Hello and happy Wednesday, everyone. I'm Alex Salonen, Marketing Associate, and welcome to today's webinar presentation titled Making Confined Spaces Safe Spaces.
Our sponsor for today's webinar is Blackline Safety. Many thanks to them for making today's presentation possible. Our speakers for today are Todd Connelly and Jeff Strank. Todd is a Rental Sales Manager at Blackline Safety and a versatile business excuse me, a versatile senior business leader with twenty years of progressive experience in the clinical life safety industry.
At Blackline, Todd has been instrumental in establishing and growing a national rental partner network across Canada. His expertise spans stakeholder engagement, system development and innovative solutions for confined space monitoring.
Previously, Todd had roles at Multi-Gas Detection and United Safety, where he was responsible for all aspects of delivering safety and risk management services to varied industrial clients across the continental United States.
Our second speaker is Jeff. Jeff is the President and CEO of Proveo, a leader in the remote management of confined spaces.
As CEO, Jeff brings years of expertise in improving the safety of high-risk environments.
His career has been deeply rooted in the oil and gas industry, which has helped shape his approach to safety, innovation, and business growth. Previously, Jeff was VP of Business Development at Horizon North Logistics Incorporated and founder of Empire Camp Equipment, which he brought to a publicly traded company. Jeff's leadership at Proveo reflects his passion for pushing the boundaries of safety solutions, ensuring teams in hazardous space excuse me, hazardous spaces operate with the highest standards of protection, reliability, and efficiency.
Now Todd and Jeff have put together an excellent presentation for you all today and I know you're gonna get a lot out of it. But before we jump into that, I do wanna address a few housekeeping items. At the end of the presentation, there will be a Q&A session where I will ask Todd and Jeff some questions from all of you. You don't have to wait until the Q&A session to submit a question. You can do so at any point during the webinar.
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Thank you very much. We will get rolling and take a look at the agenda.
We're going to very briefly take a look at Blackline Safety, zero in on the challenges around confined spacing in general, look at improvements to the older technologies that have traditionally been used with confined space, and then look at some new technology advancements before we get into the q and a session.
So Blackline Safety is a company that is centered on our vision and our purpose. We want to transform workplaces using connected safety technology.
Our purpose is to ensure that every worker has the confidence they need to do the job and get home safe.
More than 2000 customers, more than a 165,000 workers, more than 7 million alerts, and more than 200 billion data points are part of what we do and the protections that we offer our clients.
We are a publicly traded company on the TSX, and we're vertically integrated. We develop our own products.
We manufacture the hardware. We are the software and service provider, and we are the monitoring partner for many of those customers.
Jeff, would you be willing to take off and do a quick refresher on with folks for the confined space?
You betcha. Thanks. Thanks, Todd.
Yeah. A little bit of a confined space refresher on OSHA's definition of a confined space. It is an area with limit limited or restricted means of entry or exit, large enough for workers to enter and conduct specific tasks, and not always designed for continuous occupancy.
Multiple potential hazards are always presented, O2 being a significant one, low air quality and airflow, darkness or poor lighting, engulfment risks.
And as you can see on the the center of the slide here, in 2018, which is now 6 year old data, 2.1 million permits were required for confined space entries in the US. So we can only imagine that this number has has grown significantly over the last six years. Some of the challenges that come with confined space is number one the fact is that that sadly deaths are still very much occurring in confined space despite I'll say global increased sensitivity to safety training and safety cultures.
Generally that's due to a lack of pre-entry on a lot of these.
A lack of proper equipment and non-compliant equipment and then the failure to plan is planning to fail as I think the saying goes.
And then the conditions change over time. That's the one thing that is definitely constant in confined spaces.
Is change is inevitable. It's going to occur so everything is always evolving throughout you know confined space entries and the way we enter them.
As mentioned in the last bullet here, not all confined spaces are are created equal. They're all very much different and different regions and different jurisdictions throughout I'll say North America and the US govern them differently or or manage them differently. Where you have different levels of confined spaces, low-risk, mid-risk, high-risk, all sorts of things. So there's always a constant requirement for updating and, training knowledge of how to enter confined space safely. Sorry.
Running on fumes here in Abu Dhabi.
Improvements for standard confined space entry tools.
Fight complacency. As I mentioned in the last slide, I think it's very important to constantly be doing refreshers, within our people, your people, any organization's people.
Training isn't a perishable skill or sorry. Training is a perishable skill that needs to be refreshed, and it's not always a one-and-done.
