A place for my personal thoughts/views on safety, with focus on industrial safety.
We are nothing after our death. Let us donate our body organs for the poor.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work The moment you fear, you are nobody - Swamy Vivekananda
If you think safety is expensive, try an accident... - O.P.Kharbanda
Preventable accidents, if they are not prevented due to our negligence, it is nothing short of a murder - Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna, 2nd President of India
Zero accidents through zero unsafe behaviors. Do not be complacent that there are no accidents. There may be near miss accidents (NMAs). With luck/chance, somebody escaped knowingly or unknown to the person. But, we can't be safe, if we depend upon the luck.
Safety culture is how the organization behaves when no one is watching.
We make No compromise with respect to Morality, Ethics, or Safety. If a design or work practice is perceived to be unsafe, we do not proceed until the issue is resolved. - Mission statement by S&B Engineers & Consultants Ltd. http://www.sbec.com/safety/
Human meat gets least priority - A doctor's comment on accidents
CSB video excerpts from Dr.Trevor Kletz, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQn5fL62KL8
May 25, 2016
Safety norms thrown to winds at pharma, chemical units?
LINK
Apr 23, 2016
Termites eat currency notes kept in bank locker - to be careful next time!
Apr 19, 2016
Intense heat, poor construction led to collapse?
Similar reason was found during collapse of twin towers of US WTC, long ago.
LINK
Demand for punishment to the guilty in metro construction accident
Apr 15, 2016
Something we should learn - Man runs wrong code - deletes his company (by mistake)
rm stands for remove
r tells to delete everything in the directory
f tells to ignore warning messages during deletion
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/14/1542246/man-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code
http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm-rf
A comment on backups is as follows:
Backups need to be offsite, offline, and incremental. That you could delete them from your main server means they weren't what I would call backups. – Tim
Mar 26, 2016
Watching fires is not a fun
Feb 16, 2016
Mumbai fire
Heavy winds at 25 kmph in the afternoon brought down a LED screen. Fire works were used during the performance. The sparks from it are suspected to have spread the fire. As per the article, pyrotechnics are avoided at wind speeds of more than 10 kmph.
Shifting of chemical plants close to residential areas
After the chemical accidents, the authorities are shifting 10 plants identified as closer to residential areas.
Jan 28, 2016
Locking of emergency door leads to death in a fire incident
Jan 18, 2016
Possible danger from open top cars, while speeding and stopping all of a sudden
What scared me was the thought that if for some reason, the car driver applies brakes suddenly, these two children may fly off and get injured.
Jan 1, 2016
Unsafe transport of gas cylinder
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