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- Over 19,000 categorized unsafe acts/conditions and accident/injury photos
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The first step to emergency preparedness is defining and analyzing hazards. Although all hazards should be addressed, resource limitations usually do not allow this to happen all at once. Risk assessments are used to establish priorities so that the most dangerous situations are addressed first and those least likely to occur and least likely to cause major problems can be considered later. While the...
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Call me a simple man educated in Western TN and KY, but to me, safety is VERY SIMPLE and I like to keep it that way. I have been around for 25 years in the Emergency Response field and safety profession and I have had the opportunity to work for some truly world-class companies and even more extraordinary plant managers. The one thing that all three (3) of my world class plant managers had in common...
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OSHA, combined with our State Plan partners, has approximately 2,200 inspectors responsible for the health and safety of 130 million workers, employed at 8 million worksites around the nation. Although workplace conditions today are much safer than when OSHA was created, over 4,300 workers are still killed in the workplace each year and millions are injured. Tens of thousands continue to die...
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Here’s a safety riddle for you:
What do 1910.307(g)(4)(i), Hazardous Locations, Zones, and Professional Engineers have in common?
Answer: They are ALL required when your facility has Hazardous Locations using “zones” rather than divisions (e.g. Class I, II, and III areas) to classify an area.
In 2007 OSHA did a major revisions of their Electrical Standards and a couple of these revisions were to...
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This man is without a doubt one of the BEST SAFETY LEADERS in our profession. If you have never seen, heard or read Dr. Geller’s materials you are missing out! I have NEVER heard this man say something that does not make 110% sense!!!! Enjoy this video and then practice the three (3) questions to see if your employees feel EMPOWERED. Sit back and enjoy the next 15 minutes...
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This is a topic I have written about several times before and EPA has made their position fairly clear in their RMP Q&A’s. SAFTENG members can CLICK HERE to read the summary of the EPA Q&A’s regarding railcars that are NOT attached to a mode of transport (i.e. locomotive). These railcars that sit out on a spur that is SEPARATE from the “process” are actually...
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There are not many safety professionals who have been in the profession since the day OSHA came onto the scene that has not order and hung a safety sign or two. I personally believe keeping safety in the minds of the workers is a big part of keeping them safe. They have so many distractions and a well-placed sign that has concise instructions can be an effective reminder; however, a poorly designed...
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I teach around 20 HAZMAT courses each year for industrial response teams and fire departments and the differences in how these two groups conduct their DECON can be HUGE. Almost everyone who has been through a 24-hr or 40-hr HAZMAT course has seen a 6 stage DECON up to a 20 stage DECON; but are these the real world in industrial settings? The differences in response situations can vary greatly for...
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MANY THANKS to my NEWEST and
RENEWING Partners in Safety
since 2006
since 2014
returning partner from 2012
2014 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
8
(2013 = 32)
(2012 = 68)
Forklift/Manlift
9
(2013=62)
(2012 = 52)
Mining*
8
2013=87*)
(2012 = 92*)
*no longer includes China accidents
Explosions
30
(2013=194)
(2012 = 241)
Cranes
6
(2013=51)
(2012 = 52)
Falls
23
(2013=106)
(2012...
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Does your safety program have any safe work practices or does your Process Safety Management system have procedures with this requirement? It seems to be the fairly commonplace to require personnel to “have PPE available” for some critical tasks that can turn into an IDLH environment rather quickly. For those not familiar with this “practice”, it basically means that the worker...
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Inspect at least 4% of the total number of RMP-regulated facilities during FY 2014. Of these inspections, at least 36% should be conducted at high-risk RMP facilities, using the list derived from established high-risk criteria and provided by headquarters to regional offices at the beginning of the fiscal year.
Regional program managers may, after consultation with and approval by headquarters, alter...
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