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Metal Dust Hazards In Sci-Fi
OSHA scientists aren’t the only ones who know how metal dust hazards can damage the human body. In 1954, the famous science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote the novella Sucker Bait, the story of an expedition sent to investigate the deaths of an entire...
Explosive Dust Prevention Is Key
You may have heard about explosive dust before. You've read news about a manufacturing facilities that suffered a catastrophe due to combustible dust ignition. Did you ever wonder how it happens? How a small collection of dust particles can explode with such...
Welding Fumes: Your Toenails Hold Clues
Welding Fumes Meet "CSI": Why Scientists Are Collecting Welders' Toenails A group of researchers interested in exposure to metals in welding fumes come to your workplace to collect samples. You might think they’d be there to test the air quality or to take samples...
The Value of Dust Collection Management
Dust collection management is one of the main investments that those in the timber industry must face in the near future. In fact, Timber Processing Magazine (www.timberprocessing.com), which conducts research on industry production, supply, and investments, notes...
Aftermarket Customer Service Matters
We hear it every day from customers. Aftermarket customer service from other companies that sell replacement filters is not always a pleasant experience. These customers come to us because they’re tired of automated phone menu systems, messages that never get...
DUST CONTROL FAILURES: WHAT IS THE COST?
Ever wonder how much facilities like yours might be paying when they don’t have proper dust control? When a facility doesn’t have proper dust control equipment installed, or when they fail to protect their workers from welding fumes or combustible dust, fines from...