You know, annual or biannual safety training with regards to confined space entry is always important.
And then the equipment, prechecks of the equipment, prechecks of the areas, gas detection being tested regularly with bump tests and and calibration.
Todd, maybe I'll pass it back to you here.
Absolutely.
Gas detection is something that is ultimately to take for granted, And it is incredibly important to ensure that the gas detection is working in the way that the user believes it is prior to sampling that atmosphere and somebody accepting the risk of entering that confined space and breathing that potentially hazardous atmosphere.
Other things that need to happen, the rescue plan is very high in the list.
It is very rare that you can take a look at having a municipal rescue service arrive with no prior preparation and ensure that they're gonna show up with all of the tools, skills, and team members required to effectively conduct a rescue inside a confined space.
The most important thing is to enable a safety focused culture on-site.
And that is not as much a matter of meetings and posters. It's a matter of empowering the workers to think about what it is that they are doing and ensuring that it's happening in a safe way and that they've prepared for what can go wrong.
I think that a lot of this comes down to one saying. And despite some work on the part of both Jeff and I, we haven't been able to track down exactly where it came from. We've heard it attributed to Greek philosophers, one specific army ranger, US Navy SEALs, but it is true. Under pressure, we don't rise to the level of our expectations.
We fall at the level of our training.
When things go wrong, you can't expect that somebody under stress is going to be able to perform something if they've never practiced it and they're not familiar with it.
There have been some substantial new technology advancements that help us out for confined spaces.
One of the big things is connectivity.
Cloud connected wearable monitors and area monitors are now a best practice in this segment.
Interconnection with confined space monitoring ensures that connectivity even under the most challenging circumstances.
And all of this allows real time data from that entry point to get out to the people who can do something about.
You can have potential rescuers aware of what the data is. You can have tending workers aware of far more data, and being able to manage that data and manipulate it and look at it in ways that give them insights to what's happening inside, and they're better able to protect the workers.
With many spaces, workers who are inside the space can even have a device worn on their body that is connected.
And even with some of the more complex confined spaces, new technology is allowing that connection to extend outside the confined space.
You can also tag the data, indicating what type of operating mode that unit was in when the data was collected. And that can provide very valuable information after the fact to analyze what's happening on-site.
Another big advantage is that if the unit is properly connected, that data is all geo-stamped.
That improves emergency response, and it ensures that you actually have proper data integrity during investigation after an incident.
Other parts of connected technology, there could be two-way voice communication from workers with emergency dispatch.
You can make use of manual SOS latches that can summon help regardless of what the nature of the emergency is. You don't have to to wait until there is a toxic level of gas inside the confined space.
You can summon additional help regardless of what the reading is. You can also use proximity-based alerts to share notifications about events, and you can set up text messaging so that individual devices, groups of devices, or all devices on-site can receive notifications that assist in mitigating hazards when an emergency does happen.
There's also additional capabilities available when it comes to handling risk assessments that go beyond the surface level.
You have a better understanding of who's on-site, who's entering a confined space.
You can determine what has changed on that site over time, and share that information.
And you can also find out where exposures on-site may be happening.
And all of this data can be shared real time with multiple teams.
Safety team, emergency response, industrial hygiene, and it can be happening with information flowing to corporate, information flowing to different people on-site, and information flowing to chosen contractors on-site that are supporting the site owner.
You can also tag all of that reading data based on the usage, whether it's normal operation, and that's representative of what the person wearing the unit is breathing.
You can tag it as pre entry when you're sampling gas that's inside a space before anybody has entered.
You can tag it as checking for leaks.
You can also tag separately if somebody's wearing SCBA and they are protected against respiratory hazards, and they're using that gas detector to sample for a known gas concentration, or they're getting protection against explosive gas. You can also say that the unit is in continuous pump run, and they're pulling a sample from the end of a tube, indicating, hey, this person is not breathing it, but they are sampling what is going on in a different space.
Those monitor tags are one of the main tools that inform analytics.
When you take a look at what is possible with the data that's collected, you can find out a wealth of information that can drive decisions around how are the devices being used, how are they being maintained, What's the compliance level for calibration and bump tests?
How how often are they being used throughout the entire shift that a worker is in an area that may potentially have a hazard?
You can build training around actual data that's coming from your real world use cases, both in confined space and with other aspects of gas detection on-site.
You can also take that data, process it, extract real insights, and allow those decision makers to make specific data driven decisions that are actionable and produce real results.
Jeff, I think you've probably had some good experience with looking at trends, and you will provide some input on improving safety and boosting boosting productivity.
