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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
By now , I guess that about half of the industrialised world will have seen the You Tube video of the Vodka warehouse racking collapse. For anyone who hasn't or just wants a second or third or fourth look, this is the link
After the sensationalism of the whooo's and aaahhh's and “was it staged” for the cameras, an important question is . What learnings can the Occupational Health and Safety community take out of it ?. I've already heard many “it would never happen in our warehouse” comments. But would it? Could it?
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Tuesday 17 November, 2009 07:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Modern machine and plant concepts demand safety solutions that can be flexibly and economically integrated into complex production processes. A major contribution in this respect is provided by a failsafe software controller that performs both process and safety functions jointly on an industrial personal computer.
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Thursday 12 November, 2009 02:19 PM |
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TRW Automotive Holdings Corp ., the global leader in active and passive safety systems, today announced the establishment of its second North American Driver Assist Systems (DAS) Engineering Center at the Company’s Livonia, Michigan headquarters. The new engineering center will focus on the development and testing of advanced radar applications to support TRW’s North American customers, and will work closely with the Camera Development Center located in nearby Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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Thursday 12 November, 2009 08:15 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
On the face of it, it seems simple - keep the pedestrians away from the vehicles and there will not be any pedestrian accidents. How hard can that be?
Roads are for vehicles, pavements are for pedestrians. QED i.e. quod erratum demonstrandum or that which was to have been proved
So what about the cyclists, don't they need to share the road. Well yes and no. So how do we keep the cyclists away from the automobiles.
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Thursday 12 November, 2009 01:51 AM |
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Maryland , with a pedestrian death rate that is significantly higher than the national average, ranks second from the bottom nationally in its spending of federal transportation funds on resources for walkers and bicyclists, according to a study released Monday.
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Tuesday 10 November, 2009 09:32 AM |
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Ed DeSmet, global safety belt technical specialist in Ford Motor Company’s Restraints Core Engineering department, is a self-described “car guy” who also has been an avid motorcyclist since his college days. He said he’ll never forget when his former father-in-law, who worked for Genesee County Police as the crash investigation reconstruction expert, showed him a graphic, four-inch-thick binder full of motorcycle fatality reports as warning.
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Saturday 7 November, 2009 08:46 AM |
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A top state official said today that the Bay Bridge is safe following six days of repairs but admitted that more could have been done to prevent a mishap last Tuesday that damaged three cars and forced the bridge to be closed.
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 11:07 AM |
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Regulators in France, Finland and Britain said Monday they have asked French nuclear engineering specialist Areva SA to make improvements to the design of a new generation of reactors.
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 10:01 AM |
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Exida , a global supplier of functional safety, security, and alarm management services and certifications, has begun offering an integrated testing package, which the company says evaluates the most important attributes of an automation product - functional safety, functional security, and availability. The move could help improve safety, functional security, and availability related to automation system integration and process control software upgrades implementations.
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 09:20 AM |
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Watchdog warns £20bn programme faces delay unless reactor designers improve performance
The UK’s £20bn nuclear programme is facing delays because of a failure to tackle design problems with their reactors, the Health and Safety Executive has warned.
A report by the HSE, seen by Building, said the two firms in the running to build the reactors had to put more resources into dealing with the safety assessment process if it was to be completed on time.
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Saturday 31 October, 2009 04:43 PM |
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When disease destroys vital parts of the eye, causing degrees of blindness, scientists can sometimes replace damaged tissue with electronic implants that help patients see lines and basic shapes.
A model of an eye with a newly designed implant from a Boston group of researchers. The tips of the implant’s electrodes, which help replace the work of diseased rods and cones, slide into a snug berth just below the retina.
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Wednesday 28 October, 2009 12:15 PM |
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Device will aid Health and Safety compliance and save money through better site management
Simeio™ the ground-breaking site personnel management tool, that will revolutionise the construction industry, today announces the launch of the first truly mobile site personnel management system designed to manage on-site attendance and Health and Safety information, in real-time.
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Thursday 22 October, 2009 12:16 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
OSHA yesterday released a report documenting serious shortcomings in Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Program, including failing to issue appropriate willful and repeat violations, inspectors who were not trained to recognize construction hazards, and lack of follow-up to determine whether hazards were abated. Nevada OSHA is under new leadership that is committed to resolving the concerns raised, the report points out.
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Thursday 22 October, 2009 08:48 AM |
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For the sake of your health you should give recently purchased vehicles a good airing.
It used to be that buying a new car was a totally positive experience. That was until somebody started testing the interiors for toxins.
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Monday 19 October, 2009 10:27 AM |
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A spate of suicides in France is raising new questions about precarious working conditions imposed by authoritarian management models.
The suicides coincide with findings by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that free trade policies have led to deteriorating working conditions around the world.
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Saturday 17 October, 2009 11:04 AM |
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New hose material avoids issues associated with transporting powdered foodstuffs
Trelleborg Industrial Hose, part of Trelleborg Engineered Systems, launches a new compound for food hoses that prevents the accelerated wear usually associated with static dissipation when transferring powdered foodstuffs. Following extensive laboratory tests and in applications with end-users, Trelleborg Industrial Hose can offer a white food grade compound that is conductive enough to dissipate static electrical charges according to ISO 8031 while meeting the requirements of FDA 21 CFR 177.2600. Critical tests with sugar have given outstanding results, proving the service life of the hose is increased tenfold when compared to a non-conductive white food grade hose
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Friday 16 October, 2009 11:51 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
An advanced nuclear reactor design , touted for its "passive" safety systems that can operate without human intervention, has been sent back to the drawing board because of safety defects.
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Friday 16 October, 2009 08:07 AM |
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Over 500,000 are injured every year from ladder accidents and it is estimated that around 300 people die every year falling from a ladder. The numbers are startlingly large, especially because there are many ways that these accidents can be prevented. Because of improper safety precautions and work conditions, many ladder accidents for people on the job. The OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has protocol for ladders on worksites:
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Thursday 15 October, 2009 01:25 PM |
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The number of construction deaths reported in the six months to 30 September was almost half the number in the same period last year, early figures from the Health and Safety Executive show.
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Thursday 15 October, 2009 09:23 AM |
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The number of fatality and permanent disablement in the workplace has gone up.
According to the latest WSH Statistics Report for January to June 2009 released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council, the workplace fatality rate saw a slight increase from 1.4 deaths per 100,000 persons employed in the first half of 2008 to 1.5 in the first half of this year. Not only in Singapore is working at heights a hazard
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Wednesday 14 October, 2009 10:59 PM |
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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has said more direct measures need to be taken to improve tower crane safety in the UK, in its response to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) tower crane register consultation.
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Wednesday 14 October, 2009 07:35 AM |
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