World SHEQ News
UK construction safety practice changed
July 23rd, 2010
Leading UK engineers are reassessing construction health and safety practice standards, and rolling out self-assessment software worldwide.
Congo rejected Zijin before acid spill
July 20th, 2010
Chinese gold mine Zijin spilled 9-m liters of cyanide from a copper smelter into the Ting (Cauldron) River in July, and kept the incident secret for nine days.
BP did not learn mindfulness
July 20th, 2010
Why has petrochemicals giant BP not learned from the deaths of 15 people at Texas City refinery, to suffer similar disasters again in 2010? BP is not a ‘mindful’ organisation, but ‘mindless’.
Nano materials pose construction Sheq risks
July 15th, 2010
Use of microscopically fine materials and compounds, named nano materials, in the construction industry, pose new health and safety risks.
Suicide at work reveals defective values
June 28th, 2010
Suicides have risen at an Asian plant making Apple iPhones in midyear 2010, adding to a list of health, safety and PPE horrors in Asian culture, reports Australian safety technologist David Broadbent.
