Safety Thoughts, News and Information

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

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Oct 13, 2014

Accident prevention - enforcement by mandatory publishing of safety data on product labels

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Reasons for accident prevention, as quoted by experts, are humanitarian, economic and legal. Thus, organizations have to invest sensibly for...
Sep 24, 2014

Fire Safety Demonstration by South Beach Tow(extinguish the cigarette or...

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Sep 10, 2014

Some thoughts on culture / safety culture

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One of the definitions on safety culture is "the way one works even when nobody's watching". If an organization functions trul...
Sep 1, 2014

DuPont Reaches $1.28 Million Settlement Over Toxic Gas Leaks -- Update - NASDAQ.com

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DuPont Reaches $1.28 Million Settlement Over Toxic Gas Leaks -- Update - NASDAQ.com Fines should be such that violations are not taken c...
Aug 24, 2014

Success or failure - it is a team's achievement - with a rider!

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Recently Indian cricket team lost the series to England. Those who praised the first win were the same to blame the losses also. However, s...
Aug 4, 2014

Dust explosion kills more than 65 persons

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In an incident of aluminum dust explosion , likely to have been caused by a flame lit , several persons died, many were injured with more th...
Jun 29, 2014

Ammonia reactor blast - 10 persons injured

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As per news reports, a brine unit chiller with ammonia exploded on Saturday i.e 28.06.2014, leading to ammonia leak, injuring 10 persons wit...
Jun 12, 2014

Safety department in the plant – boon or bane?

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Governments made it mandatory to have a dedicated safety department in every plant/facility conforming to certain minimum conditions consid...
Jun 4, 2014

Bullying safety officer is like hitting under your own pants

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Those who do not like safety officers to inspect their areas for identifying hazardous conditions and also pick up arguments to make/scare ...
May 23, 2014

Crowding near the entry point of examination centers

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I went to an examination center to drop my son for medical admission entrance test. The authorities were allowing only the candidates to ent...
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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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