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Take the Pain out of Gas Detector Maintenance

Maintaining the lifesaving safety equipment that your workers depend on is an important, challenging, and often overlooked job. If you purchase gas detectors, you’re responsible for ensuring that the instruments are working properly and will be ready at a moment’s notice to alert your workers to potential hazards

Say Goodbye to Gas Detection Headaches

If you purchase gas detectors, you’re responsible for ensuring that they are working properly and will alert workers to potential gas hazards. But it can be difficult to know when there is an issue, what the issue is, how long it could take to fix it, and how much it will cost.

White Paper: Environmental Safety in Industrial Systems

Answer key environmental safety questions through insights gained over 30 years of research and development.

On-Demand: Discover the Vector AM7: Streamlining Your Area Monitoring Operation with Unparalleled Versatility and Efficiency

This exclusive webinar will introduce you to the Vector AM7 Area Monitor – the ultimate solution designed to streamline your monitoring needs with unparalleled versatility and efficiency. Discover how this innovative device can improve situational awareness, site uptime, communications, and multiple facets of day-to-day operations within your environment. 

10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Gas Detection Partner

Choosing the right gas detection partner can make all the difference in safety, efficiency, and long-term value. Whether you're evaluating a new provider or reassessing your current one, this free guide arms you with 10 essential questions to ask, so you can uncover hidden costs, assess service quality, and make sure your partner is ready to grow with you. Download now and take the guesswork out of gas detection.

Gerdau Enhances Safety and Operational Efficiency with Industrial Scientific’s Connected Safety Solutions 

Explore how Industrial Scientific helped Gerdau reduce detector maintenance downtime by 98%, improve alarm traceability, and align with Industry 4.0 goals, all while building a stronger safety culture and more efficient operation.

Three Steps To Detecting Gas Hazards In Confined Spaces

Confined spaces present unique dangers. Limited exit points coupled with a potentially hazardous atmosphere mean you need a plan for how to test, enter and exit a confined space safely. However, despite tight regulations and technological advancements, permit-required confined space entry accidents and fatalities remain a problem.

Why Bump Testing Saves Lives

This white paper breaks new ground with an analysis of data collected over a seven-year period. It goes beyond simply describing what the test is and what it does. A solid correlation exists between a gas detector’s likelihood of failure and how often it is bump tested.

Elevate Safety in the Utilities Industry: Download Your Free Cost Comparison Guide

In the utilities industry, gas detection is crucial to ensuring the safety of your workforce and the continuity of essential services. Are you confident that your current gas detection program is both effective and cost-efficient? It's time to analyze the facts.

Always Ready: Your Chemical Emergency Preparedness Guide

Are You Prepared for a Chemical Emergency? In today’s complex industrial landscape, the safety of your team and facility is paramount. Industrial Scientific's ebook Always Ready: Your Chemical Emergency Preparedness Guide is your comprehensive resource to ensure you're fully prepared for any chemical emergency.

On-Demand - HazMat Masterclass Series: Set the Stage for 2025: Develop a Business Case for Emergency Preparedness

Developing a mature hazmat response program requires investment of both time and money. The final portion of our HazMat master class series will guide you through the process of developing a compelling business case for emergency preparedness.

Environmental Services Provider Elevates Tank Farm Safety with Industrial Scientific’s Ventis® Pro5 iNet® Platform

Discover how implementing Ventis® Pro5 gas monitors and the iNet® platform helped one environmental services company improve ammonia detection, ensure regulatory compliance, and enable connected safety at scale.

3 Ways to Use Dynamic Plume Models to Protect Your People, Plant, and Community

Dynamic plume modeling software, like SAFER One™, allows you to quickly identify the source, severity, and impact of any chemical situation by using data from on-site gas and weather sensors to create a real-time dispersion model.

Using IIoT to Improve Safety in Industrial Environments

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connects machines and devices in industrial environments such as oil and gas, transportation, and power generation to improve operational efficiencies, reduce downtime, and enhance worker safety among others.

Perimeter Monitoring: An Inside Look at Gas Detection on the Edge

Perimeter monitoring can mean a lot of things depending on your application. At its core, it’s a form of area monitoring that creates a second line of defense (after personal monitoring) and a buffer zone against any gas hazards, so you know what’s coming in or out of an area before it reaches your people or community.

Optimize Safety in the Chemicals Industry: Download Your Free Cost Comparison Guide

In the chemicals industry, gas detection is not just a regulatory requirement—it's a critical component of workplace safety. Are you confident that your current gas detection program is cost-effective? It’s time to see the numbers for yourself.

