Safety
This paper proposes a model for understanding safety culture maturity that can help an organization understand how engaged their employees are in safety and what potential barriers there may be to that engagement.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its predecessor, the US Bureau of Mines, have significantly contributed to enhancing the safety of miners and to applying new technologies to the mining industry.
This paper looks in detail at the technical advances of new digital confined-spaces monitoring technology and how the technology maximizes worker safety and efficiency.
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OSHA issued citations to oil and gas waste-management company Production Waste Solutions for failing to protect workers from hydrogen sulfide after an employee died. -
The British Safety Industry Federation found that 85% of safety products it tested between December 2021 and December 2022 failed to meet its regulatory criteria.
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Equinor is adopting a mobile-game-based “safety simulator” training program from learning and development company Attensi, and a user survey suggests it’s working.
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Risk is a common thread that runs throughout all engineering disciplines. This course aims to present how to understand and identify hazards, analyze risk, and understand the importance of a comprehensive management system.
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Harish Krishnamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has been selected by the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program as an early-career research fellow in the Offshore Energy Safety track.
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Creating and cultivating a safety culture is one of the most effective ways to protect employees and ensure a safe workplace. But building a safety culture can be difficult. It takes time, effort, and commitment from everyone in the organization.
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Vision analytics is being used to extract insight information from video, with data inferred from existing cameras used to create a monitoring dashboard where supervisors can receive alerts at the worksite level or drill down to specific events.
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The first step to ensuring the safety of oil and gas workers is to have a comprehensive safety program in place. This includes frequent employee training, detailed equipment inspections, and detailed safety procedures everyone follows.
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With growing trade of liquefied natural gas (LNG), an increased diversification of LNG supply sources may occur in the LNG tanks as different compositions of LNG are stored in the tanks. It is the primary concern in terms of assuring stability and safety in LNG storage.
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This device lets workers in noisy and windy environments hear through their bones without removing ear protection.
