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GAO Report: OSHA Should Take Steps to Better Identify and Address Ergonomic Hazards at Warehouses and Delivery Companies

What GAO Found Three (3) major hazards caused most of the injuries and illnesses in general warehousing (which includes e-commerce warehouses) and the companies that deliver these orders to consumers (“last-mile delivery”), according to Bureau of Statistics (BLS) data. Overexertion and bodily reaction, the most common hazard (see figure), can cause musculoskeletal disorders, such as…...

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13 Carcinogens Standard (29 CFR 1910.1003) specifies several paperwork requirements

The following is a brief description of the collection of information requirements contained in the 13 Carcinogens Standard: Further, employers must retain worker medical records for specified time periods and make them available upon request to OSHA and NIOSH…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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Incipient Stage or a fire needing a Fire Brigade? (Video)

This week, a LinkedIn post by Ed Davidson garnered some comments that disagreed with my comments about how the video should be used to show HOW NOT to respond to a fire that is (IMPO) beyond its incipient stage. As I had stated in my comments, some will celebrate the actions of those involved rather…...

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Safety Thought of the Week – Reacting To Failure (Sidney Dekker)

As an accident investigator this has to be one of my favorite books. Of course, I am a massive fan of Dekker’s books and videos. He has a newer book on this topic that is also a MUST-READ for safety professionals and accident investigators. After nearly 16 years as a safety professional in the chemical…...

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Visibly witnessing the MIE of LPG

Lots of folks find it hard to believe when I discuss Minimum Ignition Energy for flammable vapors/gases and Combustible dust. When we get “shocked” by a door handle in the wintertime, and we can feel it, that is around 10-15 mJ. Most common flammable gases and vapors now have MIE’s less than 1.0 mJ. Watch…...

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10,000% Compliance

Please keep in mind that I am speaking strictly in terms of “complying” with required baseline standards and codes. Is 10,000% compliance a pipe dream? Should it be an expectation of the business leaders? 10,000% means 100% compliance -100% of the time. Remember, these are baseline standards/codes that have been in place for 40-50+ years…...

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True Facility Siting – Louisville Explosion

This Louisville explosion has started the debate about the plant being in a residential area. What most of the media and local politicians fail to mention is that the plant has been there since 1948. The neighborhood was allowed to build up around it because of lax zoning and spineless politicians. So to blame the…...

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In the name of saving the planet, we are making some terrible decisions

For example, the popularity of flammable refrigerants. The risk is real! R-600a is an isobutane, a flammable substance like you might find in a cigarette lighter. https://www.wftv.com/news/local/it-blew-right-across-his-home-appliance-expert-warns-about-potentially-explosive-refrigerators/T7MZ3NZXQZBVRIXEKEFYIASOQQ/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGk79ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUSSh_owUKgWKjC4TZImcC-Gmc9RGcLqgzWxhlB6Iq8tNDI3jsoDidCcFQ_aem_jWZES3No6izvUHuHsJGQEg

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My take on Louisville Explosion

The Courier-Journal has released more photos. Below is my analysis of these photos, using their and Google Maps road images. The first image below is the PRE-EXPLOSION image. In it, we can see the two (2) standing cooling towers/condensers. The one in the blue box is the one that was destroyed and came to rest…...

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Management’s 3Cs

A few years ago, I put forth the idea that workers pass through the 3 Cs in their decision-making process as they learn to take more and more risks.  Those three (3) Cs were: That article stirred quite a bit of debate among the SAFTENG community and so I thought it was time to share…...

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What am I? #1

For each one of my Advanced SMS courses, I always start the course by having the students list the 16 Elements of the SAFTENG Safety Process/SMS in order of importance.  I tell them there is no right or wrong answer.  Over the past couple of years, I began to keep the answers to the questions…...

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