Seki Hudson
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 …
When a fire breaks out, you may have as little as two minutes to get everyone out safely. That isn’t enough time to think, search for exits, or figure out where to meet. There’s only …
Carbon monoxide kills quietly. It has no smell, no color, and no taste, and by the time most people feel its effects, they are already too impaired to react. A working CO detector is the …
A smoke detector that doesn’t work is worse than no detector at all, because it gives you a false sense of safety. I’ve spent my career working on industrial gas, flame, and safety systems, and …
I’ve spent enough years around industrial safety systems to know that confined spaces don’t kill people because the hazards are exotic. They kill people because the testing was rushed, done in the wrong order, or …
I worked in the gas detection industry for the last 8 years, and one thing I always tell my customers is to make sure you calibrate your unit using the right gas. In this article, …