On-Demand - HazMat Masterclass Series: Mastering the Critical First Hour: Operational Readiness for HazMat Response

When disaster strikes, the first minutes are critical in shaping the response and recovery efforts in the days that follow. This class explores the concept of true operational readiness and will guide you on how to effectively deploy your Chemical Emergency Toolkit during an emergency. We will also cover the importance of establishing and utilizing a common operating picture to enhance situational awareness.

Major U.S. Energy Producer Modernizes Alaskan Safety Program to Create Accountability Across All Locations with iNet® Safety Solutions

Discover how cloud-based gas detection and proactive maintenance improved visibility and accountability in one of the most rugged environments in North America.

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What is a Plume Model and How Does it Improve Safety?

Learn about plume models, also known as atmospheric plume dispersion models, and how they can help you respond with confidence to protect your people, plant, and community in a chemical emergency.

Taking the Guesswork Out of Gas Detection

Simply clipping on a monitor doesn’t keep you safe. You need to understand the power and limitations of a gas detector, which requires some “driver’s ed.”

Improve Safety and Optimize Gas Detection Operations

Nothing is more important than worker safety. Businesses have been working to protect employees at risk of hazardous gases for generations. Today, it's easier than ever to transform your safety program to make sure workers get home safely at the end of the day.

On-Demand - Reactive to Proactive: Revolutionizing Worker Safety with Connected Data

In this presentation, we'll delve into the world of connected safety and demonstrate how data can transform safety practices from reactive to proactive. We'll showcase how organizations can effectively leverage data to anticipate and mitigate workplace hazards, and how Industrial Scientific’s Connected Safety Vision can revolutionize worker safety at your site.

On-Demand - HazMat Masterclass Series: How to Build a Chemical Emergency Response Toolkit

Preparing for a chemical emergency is just as crucial as responding to one. Our first master class covers the essential components and best practices for assembling a toolkit that ensures you're well-prepared to handle any chemical emergency.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency and Safety During Turnarounds with Code Red Safety and Industrial Scientific's Integrated Gas Detection Solution

A leading refinery eliminated costly permit delays by integrating Industrial Scientific’s Radius® BZ1 Area Monitors with Code Red’s RED i/O Monitoring software. This connected solution provided live gas readings from confined spaces—removing the need to manually collect data from towers over 200 feet tall. With faster work permit approvals, the site reduced downtime, improved worker safety, and saved thousands of dollars per hour in labor costs.

Connected Safety: Technology to Integrate Your Safety Ecosystem

Job sites can be dangerous if you're not using the right safety tools. Luckily, new technology makes it easy to ensure your people go home safely at the end of each shift.

DualSense Technology - Why Two Are Safer Than One

Calibrate at least monthly and bump test daily. These are the typical recommendations for maintaining gas detectors.

How to Use Dynamic Plume Modeling for Safer Worksites and Communities

When it comes to chemical leaks, it can be tempting to think it will never happen at your facility. However, working with chemicals means emergencies are out of your control and will happen despite your best safety efforts.

On-Demand - How Data Insights Drive Safety Excellence: A Deep Dive for Safety Managers

Curious about how data insights can revolutionize safety management practices? This session is tailored for Safety Managers seeking to harness the power of data-driven approaches in hazardous environments.

Enhancing Safety, Efficiency, and Security in Your Operations with Data-Driven Solutions

Are you ready to take your industrial safety program to the next level? Discover the average costs of running a gas detection program and how our data-driven solutions can help you avoid hidden fees associated with costly fines, unplanned downtime, and other on-site emergencies.

Major Oil Refinery Saves 60% on Gas Detection with Industrial Scientific's iNet Solution

Discover how a major U.S. oil refinery revolutionized its gas detection program and saved with Industrial Scientific's iNet Solution. Facing challenges with inaccurate readings and costly equipment purchases, the refinery transitioned from a simple commodity approach to a comprehensive rental model, enhancing safety and operational efficiency. Explore the full story of how Industrial Scientific's world-class support and innovative technology transformed their operations, ensuring better safety and efficiency across the board.

The Complete Guide to Gas Detection in Confined Spaces

Confined spaces are common in many different industries, and while they may look different, they all have the potential to contain invisible gas hazards that can knock you off your feet before you know what hit you.

Does Your Gas Detection Program Need a Health Check?

Every year, millions of workers suffer a serious job-related injury or illness, most of which are caused by at-risk acts

Modernizing Gas Detection with a Platform Approach

You already have plenty of safety measures in place, but are there any gaps?

