Safety Thoughts, News and Information

A place for my personal thoughts/views on safety, with focus on industrial safety.

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Jan 18, 2010

Accident prevention is cheaper than the accident

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Yesterday evening, a 2-year old boy fell in an unused open borewell in a village in Andhra Pradesh. Today evening he died, though efforts we...
Oct 29, 2009

Safety Legislations – History and Provisions

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“Preventable accidents, if they are not prevented due to our negligence, it is nothing short of a murder” - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, 1st Vice ...
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Oct 10, 2009

Accident Investigations - Recommendations - Implementation

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In any factory, after any major accident takes place leading to loss of life or huge property damage, a committee is constituted to investig...
Sep 19, 2009

Importance of Learning - II

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Most discoveries are made regularly every fifteen years – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), in his play, The Doctor’s Dilemma, (1906) When or...
Sep 16, 2009

Importance of careful reading

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It is important for anybody to read any document that comes to his attention. Glancing the document or reading here and there and then comin...
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Aug 10, 2009

Deaths in confined spaces

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Offlate, I started reading persons overcome by the atmosphere while working inside the septic tanks, underground water storage reservoirs / ...

Road Rage - Control

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For the last three months, I am commuting between office and residence on my vehicle. Before that I utilized department transport facility. ...
Jun 8, 2009

Electrocutions - A Story that repeats

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Of late, there were many news paper reports almost on every alternate day about the death of the persons and sometimes animals (mostly) and ...
Mar 7, 2009

Summer Fires

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This year, it appears summer started in January itself. As the weeks progress, already less crowds are seen on the roads in the afternoon. W...
Feb 14, 2009

Risk = Probability (???) x SEVERITY

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Yesterday I read a news item that a US satellite Iridium-33 in use collided with a Russian satellite Cosmos 2251 that is no longer in use on...
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V.V.Mahesh Kumar
Degree in Chemical Engineering, Diploma in Industrial Safety. Past experience - design of chemical equipment and piping for 11 yr. Working as an industrial safety professional in a government department for the last 25 years, advising on process safety, construction safety and carried safety studies. For last four years, also engaged in advice on radiological safety.
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