A self-retracting lanyard including a main body and a retractable line. The retractable line is coupled to the main body so as to be extendible and retractable relative to the main body and to be restricted from extending relative to the main body in response to a user of the self-retracting lanyard falling. The self-retracting lanyard further includes a manual control operable by the user to initiate controlled descent of the retractable line relative to the main body. The manual control may be operable by the user to deliver a fluid (e.g. compressed gas) from a fluid supply disposed in a housing of the manual control to an actuator of the main body to initiate controlled descent. Solar panel(s) may be disposed on the main body. When the retractable line is retracted, the housing may dock with and be charged by a solar powered charger disposed on the main body.

An augmentation amplifier is provided for aspirating gas flow from a surrounding medium. The amplifier connects at an inlet to a pressurized gas source and at an outlet to a gas receiver. Ambient gas from the medium supplements source provided compressed gas. The amplifier includes a Venturi conduit including a throat, an external cavity and a diffusion chamber. The conduit receives and flows pressurized gas from the inlet to the throat. The cavity receives ambient gas from the medium. The chamber expands and accelerates the pressurized gas from the throat to entrain the ambient gas via aspiration. The accelerated and ambient gases combine into an exhaust gas to the outlet.

A body belt for use by linemen and others engaged in operations on poles or similar structures having a secondary set of D-rings, typically disposed slightly rearward of the primary D-rings on the belt or an auxiliary belt or attachment above or below the primary D-ring of the belt. The secondary D-rings which may differ in size from the primary D-rings, allow a wearer to separate devices that are normally attached to the primary D-rings. This allows less crowding of the primary D-rings, thereby making detachment and reattachment of one or more ancillary safety devices from the body belt as a lineman encounters an obstacle during his or her work on a pole or other elevated structure, thereby improving safety. An add-on D-ring assembly is provided for retrofitting body belts of the prior art. In another embodiment of the invention, an auxiliary body belt is detachably connected to the primary body belt, the auxiliary body belt having its own set of D-rings. Rather than providing all four D-rings in a common plane, as described above, this embodiment provides one plane for the first set of D-rings (on the primary body belt) and a second, parallel plane for the second set of D-rings (on the auxiliary body belt).

Rapid evacuation of individuals from any building can be problematic. A hospital even more so as patient's often have the necessary motor skills but limited mobility. However, babies within neo-natal intensive care, infants and toddlers are particularly problematic as even under imminent danger they exhibit limited or no coordinated motor skills. In such situations an embodiment provides for evacuation devices for use by a single operator to move multiple infants or toddlers simultaneously both across a floor and down one or sets of stairs. Another embodiment provides for evacuation devices for moving intensive care neo-natal babies allowing the evacuation device to be moved by a single operator but allow another to be adjacent to the evacuation device to manually assist breathing both across the floor and within a stairwell as the evacuation device is taken down one or more sets of stairs.

A device for preventing immediate access to an object such as a key to a gun safety lock includes a platform adapted to receive the object. A container receives the platform and object. The container is filled with a fusible liquid such as water, the water is frozen and forms a body around the object. The container may include indicia such as photographs, quick response codes and telephone numbers for suicide prevention hotlines.

A system is provided for emergency egress training. The system includes a training building including a first story simulating a basement of a second building and a second story simulating a first story of the second building. The system further includes a platform defining an opening and including a base configured to mount the platform on a ground surface. The system also includes an egress well operatively connected to the platform at the opening such that a base of the egress well is positioned above the ground surface and wherein the egress well is further operatively connected to the first story of the training building. An emergency egress training method is also provided.

In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component; an industrial controller device that is configured to control an industrial device and includes a communication component; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the article of PPE and the industrial controller device, wherein the computing device is configured to: receive PPE data from the article of PPE and industrial controller data from the industrial controller device; determine, based at least in part on a set of the PPE data that temporally corresponds to a set of the industrial controller data, an occurrence of a safety event; and perform, based at least in part on the determination of the safety event, at least one operation.

A method for cleaning at least one breathing apparatus (112) is proposed, where the breathing apparatus (112) comprises at least one respiratory mask (114). The method comprises at least one precleaning step comprising the following substeps: a) providing the breathing apparatus (112) in an externally contaminated state; b) providing at least one holder (126) for the respiratory mask (114), the holder (126) having at least one curved sealing face (128); c) stretching the respiratory mask (114) onto the holder (126) such that at least one sealing lip (122) of the respiratory mask (114) lies on the curved sealing face (128) and closes off an interior (124) of the respiratory mask (114); d) introducing the holder (126) with the respiratory mask (114) into a precleaning chamber (150); and e) exposing an outer side (218) of the respiratory mask (114) in the precleaning chamber (150) to at le
The method may further comprise at least one primary cleaning step, which is carried out after the precleaning step and has the following substeps: i) releasing the respiratory mask (114) from the holder (126); ii) introducing the respiratory mask (114) into a primary cleaning chamber (172);
and iii) exposing the respiratory mask (114), including an inner side (216) of the respiratory mask (114) that faces the interior (124), to at least one primary cleaning fluid (186, 200).

A method for cleaning at least one breathing apparatus (112) is proposed, where the breathing apparatus (112) comprises at least one respiratory mask (114). The method comprises at least one precleaning step comprising the following substeps: a) providing the breathing apparatus (112) in an externally contaminated state; b) providing at least one holder (126) for the respiratory mask (114), the holder (126) having at least one curved sealing face (128); c) stretching the respiratory mask (114) onto the holder (126) such that at least one sealing lip (122) of the respiratory mask (114) lies on the curved sealing face (128) and closes off an interior (124) of the respiratory mask (114); d) introducing the holder (126) with the respiratory mask (114) into a precleaning chamber (150); and e) exposing an outer side (218) of the respiratory mask (114) in the precleaning chamber (150) to at le
The method may further comprise at least one primary cleaning step, which is carried out after the precleaning step and has the following substeps: i) releasing the respiratory mask (114) from the holder (126); ii) introducing the respiratory mask (114) into a primary cleaning chamber (172);
and iii) exposing the respiratory mask (114), including an inner side (216) of the respiratory mask (114) that faces the interior (124), to at least one primary cleaning fluid (186, 200).

An offshore oil and gas platform has equipment and piping associated with an oil and gas installation. A method for optimising fire protection for the platform includes arranging the platform to have an evacuation time of at most 15 minutes or less using one or more evacuation route(s) via a gangway or bridge allowing personnel to escape to a vessel or to another platform, determining a maximum evacuation time for the platform, assessing the risk to personnel using the evacuation route(s) in accordance with the determined maximum evacuation time in the event of a fire, and providing passive fire protection to equipment and/or piping on the platform in order to prevent escalation of the fire that would create a risk to personnel on the evacuation route(s) during the determined evacuation time.