Shell shares safety standards, programs with Coca-Cola Beverages PH sg.news.yahoo.com/shell-sha…
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporations shared its best practices and road safety program with Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI) at the latter’s virtual Logistics Summit. Shell seeks to promote quality safety standards in the organization and its partners.
Pilipinas Shell is CCBPI’s partner under the Shell Fleet Solutions that helps businesses achieve efficient and more convenient fleet management. Among the services that Shell Fleet Solution provide are fuel discounts, ferry bookings, and streamlining of toll payments.
Shell Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Manager Lily Keh-Camero claimed that its safety culture ensures a secure manner of delivering products. “We’re not only providing the best-quality fuel products and services, but we also share how we deliver these products in a safe and secure way,” Camero said.
For her part, CCBPI Logistics Director Ruth Genota said that road safety protocols count as an important part of their business. “We have always placed great value on our partnership with Shell, because CCBPI’s road safety protocols are integral to how we do business,” she noted.
Ep.70 Is OHS management a profession?
Topics:
Making generalizations about work across Australia. Collecting and defining OHS knowledge. Three broad criteria for defining a profession. Defining a role and career path. The OHS body of knowledge. Claim over decisions. Technical problems and social problems. How to define a professional organization and determine which is the premiere org for your profession. Do you need to be part of a professional organization? Why there need to be professional education programs. Practical takeaways.
Quotes:
“A profession should have an established hierarchy, it should have some consistency in role titles, and it should have a career path.”
“We’ve got this wonderful project called the body of knowledge, but in the professional sense, we don’t have a stable body of knowledge; we have a really contested body of knowledge…”
“Either you put up barriers to entry and say ‘safety work should only be done by recognized professionals’. Or you say ‘we want to grow as an organization and anyone can be a recognized professional, just send us the cash’. And either way, you end up diluting what it means to be recognized as a safety professional.”
Aviation operators urged to conduct regular safety seminars
KUALA LUMPUR: General Aviation (GA) and Business Aviation (BA) operators in Malaysia are urged to conduct regular safety seminars and briefings to make safety awareness and compliance to regulations an ingrained culture.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said thus fora such as the two-day Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) Malaysia Virtual Safety Forum is timely in reminding all industry players to make safety paramount in their operations and corporate culture.
“Safety must not be optional to using and enjoying private aviation,“ he said in his opening remarks at the forum, according to a statement issued by Ministry of Transport here today.
The statement said following recent mishaps involving helicopters, it was imperative for the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) to quickly organise a mandatory safety briefing for all local helicopter operators, maintenance organisations and helicopter pilots’ operators in Malaysia.
Maintaining a safety culture in the maritime industry – Part I
The term “safety culture” has been bantered around long before I came on the scene.
But what is safety culture? Is it the speech given by the CEO or some lower management level supervisor where it’s touted to the press and company personnel about how few accidents have been recorded in the past year? Is it the spending of mountains of money on the latest and greatest safety product on the market and the company splashing it all over their web site and in press releases? Could it be how many safety meetings and safety checks are made in any given period? Or should it be how each individual employee looks to their own safety as well as the safety of those around them? I believe the answer is the latter.
I have been in the professional marine environment for almost 50 years. Safety has always been one of my major pet peeves and has been taught to me and by me as I’ve moved up the chain of command. My experience spreads across the entire marine field from being a raw recruit in the Navy and eventually sailing in the submarine force, to sailing the deep seas on merchant ships, sailing inland and finally starting my own boat tour business to round out my career. I’m semiretired and still sail for my former employer as a fill in when they are shorthanded as well as my boat tours in the summer months. Safety has always played an important role in my adult life.
Nuclear safety bolstered since Fukushima accident, says Grossi
The IAEA has put in thousands of man-hours and compiled thousands of pages of data and knowledge about the accident, Grossi said in the video statement.
