Health & Safety Always an important factor to consider. You can never understate the need to prevent injury to your workforce. Like all other things, we're constantly finding out new products and ways to improve health and safety.
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Over 500,000 are injured every year from ladder accidents and it is estimated that around 300 people die every year falling from a ladder. The numbers are startlingly large, especially because there are many ways that these accidents can be prevented. Because of improper safety precautions and work conditions, many ladder accidents for people on the job. The OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has protocol for ladders on worksites:
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Thursday 15 October, 2009 02:25 PM |
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The number of construction deaths reported in the six months to 30 September was almost half the number in the same period last year, early figures from the Health and Safety Executive show. |
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Thursday 15 October, 2009 10:23 AM |
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The number of fatality and permanent disablement in the workplace has gone up.
According to the latest WSH Statistics Report for January to June 2009 released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council, the workplace fatality rate saw a slight increase from 1.4 deaths per 100,000 persons employed in the first half of 2008 to 1.5 in the first half of this year. Not only in Singapore is working at heights a hazard |
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Wednesday 14 October, 2009 11:59 PM |
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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has said more direct measures need to be taken to improve tower crane safety in the UK, in its response to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) tower crane register consultation.
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Wednesday 14 October, 2009 08:35 AM |
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The issue of noise-induced hearing loss remains prevalent for many health and safety professionals in the UK, and the courts are still seeing their fair share of compensation cases being brought by employees, or former employees, for injuries or hearing loss caused by the noise levels in their workplace. |
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Monday 12 October, 2009 09:40 PM |
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Automakers and suppliers around the globe continue to go through painful restructuring to address today's economic realities. In this new environment, it might be tempting to cut back on safety. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motor vehicle crashes remain the leading killer of Americans aged 2 to 34, so skimping on safety would be wrong for society. |
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Monday 12 October, 2009 03:36 PM |
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I do not live in the USA. I have lived in Europe and Australia and it is accepted that whilst not perfect, there is a system in place which provides a level of health care to all citizens. I find it very difficult to accept and believe that the richest, most powerful country the world has ever known is not able to provide a Universal System of Health Care to its citizens. |
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Friday 9 October, 2009 09:46 AM |
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Federal safety regulators on Wednesday warned 10 mining companies that their operations have a potential pattern of health or safety violations
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Thursday 8 October, 2009 03:01 PM |
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India - An expert report on the Thekkady tragedy has pointed to flaws in the design of the ill-fated boat . The report prepared by Pyarelal, a marine engineering expert at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, has said the boat was inclined to the right by 2.9 degrees.
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Thursday 8 October, 2009 07:53 AM |
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Medical engineering may not be a familiar term, but its products probably are. Pacemakers, X-rays, ultrasound, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), all are the result of engineers partnering with clinicians to develop better treatments through technology. Mun-Keat Looi looks at four Centres of Excellence giving a technological push to medicine’s evolution in the 21st century.
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Wednesday 7 October, 2009 04:24 PM |
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Pilz Australia has been rallying for safe industrial design for over a decade. Sarah Falson spoke with managing director Frank Schrever about the company's renewed focus.
“We’ve been trying to push back the frontiers for safe design engineering for a decade now, to raise awareness of the importance of reducing risk at the engineering level,” said Pilz Australia managing director, Frank Schrever. |
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Wednesday 7 October, 2009 02:23 PM |
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Imperial Sugar Co . says the Port Wentworth sugar refinery it is rebuilding reflects state-of-the art technology.
New structures are replacing those destroyed in the Feb. 7, 2008, explosions and fires that killed 14 people and injured many more.
"We'll have one of the most modern sugar packaging facilities anywhere in the country," President and CEO John Sheptor has said. "It certainly will be the safest." |
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Tuesday 6 October, 2009 07:43 PM |
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Injury is the leading cause of death for children over the age of one in industrialized countries and improving the safety of artificial environments will benefit children's health, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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Tuesday 6 October, 2009 01:38 PM |
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At India’s factories , accidents are just waiting to happen. Hazardous chemicals are not stored away safely; workers who use them are not given adequate training about their handling, let alone proper safety gear. In the second part of a series on industrial safety, Mint examines the absence of norms that turn factory floors into death traps
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Tuesday 6 October, 2009 09:36 AM |
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Airline pilots are demonstrating across Europe because they say long flying hours are "putting lives at risk".
European air crew unions argue current rules that govern how long they can fly for are unsafe, with fatigue a factor in 15% of accidents. |
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Tuesday 6 October, 2009 07:34 AM |
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Reliance Fall Protection , a leader in custom fall protection solutions, is pleased to announce the availability of the EXC™ Series of Self Retracting Lifelines.
The term ‘EXC™’ is short for ‘Extreme Conditions’. These Self Retracting Lifelines (SRL’s) are manufactured entirely from Stainless Steel and other non-corrosive materials, and are designed to withstand the abuse of the harshest environments. The EXC™ Series feature Stainless Steel housings, cables, snaphooks, and retraction springs, and feature three independent cam-driven pawls to prevent the line from freezing into place due to debris. |
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Monday 5 October, 2009 10:10 AM |
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As London Fashion Week comes to a close, British women working in the engineering, science, technology and construction sectors are calling on clothing manufacturers to fashion better and safer clothing for women.
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Thursday 1 October, 2009 02:09 PM |
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An increasing number of migrant workers in Korea are dying or sustaining injuries on the job, according to a recent report to the National Assembly.
There were 117 occupational fatalities and 5,211 injuries in 2008, Rep. Cho Won-jin of the governing Grand National Party (GNP) said Tuesday. This equals one fatality per every 5,000 migrant workers. Fatalities among Korean workers stand at one per every 10,000, though a significant gap in the sample size of the figures may make for an unfair comparison. |
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Thursday 1 October, 2009 10:05 AM |
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The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it is seeking broad new powers to regulate toxic substances in commerce, products and the environment, including clear authority to ban unsafe chemicals.
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Wednesday 30 September, 2009 11:56 AM |
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A dozen high-powered fans , eight industrial drainage pumps the size of washing machines, miles of electric cables and concrete-encased water pipes, and walls of power breakers and transformers.
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Tuesday 29 September, 2009 11:25 AM |
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Australian safety expert John Ninness has today been conferred the China Friendship award by the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs at a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Liaoning Provincial government, Shenyang, north-east China.
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Monday 28 September, 2009 06:46 AM |
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