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A place for my personal thoughts/views on safety, with focus on industrial safety.
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Jun 30, 2010
Sparks fall on solvents causing burns to two persons
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A newspaper report stated that in a pharma company, sparks fell from a capacitor when two electricians were on the job. The sparks fell on t...
Jun 29, 2010
Whether safety procedures cause stress at workplace
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Sometimes I hear shopfloor people grumbling at safety supervisors that by seeing them, B.P. increases in shopfloor workers. Others say that ...
Contractor safety, expensive accidents, accident prevention
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I went through following articles at http://www.safetyxchange.org/ which I felt good to read. The website is very good and one can get e-ma...
Jun 27, 2010
Safety violations are found, then why the plants are allowed to run?
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In an article at http://www.safetyxchange.org/ , I read that there were more than 700 violations of safety, operation and environment found...
Road rage – what are the reasons?
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Now-a-days, TV channels are reporting road accidents every hour and a full page in news papers is about road accidents . Some of the reason...
Jun 26, 2010
Whether oxygen levels at 19.5% are safe for work in confined space?
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Many people consider that the oxygen levels at or above 19.5% are safe to work in a confined space. However, I read somewhere that before as...
Poisonous fumes from incinerator near Indore - six lost vision?
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Y’day a scrolling news item in TV channels and news reports today mentioned about six labourers losing part of their vision because of toxi...
Increase of fuel prices - what is its impact on safety?
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From y'day, the increased prices of fuels came into effect. Many are opposing the increase. I thought, okay, it will make a hole in my p...
Jun 24, 2010
Accident liability of independent directors
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An article published in Deccan Chronicle today (24.06.2010 Thursday) states that CII asked government to insert a clause in the Companies B...
Jun 23, 2010
Road rage
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There was a news report on 20.06.2010 in which a promising actor died in a road accident. He was driving a bike. Suddenly a van entered the ...
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