MANY THANKS to my NEW & RENEWING “Partners in Safety”for their support! Fluor-B&W Portsmouth since 6/2011, Westinghouse since 2008, and Suzlon since 2009 2011 Fatality Tracker Electrical 29 (2010 = 90) (2009 = 100) Forklift/Manlift Mobile Equipment 42 (2010 = 110) (2009=88) Mining 126 (2010 = 480) (2009 = 586) Explosions 127 (2010 = 246) (2009 = 302) Cranes 18 (2010=50) (2009 =...

This is the terrifying moment when a teenager narrowly escaped death in an avoidable industrial accident. A Trainee electrician, 17, was seriously injured when a fork-lift truck carrying aloft the ‘man cage’ he was working in toppled over in a city warehouse. He suffered a double fracture of the pelvis, facial stitches, a broken front tooth and a lacerated elbow after plummeting 20 feet...

This paper presents a statistical analysis of 153 accidents attributable to static electricity in Japanese industry over the last 50 years. A more thorough understanding of their causes could help prevent similar incidents and identify hazards that could assist in the task of risk assessment. Most of the incidents occurred during operations performed by workers. In addition, more than 70% of the flammable...

The CFATS Personnel Surety Program will provide high-risk chemical facilities with the mechanism to implement security measures to ensure that certain individuals are subject to screening for ties to terrorism. The program is necessary since conducting terrorist ties checks is an inherently governmental function because the federal governments Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) is not publicly available....

MANY THANKS to my RENEWING “Partners in Safety”for their continued support!     Westinghouse has been a Corporate Support since 2008 and Suzlon since 2009 2011 Fatality Tracker Electrical 29 (2010 = 90) (2009 = 100) Forklift/Manlift Mobile Equipment 41 (2010 = 110) (2009=88) Mining 125 (2010 = 480) (2009 = 586) Explosions 127 (2010 = 246) (2009 = 302) Cranes 18 (2010=50)...

These days it is becoming common practice to utilize truck driver(s) of our hazardous material(s) deliveries to do more than just deliver the material.  The line of thought in doing this, is that the drivers must be “qualified” or they would not be allowed to transport the hazardous materials.  Well, they may be qualified to transport the hazardous materials, but the LOADING and...

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Nowadays, we see a lot of Confined Space (CS) incidents caused by the work that is taking place inside the space rather than the actual process hazards that made the Confined Space a Permit-Required Confined Space (PRCS). I had an incident when I was an S&H Manager in the process chemical industry that was one nobody thought of until it was too late. I want to share this incident with you and demonstrate...

This is a video you have to see to believe!  Worker uses a ladder as a walkway between two construction projects about 50′ up.

  MANY THANKS to my RENEWING Partner in Safety! Sponsor since 2008 2011 Fatality Tracker  Electrical  28  (2010 = 90)  (2009 = 100)  Forklift/Manlift Mobile Equipment 41 (2010 = 110) (2009=88) Mining 124 (2010 = 480) (2009 = 586) Explosions 124 (2010 = 246) (2009 = 302) Cranes 18 (2010=50) (2009 = 82) Falls 55 (2010 = 139) (2009 = 172) (2008 = 250) Work Zone 15 (2010 = 50)...

Crane lifts very heavy pool (home renovation took a turn for the worse when the crane lifting it into the yard crashed through the roof – the fibreglass pool/hot tub combination was apparently too heavy for the crane – it popped into the air at a 45-degree angle, and the crane’s arm fell over onto the garage – no one was injured, and the homeowner — who has declined to comment to...