Dacă aţi zburat cu avionul, cu siguranţă sunteţi familiarizaţi cu instructajul făcut la bord. Înainte de decolarea avionului, echipajul de cabină se poziţionează strategic şi fiecare însoţitor de bord începe să prezinte diferite instrucţiuni, care trebuie urmate în cazul, puţin probabil, producerii unui incident/accident aviatic. O voce sobră prezintă vesta de salvare, masca de oxigen, […]
From 2014 to 2017, some 80,000 construction workers reported suffering from a medical condition caused or made worse by their work. Lucy Alderson looks at the most common problems – and best practice for tackling them. Between 2014 and 2017, 3.5 per cent of the industry’s workforce suffered from a medical condition they believe was caused or made worse by their work, according to the […]
Anul 2017 a adus în prim plan amenințările informatice mai mult ca oricând. Așa cum am început să cumpărăm mai mult online decât direct din magazin, probabil furturile în viitor vor fi mai mult online decât în magazine. Și nu e numai vorba de a fura în amenințările informatice, e vorba din ce în ce […]
Improving productivity without jeopardising safety means Oil & Gas companies need much better control over uncertainty. To prevent accidents in the Oil & Gas and other industries, leaders need an accurate picture of their current and emerging risks, and their relative importance, to be able to deploy their resources effectively against them. Various paradigms have […]
The Susan Harwood Training Grants are available to nonprofit organizations and will fund workplace safety and health hazard training and education. On August 3, OSHA will publish announcements for Susan Harwood Training Grants funding opportunities for Targeted Topic Training Grants, Training and Educational Materials Development Grants, and Capacity Building Grants in the Federal Register. A total of $10.5 […]
German and US nuclear safety specialists say that the solid-fuel, high-temperature pebble-bed nuclear reactor soon to become operational in China may need additional features and an extended start-up phase. The HTR-PM is a small modular nuclear reactor being developed in China. It is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed generation IV reactor partly based on the […]
They visit workplaces to make sure they are safe for workers and meet with a variety of employers – from friendly to hostile ones. Channel NewsAsia’s Fann Sim followed them for a day as they conducted surprise inspections. SINGAPORE: In two cars, four safety inspectors pulled up outside a warehouse, about the size of three […]
Humans have always played an important role in the safety of the nation’s roads and they will continue to for many years, even during the transition to fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). States, too, can do their part to prepare as driverless car technology is developed and deployed. Those are the highlights of a new report that encourages […]
Commercials typically depict pickup truck buyers as towing fiends, hauling their boats and horses and ATVs around constantly. In reality, however, only around a quarter of half-ton truck buyers (think the popular Ford F-150 and Chevy and RAM 1500) tow more than once per month according to the truckmakers. That means that the vast majority […]
Steel-making is a science but still relies on experienced human operators at key stages of production. But what if “smart” technology replaced manual tasks with digital sensors that consistently update information and reveal insights impossible to detect with the trained eye – or brain? Answering the “what if” question is a top priority for Canadian […]
