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 25 years. For last four years, also engaged in advice on radiological safety.
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