Accident Monitoring (Health and Safety) Articles

Why injury prevention strategies need to be more resilient to external shocks

While injury prevention strategies are generally effective, safety management systems need to be more resilient in the face of external factors such as COVID-19, according to recent research. Australian organisations have fairly resilient injury prevention strategies in place, as seen by the low injury rates experienced over the last decade – particularly when compared to other countries ...

Mar. 31, 2021

By Cority

Safe Use of Liquid Nitrogen in Food Processing Plants

In December 2020, two employees working at a Vernon, California food processing plant lost consciousness and died following an apparent liquid nitrogen leak. On January 28, 2021, there were several fatalities, and many other employees became sick, after being exposed to nitrogen gas when a liquid nitrogen line ruptured at a food processing plant in Gainesville, Georgia.According to the ...

Feb. 4, 2021

By PureAire Monitoring Systems, Inc

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 ...

Sep. 19, 2020

By Quentic GmbH

Safety gone mobile: A dramatic improvement in reporting behavior thanks to a mobile app - Case Study

For Fingrid Oyj safety is a top priority. Fingrid Oyj is Finland’s transmission system operator. Responsible for maintaining and developing the Finnish power system, contractors are an integral part of operations, and ensuring that they adhere to health and safety practices is a key part of the company’s EHSQ management. Karri Koskinen, a safety expert, is aiming to realize a goal of ...

Sep. 19, 2020

By Quentic GmbH

OSHA Issues a Correction to Walking-Working Surfaces: What this Means for Harnesses, Ladders, Industrial Gates and More

To ensure the safety for workers around the country, OSHA is always looking for ways to improve and clarify safety regulations in response to new information, questions, methodology, and technology. With that in mind, they have recently updated some rules, many of which relate to general industry fall protection. Here’s a look at the new regulations and what you may need in terms of ...

Sep. 14, 2020

By FabEnCo, Inc.

Creating a Culture of Safety in Steel Manufacturing

From heavy equipment to dust, gas, liquid metal, noise, heat, chemicals, and working at heights, steel manufacturing employees face a variety of health and safety risks every day. While a wide range of safety precautions are essential, including the use of a fall safety harness and safety lanyards, industrial swing gates, and more, it’s even more important to cultivate a culture of safety ...

Aug. 28, 2020

By FabEnCo, Inc.

Protecting Precious Cargo: Safety Monitoring at IVF and Cryogenic Facilities

Overview In March 2018, at two separate fertility clinics, one in Clevelandand the other in San Francisco, the cryogenic tanks storing eggs and embryos malfunctioned, resulting in devastating losses for couples hoping to conceive children. Nationwide, as of December 2019, there were more than 440 sites that store embryos or eggs in specialized storage tanks of liquid nitrogen, but there are no ...

Mar. 28, 2020

By PureAire Monitoring Systems, Inc

Ndt Application in Automotive Industry

(1) Ndt Application in Automotive Industry -Ultrasound Testing of Automobile Half-axle Fracture failure of half axle is mainly due to high frequency and low-stress fatigue damage, and the existence of internal defects of workpiece is one of the important reasons for fatigue fracture. Ultrasound can be used to inspect the raw materials of the semi-axle and the semi-finished products after ...

Nov. 14, 2019

By Nanjing BKN Automation System Co.,LTD

Monitoring flow of Oude Rijn River after crane accident Alphen aan den Rijn - Case Study

Project Monitoring flow of Oude Rijn River after crane accident Alphen aan den Rijn Client Rijnland District Water Control Board Country The Netherlands Background information constructing monitoring network On the 3rd of August 2015 a new bridge was supposed to be build across the Oude Rijn River in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Instead, a massive accident occurred when two ...

Jan. 22, 2019

By Eijkelkamp Soil & Water

Fatal Workplace Injuries – Workplace Fatality Hazards are Poorly Assessed

In 2014, there were 4,679 fatal work injuries according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s an increase of 2% over 2013 in 2015 there were 4,836, in 2016 there were 5,190, in 2017 date is not final but again indicates an increase in workplace fatalities. No one expects to go to work and not come home. All of our efforts to reduce fatalities in the workplace have not been ...

