Industrial Insights
Industrial Insights
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- Deblina Roy
- Security
- Topic: Security
- Date: 17 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Axis has launched AXIS Q35 Series with two multi-megapixel outdoor-ready fixed domes, aiming to provide surveillance in a wide range of areas such as critical infrastructure, city surveillance, airports, railway stations, harbours, healthcare, pharmaceutical and food industries
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- Deblina Roy
- HSE
- Topic: HSE
- Date: 16 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
MAN Truck & Bus Middle East, in partnership with RoadSafetyUAE, Michelin tires and WABCO, has hosted a Safety Workshop for Dubai Police officers, showcasing various road safety initiatives and solutions to reduce heavy commercial traffic incidents in the country
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- Louise Waters
- Training
- Topic: Training
- Date: 15 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Champions of safety training and skills development within the oil and gas sector will be recognised at this year’s OPITO Global Awards on 7 November, during the organisation’s annual safety and competency conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Louise Waters
- Fire Safety
- Topic: Fire Safety
- Date: 12 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
More than 30 organisations from around the world have come together to develop landmark industry standards to address fire safety in buildings
The group, known as the International Fire Safety Standards (IFSS) Coalition, was launched in early July at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The coalition, which is chaired by Gary Strong, global building standards director at the UK’s RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors), consists of local and international professional bodies and standard-setting organisations committed to developing and supporting a shared set of standards for fire safety in buildings.
The standards aim to set and reinforce the minimum requirements professionals should adhere to ensure building safety in the event of a fire.
As the property market has become increasingly international with investments flowing across national borders, the sector still lacks a consistent set of high level global standards that will inform the design, construction, and management of buildings to address the risks associated with fire safety.
Differences in materials testing and certification, national building regulations or codes, and standards on how to manage buildings in use, particularly higher risk buildings, means there is confusion, uncertainty and risk to the public.
Strong cites the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives, as a recent example which demonstrates the need for a coherent global approach to fire safety. He says that the fire not only focused attention on building and fire safety in the UK, but also exposed global inadequacies in how fire safety standards are set.
“The Grenfell Tower fire focused the world’s attention on how many buildings are threatened with the prospect of failing fire safety standards,” he comments. “All over the world we see the need for more high-rise structures, some residential, some commercial and some mixed-use buildings, particularly in cities.
”Our concern is not with the height of these buildings but with the risks they pose in the absence of a coherent and harmonised approach to setting global standards in fire safety. The effort by the IFSS Coalition aims to address this concern and bring together the design, construction and management aspects of ensuring fire safety of building assets.”
Initially, the IFSS Coalition will set up a Standards Setting Committee that will draw on a group of international technical fire experts to develop and write the high-level standards to ensure they are fit for purpose across global markets.
Once the high-level standards are developed, the IFSS Coalition will work with professionals around the world to deliver the standards locally.
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- Deblina Roy
- Security
- Topic: Security
- Date: 11 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Mimecast Limited, a leading email and data security company, has acquired Ataata Inc, a cybersecurity training and awareness platform designed to reduce human error in the workplace by changing the security culture in the organisations
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- Louise Waters
- Industrial
- Topic: Industrial
- Date: 10 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Barry Menzies, managing director, MIDEL Dielectric Fluids Global discusses the contribution transformer fluids can make to resilient businesses and societies
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- Deblina Roy
- Security
- Topic: Security
- Date: 10 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
People and vehicle access control specialist Nortech has introduced a robust long-range reader based on semi-active RFID technology, which enables automatic vehicle identification at distances of up to 10 metres and speeds of up to 125 mph
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- Deblina Roy
- HSE
- Topic: HSE
- Date: 9 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Al Naboodah Construction Group (ANCG), a subsidiary of Al Naboodah Group Enterprises, has celebrated achieving five million man hours worked without a lost time accident at its Dubai Creek Harbour site
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- Deblina Roy
- News
- Topic: Events
- Date: 9 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
FIREX International, a leading life safety conference in the UK, has been held in London from 19-21 June 2018, focussing on more than 10,000 fire safety solutions at workplaces
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- Conrad Dias
- News
- Topic: Events
- Date: 8 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
The UAE Office for future food security held a workshop with representatives from established fish farms across the UAE to explore the major challenges facing the development of the country’s aquaculture industry
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- Deblina Roy
- HSE
- Topic: HSE
- Date: 5 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Hyundai Motor Company has formed a strategic partnership with Autotalks, a leading Israeli manufacturer of vehicle to everything (V2X) communication chipsets, to deploy next-generation chipset for connected cars
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- Deblina Roy
- Security
- Topic: Security
- Date: 4 July, 2018
- Year: 2018
Expo 2020 Dubai is teaming up with the UAE-headquartered DarkMatter to deploy advanced cybersecurity technologies that will help safeguard Expo’s digital experience for millions of visitors and 180 country participants