Posts Tagged ‘ Why Safety ’

Scaffold Accident Statistic – The Unspoken Warning

Scaffold accident or scaffolding accident may be seen as the secondary hazard in chemical plant. It could be understood because the use of scaffold is less frequent in operating or existing chemical plant. Scaffold is probably used if there is a construction work done in the plant site.

scaffolding-accidentIn addition, scaffold accident has higher probability to happen due to scaffold users are construction workers or construction labors who may have received inadequate safety training.

Scaffold usage could cause various accidents at work. Fall accident may become the major work accident related to scaffold operation. It could cause fatal injuries and deaths. So that’s why safety precautions on such accident at work should be given in high priority. (more…)

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Chemical Plant Explosion

This accident video shows a chemical plant explosion at Lodi chemical plant. Such explosion was real and this event has to become the main reason why safety should always be in the first priority. Safety cost is nothing when it is compared with the explosion impacts. Do we care enough to workplace safety?

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Personal Protective Equipment Safety Video

In this post, I am going to talk about safety video, which will show you about types of personal protective equipments.

In the hazard control hierarchy, usage of personal protective equipments (PPE) is the last protection choices. If engineering controls are neither technically impossible nor result incompletely hazard elimination, personal protective equipment shall be used.

If you are new in a chemical plant or chemical manufacturing operation, you need to follow training about personal protective equipment before you start working. It assures your safety.

To decide which safety equipment you should use, it depends on what kind of job you will do, source of hazard, nature of hazard, exposure time to the hazard and hazard exposure level. For instance, for protecting you from chemical hazards simply read the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) of the chemical to find out what personal protective equipments are recommended to use.

PPE comes in form of eye protection (eye goggle), hearing protection (ear plug), head protection (hard hat helmet), foot protection (safety shoes), face protection (face shield), etc. To understand more about the usage of PPE, you can watch the following personal protective equipment safety video.

Learn also how to do 5-minute safety talk and why safety is important.

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15 Reasons Why Chemical Plant Safety is Important?

why-safety-importantchemical plant potentially suffering from illness, injuries even death.

In fact, chemical plants are full of potential hazards and could cause accidents and disasters if they are not treated properly. Hazards may come from hazardous chemicals, electrical, high temperature, high pressure, unsafe acts and conditions, work at elevated area, etc. Hence, safety in a chemical plant holds an important role.

There may be hundreds of reason why safety in chemical plant is vitally important. And the list below is only a part of them. Indeed, I intend to remind about importance of safety and why we have to make safety become the first consideration in mind.

  1. Safety protects workers, employers and all people in the plant including strangers from illness, injuries or death.
  2. Ensuring survival of company’s business.
  3. It prevents company’s property and facility from damage.
  4. It enhances company’s reputation.
  5. It teaches people in the plant how to work safely.
  6. It helps company to achieve its targets and objective.
  7. Keeping company away from law suits and penalties.
  8. It keeps workers to feel comport, happy and safe.
  9. Company will be avoided from unnecessary cost.
  10. It keeps workers awareness alive.
  11. Safety teaches everyone in the plant to pay attention to their workplaces and surrounding.
  12. It keeps customer’s confidence to do business with the company.
  13. Safety program is a cost-effective decision for the company.
  14. Safety is able to reduce employee’s turn over and increase productivity.
  15. Safety can prevent production process interruption and shut down.

I do understand that the list is too short to show you how important safety is. Your feedback and comment will add value to the list. Please leave them in the comment form and I am willing to revise the list accordingly.It is no doubt that workers who are working in

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