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Elastopipe: Safety Pipe for Oil Rigs

Trelleborg has developed a product, that can withstand a jet fire – the cause of the Piper Alpha disaster. The product is already in use on several platforms, primarily in the North Sea. To date, some NOK 7 million in development costs- has been invested annually. These costs are shared by the project sponsors, comprising the Norwegian government and a number of oil companies. Continued development is not expected to be as costly and will focus more on handling other derivatives, such as gas and oil, and possibly being able to offer a material in other colors for customers who wish to customize their equipment using their own color schemes.

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The Totally Responsible Individual: Dealing with Chaotic Events

A chaotic or traumatic event can happen to anyone at any time or place. Would you be ready if it happened to you? Anything that threatens your sense of safety and security either physically or mentally can be considered a traumatic event. How well you respond to and recover from such events primarily depends on your overall state of well-being. Let’s look at ways to develop the Internal Resources and External Resources you need to put yourself in the best possible position to deal with chaotic events.

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What to do When you Receive an OSHA Citation

Certified mail has arrived. The letter carrier isn’t Ed McMahon. Uh Oh! It’s a citation package from the USDOL/OSHA. What do you do? You glance at the paperwork to be sure it really relates to an OSHA inspection at one of your sites. You notice some rather heavy penalties. You are shocked, irate and feel as if you’ve been branded “corporate slime.” You try to convince yourself that you’ve been in lots of workplaces that are more dangerous than yours. You need this like a centipede needs sore feet. Options pop through you mind.

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The Safety Catalyst: Handling Stubborn Safety Problems

We as safety professionals aren’t exempt. Have you seen this: Workers don’t change their actions? Tell them again (with a why-didn’t-you-listen undertone). Policies and procedures not followed? Write additional (and more detailed) rules. Training didn’t change their behavior? Put them through the same training again and again (until they “get it”). Try, try, try again to solve safety problems, but don’t confuse persistence with obstinancy.

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The New ISO 12100 – Safety of Machinery

ISO 12100 is a fundamental safety standard being developed that will apply to a very broad array of machinery.  There are many machines that have specific industry consensus standards that pertain to the particular equipment (e.g., power presses, robots, packaging machinery).  There are many more machines for which no industry specific standard exists.  In this case, the ISO “A level” standard ISO 12100 Safety of Machinery applies.  Complying with the requirements of ISO 12100 is a critical first step in achieving mobility of equipment and consistent operations.

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Symbiosis of Maintenance and Safety in Process Industry

“Prevention is better than cure”, this proverb sounds rightly in case of maintenance also. If the maintenance is prevented, then the availability of the plant increases and the overall cost reduces. Every effort should be made to avoid maintenance, which can be achieved through continuous monitoring of equipment and upgrading the sophistication of the equipment through better design and process improvement.

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Safeguarding: Hoops, Health & Harmonization: Design Standards Do it All

Life without standards would result in near chaos for both manufactures and consumers. Just think if you could not rely on the strength of a critical fastener in an aircraft fuselage, the quality of the glass in a high rise building, the voltage fluctuation of the electrical grid at a faraway vacation destination, a crucial replacement for an electrical motor, the purity of a critical medication or the mere annoyance of not finding a correct battery for that digital camera. In short, as consumers, we would soon notice the lack of standards when the safety, quality, fit, reliability and compatibility of the products we consume, purchase and rely on are compromised.

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Safety and Reactive Maintenance

Reactive maintenance is here defined as all maintenance work that was scheduled less than 20 hours before it was executed. It makes sense that there is a strong correlation between safety incidents, injuries and reactive maintenance. In a reactive situation you might not take the time you should to plan and think before you take action. The urgency also call out the so common hero in maintenance crafts people and they take risks they should not take.

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