Is Your Gas Detection Program Ready for An Outage, Shutdown, or Turnaround?

Learn more about the need for additional gas detection equipment during turnarounds and shutdowns.

Top 5 Midstream Company Enhances Environmental Safety and Achieves Methane Emission Compliance with Industrial Scientific Ventis® Pro5 & iAssign® Technology

The oil and gas industry navigates a complex landscape marked by fluctuations in demand, regulatory pressures, and a global push for cleaner energy. Despite it all, methane still plays a significant role in energy production as a primary component of natural gas.

The Complete Guide to Gas Detection for Water and Wastewater Facilities

As a safety professional at a water or wastewater treatment facility, it’s your job to protect workers from hazards, including dangerous gases. Workers are most likely aware of the dangers posed by slips and trips, but gas hazards often escape notice. However, gas hazards at a water or wastewater treatment facility can be a matter of life and death.

Confined Space Safety: Gas Detection Best Practices

Confined spaces can have many unseen hazards – potential threats may be lurking or you could face undetected gas hazards.

5 Reasons to Use a Radius BZ1 Area Monitor

When it comes to protecting your worksite from hazardous gases, you need the best area monitor. No other area monitor protects your workers longer in the field with less setup, user training, and time in the shop than the Radius BZ1.

Water Utility Provider Saves Time and Money with iNet Exchange

One of the largest water and wastewater utility providers in the United States uses personal gas monitors to protect workers from the gas hazards they may face on the job. The company services more than a million residents and 5,800 miles of water mains, so it’s critical that their workers are safe and efficient.

On-Demand - Improve Safety Process Systems for Maximum Site Safety

Discover how the groundbreaking RGX® Gateway Modbus and Relay Output solution can revolutionize hazard awareness and safety automation across your entire site.

Understanding Connected Safety

The emergence of “internet of things” (IoT) technology has spurred operational transformation across numerous industries as it gives businesses the power to create backend infrastructure that supports data sharing. Connected safety solutions rank among the many innovations associated with this development.

Calibration Station or Docking Station

Proper instrument maintenance is the foundation of a sound gas detection safety program. Personal gas detector manufacturers as well as regulatory agencies recommend and require that, at a minimum, the instruments go through a functional (bump) test and calibration check (or full calibration if necessary), before use.

4 Reasons to Choose Ventis MX4 Multi-Gas Detector

The Ventis MX4 gives you lightweight, durable, and adaptable gas detection at a lower lifetime cost than comparable monitors.

Mining Company Reduces Fleet Turnover and Increases Worker Accountability Using iAssign™ Tags and RGX® Gateway.

A large underground mineral mining company in Canada struggled with managing their large fleet of personal gas detectors after workers began leaving them behind in the mine. Without data from the monitors, it was impossible to report on exposure incidents or address inappropriate worker behavior, increasing the risk of gas-related incidents in the mine

On-Demand - How Connected Safety Devices Ensure Your Lone Workers Are Never Alone

Want to Go Pro With Your Gas Detection?

The Ventis® Pro5 multi-gas detector is the most flexible connected monitor on the market, giving you the power to connect workers anytime, anywhere – even in the most remote settings.

Renting Industrial Scientific Area Monitors Improves Connectivity and Visibility

A large petroleum refiner and supplier often uses several area monitors simultaneously across multiple sites within one location.

Gas Detection Management Systems Buyer's Guide

Gas detectors help keep your workers safe on the job by alerting them to gas hazards. But they also collect valuable data that can help you reduce risk and improve efficiency. Are you taking full advantage of this data? A good gas detection management system can help you do just that.

On-Demand - Unlocking New Possibilities in Gas Detection with Specialized Smart Sensors

Uncover the game-changing potential of the enhanced Radius BZ1's specialized smart sensors.

Refinery Restores Worker Trust with Radius BZ1 Area Monitor, iNet Now and SAFER One

One of the largest petroleum refining companies in the United States struggled with area monitors that weren’t always reliable. The area monitors required frequent and time-consuming maintenance that was costing the company.

Buyer's Guide to Gas Detection

As a safety professional, you have an obligation to protect workers from hazards of all types, including potentially dangerous gases. Simply put, alerting workers to the presence of gas hazards can be a matter of life and death.

On-Demand - Making the Most of Alerts That Matter

In this webinar, we'll show you how to access critical gas detection safety data as an iNet customer, manage your subscription preferences for notifications and live alerts, and run reports to gain insights that can help you make informed decisions to bring your workers home safely every day.

