 Most people involved with workplace safety are very aware of the iceberg theory.
Its very simple. For every recorded incident sitting above the surface, there are many unrecorded near misses submerged below the surface.
Capture the near misses and act on the causes in order to reduce or eliminate actual incidents occurring.
In most companies an incident results in a rigorous Incident Report, an inquest into why the incident happened and actions to prevent it from happening again.
All well and good and very necessary |
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Tuesday 26 January, 2010 06:48 AM |
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 Are you a “Gunna” when it comes to paperwork and “stuff” on your desk ? It's all too common with Engineers. That magazine article that you must read (but haven't got the time right now), that product information that you need to catch up on (but haven't got the time right now), that hard copy of the report (but haven't got the time right now), those spare nuts and bolts, broken machine parts, the xxxx, the yyyy, the zzzz. |
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Monday 25 January, 2010 09:54 AM |
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 It used to be a standard requirement for all Engineers, clipboards are good but a note book in the top pocket was better. An essential requirement for capturing those thoughts, quick calculations, the next major design breakthrough, explaining a theory, developing a concept, doodling in boring meetings and much much more. |
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Monday 18 January, 2010 09:45 AM |
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 All too often , people switch off the safety mindset when they leave their place of work . Whether at work or not, there is a need to think and act safely, always. Because of the high safety focus in most industrial work situations, there is a tendency for people to “switch off”, when not in the work environment. It is very common for the mindset to be “at work = high danger, non work places = low to zero danger”. Of course the reality is that danger is lurking everywhere and we need to think and act accordingly. |
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Wednesday 13 January, 2010 08:08 PM |
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There are many variations of the 5 P's acronym. There are the 5P's of Marketing, of Leadership, of Effective Business Communication, of Strategy, of Team Design, of Classroom Rules, of On Line Learning and many more.  But I find “The 5 P's of Engineering” to be the most useful
I don't know the origin, but it's is a nice little expression which gets the point across. It always helps me to focus |
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Tuesday 5 January, 2010 05:56 AM |
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 Construction sites have a lot of history. They are generally a landscape inhabited by hard men in hard hats and any females on the site are twice as hard as the men. Workers are set in their ways, they will resist change of any kind and there is a macho culture as far as safety is concerned. Safety is for wimps.
Traditionally the unions are very strong and are generally instrumental in advocating for increased safety –
As in most industrial environments, everybody is an instant expert after an incident with a detailed explanation of what should have been done to avoid it. |
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Monday 4 January, 2010 12:11 AM |
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 It was one of those challenging projects were nothing was ever going to be easy.
In simple terms it was a modification to a section of continuous production line for a food product. The whole line from start to finish is about 300 metres. I was modifying a section with fixed conveyors plus process plant which was about 30 metres in length. Without going into detail, I had a Sunday, 24 hour window to pull out a section of conveyor and modify a second section. |
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Monday 4 January, 2010 12:08 AM |
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Beware of Being Ambushed
Safety Notes from the Project Engineers Diary
I got caught , no excuses, “The Buck Stops Here”, with me, I wear it.
I get the pat on the back when it goes to plan (.....”what do you mean you want some recognition for doing your job, you get your recognition every pay day”..... to quote my manager) and the kick up the rear when it doesn't.
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