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Hot Working Conditions Result in Significant Medical Costs for Businesses and Employees

As temperatures continue to rise each year, more and more workers are facing devastating health risks associated with heat-related injuries. Each year, approximately 2,000 workers in the United States suffer fatal injuries from hot working conditions. An additional 170,000 individuals suffer heat-related injuries on the job which result in long-term disabilities. The devastating impact to…

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Hot Working Conditions Cause Productivity and Profits to Plummet

You rely on your employees to perform their job accurately, effectively, and efficiently in order to maintain an optimal profit margin. When their performance and productivity drops, it can have a significant impact on your bottom line, your perception among your customers, and your overall success. During the summer months, hot temperatures often create suboptimal…

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Are Hot Trucks Threatening the Health and Productivity of Your Workers?

Summertime can create grueling conditions for workers tasked with unloading shipping trucks. Whether the truck has spent days on the highway or was simply docked at a shipping facility for an extended period of time prior to unloading, temperatures inside the shipping container can be downright brutal. These trailers function as mini ovens when it…

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What Is the Most Sustainable Cooling Solution for My Industrial Business?

Industrial businesses rely on high levels of performance from their employees to ensure the job gets done quickly and accurately. However, scorching summer temperatures around the country cause many industrial facilities to become unbearably hot. These excessive ambient temperatures in your work environment can have a devastating impact on employee safety, efficiency and motivation. This…

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How Effective Are Evaporative Coolers for Industrial Spaces?

If you have an industrial space you’re working in, you’re starting to realize just how hot it is going to get. Whether you’re using it for manufacturing, assembly, or even as affordable office space, you need an effective cooling solution for this industrial facility. You might have looked at air conditioning and realized just how…

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How Effective Are Industrial Fans?

Do you have an industrial space like a factory, warehouse, or shop floor that you think would benefit from an industrial fan? If so, you might be wondering whether an industrial fan will be effective for the space. The answer is: it depends on what you want the fan to do. Industrial fans are effective…

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5 Things to Consider When Buying a Portable Industrial Fan

If you work in a garage, hangar, or machine shop, the heat probably gets unbearable at times. Depending on the type of shop and its location, the heat might only be exceedingly bad in the summer, or it might build up all day so that the last hour of work is always hard. In response…

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Will Industrial Fans Keep My Workspace Cool?

A lot of workplaces get extremely hot. When you’re working with hot equipment like welders, torches, and furnaces, the heat can get intense. Even tools like grinders can run hot, and when you add to that the heat your body generates when you’re involved in tough, physical labor, it’s hard to keep cool. When the…

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Tips for Establishing a Heatstroke Prevention Plan at Your Industrial Facility

Heatstroke can be dangerous, even deadly, for your workers. When it pops up, it can slow, even stop production at your facility. But the consequences can extend far beyond a slowdown or shutdown. You might lose valuable workers and have expensive workers’ compensation benefits and/or premiums to pay. In cases where your facility isn’t adequately…

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Quality Product Comes From Quality People

As the world-class leader of evaporative media and portable evaporative cooling solutions for more than 30 years now, Portacool is proud of the outstanding teams that serve as the foundation of our organization. We are proudly based in Center, Texas, where we manufacture high-quality, innovative, made in the USA evaporative cooling solutions. What does life…

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