Safety Thoughts, News and Information

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

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Aug 31, 2011

Restrictions on entry of old ships on Indian waters

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Mint magazine published an article on the proposal of Indian government to impose restrictions on entry of ships that are older than 25 yea...
Aug 30, 2011

Road rage - a car accident

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Today morning while going to my work place, while going over a rail over bridge, I saw a car that hit a truck on its rear side, possibly in ...
Aug 25, 2011

Asphyxiation - death of persons

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Today, in a lecture, I heard about asphyxiation deaths, in which two persons died in a manufacturing facility. The reason was that instead o...
Aug 24, 2011

Deaths due to non-communicable diseases

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A report in today's Times of India states that non-communicable diseases (NCD) cause more deaths than communicable diseases. As per la...

Industrial courts - concept from Australia

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A company was fined by an industrial court for safety violations leading to a nearmiss incident that could have caused several fatalities. E...
Aug 22, 2011

Ground water pollution

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Today an article appeared in Times of India about pollution of river due to discharge of effluents from dyeing units and resultant loss of c...
Aug 19, 2011

Product safety: who’s watching? - Columns - livemint.com

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Today an article on consumer product safety was published in MINT. I learned about product safety when I did my safety diploma few years a...
Aug 13, 2011

Clothes caught in fire - STOP, DROP & ROLL

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In an article , I read that two persons received severe burn injuries when their clothes caught fire and started running. The Chief of Fire ...
Aug 6, 2011

Safety Daily Advisor : Office Workers: The Forgotten Workforce?

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Office safety is as important as industrial safety. Normally, our safety inspections, audits, training programmes are focused on production...

Safety Daily Advisor : Napping at Work? You’re Not Dreaming!

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Taking a nap at work for sometime in between helps in reducing the errors and increasing the productivity, so says this article. It is well ...
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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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