Improve Site Safety and Reduce Operational Costs with a New Portable Gas Detection Philosophy - Gem Bayless

In a World with so much commercial competition, it is not surprising that products are becoming more userfriendly and more value added. Today’s manufacturers need to work hard to entice customers in the crowded market places that mass capitalism has brought about.

These trends are affecting industries like gas detection, and this is bringing about the emergence of not only extended variety and single source solution providers but highly innovative products. In fact, today’s portable gas detection purchaser has a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of options to choose from. The devices on offer don’t just protect users from flammable, toxic and Oxygen gas hazards, they add true value in other ways such as helping to reduce the ongoing cost of gas detection and providing a minimal training solution that is easy to use. For example, companies like BW Technologies by Honeywell improve the user experience and reduce training costs by offering simple “single button” operation on all their new portable devices.

Reducing the ongoing cost of ownership is also a key concern for today’s portable gas detection manufacturer; particularly in the global climate of financial uncertainty, we now face. Customers need to make budgets stretch further and are more focused on purchasing devices that help to reduce operational costs. Portable gas detection devices can deliver this through a number of aspects; multi-gas simultaneous monitoring capabilities, auto calibration functionality, automatic data logging and plug and play pre-calibrated sensors all help to reduce the ongoing cost of gas detection by up to 40% over a three year operating life.

Cost reductions can also help to catalyse increased site safety. For example, a reduced cost of ownership for a portable fleet can enable more operators to have a gas detector of their own for the same overall budget of the site, meaning that more lives can be protected. This also helps to drive the trend towards multiple gas detection over single gas detection, providing workers with better protection against multiple risks than ever before.