Safety Thoughts, News and Information

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

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Apr 24, 2015

Short circuit initiated fire in Haryana transport office

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A fire incident reported due to short circuit from old electrical wire cause damage of records, files, computers, etc. It is reported that ...
Apr 15, 2015

Lessons learnt from process safety accidents - an article from insurancenewsnet.com

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A good article is found on the above title, narrating lessons from five less known accidents. The lessons are, containment of water fro...
Apr 5, 2015

Fire & Explosion Prevention Strategy in Refineries

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Please see the LINK on the above article with download link. The download PDF document lists hazards in LPG bullet area, fireball radius, t...

Two persons killed, three injured during LPG line cleaning

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Two persons standing in front of gas piping during cleaning were hit by cleaning device at high pressure, hit the compound wall and died. T...

Red oil explosion (?) in a different form?? - cat litter causes radiation leak in nuclear waste dump

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In an incident on 14.02.2014 in nuclear waste isolation pilot plant, cat litter containing organic matter used for stabilization of nuclear...

At least four killed in PEMEX explosion in Gulf of Mexico - World Socialist Web Site

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At least four killed in PEMEX explosion in Gulf of Mexico - World Socialist Web Site http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/us-pemex-f...
Apr 4, 2015

Teacher gets burns during demo in the chemistry class

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In a fire incident, a  teacher got first and second degree burns while conducting an experiment in front of the students in a chemistry cla...
Apr 1, 2015

An article in Yahoo - Forbes on assessment of continuing our present job

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In an article that I saw in Yahoo, six points are listed as checkpoints to see whether our present job is suitable or not to continue. So...
Mar 31, 2015

Accident prevention - sharing of information between the Japan factories

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A news item on the above subject is interesting to read. A good effort by Japanese factories to share information to prevent accidents. I...
Mar 23, 2015

Fire during welding

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A fire incident took place while welding work was in progress. The sparks caused fire involving combustibles nearby. The incident was broug...
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Vudhya Venkata Mahesh Kumar
Degree in Chemical Engineering, Diploma in Industrial Safety. Past experience was 11 years in the design of chemical plant equipment and piping. Worked as an industrial safety professional in a government department for the last 26+ years, enforcement and advice on process safety, construction safety, safety studies and coordinating with regulary agency for operational clearances of operational plants and a greenfield project. Last four years include enforcement and advice on radiological safety; training activities of HRD to new recruits, employees, apprentices, etc.
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