Process manufacturing often generates fine dust particles as a byproduct of normal operations. These particles, once they become airborne, often take time to settle out of the airstream and may pose issues with product quality control, require additional housekeep...
Oral solid dose (OSD) pharmaceutical manufacturing can generate hazardous dusts that pose risks to health, worker and facility safety, and may cause cross-contamination. In OSD manufacturing, process dust is usually classified as “light and fluffy” and, when gener...
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a U.S.-based international nonprofit organization that develops consensus-based fire and life safety standards. Developing its fire safety standards since 1896, NFPA publishes hundreds of codes and standards cover...
Most electric vehicles (EVs) rely on lithium-ion batteries, which contain hazardous materials. These batteries pose various health and safety risks throughout their life cycle, particularly during production. The risks arise from the chemical composition of batter...
A company using pneumatic conveyors to move grass seeds into storage bins manually cleaned dust and dirt with shovels and brooms. Its old dust collector, equipped with horizontal filter cartridges, was ineffective due to insufficient airflow. Unaware of the hazard...
A Canadian aerospace company considered retrofitting its dust collectors that were used for removing combustible dust generated during high-velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) coating, blasting and grinding applications. The plan was to upgrade five old units to meet NFPA...
