Question:
Do you have a simple, turn-key solution for a simple, inexpensive tepid water pipe shower?
Answer:
Yes. Alpine Technical Services offers an excellent product called a “Tepid Shower Bundle” or ATS-TSB-H or ATS-TSB-B which combines a choice of high-quality pipe shower/eyewash combination products with a small commercial grade water heater and a robust, easy-to-use mixing valve. This innovative safety shower solution is fully compliant with ANSI Z358.1 (2009) standards for safety showers and eyewashes. It has been 3rd-party certified to provide tepid water for the ANSI-required 15 minutes, when installed properly.
Whether you have a small building needing only one safety shower/eyewash combination or you have a very large building(s) and operation that requires many safety shower/eyewash installations, this product ensures your compliance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.151(c) and ANSI Z358.1 (2009) for safety showers and eyewashes. Remember, while OSHA is not obligated to enforce ANSI Z358.1 (2009), it is increasingly common for OSHA to do so.
One of the potential solutions to the need for multiple tepid water safety showers, is an expensive and complicated engineered recirculating tepid water system where a long loop of pipe travels from an engineered tepid water heating system, complete with tanks, pumps, valves, etc., and moves from shower to shower, making tepid water available at each shower in the loop, until it returns to the heating system to be reheated. While there are advantages to this type of system in some circumstances, for many locations, a less expensive solution which requires substantially less maintenance is the Tepid Shower Bundle from Alpine Technical Services.
Another advantage of the Tepid Shower Bundle is that it does not require the moving parts, e.g. pumps, required by an engineered recirculating system. All moving parts eventually wear out and must be replaced. The only moving parts used in the Tepid Shower Bundle are the shower activation handle and linkage, the eyewash push plate and linkage, and the mixing valve handle. The shower and eyewash activation parts are, of course, required no matter which type of system that you go with. However, these parts tend to be very durable and reliable in high-quality showers, such as those provided by Alpine Technical Services. The mixing valve handle, once properly set for your particular situation, does not need to be moved, unless your incoming water temperature changes or you set the water heater thermostat to a different temperature.
The Tepid Shower Bundle is an innovative and inexpensive way to provide a tepid safety shower/eyewash combination solution for your workforce, as well as to comply with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.151(c) and ANSI Z358.1 (2009).