“Within just a few months of the accident, the IAEA had developed a comprehensive action plan to strengthen the global nuclear safety framework and Member States had endorsed it. Around the world, operators’ engineers analysed their nuclear reactors and made upgrades where necessary. Today, virtually all Member States with nuclear power plants have completed ‘stress tests’ and many make use of the IAEA’s expert peer-review missions.”
Grossi said the IAEA has built a single platform that promotes clear nuclear safety practices for existing sites and those being developed and constructed. “Our work has not only led to concrete improvements in the safety of nuclear sites; it has created a sustained and robust global safety culture.
“We have developed and improved Safety Standards, norms and guidance. The adoption of the Vienna Declaration brought together all parties of the Convention on Nuclear Safety to reinforce its principles.”
An important lesson of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, Grossi said, is that regulators must be “strong, independent and adequately resourced”.
Shipowner’s Club initiates 2021 Safety Culture campaign
Instilling a healthy Safety Culture can have many benefits for Members, regardless of the size of marine operation concerned.
Apart from the commercial advantages such as improved operational efficiencies, a healthy Safety Culture can result in happy healthy crew which in turn may result in reduced incident rates.
The Shipowner’s Club’s 2021 Safety Culture campaign aims to provide Members with the tools and resources to refer to, when considering their own organisational Safety Culture and utilise where there are any opportunities for improvement.
“All of our resources in this campaign have been created in collaboration with industry experts in their respective fields,” the Club stated.
Ep.67 How to constructively resolve an argument about safety theory? safetyofwork.com/episodes/…
Topics: Finding original sources. Figuring out what the original source says. Understanding context. Looking for the overall position of a paper or book. Design vs. behavior. Why new and old ideas aren’t mutually exclusive. The line between sharing and evangelizing. Knowledge and evidence that moves the debate forward.
Quotes:
“Unless an entire field is genuinely pseudoscience, it’s always very, very dangerous to dismiss an entire field.”
“A lot of the time that there is a disagreement with Safety II, it’s basically people saying we shouldn’t be throwing out everything to do with Safety I. What we actually need is some kind of middle-ground between Safety I and Safety II.”
“A lot of the time, when we argue, there’s an implicit assumption that we can only agree with one of the theories, because they’re somehow mutually exclusive.”
Achieving a safety culture amid a pandemic
Every day, WPAC members and their employees work tirelessly to ensure leading safety practices are implemented and embraced. We know we will be measured by our collective efforts as an industry. Our reputation and the trust of regulators, the general public and the families of our employees depend on this. That we achieved this and more in 2020 was no small feat in the context of a global pandemic.
With the support of our partner, the BC Forest Safety Council (BCFSC), and the commitment of our members from the boardrooms to the plants across Canada, we were able to overcome the challenges of not being able to meet face to face. It meant long, virtual web conferencing, technical glitches and it required at times more patience and perseverance than most have with technology on the best of days.
Washington Traffic Safety Commission Launches ‘Together We Get There’ Campaign
Today, the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) announces its Together We Get There brand, marking the start of the agency’s new systematic approach to improving safety on our state’s roadways. With this launch, WTSC joins a collective of forward-thinking organizations throughout the country that are using Proactive Traffic Safety Culture to usher in a new era of traffic safety communications and outreach.
Proactive Traffic Safety Culture is an approach that engages the majority of people who use the state’s roads safely in order to influence the smaller group engaging in risky behaviors. Essentially, by recognizing and reinforcing the positive safety norms that already exist in Washington, like wearing a seat belt or intervening to stop a friend from driving impaired, WTSC is creating a community that supports these safe behaviors and helps others adopt them.
New Partnership to Eliminate Speeding Announced The Safe Operating Speed Alliance to Focus on Technology, Policies and Behavior … Gary Catapano, Chief Strategy & Safety Advisor, MAGTEC Products, Inc., said “Speeding has been the cause of nearly 10,000 deaths every year on our highway for decades now. Unlike other roadway safety issues which we have tackled and helped drive prevention the same cannot be said about speeding. Even with the speeding problem being called out by NTSB and other safety advocates over the years we still lack a comprehensive strategy and focus to reduce speeding related crashes. This has resulted in us becoming a speed tolerant culture. We will bring together various stakeholders with new ideas, approaches and suggestions to help immediately gain traction in the prevention of speeding and the often-tragic crashes resulting from it. Real solutions are available now and we need to consider and implement them”.