Radius BZ1 Rental: Easily the Best Gas Monitoring Solution for Oil & Gas Well Plugging Projects

The first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil was made in 1859. One estimate suggests that since then, 3.5 million oil and gas wells have been drilled in North America.

On-Demand - Mastering the Critical First Hour: Operational Readiness For Hazmat Response

Join us for a webinar that explores using dynamic event modeling to optimize hazmat response while incorporating live updates into an evolving model to ensure hazmat professionals, first responders, and key stakeholders can share up-to-date information in a single, shared platform.

Radius® BZ1 Area Monitor with LENS™ Wireless Provides Ideal Solution

Five area gas monitors, one at each level of a Coker unit, were set up at one of the world’s leading oil refineries. With use of repeaters, each unit was configured to report information back to a central laptop computer. The lengthy setup time and issues with latency and signals burdened by the Coker unit infrastructure made this configuration challenging

On-Demand - How to Improve Safety While Modernizing Operations

Managing your workplace safety program is a weighty task—your workers depend on their gas monitors and any other equipment or software to help them finish the job and get home safely, no questions asked.

The Battery Life of the Radius® BZ1 Area Monitor Excels During Plant Shutdown

Continuous operational processes at an industrial plant are typically shut down 5% or less per year, yet 70% of major accidents occur during non-routine (start-up, shutdown, or online maintenance) operations. Why?

On-Demand - EMEA - Use the Latest Technology in Gas Detection at Lower Cost

When you have a short term application, you think about how to do your job properly and efficiently without much of cost. Learn how you can use the latest technology in gas detection instruments without spending much on it.

New Gas Detection Equipment and iNet® Exchange Restore Consistency

Two neighboring off-shore rigs owned by one of the world’s largest oil companies set the stage for a much needed unified solution: Platform 1, over twenty years in operation, equipped with an aging gas detection fleet that required ongoing heavy maintenance and replacement of parts; and Platform 2, a much newer counterpart, interchangeably operated by some of the same personnel, and yet to be outfitted with gas safety equipment.

On-Demand - Tips for Simple and Effective Gas Detection in Water & Wastewater

As a safety professional at a water or wastewater treatment facility, it’s your job to protect workers from hazards, including dangerous gases. Gas exposures can be a matter of life and death and there is no easy way to figure out what is happening across your sites, let alone to your workers in the field checking meters or monitoring water quality at a pump station.

Lone Workers in the Hierarchy of Safety Controls

A large oil and gas producer was in the market to outfit lone workers with new safety equipment at one of its operations in the western United States. Lone worker solutions have come a long way in taking full advantage of current technology. While lone worker solutions are important, they only make up a small portion of the PPE (personal protective equipment) market.

On-Demand - EMEA - How to use Connected Safety on your site

Using connected safety can bring the real-time visibility you need to improve safety, manage productivity, reduce risk and maximize your return on investment.

Leading Steel Manufacturer Cuts Maintenance Time with iNet Exchange

A world-leading steel and mining company’s plant in Saint-Chély-d’Apcher, France, specializes in producing electrical steel for use in automotive engines. The plant is one of the company’s 40 production sites and employs 200 workers who encounter toxic and flammable gas hazards.

On-Demand - Using Safety Data to Climb the Hierarchy of Controls Ladder

Do you use the Hierarchy of Controls as a basis to eliminate or substantially reduce the risk of injury in your workplace? Watch this recorded webinar where we discuss the hierarchy of controls, where gas detection fits in, and how gas detection technology and data points are helping companies like yours climb the Hierarchy of Controls ladder.

iNet Control Supports Safety Accountability at All Levels

iNet Control provides safety managers with operations-specific detail through easy-to-read summary reports that identify when, where, and for which users alarms occurred.

On-Demand - The Ins and Outs of Real-Time Area Monitoring

Are you concerned about the gas hazards your team is facing every day? Would you benefit from learning about ways to monitor these hazards in real-time, from any location? If so, watch the webinar recording on real-time area monitoring.

Fire Department Protects City with Industrial Scientific Area Monitors & Live Monitoring

A major metro fire department responsible for fire, hazmat, and public safety duties uses area monitors during large public events to detect gas hazards and determine whether to evacuate the area. The fire department’s previous area monitors were purchased for remote monitoring, but consistent connection issues prevented the area monitors from relaying gas readings to the mobile command center.

On-Demand - How to Prevent Would-Be Rescuer Tragedies

Did you know that an estimated 60% of confined space entry fatalities are among would-be rescuers?

