Health and Safety Awards 2017

8 Corporate Vision / 2017 Health & Safety Awards K Company: International Water Mist Association (IWMA) Address: Poststrasse 33 (im HBC), 20354 Hamburg Phone: + 49 (0) 40 35085-215 Email: [email protected] Best Fire Suppression Technology Advocacy – Germany & Award for Excellence in Sustainable Safety Technology Development g HAS17011 In 2018, IWMA will celebrate its 20th anniversary, and the association is determined to draw on this vast experience to benefit its clients. The organisation and its variety of members all believe in water mist, demonstrate, explain, test, study and promote it. As an association, IWMA are in a position to bundle activities and to communicate with the media and at the same time other organizations, and as IWMA is the only organization dedicated to water mist and related technologies there is no alternative when it comes to promoting this technology. Water Mist is a kind of fire extinguishing and suppression technology. The agent to tackle a fire is water; actually less water than with a traditional sprinkler system. This makes it environmentally friendly and sustainable. The idea is to extinguish or to keep a fire under control by taking away the heat and the oxygen. A sprinkler system can only take away the heat. This is achieved by pumping water through specially designed nozzles. Part of the nozzle is a small bulb which contains a L-R: IWMA President Ragnar Wighus, first IWMA Award winner Daniel Martin © IWMA / Jasmina Rahmanovic