Yeah. Thanks, Todd.
Yeah. With the with the help of of the Blackline portal and and online system, which does connect, and we'll get into that in the next slide with Proveo system. We've been able to to obviously report and track gas levels within confined spaces on a 24/7 basis. So when there is or has been an incident, we know exactly what gases were were in the vessel or, the employee or the worker was being exposed to.
And then on top of that with our system again, what I'll get into in the next slide is is the data that we record with regards to entries and and how many entries are occurring, how long individuals are staying within a confined space and working within the confined space, and all sorts of things. But data, as I think everybody on this on this call would be well aware, is is definitely already here, globally within all sectors. And and it just helps us improve, for this specific issue, the safety of of the worker.
Remote confined space monitoring.
What we do is we we take what Blackline does for us at an expert level and bring it into our system. So Proveo is a vertically integrated remote confined space monitoring, company that designs and builds our own systems.
We we have a plug and play situation with Blackline where their system speaks to our system and and vice versa.
Remote monitor remotely monitored hazards, climate and air quality, and critical to workers' lives. What we do is we enhance the gas detection to the 24/7 level, within the confined space.
We do access control.
So an individual would would badge in or badge out with the access control. And if they're not permitted to be in a specific confined space, it quickly notifies them and us so that we can intervene in the situation.
We have internal and external video and audio surveillance and and not surveillance, sorry, video surveillance and and audio communication with the workers and individuals inside the vessels to to keep them comfortable with regards to temperatures and ventilation.
We do also do the climate control and ventilation as you can see. And then most importantly, if there is an emergency, the system can alert any or all vessels or confined spaces at once. So if it's one specific vessel that needs an evacuation, we have an internal intercom strobe and siren that alarms and it is very clear that that it's time to evacuate that specific area.
Just a remote confined space monitoring case study. This was a project we executed in in spring of this year.
It it was a large one. I I think North America wide, it it was probably one of the larger ones this year.
We did a 160 consecutive spaces monitored. Or 167 consecutive spaces monitored.
Some of the benefits that come with remote confined space monitoring is exposure hours as you can see, and then the cost. But we also feel that it's a it's a safer method of doing business, and doing safety. If we went all the way back to, I think, slide four or five, you know, many of these deaths are are are licensed rescuers going into a vessel to try and help, an individual that's in distress, where our system doesn't allow for for that to occur.
We work with with the site owners and the site leaders on on instituting, you know, their emergency protocol.
The conditional considerations for our technology are are shutdowns and turnarounds, anywhere where there's increased workforce required, and then less familiar contractors on a site. So for instance, you know, generally on a turnaround situation or in a in a maintenance situation, you're bringing in third party contractors that aren't familiar with your site, and in droves or in large numbers. We reduce those numbers, by a six to one ratio.
Yeah.
Oh, sorry, Todd. I think I jumped one more by accident there.
Oh, okay.
The key takeaways, at the end of the day are are properly training your employees and always refreshing, you know, the safety information.
Pre-entry checks are absolutely essential.
One thing that I will say that the the technology and the remote confined space monitoring coupled with Blackline gas detection, helps with is generally when a pre-entry is is is done and the operation is helps with is generally when a pre entry is done and the operation is 24/7.
Most cases you're generally clear throughout the rest of the turnaround to continue working in that space safely due to the constant monitoring of the space.
And yeah, having a plan is is absolutely essential.
Todd, maybe I'll turn it over to you on the new technology side here.
Yeah. Absolutely.
One of the best ways to take advantage of the new technologies that have developed recently is to use confined space monitoring to reduce costs, reduce risks, and improve the level of safety and productivity on-site.
By cutting back on those hazard hours, you're making a substantial improvement to what's happening on that edge.
And I was shocked when this first happened on the project I was involved with back in twenty sixteen.
This is the first time these mechanical contractors had ever encountered confined space monitoring.
And within a week of working with the system, their commentary was that they had no interest in going back to conventional tending workers.
They found that there was such an advantage for them in constantly having that confined space ready to enter with no issues. There was no additional pre work that they had to do. They didn't have to worry about having that specific whole watch signed onto that permit.
And it substantially increased their ability to communicate with people outside the confined space about nonemergency matters.
Another thing you can do is take a look at connected gas detection and the communication that it provides and the places that it can make that data available to help solve problems on-site.
Because that information about what's happening with the atmosphere has traditionally been siloed to the person physically holding the unit.
