Process Safety

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  Process Safety

  How Fail-Safe Design Keeps Workers Safe When Things Go Wrong

  Even if you have the most air-tight safety program, you can't guarantee that your equipment and machinery won't fail.It could happen for a number of reasons...

  By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist

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  Process Safety

  How Industry 4.0 Is Transforming Process Safety

  Paperwork. Spreadsheets. Document-based forms.These have been the industry standard for assessing safety and mitigating risk for the past 50 years. Manufacturing plants...

  By: Jim Petrusich | Senior Consultant for GoArc

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  EHS Programs

  The Safety Performance Cycle: Success Made Simple

  There is genius in simplicity. The safety performance cycle is simple to understand and yet it’s the most powerful concept I know for building an effective and...

  By: Bryan McWhorter | Lead Safety Advisor, Author, Writer, Speaker

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  EHS Programs

  How to Create a Maintenance Program for Manufacturing Facilities

  Manufacturing operations have a number of advantages when it comes to administering a safety program:The setting is staticThe tasks are mostly the same from day to...

  By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist

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  EHS Programs

  Managing Oil and Gas Pipeline Safety

  Oil and gas pipeline projects have a way of attracting controversy. Constructing new lines and expanding existing ones raises environmental concerns and invites public...

  By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist

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  EHS Programs

  What Safety Professionals Need to Know About HACCP Systems

  Every worksite has its share of risks, but food safety requires a specialized approach to keep its hazards in check. The potential consequences for oversights and...

  By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist

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  EHS Programs

  How to Implement Standard Work Instructions and Improve Safety

  Standard work instructions (SWIs) aren't just a formality. They're a blueprint for getting work done efficiently and safely.People are less likely to get hurt...

  By: Bryan McWhorter | Lead Safety Advisor, Author, Writer, Speaker

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  Leadership

  What's the Difference Between Safety Leadership and Safety Management?

  The occupational health and safety literature is dominated by titles that refer to safety leadership or safety management. In recent years, however, we've seen a...

  By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager

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  Best Practices

  Preventing Burst Pipes in Aging Buildings

  Burst pipes grab headlines whenever they happen at a school, a hospital, or anywhere else that a lot of people gather.One of the problems is that many of these services...

  By: Jack Rubinger

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  Safety Equipment

  6 Important Questions About Bump Testing Your Gas Detector

  When working in hazardous atmospheres, it's not enough to rely on your senses to verify that the area is safe to enter or to notice that the environmental variables...

  By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager

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  Education

  How to Keep Grocery Employees Safe from COVID-19

  COVID-19 and its variants are a known workplace hazard.On a standard risk matrix, the virus would be classified as:High riskHighly likely for transmission/infectionWith...

  By: Henry Skjerven

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  Hazards

  A Primer on Engineering Controls

  As a concept, engineering controls are relatively simple. They are the preferred methods of hazard control that function by separating worker from hazard.Seems simple...

  By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist