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Confined spaces can pose a serious risk to the health and safety of your team. Whether you are repairing damaged equipment, building a new structure, or investigating a potential leak, you need to make sure your team can safely enter confined spaces on the job. Oxygen tends to be in short supply in confined spaces, including tunnels, crawl spaces, basements, manholes, and other tight areas. To protect your team, you need to continuously monitor the space for hazardous gases using a gas dete …

Air monitor and gas monitor calibration and bump testing is an important topic in many industries, especially oil and gas. Many professionals use these monitors to protect themselves from hazardous gases and other airborne substances known to cause injury, illness, and death. It’s difficult or impossible to detect or judge atmospheric gas levels without a gas detector because many are odorless, colorless, and tasteless.Gas monitors, like all equipment, are only as effective as the people using t …

Keeping workers safe from hazardous gases, airborne contaminants, and disease-causing particles is a must in any workplace environment. But respirators and filters are not foolproof. If the respirator does not seal properly over the person’s face, these hazards can easily slip through the cracks, which can lead to illness or injury.OSHA requires companies of all sizes to protect their workers from these types of hazards. In addition to providing face masks and respirators to employees, companies …

If your worksite has hazards that can be inhaled, you’re probably familiar with respirator filter cartridges. Heavy respirator use means changing filters or cartridges from time to time. There’s no set life span for filters or cartridges, but the more contaminants they trap, the less protective and less comfortable they become. There are over 20 different types of 3M respirator filters and cartridges designed to protect against different hazards—how do you know which ones are right fo …