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A chicken business processes poultry on two machines called eviscerators at its Mississippi facility. On May 31, 2021, an employee tasked with cleaning chicken parts and viscera from the eviscerators and areas around them suffered fatal injuries when he was caught in one of the machines. Following an inspection and investigation by Compliance Safety and Health Officer Patrick Whavers and Jermaine Davis,...
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WOW, my article earlier this week on the flaws of the TRIR formula stirred a passionate debate among several SAFTENG members/clients/friends. But from that debate, they now can see what their future safety metrics could look like. I always get the following response (and it is a very legitimate response)…
If measuring the TRIR and DART are so flawed, what should we measure in their...
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As 2023 draws to an end, businesses across this great nation will be tallying their injury rates for bragging rights compared to other business locations, competitors, etc. It is a 50+ year tradition for many of these businesses. However, I wonder if this tradition would continue if they genuinely understood how flawed their calculation is. Far too many businesses can not explain...
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On October 25, 2023, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a proposed rule to establish a safety standard for residential gas furnaces and boilers. In the proposed rule, CPSC announces its preliminary determination that these products pose an unreasonable risk of injury and death. Therefore, CPSC’s proposed rule would require all residential gas furnaces and boilers to, either...
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In October 2023, EPA proposed to ban the manufacture (including import), processing, and distribution in commerce of TCE for all uses, with longer compliance timeframes and workplace controls (including an exposure limit) for some processing and industrial and commercial uses until the prohibitions come into effect. The rule would protect consumers, workers, occupational non-users and bystanders from...
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The Risk Management Program emergency response coordination activities require the owner and operator of a stationary source to provide to the local emergency planning and response organizations:
the stationary source’s emergency response plan if one exists;
emergency action plan;
updated emergency contact information; and
any other information that local emergency planning and response organizations...
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If we wish to find out why accidents occurred and find ways of preventing them from happening again, we need a sympathetic attitude towards people who have committed so-called violations, have made slips, had lapses of attention, or not learnt what their training was supposed to teach them. It is a small price and is worth paying.
Source: An engineer’s view of human error, Third edition, Trevor...
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NOTE: I totally disagree with this ALJ decision; however, I give him much credit as I listened to the witnesses and followed the evidence he had presented. This amputation injury was a LOTO violation in my eyes, and I would have argued this case differently. But here are the facts presented to the Judge: what say you?
On the evening of January 23, 2021, one of Respondent’s employees...
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In the year 2023, we still get the old questioning of the intent of LOTO. It never fails; in our LOTO training, we will get operators repeating the application of LOTO to their jobs, word for word, as I have stated it, and then comes the $60,000 question… Does my boss know about this?
Another reason why management (including front-line supers) needs to be active in ALL the initial training...
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Damage to Drain Nozzles on Tote Tanks Poses Leak Hazard
BSEE has become aware of multiple instances in the Gulf of Mexico region where tote tank drain nozzles have been damaged, leading to leaks and spills during lifting events.
These incidents have raised significant safety concerns, and it is crucial that possible risks are promptly addressed to prevent further occurrences.
Recent...
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If a facility spends hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on paint the month before an audit… we may be doing “it” wrong!
Early in my career, I sat in my weekly staff meeting when the plant manager announced our corporate safety and health audit. As in most organizations, these are “big deals”. A career maker or breaker in some organizations. He and I were new to the company and this facility...
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As we end 2023, we will have exceeded 30+ years of OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. And yet, still today, we can walk out into a random covered process, place our hand on a process component, and the facility will struggle to provide us a “cut-sheet” for the component (i.e., what), when it was installed, and who installed it. With this comes pressure testing...
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