For more information on the alliance please visit their website at www.safeoperatingspeed.org.
Little Falls artist creates jewelry with intention
Marquart continued to make jewelry and other artwork after she graduated from college. Little did she know at the time that she would one day walk away from it. Doing hot work in her studio in the late 1980s, Marquart said the studio accidentally caught on fire while she was welding. “I was there, barefooted and welding on carpet. Back then, they didn’t teach you safety in college,” she said. After the studio burned down, having no insurance coverage to rebuild, Marquart decided to change careers. She chose the field of environmental sciences, working with hazardous materials, sick buildings and teaching Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety. Part of the job was also to clean up after acid spills and methamphetamine laboratory explosions, she said. Looking back, Marquart believes it was the fire at her studio that led her to ultimately choose a career in environmental sciences. That combined with the fact that safety wasn’t widely taught.
Ep.65 What is the full story of just culture (part 2)?
Topics:
The problem with rewarding good behavior. How a retributive system functions. The standard for risk assessment. How restorative culture functions. Why sharing experiences is key. What is expected under a solid restorative justice system. Understanding rule-breakers. How the book fails to properly dissect rule-breaking. Practical takeaways.
Quotes:
“If our purpose is to make a better workplace, then we need a system that for most people, most of the time, it’s doing a good job.”
“When we talk about safety, we’re not talking about elements of a typical criminal offense; we’re talking about things that in the criminal courts would be talking about negligence. Which is all about meeting acceptable standards.”
“Sidney emphasizes a lot the importance of all stakeholders to share their stories with each other.”
Registration open for Inaugural Campus Safety Summit
The Campus Safety Culture Steering Committee at Northern Arizona University is hosting the inaugural Campus Safety Summit in a virtual format beginning at 8:15 a.m. on Feb. 18. The event will share information on NAU’s efforts to build a stronger safety culture, help all members of the campus community understand their role in safety and inform about the many opportunities to participate in active safety programming.
The morning webinar session, open to all NAU community members, will begin with remarks from President Rita Cheng followed by a brief explanation of NAU’s Campus Safety Culture initiative. Heather Nash, director of Employee Assistance and Wellness, will close the session with a presentation on the importance of sleep quality and how that impacts wellness and relates to safety.
The afternoon session of the event switches to project-specific workshops. Participants will receive Zoom meeting invitations to cover topics such as tracking purchases and chemical e-inventories, job safety roles and responsibilities, stakeholder communication and promoting stewardship through sustainable lab practices.
Ep.60 How does Safety II reimagine the role of a safety professional?
Topics:
Defining a safety professional and other key terms. Two modes of safety: Centralized control and guided adaptability. Thematic analysis of different safety theories. The peer-review response to David’s paper. Understanding which resources people draw upon. Listening to technical specialists beyond the front line. Improving operational scenarios. Facilitating learning. Practical takeaways. What we’d love to hear from our listeners.
Quotes:
“Centralized control is the big, main idea that pervades, I suppose, our current and traditional… approach to safety, which is about trying to reduce the variability of work…”
“We’ve got all of these people complaining that Safety II doesn’t give you any sort of practical implementation. So you…submit a draft of this paper and the immediate response is ‘Oh, this isn’t offering anything new’, when it was answering the exact thing that people are constantly complaining about.”
“And then secondly…to understand the issues and uncertainties being grappled with by technical specialists. And try to look for where the organization might be discounting emerging information.”
Montana DPHHS Expands Online Services at Parenting Montana dot Org
“The Department of Public Health and Human Services partnered with the Center for Health and Safety Culture at Montana State University to expand parentingmontana.org, which is an information website full of all kinds of things that would be helpful for parents who have children from infancy all the way into their teen years,” said Palagi. She then provided some specific examples of topics that parents might have.
