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How to manage Process Safety information
September 20th, 2010
Process Safety Information (PSI) includes drawings and text of plant, processes, chemistry, and equipment, essential to safe operation and maintenance.
PSI is valuable only if it is correct, up to date, accessible, and used. PSI is collected from many places inside and outside operational sites, including research and development, engineers, …
Solidarity supports ‘zero harm’ motto
September 17th, 2010
Attaining zero harm in mining requires strategy, leadership, interventions, learning, investigation, excellence, and inspection, says labour union Solidarity.
These six critical success factors, of inclusive strategy, visible felt leadership, interventions, learning culture, incident investigation, quest for excellence, and inspection, each require involvement of labour unions and state inspectors, said …
Storage lessons from the Allied Colloids fire
September 6th, 2010
Several process safety lessons could be learned from explosions and a disastrous fire at Allied Colloids warehouse, Bradford, West Yorkshire in England in 1992.
At 14:20 on July 2l, 1992, a series of explosions rent a storeroom at a raw materials warehouse of Allied Colloids.
A fire spread rapidly to the …
Sports and Rec Events Act in force
September 3rd, 2010
The SA Safety at Sports and Recreational Events Act, 2 of 2010, is effective from 2 August 2010, minus some unreasonable measures contained in the earlier Bill.
The initial Bill was published for comment in Government Gazette 29078 of 5 August 2006, as Bill B7-2009, then as Act 2 of …
Hot Work permit format
September 1st, 2010
Here is a hot work permit format, and some hot work management tips, courtesy of SRT.
Keep Hot Work permit formats, permits in use, and used permits, at work sites.
Use a separate permit for each job and each work area.
Tailor permits to list relevant jobs and relevant hazards.
I (name and …
Chief Inspector explains construction legislation
August 26th, 2010
Department of Labour Chief Inspector Thobile Lamati answers construction draft legislation queries in an interview with Sheqafric.com editor Edmond Furter.
Sheqafrica.com; What are the current status and aims of the Construction Regulations amendment draft, in August 2010?
DOL CI; “Construction Regulations are under review, and was sent to state law advisers …
Sheq toolbox talks topics
August 16th, 2010
Daily toolbox talks are effective in raising and maintaining risk awareness, which in turn is one of the most effective risk management and loss prevention tools.
Toolbox talks focus on methods for identifying, assessing, eliminating or managing workplace risks. Every session offers many opportunities for two way communication, and management …
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) policy guide
July 28th, 2010
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) should assess skills and knowledge gained outside formal learning, but RPL is problematic in practice, says City & Guilds.
The international training certification authority City and Guilds, via its Centre for Skills Development policy advisor Chris Sims, report in a July 2010 circular on benefits …
How to manage slips, trips, falls (STFs)
July 8th, 2010
Workers in ‘lower risk’ occupations like office administration, suffer 14% of workplace injuries reported and claimed from the SA Compensation Commissioner.
Clerical and administrative occupations, like office workers, suffer 14.41% of all reported occupational health and safety accidents involving compensation claims. Loss incidents involving office equipment make up 3.79% of …
Heritage impact assessment (HIA): step lightly
July 6th, 2010
Most developers think that heritage impact assessment (HIA) applies only to graves, but roads, power lines, cables, or pipelines, require prior HIAs.
The need for an HIA may arise during construction, if historic, prehistoric or palaeontological scientific resources, like structures or fossils, are discovered, as part of an environmental impact …
