safety incident management Articles
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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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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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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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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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Culture clash: Use training to build your safety culture
Culture is the tendency in all of us to want to do the right thing in the right way at the right time, ALL the time — even when no one is looking. Culture is the result of all the actions and inactions in institutional and work force memory. Good cultures evolve from common values and attitudes developed as the group seeks to properly solve common problems; it is hard to measure and more ...
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De Beers - Case Study
De Beers is running their entire Canadian operations, including several remote locations in Northern Canada from their head office in Toronto, Canada. They are using Intelex's fully integrated Environmental, Quality and Health & Safety Management System. Challenge Required a robust management system to maintain ISO 9001, ISO14001 and ISO 17025 certification. Wanted a system to track ...
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Job Safety Analysis and Safety Alerts
When you're working on the field, always remember to apply best practices and job safety analysis (JSA) to ensure a safe workplace. Below are insights into the JSA process, and how it helps manage occupational incidents. Various organizations, such as the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), publish Safety Alerts to promote safe practices. As a safety advocate, you ...
By EHS Insight
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Establishing environmental baseline case study
Challenge: A major integrated oil company, intending to divest a portfolio of 68 retail petroleum facilities in the northwest United States, requested the services of Antea Group to conduct Phase II Environmental Site Assessments in order to establish an environmental baseline prior to selling the assets. Among the project-specific challenges were a short performance timeframe, a newly ...
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Preparing for an Inspection with OSHA Fall Protection
OSHA’s 2,100 compliance officers oversee more than eight million worksites in the country. And in 2019 they conducted 33,401 inspections of those sites, many of which were unannounced or “unprogrammed”, as they say. Needless to say, it can be stressful for owners, managers, and staff when an inspector shows up on the job site. But if you’re prepared for an inspection, you ...
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A refreshing take on EHS management: Reducing incidents with a new reporting channel - Case Study
For Finnish brewery company Olvi Limited, safety has never been better. And Lauri Multanen, Operations Director at the chain, credits part of that success to the implementation of the Quentic EHS mobile app. Discussing its previous poor records, Lauri Multanen says: “We have not had a very good safety history. We had lots of small accidents, nothing major or serious, but too many minor ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Leveraging the Web for Environmental Quality, Health and Safety
Untitled Document The principles of continual improvement from management systems such as ISO 14001 and Six Sigma are well known. Less clear is how these principles can be applied to environmental quality, health and safety (EQH&S) performance. In today's competitive business world, it's difficult for an organization to find time to proactively implement and manage ...
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