“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” — Mark Twain Anymore, despite knowing that they cannot believe much of what they read or hear there, most people get their news from the internet. If not there, then the evening news or cable news. When it comes to [...]
“That’s why kings send ambassadors. This way, if someone gets captured, the king is still safe. We, my friend, are something Elend can never be: expendable.” — Brandon Sanderson When OSHA was first developing the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119), there was a growing practice in the chemical process industries of contracting [...]
“I have to buy three of everything. It doesn’t make any sense, but I have to. I’m worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.” — Huda Kattan I was travelling this week and while at the airport, I [...]
“That’s what insurance is for, right?” — Liam Dai (and thousands of others) There was recently a fire at a popular business in south Saint Louis city that was widely reported on the local news. As with many fires that happen here in Saint Louis, someone set up a GoFundMe fund to help the business [...]
“If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.” — Kurt Lewin All change should be managed; in any endeavor, under any circumstances. When people ask about management of change, however, they are usually talking about the specific regulatory requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its Process Safety Management [...]
“If you don’t live up to somebody’s standards, you get hammered.” — Anthony Rendon I drive a 2006 Toyota Corolla. When I bought it in 2008, the odometer read 11,499 miles. In 2013, when the odometer crossed the 100,000-mile threshold, I declared my hope to reach 250,000 miles. The car is now closing in on [...]
“Do you fix a wheel that isn’t broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?” — Jodi Picoult During the week beginning Thursday, May 21, 2026, and going over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, our phones lit up with queries from friends and acquaintances about a series of chemical mishaps and disasters that got [...]
“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.” — Norm Crosby During the 15 years I have lived in the city of Saint Louis, I’ve been called for jury duty four times. The most recent was just [...]
“Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos.” — Dani Shapiro People love lists. Top Ten Lists. Top Twelve Lists. Casey Kasem’s American Top Forty. And for those with short attention spans, Top Three Lists. I recently received an email asking if I agreed [...]
“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. OSHA requires incident reports. For recordable injuries or illnesses, OSHA requires that a 301 Form, Injury and Illness Incident Report, be completed, per 29 CFR 1904.29(a). For workplaces with PSM-covered [...]