And when you can take that information and spread it out to all the other stakeholders, there's a huge improvement in the effectiveness.
You can also optimize your response and the efficiency of that response with effective communication. You can send the right information to the right people, and you can let them inform people on-site that, yes, the response is underway, and they can have better awareness of what's happening at site prior to even arriving there. They can understand exactly what the atmospheric hazards are inside a confined space. So they know prior to arriving at the man way, will supplied air be required? Will the respirator be required? Can we enter without?
There's also big advantages for conducting that risk assessment with in-depth data. If you have solid data about what has been happening in the area, There are substantial advantages available to you about or with regards to that risk assessment and avoiding potential pitfalls.
And finally, collecting data and having it in a manageable pool means that you're able to analyze it. You can improve safety, and you can improve your own compliance.
Okay.
Jeff, any final things before we move over to questions?
No. I think you you've you've touched on everything great.
Well, Todd and Jack, that was just a terrific presentation. You both covered a lot of ground and we've got some good questions. So let's dive right in. Our first question is, can you talk a little bit about the difference or advantages of the two way communication system compared to using cell phone?
Absolutely. Did you wanna remove that, Jeff?
Or Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, specifically with regards to cell phones, the two way communication on the gas detection or two way communication on the confined space monitoring. That's, I think, a little bit of a sticking point. But if it's specific to the confined space or the remote confined space monitoring, 99 or a 100 of confined spaces generally are are are cell phone free, at least in our jurisdictions.
Yeah. And yeah. There's no intrinsically safe, cell phone. So, most cases that we work in or Prevail works in, the cell phones are are are not allowed in the confined space. So the the two way is is the only mode of communication.
And, yeah, I don't know if the question was specific to the two way communication on on the gas detection, Todd.
But Yeah.
I think I think the confined space monitoring side of it is is a logical place to start, because the RCSM system provides that robust two way communication system from inside the confined space no matter how challenging the situation is.
Even if all the concerns around cell phones weren't there, if every cell phone was intrinsically safe, if there weren't issues with bringing them on many sites, a lot of the time, once you're inside a confined space, you're not getting a cell phone signal.
It's, everybody's been in situations where they go into an elevator and their their cell phone doesn't work.
Once you're inside a confined space, the chances of having a good connection are very, very small.
When it comes to differences between two way communications versus using cell phones, when you're not physically inside that confined space, if you are attending worker, if we're looking at, members of a rescue team that is responding, it's one less piece of equipment.
Those folks were already using a gas detector.
Why shouldn't that piece of equipment also provide information that they need?
Information about an event that's happened in the area that they're informed of. Information about the event they're responding to.
So there is a significant reduction in the workload for that person by not having another device they need to worry about.
Thank you so much both for answering that question. Our next question is a two part question. So first, what are some vendors of cloud connected detectors?
And secondly, does this imply that there is a WiFi network that is working in area of confined space?
Okay.
Vendors for cloud connected detectors? Blackline would certainly be one.
We pioneered the concept of a cloud connected gas detection system.
And, arguably, we are leading that front. Jeff, you can probably speak to that from a more, even handed perspective than I can.
Yeah. Yeah. So with regards to cloud connection or Wi Fi, generally, our well, not generally. A 100% of the time, you know, Prevail specifically would bring our bring our own system, closed loop system into a site. A lot of the sites are are very sensitive with regards to their internal data and their internal production, and they don't want anything potentially tripping that up.
But we can do both options in terms of a WiFi scenario or a hard line scenario. A lot of our clients with the size and scale of these sites and the amount of iron and and steel and aluminum, generally prefer a hard line for reliability, but we do have the capability of going wireless as well.
Yeah. I don't know if that answers the question, super well, but that is generally how we operate.
Jeff, this next question is for you. For remote, confined space monitoring, how does it work with one person monitoring multiple entry points?
Yeah. So back in two thousand sixteen, seventeen, we worked with the jurisdiction in in Canada, and developed, the the goalposts specifically for for that region.
And cognitively, we discovered that that one person can generally monitor anywhere from ten to fourteen manways on a on a screen. But coupled with that person is always a rover in the field. So so we would we would, you know, sell our product as a six to one reduction in headcount.
So, generally, we're monitoring, you know, in that twelve-man way, or twelve entry points at any given time with two people. So and they would trade off every, you know, 60 to 90 minutes so that that they're that they're always aware and always alert.
And the person in the field, the rover would generally be checking on all of those entry points, making sure all of our equipment is up to snuff, communicating with the workers inside, making sure everything is good on their front, and so on.
