Nanotube technology helps confined space workers

Posted on September 11^th 2009

The Confined Space Regulations have been in place for over a decade in a bid to safeguard employees working in narrow areas. However researchers have developed new technology, which could help prevent the suffocation of worker in confined spaces by detecting levels of oxygen in the atmosphere.

The carbon nanotube technology developed by the Royal Society of Chemistry can monitor oxygen concentrations more accurately than previous devices. It could even be developed into wearable sensors for workers so that the oxygen levels measured correctly.

Many employers have lost employees when work in narrow spaces has turned for the worse, similarly the number of employers liability insurance claims also has a serious number of accidents caused by partial suffocation after being trapped.

A spokesman from the Royal Society of Chemistry commented that the new technology had been developed on previous sensor research and they hope the technology would be used in the future to prevent workplace deaths caused by the lack of oxygen in confined spaces.

Although the number of deaths caused by suffocation has significantly decreased over the last decades, there is still a real danger to many miners and workers in confined spaces like submarines and even space shuttles.

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