2018 Video of the Week #3 (Crane Drops Precast Wall)
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2018 Photo of the Week #3 (Winter time Confined Space Hazardous)
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PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE
Excellence in human performance is more likely if front-line workers, support staff, and managers embrace the following underlying truths or principles that provide the bases for the behaviors. Integrating these principles into management and leadership practices, worker practices, and the organization’s processes and values will help guide the development of a philosophy and strategy for…...
20 Incidents (Week 2 January 2018)
Industrial STEAM Worker burned in triumph accident (worker was seriously burned in an accident about 10:30 a.m. – the woman was in stable condition after suffering steam burns on the front part of her body) FORKLIFT FATALITY Worker Dies in Forklift Accident at Marine Terminal (a longshore worker was killed in a forklift accident at…...
HAZMAT Unloading Incidents (2017)
This week the CSB issued their report and video on the Kansas WRONG CHEMICAL – WRONG TANK incident. The CSB found that over the years a number of injuries have occurred as a result of similar incidents involving inadvertent mixing during unloading. PHMSA reviewed serious incident data involving bulk loading and unloading of hazardous materials transported via highway…...
2018 Video of the Week #2 (Static and Gasoline Fueling Demo)
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2018 Photo of the Week #2 (And we wonder why Oregon prohibited citizens from pumping their own gas)
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New versions of CAMEOfm and Tier2 Submit are now available (January 2018)
What’s changed in CAMEOfm 3.4.1 and Tier2 Submit 2017 “rev 2”? In November, the CAMEOfm 3.4 and Tier2 Submit 2017 program releases included new physical and health hazard categories to match the revised Safety Data Sheet (SDS) options described in OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard of 2012. Newer versions of those programs are now available with…...
States that control the “pumping of gas”
This week the state of Oregon removed the prohibition of citizens fueling their own vehicles at gas pumps; leaving the state of New Jersey as the sole state that prohibits their citizens from pumping their own gas. Here is an excellent article explaining how these prohibitions began in New Jersey. But the reaction of the…...
CSB’s latest video on the 2016 Kansas WRONG CHEMICAL to WRONG TANK incident (H2SO4 and NaClO)
The CSB has released its case study titled “Key Lessons for Preventing Inadvertent Mixing During Chemical Unloading Operations,” which examines a mixture of incompatible materials at a Processing Plant that produces distilled spirits and specialty wheat proteins and starches in Atchison, Kansas on October 21, 2016. The mixture resulted in a chemical release containing chlorine…...
2018 Photo of the Week #1 (OSHA’s new anchor point design)
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2018 Video of the Week #1 (more compressed gas cylinder missiles)
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