Assessment of emergency safety showers against proposed EU and ANSI standards
This investigation was carried out with the cooperation of a majorinternational safety shower manufacturer, Hughes Safety Showers Ltd. Thefirst part of this study was to characterise various commercial safetyshower heads with regard to their spray patternation, droplet sizes, dropletvelocities and i...
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| description | This investigation was carried out with the cooperation of a majorinternational safety shower manufacturer, Hughes Safety Showers Ltd. Thefirst part of this study was to characterise various commercial safetyshower heads with regard to their spray patternation, droplet sizes, dropletvelocities and impact forces. The spray patternation of a number of showerhead designs were compared against the proposed EU and AmericanNational Standard institute (ANSI) standard for plumbed in body showers.The results of this work showed that a large proportion of the shower headdeigns failed to meet the proposed EU standard. The second part to thisstudy was to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the emergencysafety shower head designs via a series of decontamination ‘wash-off’tests on a mannequin, with a number of simulated hazardous substancesapplied to its surface. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8cde59764244acea6fea4494f64d2c02023-08-02T02:27:58ZengMULTIPHYSICSInternational Journal of Multiphysics1750-95482048-39612008-09-012310.1260/17509540878692742687Assessment of emergency safety showers against proposed EU and ANSI standardsM Burby0G Nasr1A Yule2T Hughes3Spray Research Group(SRG), Institute of Materials Research (IMR), School of Computing, Science and Engineering, Newton Building, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, United KingdomSpray Research Group(SRG), Institute of Materials Research (IMR), School of Computing, Science and Engineering, Newton Building, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, United KingdomSpray Research Group(SRG), Institute of Materials Research (IMR), School of Computing, Science and Engineering, Newton Building, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, United KingdomHughes Safety Showers Ltd, Managing Director, Stockport SK6 2SSThis investigation was carried out with the cooperation of a majorinternational safety shower manufacturer, Hughes Safety Showers Ltd. Thefirst part of this study was to characterise various commercial safetyshower heads with regard to their spray patternation, droplet sizes, dropletvelocities and impact forces. The spray patternation of a number of showerhead designs were compared against the proposed EU and AmericanNational Standard institute (ANSI) standard for plumbed in body showers.The results of this work showed that a large proportion of the shower headdeigns failed to meet the proposed EU standard. The second part to thisstudy was to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the emergencysafety shower head designs via a series of decontamination ‘wash-off’tests on a mannequin, with a number of simulated hazardous substancesapplied to its surface.http://journal.multiphysics.org/index.php/IJM/article/view/63 |
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| title | Assessment of emergency safety showers against proposed EU and ANSI standards |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of emergency safety showers against proposed EU and ANSI standards |
| title_short | Assessment of emergency safety showers against proposed EU and ANSI standards |
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