Safety in refineries, factories, and generally in the whole chemical industry, is a number one priority. Not only is contact with chemicals potentially fatal for chemical workers but also for [...]
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Fires, floods, storms, tornadoes, and landslides – these are only a few examples of natural catastrophes man needs to be prepared for. In the ancient times, people felt unprotected, vulnerable, […]
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Air traffic has slowed down or virtually halted at some airports due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, it still holds true that the number of passengers moving at airports is [...]
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Forest and domestic fires are not the only cases when a fire is terribly dangerous. The annual damage caused by commercial property fires in the United States alone was estimated [...]
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Survival of the fittest. The Darwinian law that makes history and has always been right in various meanings. For humans, animals and basically for everything living. However, humanity shifts this [...]
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In the past, before modern communications, church bells were used to call the community together for all purposes, both sacred and secular. They rang in churches for a variety of [...]
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Extreme natural phenomena have always threatened humanity. Today, despite having numerous ways to respond to them, the frequency of disasters is dramatically increasing due to climate change. The number of [...]
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Climate change has recently caused an increased incidence and intensity of earthquakes, floods, or hurricanes. Warning systems, which lost their original form of only a few interconnected sirens long ago, [...]
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Ports are places of intense human activity and cargo transport. The busiest Europe's seaport, Rotterdam, handles more than 12 million containers a year (the so-called TEUs, twenty-foot equivalent units ). [...]
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There is no doubt that electronic sirens are useful for more than a single purpose. Besides emergency warning, they find their applications in many other places such as large industrial [...]
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