HazardEx - Features

The role of supervisor coaching in preventing serious injuries and fatalities

17 January 2020

Capable, respected, and influential supervisors are necessary for addressing behavioural lapses in safety processes....
The consequences of leaving minor incidents unreported

16 January 2020

Recording minor accidents in the workplace can be an effective strategy to prevent major incidents....
Cost should not be a barrier to dropped object prevention

15 January 2020

Dropped objects are among the top ten causes of fatalities and serious injuries in the oil and gas sector....
Even when expertise exits, regulatory compliance doesn't need to be elusive

14 January 2020

Product Stewardship systems are an effective solution to the departure of human expertise as key workers retire....
Steps towards a 'living QRA'

18 December 2019

A new generation of 'living' quantitative risk assessments has been developed that can be updated throughout the lifecycle of an installation....

Industrial smart lighting strategies 17 December 2019

Dialight Chief Operating Officer Luis Ramirez discusses the major hurdles of adopting smart lighting systems and how to overcome them....

How AI impacts the future of oil and gas safety 16 December 2019

Heather Stewart, Advisian Digital, and Chris Aitken, SaltGrid, look at the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence and its role in transforming safety in the oil and gas sector....

The step-by-step guide to storing, handling and installing flameproof motors 16 December 2019

In this article, Marek Lukaszczyk from WEG outlines a number of steps to ensure the safe storage, handling and installation of flameproof motors and how failure to heed this advice could have serious consequences....

Dealing with dust: how to eliminate harmful particles in workplace facilities 09 December 2019

Earlier this year, the head of the National Coal Miners’ Union called for urgent action to be taken in the regulation of silica dust in mines, which has been linked to a resurgence of potentially fatal black lung disease....

European downstream safety performance in 2018 13 November 2019

Concawe, the European downstream industry organisation, has published personal safety performance results for 2018. This article is based on selected sections of Concawe Report 6/19 – ‘European downstream oil industry safety performance - Statistical summary of reported incidents 2018’ - and provides comparisons with the industry’s safety performance over previous years. ...