And Todd, our next question is for you. What kind of data-driven decisions can you make with the analytics information?
That's an excellent question. One of the main things that come up is having the the data that's coming in tagged will allow you to truly understand what gas readings represent a specific respiratory hazard to workers on-site, and what gas readings are from situations where the worker was not actually exposed.
So this safety and industrial hygiene team can understand what has happened in terms of exposures on that site during an event or exposures on that site over a longer period of time.
You can also take a look at instances where you have data coming from a site and information about toxic gas or combustible gas that you are seeing.
If it's geotagged, you can use that over time to build an understanding of where you have issues with leaks or releases that are causing issues on your site.
Even if they're not substantive exposures, over time, that information would be compensated into a better understanding of the problem points you have on your site.
Awesome. Thank you so much for answering that. This one's open to whoever would like to answer it. Do you offer rental programs for large events such as turnaround?
Absolutely. That is events such as turnarounds, outages, major capital projects are essentially at the focus of what both Jeff and I do.
Yeah. Just coupling on to to what Todd, just said. Yeah. Absolutely.
We would, license or rent, any of our products.
The one caveat would be that that your individuals would need to be trained in in remote confined space monitoring and and the gas detection, to to operate our assets, but absolutely.
Our next question is, do you have to inform or train a CSC rescue trained fire department before you perform a permit required confined space entry or is nine one one acceptable?
Want me to take your time? Yeah.
In terms of have to, I am not gonna try to speak as to what the legal obligations are in your jurisdiction because I simply don't know.
What I will say is that from my own experience, dialing nine one one is very seldom going to result in a positive outcome because the department that's responding has no idea what they're stepping into. And they have no way of being prepared for what they're stepping into with a confined space that is unknown, with hazards that are unknown.
Most of the time, when they arrive, they're gonna have rather large and bulky self contained breathing apparatus as their only respiratory protection.
Those are not a good fit for confined space rescue. Having worked on a confined space rescue team, the challenges that those introduce are substantial.
I am aware of a very specific instance that happened on a site where the rescue plan for high angle work that was similar in some ways to confined space was to dial nine one one.
They dialed nine one one. The local municipal volunteer department showed up. It was about a thirty minute delay where the individual that they were trying to rescue was physically it was partially crushed in an area.
They responded. They took a look at it and says, we're neither trained nor equipped to conduct this rescue.
We're gonna have to make a call to a local city to get their high angle technical rescue team out to conduct this. There was about another sixty minute delay before those people could arrive and then start beginning a rescue plan.
So whether it is an internal rescue team, a contractor rescue team, or a discussion beforehand with the local municipal department.
My personal opinion is that there does need to be a preexisting plan that involves the agency conducting the rescue.
Our next question is kind of fills off an example. So suppose I have a big confined space furnace, but I have half of my hand inside of it, and let's just say half of it. How do we move on that as a confined space entry or not?
Sorry. I don't know if I heard that perfectly. Sorry.
Half of the what in the confined space or in the in the vessel?
So in this specific example, we'll say that, half of your hand is within the big confined space furnace. I guess, would you consider that confined space entry or not?
Like, your physical hand or or your hand as in your hands as in your craft or your work? Sorry.
I I've never experienced a I don't know, Todd, if you if I'm I think hearing this wrong or I think that, if the question is half of your actual physical hand breaking the plane of the confined space, the answer to that lies in the local legislation and the site policy.
Personally, based on most of the sites I've been to, once the plane of that confined space is broken by a body part, that counts as a confined space entry and should be managed as such.
Yeah.
Thank you both for that.
Okay. Yeah.
Oh, no. Go ahead, Jeff. Take it away.
I just see in the question here now specifically, and I and I think the question is more related to the people, hands as in all of the people, the the workers.
How do we move on that is a confined space entry or not? It's all based on the local jurisdiction is is the answer to the question. Todd answered it perfectly. It's it's all dependent on on what your local region, you know, defies a a defines a a confined space as. So yeah.
Thank you so much for that. Our next question is how do you know when a safety guard is needed to visually monitor the condition of the person working in a confined space?
How do you know a safety guard? Sorry.
You're all good.
I will kinda read the question, and we can figure it out from there. So how do you know when a safety guard is not needed or is needed to visually monitor the condition of the person working in a confined state?
