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How Audible Warning Signals Help with Evacuation
Above all, safety is our main concern, whether that’s at home, at school, at work, or in other public places. Nowadays, we can consider ourselves lucky because of the availability of devices that can help us avoid mishaps. One of the best examples of these are audio...
Effective Warning Lights for Better Awareness
Warning lights are used differently in varying states and countries. But the goal is to utilize warning lights that can provide better awareness for drivers, pedestrians, and others who are on or off the road. Motorists can associate varying flashing warning light...
The Role & Attributes of Aviation Signal Lighting
Aviation signal lights are of extreme importance, to ensure the safety of passengers, pilots, as well as cargo. Through the increasing use of LEDs or light-emitting diodes, lighting technologies have shown great improvement, whereas in the latter years, less efficient...
Beacon Lights for Safety & Automation
In the industrial environment, reliable lighting meets a growing array of tasks. It improves safety and allows the smooth flow of automation in several areas. Beacon lights often rise a little more than just illuminating a dark environment. In modern factories...
What Makes Loading Bay Lights Essential?
Loading docks with enough loading bay lights make it easier and safer for people to load and unload trailers, so these devices have become an essential safety tool on loading docks, far and wide. Loading Bay Traffic Lights Increase Safety And Productivity The most...
A Guide on Crane Warning Devices
Warning devices for cranes are essential, due to their tall construction. They give a message to people nearby, those who are passing beneath the crane, and also to nearby aircraft. Speed up Construction The erection of sturdy high-rise structures has never...
Stacking Beacons and Their Application
Stacking beacons are also known as indicator lights, signal tower lights, industrial signal lights, warning lights, Andon lights, light towers, and tower lights. They are most commonly used on equipment in process control...
Audible Warning Signals – Defeating High Noise
How can audible warning signals defeat high noise in a particular area? Sending a clear message to the public amid high dB levels becomes possible with the warning signals. Workers must be able to hear audible noise in spite of background noises. The conventional...
Installation & Maintenance of Visual Warning Beacons
Since warning signals are emerging as a necessity in the community, it is also essential to be sure about their installation as well as the proper way to maintain these devices. When installing hazard warning beacons, they should be placed in the most...
How To Choose The Right Warning Signal?
Choosing the right warning signal for a particular environment is easy if you know where to start. Different Warning Signal Applications Warning signals are generally used to increase safety in a certain area or location. They also help to prevent accidents in...
Reading Challenge – 40 books for 2014
I have always been a great reader; that is until around 5 years ago. Admittedly, business books and business related biographies - never the less I read a lot. You could even say that I had an addiction to seeking out great books to read. So what happened? Well, I...
techNOTE – Low Intensity Obstacle Warning
The second of our new techNOTE series is published today aiming to help you select the very best product for your application. This series will unpack some of the product differences across our range and outline the pros and cons of some of the individual options....
New techNOTE Series
The first of our new techNOTE series is published today aiming to help you select the very best product for your application. This series will unpack some of the product differences across our range and outline the pros and cons of some of the individual options....
Live Below the Line – Behind the Scenes
During Live Below the Line one of my friends sent me a web-link http://aethelreadtheunread.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/from-the-bbc-how-not-to-eat-healthily-for-1-a-day/, wherein...
Day 5 – And suddenly it’s all over! – Live Below the Line
All meals have been eaten, all drinks drunk, the boys have been full of energy but slept really well all week, and we still have £0.07 in the purse. It’s been an awesome experience on so many levels. I’ve lost weight but have been full of energy, I’ve saved a...
Day 4 – In Praise of Tinned Produce – Live Below the Line
I had a rather interesting comment from a friend today, who has not been as close as some to the preparation for this challenge. Having asked what sort of things we’ve been eating, the question was asked, “ Oh, have you not had any fruit then?” My response was of...
Day 3 – Hmmm……….Live Below the Line
Wednesdays are always quite an active day for the Whiten boys, as it’s PE and swimming lessons (and of course school) for the eldest, pre-school and swimming lessons for the middle one, and a busy morning for mummy and the baby gardening. This was the first morning...
Day 2 – Live Below the Line
Day 2 of Live Below the Line has been successfully completed! Although I was ready for my breakfast, I think it was more because this challenge has been so much on my mind for weeks all I am thinking about is food, rather than because I was overly hungry. I and the...
Day 1 – Live Below the Line
Day 1 of Live Below the Line is complete, and no tummies are rumbling, although I did have a wobble about 4.30pm so decided it was time to make the evening meal! Today was meatballs and pasta day. I based the meatballs recipe on my usual, but DRASTICALLY stripped, as...
EN54-23:2010 – Deadline moved to 31st December 2013
The coexistence period for EN 54-23 ended at the beginning of March 2013 meaning that "Visual Alarm Devices" (VAD) or "Beacons" sold for notifying a person to an Fire Alarm are required to be CE marked to EN54-23:2010. Due to the shortage of certified products in the...
How much is £20 worth? Live Below the Line
So the shops have been hit, the £20 note has been broken, and there’s a few quid still in the purse for the “renewals” later in the week. My eldest son (5 years old) has never been SO excited to see a pile of shopping as I laid it out to photograph, and then we set it...
Life (and shopping!) is all about choices – Live Below the Line
In preparing the menus for our Live Below the Line challenge, I have learnt a lot about myself and my shopping psyche. Having 3 small children I visit the supermarket probably 2 or 3 times a week to buy bread & milk, although I can often spend a minimum of £15-20...
New online delivery communications
We have worked hard to improve your delivery experience and have, following a thorough review, selected a new carrier for standard despatches. One of the key improvements for you is that we now have a new way for you to check your delivery status! Once you have placed...
Live Below the Line
D. G. Controls Ltd has always been run according to the highest ethical and moral values, and is well-aware of its wider social accountability; to use the correct terminology, its “Corporate & Social Responsibility” or CSR. Being a long-established business, but...
Tech Thursday – REACH (for the stars!)
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) REACH came into force on 1st June 2007, essentially an environmental and health & safety initiative to...
Congratulations to the team!
D. G. Controls Ltd has been an “Investor in People” since 2000, and has always recognised the importance of having well-trained staff in its teams. Internal and external training-providers are used, and all staff are encouraged to develop themselves within their...
Tech Thursday – Light Part 3 – Colour
This is the final instalment in our short three part series discussing Light. In the first part we will briefly looked at what we define light to be and went on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In the...
Tech Thursday – EN54-23
What is EN54-23? EN54-23 or to give it its full title “Fire detection and fire alarm systems – Part 23: Fire alarm devices – Visual alarm devices”, was produced to standardise the requirements, in terms of construction, robustness and performance of warning beacons...
Tech Thursday – Light Part 2 – Luminous Intensity and its measurement
This is the second instalment of a short three part series discussing Light. In the first part we briefly looked at what we define light to be went on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In this second part...
Light – Part 1 – Units and definitions
This is the first instalment of a short three part series discussing Light. In this first part we will briefly look at what we define light to be and go on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In the...