A place for my personal thoughts/views on safety, with focus on industrial safety.
We are nothing after our death. Let us donate our body organs for the poor.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work The moment you fear, you are nobody - Swamy Vivekananda
If you think safety is expensive, try an accident... - O.P.Kharbanda
Preventable accidents, if they are not prevented due to our negligence, it is nothing short of a murder - Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna, 2nd President of India
Zero accidents through zero unsafe behaviors. Do not be complacent that there are no accidents. There may be near miss accidents (NMAs). With luck/chance, somebody escaped knowingly or unknown to the person. But, we can't be safe, if we depend upon the luck.
Safety culture is how the organization behaves when no one is watching.
We make No compromise with respect to Morality, Ethics, or Safety. If a design or work practice is perceived to be unsafe, we do not proceed until the issue is resolved. - Mission statement by S&B Engineers & Consultants Ltd. http://www.sbec.com/safety/
Human meat gets least priority - A doctor's comment on accidents
CSB video excerpts from Dr.Trevor Kletz, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQn5fL62KL8
Aug 26, 2016
Do not ignore leg pain - it can be the deadly peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
Aug 21, 2016
LPG explosion during welding inside a pipeline
While doing welding inside a pipeline below the ground level, with LPG gas cylinder outside at ground level, there was an explosion inside the pipeline. Unable to escape, four persons inside suffered burns. One person received 87% burns.
The reasons for gas leakage into the pipeline are not known. Poor quality of hoses, not following confined work procedures (like checking the flammable atmosphere, oxygen levels, having arrangement for emergency escape, buddy system), etc can be possible reasons.
The report can be read from the link below.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Four-welders-suffer-burn-injuries/articleshow/53757037.cms
Aug 8, 2016
Some thoughts on weight reduction
Jul 17, 2016
Explosion in petrol pump - tank thrown 500 m away
Jul 11, 2016
Reduced my weight from 96 to 76 kg and tummy from 38-40 to 34-35 inches in about 9 months
Initially, I did not record my weight. Later, based on the advice my senior colleague, I started recording and plotting, which is reproduced below.
From the above, one can conclude that, my weight is fairly maintained between 73-76 kg range for the last 6-9 months.
Jun 19, 2016
Measures mooted for safe transportation of chemicals
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/measures-mooted-for-safe-transportation-of-chemicals/article8747804.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
May 25, 2016
Safety norms thrown to winds at pharma, chemical units?
LINK
Apr 23, 2016
Termites eat currency notes kept in bank locker - to be careful next time!
Apr 19, 2016
Intense heat, poor construction led to collapse?
Similar reason was found during collapse of twin towers of US WTC, long ago.
LINK
Demand for punishment to the guilty in metro construction accident
Apr 15, 2016
Something we should learn - Man runs wrong code - deletes his company (by mistake)
rm stands for remove
r tells to delete everything in the directory
f tells to ignore warning messages during deletion
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/14/1542246/man-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code
http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm-rf
A comment on backups is as follows:
Backups need to be offsite, offline, and incremental. That you could delete them from your main server means they weren't what I would call backups. – Tim
Mar 26, 2016
Watching fires is not a fun
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Reduced my weight from 96 to 76 kg and tummy from 38-40 to 34-35 inches in about 9 months
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