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Planning Health and Safety

WEBLorraine Hancox. January 17, 2012. Planning in health and safety (H&S) is a process well specified in BS OHSAS 18001 but it is our experience that H&S professionals rarely …

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Risk Assessment: where is the value

WEBThe world of Health and Safety is steeped in risk assessment, but I wonder whether the value is really being leveraged. It is all too easy to fool ourselves into …

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Health and Safety Communication – Abbreviations, Acronyms and …

WEBSOE – Safe Operating Envelope; SIF and SIL – Safe Instrumented Function and Safety Integrity Level; FARSI – Function, Availability, Reliability, Survivability and …

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Definition of wellbeing

WEBWell-being is understood as a state of health, happiness and/or prosperity. In a broad understanding, well-being is living a good life with which one is satisfied. Well …

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Are you taking risks with risk assessment

WEBSteve Highley. April 16, 2018. Risk assessment is fundamental to effective health and safety management and is vital for good corporate governance. As discussed in Richard …

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What should engineers know about health and safety at work

WEBAll these topics are ‘mandatory’. One explanation lies in the factors that determine syllabus development at departmental level, where the inclusion of health …

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The ACSNI’s human factors study group

WEBRichard Booth reflects on his role in the ACSNI human factors study group, part of the UK’s response to the Chernobyl Disaster.This was one of the first major …

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Safety and Health at Work. Report of the Committee 1970-1972

WEBThis Summer marks the 50 th Anniversary of the Robens Report the most seminal development in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) since the appointment …

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What are you walking by

WEBNovember 9, 2017. ‘Don’t walk by’ is an important feature of many safety improvement programmes. It is clearly important. If you walk past unsafe behaviours and conditions …

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A Lifetime of Risk: Part 2 – Aston University (The Early Years)

WEBThis is the second episode: my first 10 years at Aston University. It takes me from being a research engineer at MIRA to my appointment as a lecturer in 1972, and …

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Why everyone should know about the bathtub curve

WEBThe bathtub curve (see Part 1) helps to make the right decisions. In Part 1 I stated: “The challenge is captured in the human life cycle where all causes of mortality …

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Why everyone should know about the bathtub curve

WEBIt is fundamental to the science of reliability engineering. In fact the bathtub curve is a bit more complicated, as early life failures and wear out failures do not …

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The Aberfan Disaster 21 October 1966

WEBThe tragedy was described as follows: “At about 9-15 a.m. on Friday, October 21st, 1966, many thousands of tons of colliery rubbish swept swiftly and with a …

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