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At 11:30 a.m. on August 29, 2021, Employee #1, 32, inserted a tank wash spinner inside a semi-tanker, which later started draining slowly. Employee #1 entered the tanker to find out why it was draining slowly. Employee #1 lost consciousness while inside the tanker and Employee #2, 43, went inside the tanker to render help when he also was overcome by high levels of hydrogen sulfide gas. Both employees...
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I have seen this very scenario play out at least a half dozen times in my career. GRAVITY is an energy source and can be a fatal form of energy! Here is what happened in this tragedy…
At 4:15 p.m. on July 19, 2021, an employee, 38, was changing the hydraulic line on a forklift. The employee had the forks inadequately propped up so when he disconnected the line the forks and cage fell...
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Kurt Lewin’s Behavioral Theory from the 1940’s can be summarized as B = f(P, E). This means that Behavior is a function (f) of:1) the person (P) (i.e., their internal traits, history) and2) their environment (E) (i.e., physical, social, and psychological)
This means unsafe acts should NOT be blamed solely on the individual; they are highly influenced by environmental and psychological factors....
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A researcher puts five (5) gorillas in a cage where a cluster of bananas is hanging from a string, with a ladder leading to the bananas. When the first gorilla goes for the bananas, the researcher sprays ALL five (5) gorillas with freezing water for five minutes. Sometime later, when a second gorilla inevitably tries to go for the bananas, the researcher once again sprays all five (5) gorillas...
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How Safe Would Sugar Creek Be if we were all like Meghan Vogel and were all actively caring for each other?
Do we have the courage to do what Meghan did or the courage to accept the help and suggestions as Arden did? 24/7?
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At the state championships, Meghan Vogel had a difficult 1,600/3,200 double. She won the 1,600 in a personal-best 4 minutes, 58.31 seconds, stepped onto the podium for photos...
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A fan of safety looks at it as a mandate, something they are required or told to do. If they wear orange shirts on Thursdays it is more to fit in or because they were told to. Fans forget about safety after they leave the plant, they fail to practice safety at home (i.e. don’t wear earplugs and safety glasses when mowing the grass). Fans don’t question things or fail to address...
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Exxon Mobil changed their company’s mindset and approach to safety after the Exxon Valdez disaster – Safety is now embedded in their culture and comes first. Results speak for themselves. Their motto is – Nobody gets hurt. They recently won an award from the National Safety Council. This is the CEO’s testimony. I highlighted some of the key points.
A quote of note:
The rigor, discipline,...
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I am a Safety Professional
I am not a police officer and I do not write citations.
My job is to monitor, audit, review, and advise.
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A sealed, unclassified electrical control enclosure, part of a listed and certified force-ventilated commercial hydrogen processing unit enclosure, exploded when the equipment manufacturer’s technician pressed the machine stop switch to complete the factory commissioning procedure. The technician was forcefully hit by the flying metal panel holding the switch and sustained serious injuries requiring...
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On Thursday, July 5th, 1973 at approximately 1:30 pm, two employees of Droxol Propane were in the process of off-loading the contents of the 127 kl (33,500 gal) railroad tank car into two propane storage tanks. When the valves were opened, one of the connections was discovered to be leaking. One of the employees attempted to stop the leak. It is believed that the employee somehow generated a spark...
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The death of a worker while cleaning the inside of a tanker trailer has led to a proposed $276,176 fine against an Indiana truck stop. The business was cited by IN-OSHA for six serious violations and five willful violations (“Knowing” as they’re called in IN-OSHA’s plan). Here is the breakdown of the citations:
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