If your gas detector’s oxygen sensor fails when you need it most, the consequences can be fatal. Oxygen-deficient atmospheres are among the leading causes of confined space deaths, and in nearly every incident report I’ve …
The oxygen sensor is arguably the most important in your gas detector. It’s the one standing between you and an atmosphere that can render you unconscious in seconds without any warning smell, taste, or color. …
Choosing the wrong combustible gas sensor can leave your team blind to a hazard or drown them in false alarms. After years of specifying, commissioning, and troubleshooting gas detection systems in industrial facilities, I can …
If you strip a standard 4-gas monitor down to its most essential component, it isn’t the combustible gas sensor or the H₂S sensor most people worry about. It’s the oxygen sensor in gas detectors that …
If you do any kind of gas detection on the job, you’ve probably come across colorimetric gas detection tubes. They go by several names: stain tube detectors, chemical detector tubes, or simply by their brand …
Your portable gas monitor spends its working life in one of the dirtiest environments imaginable, clipped to your collar in confined spaces, dusty plants, and greasy mechanical rooms. And because it has to sit inches …
Every year, hundreds of people go to sleep in their homes, cabins, or job site trailers and never wake up. Others collapse at their workbench, in a boiler room, or inside a confined space with …
Every year, workers are injured or killed by gas hazards they never saw coming because the most dangerous gases in industry are invisible, and many are odorless too. Gas detection exists to give people what …
Water treatment keeps communities alive, but the same processes that clean our water can quietly generate some of the deadliest gases workers ever encounter. Hydrogen sulfide, methane, chlorine, and oxygen-deficient atmospheres all lurk in wet …
If you’re staring at a gas detector or process sensor that reads below zero, you’re right to be concerned. A negative value isn’t just a cosmetic glitch. It’s the instrument telling you that something in …