Exhaust Ducts: When Safeguards Have Their Own Hazards

“The guard shall be such that it does not offer an accident hazard in itself.”  — 29 CFR 1910.212(a)(2) Machine guarding It’s hard to imagine any safeguard that doesn’t pose its own burden. Safety shoes are heavy and make a worker less nimble. Side shields on safety glasses impair peripheral vision. Interlocks introduce the prospect [...]

By |2023-01-19T16:56:25-06:00January 19th, 2023|Process Safety, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Exhaust Ducts: When Safeguards Have Their Own Hazards

Someone Else’s Experience

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”  — C.S.Lewis We all learn from experience. When it comes to brutal lessons, though, it is better to learn from someone else’s experience.  In the course of our work, clients have shared some experiences with us that everyone can learn from.  [...]

By |2019-09-26T13:14:16-05:00September 26th, 2019|Process Safety, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Someone Else’s Experience
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