Jul 30, 2020

Industrial safety and lockdown - An analysis from ORFONLINE


The following weblink is about subject topic from Observer Research Foundation (orfonline.org). 

The article is about analysis of few accidents that took place when plants were preparing for operation after government gave permission. The article ends with advice for betterment.

Jul 25, 2020

Leadership and management for safety - an article from IAEA

Today, I read a very good article about above topic, which is simple to understand and to follow. 
The link is given below to go through.

Jul 13, 2020

Rains - corona - transmission

Now that we are having rains, it is pestering my mind about whether the corona virus can be transmitted through splashes from rain water on the road or that whether rain droplets can be carriers.

Recently I attended a webinar and posted this question, but, may be because of many questions posted before, my turn did not come.

From information on net, it is understood that this virus can be active for upto 72 hours on different carriers / surfaces. 

May be if these are coming in contact with rain water and then if it splashes because of vehicles passing over the pools of water, we can get affected.

Like, aerosols can be a source, this form of transmission too may be possible.

Jul 12, 2020

Reaction - Ethanol based santizer use by persons taking disulfiram for alcohol addiction treatment



https://medicaldialogues.in/medicine/news/indian-doctor-reports-case-of-hand-sanitizer-induced-disulfiram-ethanol-reaction-67515

Jul 5, 2020

Corona - lockdown - restricted hours of movement

Governments have imposed restricted hours to conduct personal business. In the initial days, it helped to create awareness among public about the virus, its impact and measures to be taken like, use of mask, social distancing, frequent hand wash, etc. 

Continuation of restricted hours, I feel, will lead to increased traffic on roads and crowding in shops as purchases are to be done whether lockdown is there or not. Restriction of hours of business will only lead to all the public who would have done shopping/movement spread in the time period, say 0600-2300 hr to those limited hours. It may be worthwhile to permit shops to be opened 24 hr whomsoever are willing. This can reduce crowds and social distancing can be better.