The Cold Zone Infrared Thermometer is perfect for measuring surface temperatures in grocery stores, food processing, food storage, cold chain monitoring, transportation, restaurants, convenient stores, HVAC, inspection, and general purpose industrial. The Cold Zone Infrared Thermometer outperforms other infrared guns at three times the cost in low-temperature applications.
This graph displays the error found in most IR thermometers when you take them into a cold environment. The competition requires you to allow up to 30 minutes for the IR thermometer to overcome ambient temperature errors.
Hot Zone Tape creates a barrier to identify the hot zone in a HazMat event. The hot zone is any contaminated or high-risk area within the immediate perimeter of fire or combustible products (including smoke and soot). Red with "Hot Zone" repeating continuously in bold, black letters.
Warm Zone Tape creates a barrier to identify the warm zone in a HazMat event. The decontamination area is in the warm zone. This area is located between the hot and cold zones and not near any fire or products of combustion. Yellow with "Warm Zone" repeating continuously in bold, black letters.
Cold Zone Tape creates a barrier to identify the cold zone in a HazMat event. The cold zone is for rehabilitation (rehab), post-decon treatment, or the command post. The cold zone is an area without any risk that is outside the hot and warm zones, ideally uphill or upwind. Green with "Cold Zone" repeating continuously in bold, black letters.
In Biomutant, there are many cold zones where sub-zero temperatures rapidly freeze you to death as the Cold Zone meter hits 100%. This makes it difficult to achieve crucial mission objectives, some of which are essential to progress the entire game.
All protective suits in Biomutant are acquired with the help of a technology called the PingDish. Each particular suit (cold zone, heat zone, biohazard, anti-radiation, oxygen) has a dedicated PingDish that will point you in the direction of the location where that resistance suit is hidden.
The use of hazard control zones is not a new concept in the fire service. Most typically, the fire service associates these zones, designated hot, warm and cold zones with hazmat operations. However, NFPA 1500: Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Program has specified the use of hazard control zones for structural firefighters for some time.
While it is obvious that operations in hot zones require full firefighter PPE where hazards and risks are the greatest, many firefighters are unsure as to the type of PPE that should be worn in the warm zone. Given concerns for exposure to products of combustion that are either airborne or occur through contact with contaminated items, increased guidance is needed for defining what PPE should be worn outside the hot zone.
While not popular (the first thing firefighters want to do is take everything off after the fire), this make sense. Yet, what should everyone else be wearing in the warm zone for contamination control? There is still handling of the PPE yet to be fully cleaned, dirty tools, hose and the potential for smoke exposure.
Certainly, some form of PPE should be worn to minimize contaminant transfer, such as disposable gloves for handling contaminated items before the contaminated items are either cleaned on scene, bagged or otherwise isolated. Contamination transfer to firefighter skin can further be mitigated by individuals in the warm zone wearing structural gear. Yet, the bigger question is respiratory protection.
For example, pump operators can get relatively close to the hot zone depending on their specific fireground duties. The question thus arises whether certain individuals should be wearing SCBA and when, or if there are alternative respirators to be worn that are subject to their own requirements and limitations. Right now, fire service occupational health and safety experts are debating best practices for protecting firefighters, but it does help to show one case where a difference was found by wearing SCBA.
This study showed that for engineers, the principal warm zone exposure to contamination is through inhalation and that wearing of SCBA on the fireground reduced their exposure to one type of known harmful airborne contaminant. (Note: This work will be published in a peer-reviewed journal article in the near future.)
Clearly, contamination control is taking many forms with different best practices. These include obvious changes, such as ensuring proper PPE wear in the hot zone, cleaning PPE more frequently, and practicing good hygiene post-fire. All of these practices help to reduce the overall contamination transfer possible following a structure fire.
One Friday afternoon last March, my manager asked me to represent nursing on a team of infection preventionists and epidemiologists to discuss the possibility of initiating a warm zone model (WZM). Until this point, I had been closely involved in opening our acute care units if the hospital was cohorting COVID-19-positive and person under investigation (PUI) patients. My role had primarily been validating personal protective equipment (PPE) skills and real-time training.
In early April, we began educating staff about the model and allowing staff to share their experiences and examples of time saved using the WZM. The team noticed improved knowledge of PPE donning and doffing procedures and reduced risk for self-contamination. Another helpful approach to support the WZM was to encourage clustering care and adopting total nursing care to minimize staff entering/exiting the hot zone more than needed. As COVID-19 admissions continue to rise, cohort unit staffing has increased, as well as utilization of the WZM across the Emory system. At Emory Healthcare, we developed useful resources from care protocols and guidelines to telemedicine and training. Look for our complete report in the January issue of American Journal of Nursing.
At the Indianapolis VA we did the same concept using red/yellow/green zones. Red was patient room, yellow the hallway and green the nurses station. ... This delineation seem to help decrease the staff proper PPE stress level. Read More
Hazardous Materials Response Team personnel are trained to operate safely within the release area and respond to control the release, contain the incident, determine additional courses of action, initiate survivor rescue, and conduct initial cleanup or neutralization of the incident site. Such teams will establish three control zones at the scene of the chemical release: the hot zone, the warm zone, and the cold zone.25,59,60 These zones will both help protect personnel from contamination and reduce its accidental spread by delineating where on the site different types of operations will occur and controlling the flow of personnel between them. Delineation of these three zones should be based on sampling and monitoring results and on an evaluation of potential routes of contaminant dispersion in the event of a release.
Before any responders enter hot zones, emergency medical responders trained in the recognition of signs and symptoms caused by hazardous materials intoxications and the delivery of antidotes/medical countermeasures should be on-scene and with appropriate resuscitative equipment/MCMs.
A few weeks ago, during the division series, Brandon McCarthy remarked on Twitter that it would be more interesting for TBS to show a diagram of the batter hot and cold zones for every batter than to show the PitchTrax strike zone and pitch location graphic. He argued that knowledge of the hot and cold zones would give viewers additional insight into the battle between the pitcher and the batter.
In order to evaluate the usefulness of the hot and cold zone data, I took the results of every plate appearance for which we have detailed pitch location data from PITCHf/x during the period 2007-2011 and assigned those results to the location of the final pitch of each plate appearance. I grouped the pitches by zones for each batter and calculated the average run values for each zone using linear weights. I split the data for each batter into two halves, randomly assigning games from 2007-2011 into each half for comparison.
First, I examined the traditional division of the strike zone into nine zones. I divided all the pitches within the strike zone that ended a plate appearance into nine fixed bins. I separated the pitches vertically at 1.74, 2.30, 2.86, and 3.42 feet. (I ignored the height of the batter, but when I controlled for it later, it had little effect on the split-half correlations.) I separated the pitches horizontally by dividing the plate in thirds at +/-0.83 and +/-0.28 feet.
I ran a regression for all the right-handed batters with at least 630 plate appearances in 2007-2011 that ended on a pitch in the strike zone. I used performance in a given zone in one half of the sample along with performance in the other eight zones in the same half of the sample to predict performance in that zone in the other half of the sample. The resulting regression equation is as follows, where performance is measured in runs above average:
The first group of zone data suggests that you want to pitch Michael Young on the outer third of the plate or over the middle of the plate if you keep the ball down. If you need to come inside, you might be able to sneak one up and in without too much damage.
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