 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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Monday 30 November, 2009 01:56 AM |
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By now , I guess that about half of the industrialised world will have seen the You Tube video of the Vodka warehouse racking collapse. For anyone who hasn't or just wants a second or third or fourth look, this is the link
After the sensationalism of the whooo's and aaahhh's and “was it staged” for the cameras, an important question is . What learnings can the Occupational Health and Safety community take out of it ?. I've already heard many “it would never happen in our warehouse” comments. But would it? Could it? |
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Tuesday 17 November, 2009 08:08 PM |
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On the face of it, it seems simple - keep the pedestrians away from the vehicles and there will not be any pedestrian accidents. How hard can that be?
Roads are for vehicles, pavements are for pedestrians. QED i.e. quod erratum demonstrandum or that which was to have been proved
So what about the cyclists, don't they need to share the road. Well yes and no. So how do we keep the cyclists away from the automobiles. |
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Thursday 12 November, 2009 02:51 AM |
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Now this is not as exciting as say motor racing or football or splitting the atom, but as I am currently a victim of the GFC, well that's as good an excuse as any to use this time around. Actually I'm a contract engineer and sometimes there is plenty of work and sometimes not. At the moment it's the NOT, but there have been other times when there was no GFC and things where also pretty quite. |
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Sunday 8 November, 2009 09:06 AM |
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