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In an interview with EHS Today, leadership expert Dr. Aubrey C. Daniels discussed positive reinforcement, realistic safety goals, incentives and how the science of behavior can impact workplace safety.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 06:44 PM |
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Intersec trade fair and conference is the largest event for commercial security, IT security, safety & health, fire & rescue, and homeland security & policing in the Middle East and beyond. It plays a major role in reflecting the security industry worldwide.
Human error and unsafe behaviour accounts for almost 90% of all accidents, including those caused by inexperienced and unskilled workers. Intersec trade fair and conference, due to take place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from January 17 to 19, 2010, will feature "Workplace Safety," as a pivotal topic this year. |
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Friday 25 September, 2009 04:43 PM |
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is making changes to the First Aid at Work (FAW) training regime to make it more flexible ând saving businesses time and money without compromising health and safety.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 02:41 PM |
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THINGS you might not know about the red-bellied black snake: it's not deadly, except to small children; it can hold its breath under water for half an hour; if you tread on one, it will bite, and if you're unlucky enough to meet one, freeze and wait for it to move away.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 12:35 PM |
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New Australian OHS laws based on a national Model Act will bring "a race to the bottom" or much-needed clarity for employers, experts will tell The Safety Conference in Sydney. Either way, all agree the changes are going to have a big impact on employers and unions in NSW.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 10:34 AM |
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POSCO , one of the world’s largest steel makers, and IBM on September 24 announced that they have deployed a workplace safety system that uses sensor technology to make POSCO’s FINEX production plant in Pohang, South Korea, safer for employees and visitors. With more than 500 employees, the FINEX plant has an annual production capacity of 1.5 million metric tons.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 08:32 AM |
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At least 31 people were crushed to death when an under-construction chimney at a new power plant being constructed at Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) in Korba , 230 km from Raipur, collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. Another 40 people are feared trapped in the debris.
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Thursday 24 September, 2009 09:39 AM |
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British oil giant BP has failed to carry out promised safety improvements after an explosion that killed 15 workers at its refinery in Texas in 2005, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in letter sent to the company last month.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 09:44 PM |
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Draeger , a leading medical and safety technology firm, has launched two new single gas detectors designed for personal protection and ideal for use in oil and gas, chemical, power generation and other industrial applications.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 09:18 PM |
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Tiny carbon nanotubes — lattices of carbon far smaller than the width of a human hair —possess extraordinary physical and chemical properties and may find many new uses from delivering medicine directly to tumors to miniaturizing electronics to building lighter weight space craft and bicycles.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 07:16 PM |
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Strong language from Richard M Patton, President, Crusade Against Fire Deaths, Inc..... When an airplane crashes the investigation is thorough and nearly always the cause is discovered. This produces corrections. Therefore air travel is very safe. Fire investigations are at the opposite end of the spectrum. Therefore the United States has one of the highest fire death rates in the world, if not the highest. Here's how an agency of the federal government describes it:
"The U.S. fire problem, on a per capita basis, is one of the worst in the industrial world.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 05:12 PM |
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Intergraph((R)) , a world leader in public safety and security, has been named a member of the Emergency Support System (ESS) Consortium approved by the European Commission to begin research and development of a portable emergency command and control system that incorporates real-time data collection technologies. The system will provide actionable intelligence to managers during crisis events and will be used as a framework for future crisis management systems.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 01:10 PM |
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ROCKWELL'S Plantpax Process Automation System has been integrated with ICS Triplex Trusted SIL 3, triple modular redundant technology and Aadvance process-safety systems.
The integration allows process control and process safety systems to communicate directly with each other and share data, such as diagnostic information, system status, alarms and events. |
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 09:07 AM |
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The state of the art system offers unrivalled safety in demanding, industrial environments where machinery is in operation. This latest addition to Troax's product range is designed to create a safe working environment while balancing the need to provide controlled access to automated machinery in order to reduce machine downtime and so improve productivity.
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Tuesday 22 September, 2009 04:09 PM |
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SPECIALIST teams of fire fighters tackled a chemical spillage at the Hatchmoor Industrial Estate in Torrington.
Sodium hypochlorite acid, a flammable and corrosive material used as a farm sterilizer and disinfectant, leaked outside Tamar Trading Company Ltd
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Note that the above 2 paragraphs are taken directly from the attached web page - I show this article in order to demonstrate how a minor incident can be blown completely out of proportion by sensational journalism
In no way do I condone a spill of chemicals - but please - a leaky 20 litre container of sodium hypochlorite which is essentially household bleach is hardly another Bhopal and flammable ?????? |
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Tuesday 22 September, 2009 02:08 PM |
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Forklifts have killed 56 people and injured thousands in the past two decades, according to a leading industrial safety expert.
Writing in materials handling industry safety magazine, Industry Uplift, WorkSafe Victoria inspector Roger Parry-Jones claims that the commercial cost of forklift incidents runs into tens of millions of dollars in insurance claims, fines from prosecutions and injury compensation payouts.
Now lets multiply that world wide - the figures are staggering
and to quote the article -- “The real tragedy is that every one of those fatalities and often-permanent injuries was avoidable.”
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Tuesday 22 September, 2009 10:05 AM |
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Hygienic designs, food safety, HACCP and recognition of glass bottles. These are all words that confront me in my daily job as a technical manager in the Food Branch.
It was however only during a recent family holiday to Sub-Sahara Africa that I really understood where we in the western world came from. |
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Saturday 19 September, 2009 12:43 AM |
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This unit solves problems where a traditional light curtain would be too big and awkward to install, and do not offer as much value for the performance. It means light curtain protection can be extended to a wide range of new applications and configurations.
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Thursday 17 September, 2009 11:56 PM |
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Ahura Scientific, Inc. , the leader in field-deployed analytical instruments for human health and public safety, today announced two milestones: it has reached $100 million in product revenue since its first product shipment in 2005 and the company now serves more than 100 pharmaceutical facilities within two years of introducing its TruScan device to the market.
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Thursday 17 September, 2009 09:49 AM |
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Top nuclear regulators have met at the OECD, in Paris, with vendors, operators and standards organisations, taking important steps to enhance global nuclear safety.
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Thursday 17 September, 2009 07:47 AM |
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