DuPont Middle East seminar instills culture of workplace safety among Heriot-Watt University Dubai students
DuPont Protection Solutions recently performed a seminar for students of Heriot-Watt University Dubai to instill a culture of workplace safety amongst the impressionable youths at the Civil Defence Training Center in Dubai Academic City. The activity was specifically prepared to educate students on the safety procedures observed in oil, gas, mechanical, chemical and petrochemical operations.
The training seminar discussed established safety procedures and demonstrated the effectiveness and significance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Karim Dirani, Marketing Communications Specialist at DuPont Protection Solutions, and Youssef Andraws and Said Al-Harthy, the engineers who showed the formalities of PPEs and DuPont's Thermo-Man -- among the most advanced life-size thermal burn injury examination devices worldwide-- dealt with appropriate concerns and shared essential insights into office safety procedures and policies.
An emphasize of the workshop was the live presentation of the capabilities of the life-sized DuPont Thermo-Man mannequin system. The unit is fitted with 122 thermal sensing units which can measure body surface area temperature and predict body burn injuries in heat levels of approximately 1,000 degrees Celsius. It has actually been used by business throughout various markets all over the world-- including oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, electrical power, and fire-fighting services-- considering that the 1970s to test flame-resistant clothing and study burn injuries. The mannequin determines the fire protective performance of different garments and clothes systems-- including products enhanced with DuPont's cutting edge Nomex lightweight heat- and flame-resistant fibers-- under sensible flash-fire conditions.
DuPont will continue to promote higher awareness amongst youths who could one day avoid damages and save lives through their knowledge of fire risks and associated protective devices, strategies and technologies. It was an outstanding chance to share DuPont's work on making markets more secure through cutting-edge research and innovative protective measures and motivate future members of the workforce to adopt a safety-first frame of mind."
Dr Mehdi Nazarinia, Programme Coordinator Mechanical Engineering and IMechE Academic Liason Officer at Heriot Watt University-Dubai Campus said: "The level of research study done on protective clothing is impressive. A few of us will be working in harmful conditions once we finish, and it is assuring to understand that safety is taken this seriously. DuPont has actually invested great deal of knowhow and resources into these items and we're extremely grateful for them offering us understanding into exactly what goes on with research study, development and testing procedures."
The academic initiative was performed in line with DuPont's goal of favorably contributing to the improvement of the community by raising awareness on essential concerns being dealt with by the company amongst university students across the UAE. DuPont takes safety and protection seriously, working together closely with governments, commercial manufacturers, and academics on the development and screening of a vast array of security materials and technologies. The company is the developer of the DuPont Kevlar aramid fiber for ballistic and cut protection, the nonwoven DuPont Tyvek fiber for basic industrial defense, DuPont Tychem protective clothing for industrial chemical protection, and the DuPont Nomex flame resistant fiber.
