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Research Compendium: Safety & Risk Performance indicators (lead, lag, drive, process safety + more)

This compendium covers several themes relating to safety performance indicators / risk indicators / process safety indicators. The following topics …Research Compendium: Safety & Risk Performance indicators (lead, lag, drive, process safety + more)

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Tornado Quest Top Science Links For July 6 – 13, 2024 #science #weather #climate #tornado #hurricane #drought #heatsafety #astronomy

Greetings everybody! Thanks so much for visiting. Hurricane Beryl has been the big news in the USA this week with landfall on the Texas coast as a …Tornado Quest Top Science Links For July 6 – 13, 2024 #science #weather #climate #tornado #hurricane #drought #heatsafety #astronomy

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Certification to 18001 found to improve operational performance (safety, sales etc.) – especially for more complex and tightly coupled production …

Is certification to 18001 linked with improvements in operational performance? This 2014 study suggests yes. Moreover, the effects are most …Certification to 18001 found to improve operational performance (safety, sales etc.) – especially for more complex and tightly coupled production …

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Department of Labor announces settlement with Dollar General requiring corporate-wide safety investments in stores nationwide

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has entered into a corporate-wide settlement with Dollar General and its retail subsidiaries to make significant workplace safety improvements in stores nationwide. “This agreement commits Dollar General to making worker safety a priority by implementing significant and systematic…

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Reliability and safety are “dynamic non-events” and “dynamic inputs create stable outcome”

A recent post from Mark Fleming nicely highlighted how safely often goes unnoticed; that is, the things that create successful outcomes blend and …Reliability and safety are “dynamic non-events” and “dynamic inputs create stable outcome”

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Right Outside Our Kitchen Window

Nothing is easy. They’re rebuilding the house next door — right outside our kitchen window. Last week they had guys up too high on the roof for a …Right Outside Our Kitchen Window

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(via The U.S. has a plan to protect workers from heat. Here’s who it would safeguard.)

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The U.S. has a plan to protect workers from heat. Here’s who it would safeguard.

A Post analysis finds that 500,000 agricultural workers and 4.3 million construction workers nationwide could benefit from the OSHA proposal, which faces industry opposition.  By Anna Phillips, Nicolás Rivero and Niko Kommenda July 11, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT On any given day in the warmest months, millions of workers nationwide labor in heat that is increasingly hazardous to their health. Last…

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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases New Safety Video on Fatal Acetic Acid Release at the LyondellBasell La Porte Complex in La Porte, Texas in 2021

Washington D.C., July 11, 2024 – Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released a new safety video on its investigation into the fatal release of acetic acid at the LyondellBasell La Porte Complex in La Porte, Texas, on July 27, 2021, that killed two contract workers. Approximately 164,000 pounds of a highly corrosive acetic acid mixture erupted from equipment when…

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National and Local Emphasis Programs

On Thursday, July 18, 2024, at 1 p.m. EST, join Aaron Gelb, Mark Ishu, and Dan Deacon for a webinar to learn about National and Local Emphasis …National and Local Emphasis Programs

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Worker safety: zero harm messaging, reporting and the C-suite

A really interesting doctoral thesis from @dr simon Roberts, exploring: 1) the impact of zero harm messaging on organisational performance 2) zero …Worker safety: zero harm messaging, reporting and the C-suite

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Fate of Spring Regulatory Agenda Rides With Biden

The federal Spring Regulatory Agenda was released a few days ago, but the fate of future OSHA standards is linked to the fate of the President Biden …Fate of Spring Regulatory Agenda Rides With Biden

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Effectiveness of OHSAS 18001 in reducing accidents at work. A follow-up study of 13,102 workplaces

This study evaluated the effectiveness of adopting certified OHSAS 18001 systems among 805 adopters versus 12k matched controls (non-adopters). …Effectiveness of OHSAS 18001 in reducing accidents at work. A follow-up study of 13,102 workplaces

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New perspectives can perpetuate the old

An article garnering some attention on LinkedIn (Yeah, I know, the Facebook for corporate self-promotion) has called for a different path to reducing…New perspectives can perpetuate the old

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Accident Investigations – Missed Opportunities

Another banger from Trevor Kletz on a similar theme to the last. He discusses the “missed opportunities” from accidents and investigations. Only …Accident Investigations – Missed Opportunities

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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Crushed, electrocuted,  shot, suicide, explosion, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are … Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

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The Human Rights of workers strengthens

Work health and safety is a fundamental human right. Last year, I asked “so what?” Australia is strengthening the relevance of this international …The Human Rights of workers strengthens