Nov. 12, 2018

By Atlantic Environmental, Inc.

Air Sampling During NPP Accident

There has been considerable interest recently generated regarding emergency air sampling protocols as a result of the Fukushima accident in Japan. A major concern involving air sampling requirements is the accurate determination of gaseous-radioactive iodine species emitted from the NPP to the environment as a result of an accident. During normal NPP operation gaseous radioactive iodine ...

Aug. 10, 2017

By F&J SPECIALTY PRODUCTS, INC.

A Record Year for EHS Non-Compliance fines in the UK

The sentencing landscape for Environmental, Health and Safety offences in the UK (England & Wales specifically) has undergone significant change over the last 18 months. In England and Wales, companies have been handed record fines in these fields. So what does this mean for businesses? Health and Safety The shift towards higher fines in England and Wales all started in February 2016, ...

Jun. 2, 2017

By Enhesa - Global EHS & Product Compliance Assurance

Patterns of gob-water inrush in Chinese coalmines

Gob-water is a serious hazard in Chinese coalmines. Such inrushes have caused more than 80% of the coalmine water accidents recorded in recent years. This study is based on reviews of past gob-water hazard cases in China. Six inrush patterns are suggested, caused by gobs exposed by tunneling, channeled by faults, or fissure or caving zone channeling, damage to or collapse of water-resistant ...

Jan. 1, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Contamination accidents in China's drinking water distribution networks: status and countermeasures

In recent years, frequent urban drinking water contamination accidents have caused significant impacts on society in China. However, emergency measures are primarily realized as management policies lack systematic technologies especially for those within-network contamination accidents. The aim of this paper is to perform analysis on cases of contaminant accidents that occurred in water ...

Jul. 22, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Press or pulse exposures determine the environmental fate of cerium nanoparticles in stream mesocosms

Risk assessment models indicate that stream ecosystems receiving municipal wastewater effluent may have the greatest potential for exposure to manufactured nanoparticles. We determined the fate of cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles in outdoor stream mesocosms using 1) one‐time pulse addition of CeO2 nanoparticles, representative of accidental release and 2) continuous, low‐level press addition ...

Nov. 17, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Need of Surveillance and High Quality Monitoring

With the rise in unwanted scenarios in nature due to the man-made activities in the environment a severe need for proper surveillance of various disasters causing factors is a must in the current prevailing situations. An uncountable millions of lives are being lost every year due to accidents or natural calamities. The squandering caused by such undesirable phenomena’s can be curtailed by ...

Oct. 19, 2015

By Soldata Limited

Bruce Power (Canada) Gamma Monitoring System - Case Study

System description and operational performance after first winter period 2014/2015 The Bruce Power nuclear power plant (NPP) in Ontario, Canada, is the largest nuclear generating station in the world, operating 8 nuclear reactors producing 6300 MW. In correlation with Bruce Power’s safety culture, “Safety first” and continuous improvement are essential and substantial parts of ...

Jul. 1, 2015

By Bertin Instruments

All About Health and Safety Software

The many different health and safety laws and regulations can be understandably difficult to get to grips with it, but do the tools to help you implement them have to be? With the right health and safety software suited to you and your business, you can look forward to an educated and, most importantly, safe working environment. Health and safety software has been designed with employers ...

Apr. 23, 2015

By Safety Media Ltd.

Inverting time dependent concentration signals to estimate pollutant emissions in case of accidental or deliberate release

We test the reliability of an inverse model to estimate the amount of mass released instantaneously by a source of pollutant in a turbulent boundary layer. To that purpose we use wind tunnel experiments simulating the dispersion of puffs due to the impulsive release of pollutant. For each of these emissions we recorded time dependent signals at fixed receptors. These single signals have been ...

Dec. 1, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

The man behind Africa’s growing digital democratization movement

Tech guru Erik Hersman aims to change the world by changing information flow from “top down” to “all around.” Putting power into the hands of the people is, quite literally, Erik Hersman’s life’s work. With the help of mobile phone technology, open-source software and a team of socially conscious entrepreneurs, the Kenya-raised tech guru has emerged as one of ...

Nov. 10, 2014

By Ensia