Again, I think it's all up to the the local jurisdiction. By safety guard, is that the safety guard going into the confined space? And if so, we generally eliminate the safety guard with remote confined space monitoring with the with the badging station, specifically. But then they are instituted in certain situations where if the confined space is in a in a large vessel, tall vessel, and there's obviously any risk of a potential fall inside, there there's reminders for that worker on the safety guard to to be prepared with the PPE and the proper training as they go in. But, and then it's visually monitored as mentioned earlier in the presentation. With remote confined space monitoring, We we monitor the entry point from the exterior and also the interior.
Thank you so much for answering that one. How do your systems communicate to each other?
Hey, Todd. I'll let you lead this one maybe. Absolutely.
When we're on-site, Proveo has a local network set up with appropriate redundancies that is robust and secure.
And then the Blackline gas detection information actually feed is fed to that network via a hard line output. And we've worked very closely with Proveo over the past few years to refine that output and ensure that you're getting exactly the sort of reliable flow that we need.
Yeah. And just adding on to that. Thanks, Todd.
You know, the gas detection readings from Blackline come directly into our system.
I I think there's a question in here that I I've seen that, asks about levels, and and we preset the the barometer or the levels that the specific client is is is working with or within that jurisdiction.
And not only does the Blackline unit alarm at the at the hole or at the banway, but so does our system. So again, it's almost like a a a double check of sorts on the safety and the gas levels of those individuals in that in that area.
Can you talk a little bit on how the Blackline units connect if it's not through a cell connection?
Absolutely.
In some cases, it will be through a cellular connection. In other cases, if it is a temporary interruption, that data will be logged and then transmitted as soon as there is a new connection.
Outside of places where there is a satellite connection available or a cellular connection available, Iridium satellite is an option.
We also have options using a local nine hundred megahertz network. And, of course, connecting into a local network like the one that Proveo has on-site for the remote confined space monitoring. So essentially, the answer is we work with the site and the end user to ensure that there is a appropriate method of connection available.
Thank you, Bo. Our next question is, is working in a cage within a trench still working in a confined space?
Alright. This again, sorry, Todd. It goes back to, I think, your local jurisdiction Mhmm. And their definition of it.
Absolutely.
Can you please talk a little bit on how we can do the confined space reclassification?
That's another question that is gonna come right back to the local jurisdiction.
It's very challenging for us to, to try to infer what jurisdiction we're asking a or the question is being asked about or what the specific requirements are.
Yeah. Adding on, Todd, to Todd. Sorry.
We work closely with all of our clients and their local jurisdictions, where variances are required.
I will say that we've never piloted our technology along with Blackline's Gas Detection and had an instance where, it wasn't a safer solution and an accepted solution in the sense of of of what we were doing.
It's a matter of sometimes, obviously, rewriting code or whatnot like we've done in the jurisdiction of where, Blackline resides and so does Proveo in Alberta and Canada. But, yeah, we've worked with all all types of jurisdictions and and whatnot to help achieve variances and had great success with it.
So This next question is a two-parter.
How do you calibrate the gas monitors, and how frequently is calibration required or recommended?
Okay. I will field that one.
The gas monitors are calibrated by exposure to, first a cleaner sample or a zero calibration, and then they are exposed to a known concentration, what we call a SPAN calibration.
And all of this is managed within the gas monitor to simplify it. So you don't need a highly trained technician to do it. It is something you can train a broad variety of employees to do.
That information is then logged both within the monitor and transmitted to the cloud and logged there. And that information is also shared directly with the remote confined space monitoring system.
In terms of how often, manufacturer's recommendation from Blackline is that you calibrate no no less frequently than once every six months.
However, if there's a specific if there's a site specific requirement or other requirement to change that, we actually have the system built so that you can set programming within the unit to indicate when it is due for calibration if you want to change that that time in your home.
Alright, everyone. It looks like our time is up for today, and we will have to end our q and a session there. Remember, in the next day or two, we will be emailing you a link to the archived version of this webinar so that you can view it again or share it with a colleague who might have missed it. Now before I sign off, I do wanna give a couple notes of of thanks. First, I wanna thank one last time our sponsor for today's webinar, Blackline Safety, for making today's presentation possible.
Second, I would like to thank our speakers, Todd and Jeff. Todd and Jeff, thank you both so much for sharing your time and expertise with all of us here today. It is greatly appreciated.
And last but certainly not least, I wanna give a special thank you to all of you who listened in and participated with us today. You are the reason we do this, so thank you very much for your interest and involvement.
Now with all of that being said, it is time to sign off. I hope everyone has a great rest of your week, but for now, goodbye until the next occupational health and safety webinar.
