gives you access to more pure and better tasting water. Reverse osmosis water filtration is used worldwide to desalinate seawater and is also used at a business level to make a great-tasting Coke. Here are two examples of how reverse osmosis is used in these different ways.
Seawater into Drinking Water
While much of the world's population gets their drinking water from the ground, rivers, and streams, there are some hot and dry areas in the world with not a lot of access to fresh drinking water.
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When it is time to perform major renovations of your business facilities, move to another location or plan a site clean-up, you will need to rent dumpsters to collect waste. While it is relatively easy to schedule delivery of a roll-off waste container, you need to make sure that you adhere to some basic guidelines in order to make sure waste is removed safely and efficiently. If you are a first-timer at renting commercial dumpsters, the following tips will help you complete your waste removal project successfully.
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There are many industries that rely on steel parts. Steel is widely used because it is resistant to heat and extremely durable yet able to be cut and shaped into any form during the fabrication process. Whether you are the manager for a manufacturing facility or an HVAC contractor, there will likely come a point when you need to have steel fabricated. Depending on the complexity of what you need, there may be several people involved in the process.
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