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Honeywell appointed sole controls partner for Salford Heating Installer Partnership

Salford City Council has appointed Honeywell as sole controls partner for its Salford Heating Installer Partnership (SHIP), a major initiative to keep Salford’s most vulnerable residents warm in their homes. Honeywell will provide wired and wireless heating programmers and thermostats, control valves, radiator thermostats and automatic boiler bypass valves. Council surveyors will choose the optimum high quality, best value Honeywell products ... [more]

Preventing scalding hot water in nursing care bathrooms

Honeywell is supporting the warning by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) that nursing care homes should follow HSE guidelines to avoid scalding hot water in bathrooms. The latest HSE warning follows the prosecution of care home managers whose staff placed an elderly resident in scalding hot water, causing fatal injuries. “Scalding is wholly preventable and the HSE guidelines are clear: care managers must prevent scalding hot water in basi... [more]

New temperature data logger can also record humidity

Hotbox International has introduced a credit card sized data logger, which can measure and record relative humidity as well as temperature. The new LogTag is believed to be the first cost effective temperature data logger, to be commercially available in the UK, which can also record humidity. “When air is cooled it also is dried which can make for uncomfortable working or living conditions. However in cooled or refrigerated storage facilitie... [more]

Protection from carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide is a colourless, tasteless, odourless gas produced whenever a fossil fuel is not burned efficiently. It can be emitted from inadequately maintained or badly fitted domestic heating appliances such as wall heaters, fires or boilers and can be fatal in high concentrations. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a common issue. The best way to protect yourself is to install an approved Carbon Monoxide detector or combined smoke and carbon m... [more]

HVAC Spanish book help employers communicate with their Spanish-speaking employees

A new book called HVAC Spanish is on the market to help employers communicate with their Spanish-speaking employees. HVAC Spanish, published by LAMA Books and written by Leo Meyer, is an on-the-job reference book that is small enough to fit into a pocket and contains 88 pages of commonly used HVACR terms, including safety phrases. The book translates terms from English to Spanish and Spanish to English. According to the publisher, there were 8... [more]

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