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Most of us know all too well the critical role near-miss reporting plays in achieving excellence in safety. But this BSEE Safety Alert really does a nice job demonstrating the IMPORTANCE of near-miss REPORTING AND the TRENDING of our near misses to identify opportunities to intervene before a consequence is realized.
The alert also has some great tips on how to decrease tagline-related inci...
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There is one common theme in all the facilities I worked at during my time as safety and health manager/director… the employees were the ones who would explain to guests how we achieved the level of safety that set us apart from others. Most guests came to visit thinking they would discover a magic pill that got us from X to Y, what they walked away with was something they never expected. ...
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We see a lot of talk about “written procedures” and how they should be minimized in length/detail and in some cases done away with altogether. I call this rubbish – when done well they can be the cornerstone of a well-executed SMS. And yes, I subscribe to the practice that some of these procedures will get special attention and we call these “Cardinal Rules”...
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Even though this Human Factors model is going on 30 years old, it is still the most widely used and recognizable today. In my process safety career, Human Factors were intended to be part of all Process Hazard(s) analyses; and although the chemical industry adopted some really good checklists to aid in these analyze’s, they never really drove HF engineering as I had hoped. Having...
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Reviewing safety performance takes a ‘big picture’ overview of the patterns of evidence arising from all forms of monitoring, investigation, and audit to decide whether the overall approach, policies, resources, priorities, improvement targets, and the SMS remain relevant and appropriate in pursuing the safety vision and strategy and cultural development.
Taking from the “Five Themes for Excellence...
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I am a huge proponent of building a safety process, formally called a Safety Management System, that establishes some critical indicators of how well the process functions. This is done in the same spirit as how a business measures its production, quality, costs, etc. But as we all know, anything that gets measured WITHOUT VALIDATION can be manipulated. Even “leading indicators”...
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“Accident-prevention engineers must know why and how accidents occur; they must know the causes of accidents and direct their attack to the removal of those causes, instead of selecting a remedy blindly or arbitrarily.
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Improving the safety culture requires an integrated approach to safety through coherent actions in three (3) areas:
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To help organizations understand how SIF can complement their current OSH efforts I am making these posts and powerpoints FREE through Sunday.
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Recently a client who uses anhydrous ammonia (NH3) had a significant event involving their NH3. This event is the perfect scenario to demonstrate that “inherently safe design” is by far the best design. The incident involved unloading a tank truck of NH3 into a bulk tank. A single valve was in its CLOSED position when it was supposed to be OPEN. This was called out...
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Earlier I shared a quote from Hippocrates in 450 B.C. and in that post, I mentioned that management’s reliance on incident rates is a sickness. That got me a lot of texts and a few phone calls. So I figured I would explain what I meant by that.
Reliance on lagging indicators to measure the presence of safety by the measure of fewer consequences from accidents is NOT how any other business function...
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“A supervisor or a foreman stands upon the first rung of the executive ladder. Because of certain valuable personal qualities, he has been selected to direct the work of other employees. Unfortunately, in the average case, he enters upon this phase of work uninstructed in the art of executive leadership—and works into it so gradually that he may not realize that his functions as an executive...
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