LABORATORY FASTENING - EARTHQUAKE
PREPAREDNESS
You may have noticed that despite warnings about being prepared, many businesses weren’t ready
when New Zealand was rocked by an earthquake.
The same thing is true of facilities stateside when it
comes to...
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LABORATORY FASTENING - EARTHQUAKE
PREPAREDNESS
You may have noticed that despite warnings about being prepared, many businesses weren’t ready
when New Zealand was rocked by an earthquake.
The same thing is true of facilities stateside when it
comes to laboratory fastening.
The unpredictability of earthquakes means a laboratory that hasn’t undergone a program of nonstructural seismic mitigation runs an inordinately high risk of damage and loss of equipment that could
result in the loss of critical research data.
And there are lots of labs in this category.
More often than not laboratory fastening is well down a business’s list of priorities, but the reality is
being prepared is the wisest choice you can make if your company runs a lab in an earthquake zone.
Not sure if you’re in a seismic zone? There are excellent maps on the USGS website that will answer
that question.
Earthquake experts constantly sound the warning bells about us being overdue for a big one, so it makes
good bus
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