Energy Provider Improves Safety and Reduces Costs with iNET Exchange

A subscription-based service for gas detectors that covers repair and replacement, iNet Exchange proactively replaces gas detection equipment, typically within 48 hours. Butagaz, a multi-energy provider for butane and propane gas with over four million clients, needed better maintenance and repair processes to protect workers across 16 industrial sites throughout France.

On-Demand - How to Build a Chemical Emergency Toolkit

The most severe hazards in the workplace are silent killers – they're the ones we can’t see. In fact, one worker dies from exposure to toxic chemicals at least every 30 seconds.

Proactive Safety: Radius® BZ1 and Ventis® Pro Working Together

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the United States provides a comprehensive publication entitled “Hydraulic Fracturing and Flowback Hazards Other than Respirable Silica.”

On-Demand - Connected Safety - What's the Big Idea?

Connecting machines and devices in industrial environments can improve operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and enhance worker safety

On Demand - The Secret to Improving Site Safety: Real-Time Area Monitoring

Now, more than ever, you need remote access and live updates into hazardous areas on your site. Whether you work in pipelines, fence lines, or chemical spills, knowing what is happening at any given moment increases reaction times while helping responders know what they are facing before heading into harms way.

On-Demand - The Secret to Eliminating Gas Detection Maintenance Pains

As a safety professional, the most critical aspect of your job is ensuring every employee makes it home safely every night.

On-Demand - Managing Workplace Safety from Home

Right now, many people are forced to work differently in response to COVID-19. For some, this means working remotely, while for others, this means working on site under different conditions. These changes can pose serious challenges, especially when it comes to managing workplace safety. During this webinar, you will learn how to manage workplace safety from home, so you can ensure your people are protected – no matter where you are.

On-Demand - Managing Gas Hazards in Confined Spaces

Four minutes is all it takes for a confined space entry to turn deadly. After only four minutes without oxygen, you can experience brain damage or even die.

On Demand - Product Demonstration: The Ventis® Pro5

If your workers were in immediate danger, would you know? With the Ventis Pro5, you have the power to connect your workers anytime, anywhere, so that you can respond quickly and efficiently in an emergency.

On Demand - How to use data to drive safety improvement - without crunching numbers all day

You don’t want to be stuck behind a desk, crunching numbers all day. And now, you don't have to. As data collection and analysis tools become more robust, it's easier than ever for you to use the insights they provide to focus your time in areas that will drive the largest improvements in workplace safety and health for your people.

On-Demand - How to Use Connected Safety on Your Site

Every day, you go to work and dedicate yourself to safety, making sure your workers make it home after each shift. You have invested in your safety program – including hardware and software to create a safer workplace.

On-Demand - Connecting Lone Workers to Safety

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a person will have been hurt at work, and by the end of the day, more than 14 people will have died.

Rental Readiness Checklist

Planning a turnaround, shutdown, or short-term project? This checklist makes it easy to prepare your gas detection rentals—so nothing gets missed when the pressure’s on. From workforce size to gas hazards, logistics, and equipment compatibility, this quick guide helps you stay ahead of safety gaps and avoid last-minute scrambles.

Emergency Response Team Secures Gas Detectors Within Hours Using Industrial Scientific’s Rental Program

Within 12 hours, Industrial Scientific delivered calibrated Radius® BZ1 Area Monitors and additional detectors, enabling the team to restore safe operations and protect workers during the critical first days of recovery.

Major Middle Eastern Petroleum Company Improves Remote Site Safety and Emergency Readiness with Connected Gas Detection

One of the largest national oil and gas companies in the Middle East needed a better way to protect workers across hundreds of remote well sites. With no cell coverage, no Wi-Fi, and only manual processes for gas detection and headcount tracking, safety teams had limited visibility and slow emergency response times. Working with Industrial Scientific, the company deployed a connected safety solution designed to operate without existing infrastructure. Using Radius® BZ1 Area Monitors, Ventis® Pro5 personal monitors, RGX® Gateways with satellite communication, and iAssign™ beacons, the system provided real-time gas monitoring, automated headcount tracking, and faster emergency response.

The Power of Connected Safety

How can a connected safety system strengthen safety protocols and even save lives? Explore this guide to discover expert insights on how connected safety improves communication, unlocks actionable data, and ultimately helps prevent workplace incidents.

Managing Gas Monitors in Extreme Weather Conditions

Extreme weather can compromise gas monitor performance, leading to inaccurate readings and increased safety risks. From scorching heat and bitter cold to humidity and dust, environmental conditions challenge even the most rugged devices.