The Red Line of welding safety products includes gloves, jackets, caps, and safety glasses. Red Line includes five types of welding gloves–premium leather MIG/stick, traditional MIG/stick, leather TIG, heat-resistant, and full leather Steel Worker gloves. Four jacket options protect arms and the upper body with flame-retardant cloth panels to keep welders cool, as well as…
Minimizing Severe Weather Risks on Wind Farms
Don Leick, Telvent, www.telvent.com When severe weather hits a wind farm, the ultimate safety goal for maintenance crews is to get down from the towers and drive away from the storms. However the height of the turbines and expanse of the properties makes doing so no small task. Therefore, it becomes critically important for wind…
Fall protection finally goes global
Turbine manufacturers are looking into globalized equipment so workers can travel anywhere in the world without having to switch sets of fall-protection gear, thereby eliminating costs and transportation hassles. Technicians will often travel one week to the United States, the next to China, the following to Australia, and they must have versatile, high-quality equipment that…
Safety firm acquires another training facility
A manufacturer of fall-protection equipment has acquired the Technical Institute of Training in Height (ITFH,) a training-at-heights company in France. ITFH has been a specialist in training at height since 2001 and has 54 training programs. These cover a broad array of end users and vertical markets including rope access, wind energy, utilities, construction, scaffolding,…
Teaming up for safety training
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas is teaming up with competitors and costumers to create a standard for basic safety training. This is done in the framework of the Global Wind Organization (GWO), which Vestas started up in November 2009 together with competitors like Siemens and Suzlon and with several key accounts including SSE Renewables, Vattenfall, and RWE Innogy.
Considerations for fall-arrest anchor points
David Lough, Application Engineer, Gravitec Systems Inc, Seattle, gravitec.com All fall-arrest equipment must meet some sort of standard and pass some tests so equipment manufacturers can ensure end users and employers that the equipment will perform to specifications. These standards (ANSI Z359 Fall Protection Code) are the first defense in place to save lives while…
Nonglare LEDs Make it Easier to See in the Tower
Standard fluorescent lamps with an emergency lighting feature have been used to light the insides of turbine towers, but they suffer several drawbacks. For instance, installing them takes a lot of time and work, their maintenance intervals are relatively brief, and the lamps have a short service life. So when German turbine OEM Enercon wanted…
Designing for electrical safety
The SafeDesigner development and configuration software gives users a way to program safety-related functions within the Automation Studio development environment. Automation Studio allows generating control software for company industrial PCs and controllers. Both are from B&R Automation, Roswell, Ga. Programming a safety application is now reduced to virtual wiring of logical function blocks. Fixed-wired safety…