Safety Thoughts, News and Information

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

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Mar 28, 2010

Spark arrestors for vehicles entering flammable areas

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Last week, when I was driving my motor cycle, I heard bursting soundings most possibly from my bike. Initially, I looked around other vehicl...

Safety culture

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Recently, I heard a person questioning about preaching of safety culture. He questioned about the credentials of the culture of the preacher...

Static Electricity - my experiences

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I am into the field of industrial safety for the last 10 1/2 years. Before that, I was involved in process equipment design. When, I joined ...
Mar 22, 2010

Is Safety Training Helpful?

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Feb 12, 2010

Safety Practioner: A Pessimist? or A Visionary!!

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A safety officer’s main role in the organization to help in hazard identification and thus he will have a hawk’s eye for hazards. The condit...

Tale of two factories

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Sometime back, I visited two factories on the same day. The visit provoked me to narrate my experience immediately. However, I thought that ...
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...
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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 26 years, advising on process safety, construction safety, safety studies and coordinating with regulary agency for operational clearances. For last four years, also engaged in advice on radiological safety and training activities of HRD
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