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The Oil & Gas industry has the opportunity to proactively reduce the long term respiratory and dermal health problems caused by prolonged exposure to drilling fluids and their vapors, and provide another tool in combating unexpected encounters with H2S. The Oil & Gas industry has significantly improved the occupational safety of various functions of daily operations, with over a 65% decrease of the Total Reportable Incident Rate over the last ten years through improvements in both technology and procedures.i
While respiratory and skin illnesses made up about 47 % of occupational illnesses, they only accounted for six percent of lost workday cases. The Vapor Extraction or VE is a self-locking hood, which covers a shaker’s screening surface in order to avoid exposing personnel and surrounding equipment to potentially harmful vapors. |
