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Sheq requires application of intelligence, emotion and spirit
This century poses drastic changes in human safety, health, environment, quality (sheq), politics and economics. We could no longer act on human intelligence, emotion and spirituality in isolation. Unemployment and unrest are now twin global problems, threatening the once vaunted intentions of sustainable development. We are in the cusp of a Continue Reading...Killed USA Massey Montcoal miners had lung disease
Of the 29 USA Massey Energy Montcoal Upper Big Branch coal miners who died in the gas explosion disaster in West Virginia, 17 had pneumoconiosis, and the mine was known to break ventilation laws. Pneumoconiosis is an advanced stage of anthracosis, or black lung disease, from long term or high level Continue Reading...
Employers could enforce SA's new sheq era in 2012
The biggest change in southern African health and safety education and practice in 60 years could start on January 19, 2012, when five construction and major hazard installation (MHI) employers form Buildsafe SA. At first glance, I thought this initiative was a forum to exchange incident data and best practice recommendations, Continue Reading...- Machel and Mandela foundations could promote safety culture
Foundations based on the legacies of great leaders like Chief Albert Luthuli, Dag Hammarskjöld, Samora Machel and Nelson Mandela, contribute to public safety climate and culture. These politicians contributed to political thought and public imagination in a way that politicians rarely do. They also demonstrated the global communal view of American Continue Reading... - ‘Zero harm’ is a dangerous notion, not a goal
A job advertisement for a mining group health and safety manager in December 2011 incidentally admits that ‘zero harm’ is a “notion”. The zero motto is entrenched as a false and cultic slogan. A mining human resources advertisement requires group H&S manager candidates to be “Responsible for drafting policies and formulating strategies aimed Continue Reading...
Evidence at the New Zealand Pike River Royal Commission investigating a mining disaster that killed 29 people, prove that some employers and some inspectors are not motivated by safety. It is a year since the Pike River mining disaster and I continue to pray that people and organisations would learn from Continue Reading...- State functions require solid risk assessment
Nigerian rebels as South African state guests, ran up incredible hospitality costs. Is admin and budget risk management no longer a state departmental ethic? I stood open mouthed when a read a news report titled ‘Rebels’ R2.7-m hotel bill’ (Daily Sun 23 November 2011). What had happened to our country’s sense of Continue Reading... - Self regulation is our sheq backbone
Sheq practice is acknowledged by state, business, labour and society to be largely a matter of self regulation, but some DOL, DMR and DOH inspectors want to re-invent the health, safety and enviro wheel. Consider how industry bodies in every sector, voluntary standards like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 1800, RC, BS, Continue Reading...
