An engine fire on a towing vessel was made worse when the ship’s crew failed to successfully activate the fixed fire-extinguishing system due to a lack of training. There were no injuries, but the vessel suffered $1.8 million in damages, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) stated in an Oct. 13, 2022, investigation report. 2 […]
Contractors involved with entertainment events at public events venues in California will now have to have written certification of certain safety training for their employees. Governor Gavin Newsom signed bill AB 1775 into law Sept. 29, 2022, which requires contractors and subcontractors in California to ensure employees have certified workplace safety training when setting up […]
Safety professionals want employees to have good situation awareness and notice hazards before they’re affected by them, but sometimes it seems that the most obvious things get overlooked. Why? The simple answer is tunnel vision, but what tunnel vision actually means is a bit more complex. The American Psychological Association (APA) defines situation awareness as: […]
Safety professionals rely on regular, routine training to help keep workers safe from hazards they face on the job. But training only on the normal, everyday hazards isn’t enough. As a safety professional, how can you possibly prepare employees for hazards that may occur outside of their regular training? The answer is actually simple: training. […]
A new safety training app from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) focuses on the 2005 BP Texas City explosion and fire and how it relates to OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. The PSM standard outlines requirements for managing hazards associated with hazardous chemicals and the training app covers all 14 […]
A North Carolina city’s reliance on warning stickers rather than safety policies for its sanitation crews contributed to the death of a worker who was struck by a sanitation truck, according to an investigation report. The city had an extensive safety program, but it failed to have a written policy for sanitation workers riding on […]
Just having a safety procedure in place is not enough. Procedures have to be followed to be effective and failing to do so can result in fatal consequences, as a recent Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) investigation illustrates. MSHA investigators were called to the Freeport-McMoRan Morenci mine in Greenlee County, Arizona, on Sept. 15, […]
Improving safety often means changing worker behavior. And to do that successfully, there’s one question every supervisor should ask before a training session: “What do I want this safety training session to change?” Why? Because it sets up a goal for the session. Having a clear, targeted goal for each session will improve your safety […]
For safety professionals in the mining industry, or for those with a creative bent looking for a new idea to help spread safety information, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) developed safety pocket cards. MSHA designed these cards in a format that’s “easily printed, carried and shared” with Best Practice (BP) cards that […]
