safety 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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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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United Stationers identifies safety trends 99% faster, reduces employee injury costs and lost time
In 2004, United Stationers Supply Co. made a commitment to become a world-class safety organization. United Stationers is North America's largest broad line wholesale distributor of business products, with 2005 consolidated net sales of US$4.3 billion. The company offers approximately 50,000 items – office products, technology products, office furniture and other products from more than 600 ...
By IHS Markit
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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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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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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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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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A simple reason for an honest purpose
My best friend was killed in a work-related incident in August of 2008. He was 26 years old. It is both easy and difficult to reflect on that day and the way that my life has been impacted since. Easy, because the memories are so clear and forever printed in my mind, but difficult because the wound on my heart is deep and the healing process is, well, slow. Very slow. Stephen was working as a ...
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Enterprise Mobile Apps – Don’t Just Shrink the Screen
Do you have a smart phone? I do, and chances are you do as well. In fact, research from Mary Meeker shows that today there are over $2.5 billion smartphone users around the world. Much like the internet before it smart phones and the rising use of mobile devices is a technology trend that is influencing many facets of our lives today, both personal and professional. Over the last few years ...
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Lac Mégantic disaster increases awareness of water treatment plant vulnerability - Case Study
A train pulling 72 tank cars, laden with oil from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in North Dakota, derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Québec on July 6, 2013, killing 50 people. Such accidents are a product of the boom in “pipeline on rails” methods of shipping oil. In 2009, a mere 500 tank cars of oil were transported by rail in Canada. For 2013, this was projected ...
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3 Characteristics of an ideal health and safety software
What are the biggest challenges companies face when it comes to health and safety management? This question is often asked, and while it can differ by industries, a common problem that is emerging is the lack of insight and integrated tools. A recent Sphera focus group highlighted some interesting aspects of the problem. An expert discussion between peers in a wide range of UK utility ...
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Using technology to cultivate a culture of safety
Workplace accidents and fatalities are a common occurrence, but many safety incidents could have been avoided through improved training management, accurate data reporting, internal audits, and generating a culture of safety within an organization. The American Society of Safety Engineers has published a great, unbiased article titled “Technically Safe: Gaining 360◦ Visibility with ...
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Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA Enhances Management System Audits and Risk Assessments for Integration with Incident Reporting
A decade ago, Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA (TPRI) established itself as a global leader in risk management. The Houston-based company deployed market-leading environmental, health and safety (EHS) incident management and reporting software – IHS IMPACT ERM – at all 17 Total Petrochemicals facilities worldwide to drive operational excellence and ensure compliance with ...
By IHS Markit
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The culture of denial, workplace injuries and lessons learned
Try to imagine this workplace injury scenario: A construction worker is seriously hurt on the job. It’s a very minor injury. Years later, under similar circumstances, a worker is killed from a similar incident. Why didn’t the company learn from the first incident? Recent research in the International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics suggests three barriers to learning from ...
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Noise Control: a sound plan needed
Practical advice on ways to carry out Noise Control and reduce noise at work, including how to select the correct level of hearing protection and carry out noise reduction activities. Reductions in reported cases of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) from noise at work appear to have taken place in recent years with a considerable fall in the number of new claims and numbers of affected workers. ...
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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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Total petrochemicals unifies global EHS reporting to drive down operational risks, drive up excellence
Total Petrochemicals encompasses the petrochemicals activities of the Total Group, with about 6,000 employees in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia including the headquarters location in Brussels. Its business includes base petrochemicals from steam crackers and certain refinery processing plants – olefins, aromatics, and commodity polymers. Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. ...
By IHS Markit
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Supercooled Liquid Water is Hazardous to Your Health!
What is Supercooled Liquid Water? Supercooled Liquid Water (SLW) refers to water droplets in a cloud that can stay in a liquid state at below freezing temperatures. If an airplane flies into these SLW droplets, icing on the wings and airframe can occur. SLW droplets larger than 30 microns create the biggest hazard for aircraft because they don’t freeze immediately, allowing them to ...
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Chevron Enhances Safety Culture with Enterprise-Wide Incident Analysis and Reporting System
Chevron, one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies, is renowned for its leadership in protecting people and the environment. Its proven commitment to “getting results the right way” – The Chevron Way – is enabled through an Operational Excellence Management System that is utilized at every level of the organization. Operational Excellence (OE) at Chevron ...
By IHS Markit
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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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