incident reporting Articles
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Stress-Free Safety: The Essential Guide to Streamlining Incident Reporting and OSHA Logs Whitepaper
With conventional approaches to incident reporting becoming an increasingly inadequate means of generating safety logs and improving safety performance, streamlined and automated approaches using software applications are surfacing as the most effective method of managing safety incident reporting and tracking corrective and preventive actions. This whitepaper outlines the essential steps to ...
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Are You Ready to Move from Fear-Free to Blame-Free Healthcare Incident Reporting?
It’s no secret that incident reports are a great means of improving patient safety. And the more incident reports, the better. After all, you can only learn from the mistakes that you know about. The biggest barrier to reporting incidents is usually fear – fear that the person reporting the incident will be held accountable and their performance record will suffer. Anonymous ...
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At What Point Should an Incident Report Be Completed?
There are so many different types of accidents, incidents, and near misses that can happen in the workplace. Sometimes it is unclear at what point should an incident report be completed. This is especially the case when there are various legal requirements for incident reporting beyond the internal company rules. Generally, you should complete an incident report whenever an unexpected occurrence ...
By Redlist
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Hanover County Case Study
Emex streamlined incident management and improved efficiency. The Challenge Hanover County is located within the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States and provides public and government services to county residents. Enriched with American history and founded in 1720, Hanover County celebrates its 300th birthday in 2020. Frustrated with manual processes using Excel and Word, they needed ...
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CPSC moves ahead on harmful products database
Online resource will allow consumers to report issues and manufacturers to respond. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) posted on its website on October 14, 2010, its draft final rule concerning the creation of a publicly available, searchable database on the safety of consumer products and other substances subject to CPSC regulation. The database is intended to provide a single point ...
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Investigating effects of security incident awareness on information risk perception
This article describes an empirical investigation about the relationship between what is known about information security incidents which occurred within an organisation and the actual perception of information risk. Information security incident awareness takes into account an estimation of the frequency of incidents which occurred in the past as well as the magnitude of information assets ...
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Empowering safety programs with real-time data visualization
An ongoing reality for safety managers and frontline personnel in almost any industry is the need to record safety incident data. When all incident data is inputted into a centralized database, a safety coordinator doesn’t have to wait for the completion of monthly safety reports to identify trends and weaknesses within an organization’s safety program. Rather, since a robust incident ...
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Incident Management Software: Reducing Incidents for Good
Preventing incidents in the workplace should be a top priority for every business. By reducing such events and claims, a company can help keep workers safe, reduce fines and fees from accidents and failed inspections, and improve workplace morale. The Benefits of Incident Management Software Incident reporting can be a daunting, time-consuming task. Fortunately, there's incident management ...
By EHS Insight
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Top EHS Consulting Considerations for the Automotive Segment
Knowing when and how to use EHS consulting to supplement an EHS Team can be challenging, particularly in the automotive industry. Increased globalization, shrinking budgets, and a dynamic regulatory climate mean consistent challenges for manufacturers and suppliers alike. These challenges, however, also create opportunities. Here are some EHS consulting considerations for automotive companies ...
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Conduct of operations: The glue between training and performance
Read any incident investigation report and, almost certainly, one of the recommendations will be to train or retrain workers in some operations, maintenance or administrative procedure. Yet in many cases the workers are already well-trained in the subject procedure and have met all company requirements, including demonstrations that the training was understood. How, then, is it possible that ...
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Checklist: Acting Safely in Emergencies
A step-by-step guide to keeping a cool head in emergency situations To prevent injuries to personnel as much as possible, good first aid and fire safety training for professionals and regular drills for all employees are essential. In the case of bigger incidents that can affect multiple people or necessitate a full evacuation, it is crucial that all employees have the same level of ...
By Quentic GmbH
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5 Ways Your EHS Spreadsheet is Costing You Money
If your organization is like many, you may still be using a complex set of spreadsheets, emails and macros to manage your health and safety program. After all, that’s how you’ve been managing your EHS program for years, and for years that home grown solution has been “good enough.” But sometimes good enough is not really good enough when you consider the cost ...
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5 Ways Your EHS Spreadsheet is Costing You Money
If your organization is like many, you may still be using a complex set of spreadsheets, emails and macros to manage your health and safety program. After all, that’s how you’ve been managing your EHS program for years, and for years that home grown solution has been “good enough.” But sometimes good enough is not really good enough when you consider the cost implications. ...
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Heartland transmission and distribution line project - case study
Xi Safety TM Inc was engaged by our client to undertake a eight week evaluation of the safety performances of all contractors and stakeholders on this project. We identified present challenges that were hurdles to successful safety opportunities and performance while developing a new model for implementing corrective actions. Evaluation Phase: an analysis of the existing data, programs and ...
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Metso Minerals - Case Study
Metso Minerals a is leading global supplier of equipment, service and process solutions to industries including quarrying and aggregates production, mining and minerals processing, construction and civil engineering, and recycling and waste management. In 2008, Metso chose the Intelex Safety Management System to manage all of their corporate health & safety efforts world-wide. The global ...
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The Use of Leading Indicators to Predict Safety Performance
To find sources of leading safety indicators, we need to look at the base of the Heinrich Safety Pyramid. Leading safety indicators are derived from safety incidents that did not result in injury. These can include everything from job safety observations and attendance at safety meetings to unsafe acts and near misses. These are different than lagging indicators, which are statistics that result ...
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Incident Management Made Simple
No matter how many safety meetings you hold or how many safety policies your company strives to implement, accidents and injuries are bound to happen eventually. In some cases, these slips, falls and injuries are unpreventable, but incident management software may be able to reduce and even eliminate workplace incidents. Incident Management Software for EHS While an accident occurring in ...
By EHS Insight
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Intelex expands Middle Eastern client base in energy sector with Majan Electricity Company and Daleel Petroleum
Along with our Middle Eastern partner Barik IT Solutions, Intelex is pleased to announce two new additions to our client roster, Majan Electricity Company and Daleel Petroleum both located in Oman, have selected Intelex Technologies to provide them with an EHS management system. Both companies are key players in Oman’s energy industry with Majan Electricity being a leader in electricity ...
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Benefits of mobile on the rise for energy and utilities companies
More and more, here in the Intelex Energy and Utilities team, we’re seeing a strong need for mobile access in all areas of the Energy-Utilities community. Energy is generated and delivered in a variety of ways throughout the world and reaches out far from centralized stations and hubs. Therefore, the need to have mobile access on a residential, commercial and/or corporate level is becoming ...
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Attorney General Abbott Urges Texans To Shred Documents Containing Personal Information. “Shred It!” campaign helps consumers prevent identity theft
Untitled Document ABILENE - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today urged Texans to protect themselves from identity theft by shredding any documents with personal information before disposing of them. The announcement kicked off “Shred It!”, a statewide public awareness campaign to educate consumers about the threat of ID theft and what can be done to prevent it. “Identity ...
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