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Fire Proof Dangerous Goods Storage Cabinet Selection Guide

Are you looking to improve the safety and security of your company assets and staff? Do you have a problem of flammable liquids being stolen by employees or you just need your flammable goods handy for when you need then? If you do there is only one answer.

Dangerous goods Storage Cabinets are the only way to isolate and remove the issues mentioned above. Flammable safety Storage Cabinets provide a safe, close-by, secure and time saving method for storing all types of dangerous chemicals and help you maintain good housekeeping practices.

Benefits and features:

* Safely contain hazardous chemicals to reduce the risk of fire, protecting both personnel and facilities

* Identify, organize, and segregate dangerous liquids

* Offer compliance with federal OSHA regulations and state and local fire codes

* Improve efficiency by allowing solvent to be stored near the points of use

* Improve security with keyed locking mechanism

There are a number of cabinets available in the marketplace. People looking for a dangerous goods cabinet should confirm that at the least it should have the following features:-

* Fully welded construction

* 1.2 mm steel

* Double wall

* 400 mm thermal barrier

* Superior electrostatic high gloss powder coat finish

* Dual vents with built in flash arrestors

* Sequential self closing and latching doors

* 3 point locking mechanisms

* leakproof fully welded 150mm deep containment sump

* shelves with built in troughs to contain spills

* adjustable leveling feet to prevent doors binding

* Complete signage to comply with regulations

Compliance to Safety Standards

Flammable Goods Storage Cabinets are to be fire tested to comply with the FM rating in North America and exceed Australian Standards AS 1940. One of the benefits of Flammable Storage Cabinets is that they are available in a range of sizes to cater for a range of market needs. Cabinets range in storage capacity from 30 L right through to 350 L cabinets. The 350 L cabinet can hold up to 12 x 20 L drums. This ensures you can get the size cabinet required to suit your materials and your purse strings.

Apart from Flammable Cabinets, there are also chemical storage cabinets available made completely from Polyethylene for storing the most corrosive acids. For example corrosive vapours such as phenol, nitric acid, sulphuric acid and other substances can corrode metal surfaces like the door handle or hinges.

There are also alternative types of cabinets available for the full range of Dangerous Goods Storage. Other examples of Dangerous Goods Storage cabinets are Toxic, Organic Peroxide and Pesticide storage cabinets, so ensure you obtain the right cabinet for your materials and do not store incompatible Dangerous Goods in the same storage cabinet.

Todd Saunders has 17 years experience in Occupational Health and Safety Roles in Defence, Construction, Communications and Engineering Industries. He is the General Manager of Big Safety, a personal protection and safety equipment supplier. Big Safety provides equipment and resources to assist safety managers to make accurate decisions for the safety of their employees. A free OH&S hearing presentation can be downloaded by clicking Hearing Course

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