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Safety Update
Lightweight Flip-Up Welding and Grinding Respirator
The new Z4 welding/grinding respirator from RPB Safety is the lightest professional flip-up of its type, according to company officials. Reportedly to 23-percent lighter than other brands, the RPB Z4 weighs only 1.77 lb., but provides a host of safety and comfort features.
Its ergonomic design evenly distributes
weight to the sides of a user’s head to elim-
inate top-heavy pressure points around the
forehead and temples, and alleviates strain
on the neck and upper back. The respirator
configures to users’ individual preferences,
ensuring customized fit. Other features
include adjustable head suspension and airflow, optical clarity, optional padding, and add-ons including communications and lighting accessories.
RPB Safety LLC: www.rpbsafety.com
Wear Safety Glasses: Five Tips for Remembering
Many Americans reported that losing eyesight would potentially have “the greatest impact on their day-to-day life, more so than other conditions including: loss of limb, memory, hearing and speech,” according to a poll conducted by Research!America and vision-research organizations.
With that in mind, Honeywell provides five tips that can help manufacturing workers remember to wear their eye protection.
1. Keep glasses near work tools. Keeping everything together in one place helps workers remember their eyewear. If the safety glasses are next to their hard hat, harness, boots or other equipment they need to perform a job, then work- ers have a better chance of remembering the eye-
wear.
2. Don’t take them
off. Wearing glasses dur- ing breaks helps, as removing glasses during a break could cause workers to forget to put them back on when they go back to work.
3. Select comfortable, trendy styles. Gone are the days of one-size-doesn’t-really-fit-all safety glasses. For example, many Honeywell Uvex glasses offer adjustability features that allow them to fit a variety of face shapes and sizes. Comfortable glasses reduce the urge to take them off. Other features such as anti-fog coatings, included with the Uvex Hydroshield AF (pictured), for example,
mean that there’s no need to remove glasses for wiping.
4. Listen to reminders. Whether reading signs or listening to safety directors and peers, workers should heed reminders to wear eye protection.
5. Participate in rewards programs. Positive reinforcement offers one way to help workers prioritize safety protocols. Incentives could be provided for time periods without dangerous incidents. Rewards for safe days may range from a pizza party to an extra day off of work. Honeywell: www.honeywell.com/safety
Eliminates Static Electricity to Eliminate Shocks and Dust
The new Gen4 Super Ion Air Wipe from Exair Corp. provides a uniform 360-deg. ionized airstream that clamps around a continuously moving part to eliminate static electricity and contaminants. It is ideal for eliminating dust, particulates and personnel shocks on pipe, cable, extruded shapes, hose, wire and more. Certified to meet U.S., Canadian and Euro- pean safety, health and environmental standards and attain CE and UL marks, it also is RoHS-compliant. New design features include a metal, armored high- voltage cable to protect against abrasion and cuts, a replaceable emitter point, integrated ground connection and elec- tromagnetic shielding.
The Super Ion Air Wipe, with no moving parts, uses a small amount of compressed air to entrain high volumes of room air. Two shockless ionizing points powered by a 5-kV power supply fill the airstream with static-eliminating ions. That airflow attaches itself to the surface of the material running through the air wipe and neu- tralizes the charge.
The Super Ion Air Wipe, which com- plements Exair’s line of Gen4 Static Elim- inators, features a lightweight aluminum construction for simple mounting via the provided tapped holes, and comes in diameters of 2 and 4 in.
Exair Corp.: www.exair.com
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