“If you have a two year old and maybe they’re experiencing the terrible twos, and you wonder if your child is having tantrums and if that’s a normal part of child development, you could go to parenting montana.org,” she said. “That website would provide information that would reassure the parent that tantrums are an expected part of development, and also give guidance on how to support her to your child and their needs during a tantrum.”
MSF awards $30K in PPE grants to 37 Montana schools
HELENA, Mont. — Montana State Fund (MSF), Montana’s largest workers’ compensation insurance company, presented personal protective equipment (PPE) grants to 37 classrooms across Montana Tuesday.
The grants, which are part of MSF’s Growing a Safer Montana program, usually include safety eye protection, fall protection gear, gloves and ear protection, among other equipment, and are intended to help students understand the importance of operating safely in their environment.
“Through our Growing a Safer Montana initiative, we are committed to improving Montana’s workplace safety culture,” said MSF President and CEO, Laurence Hubbard. “We can only improve the safety culture through education and reinforcement of positive safety habits. If we start in the classroom, the next generation of Montana’s workforce will be better equipped when they step onto the job site. Our goal is to send students and workers home safely to their families at the end of each day.”
The Growing a Safer Montana initiative began in 2017 and is available to high school trades and industry classrooms statewide. The grant maximums are up to $750 in value resulting in $30,000 in safety grants for Montana schools.
Ep.58 What is the full story behind safety I and safety II (Part 2)? safetyofwork.com/episodes/…
Picking up where we left off, we begin our discussion with chapter three. Over the course of this episode, we talk about Hollnagel’s definition of Safety I, the myths of safety, and causality (among other things). Tune in for part two of our in-depth look at this important book.
Stronger MSME commitment must for achieving zero-accident workplace
Jamshedpur, Dec. 18: CII Jharkhand organised its second edition of Industrial Safety Conclave today. The objective of the CII Jharkhand Industrial Safety Conclave 2020 was to inspire the stakeholders towards building an even stronger culture of safety in their organisations. This conclave acted as a forum wherein the participants got the opportunity to interact with the safety professionals, thought leaders to learn the best practices.
“For achieving Vision Zero or a Zero-accident workplace, we would need more involvement and commitment of the MSMEs. I am happy that the CII Jharkhand Safety Panel has launched Project SARTHI to handhold MSMEs on better safety management practices and transform them into a better and safer workplace”, stated Sanjay Sabherwal, Chairman, CII Jharkhand State Council & Managing Director, Metaldyne Industries Ltd at the CII Jharkhand Industrial Safety Conclave 2020.
Addressing the gathering, Tapas Sahu, Chairman, CII Jamshedpur Zonal Council and Managing Director, Highco Engineers Pvt Ltd said, “Safety is something which can never be over emphasised. Impact of being unsafe is very heavy on the society. Best safety cultures are led by business leaders who integrate safety into the business”.
“The commitment from the leadership towards safety is extremely critical to inculcate a true safety culture within the organisation”, affirmed Mr Vilas Gaikwad, Chief – Safety, Tata Steel Long Products Ltd while addressing the conclave.
TEPCO opens facility to teach lessons of meltdowns Tokyo Electric Power Company has opened a facility for employees to learn from the meltdowns at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused by the quake and tsunami in 2011.
The meltdowns at three of the reactors at the plant in northeastern Japan forced many residents to flee their homes and evacuate.
TEPCO opened the facility inside its research institute in Yokohama near Tokyo, ahead of the accident’s 10th anniversary on March 11.
Panels with photographs and charts chronicle how flooding caused by the tsunami led to loss of electric power and eventually resulted in the release of massive amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
There are also panels explaining how the company failed to take stronger anti-tsunami measures at the plant despite there being opportunities to do so.
At a training session at the facility held on Tuesday, eight employees studied the panels and then took part in a discussion.
One participant said the company was overconfident about the safety of the nuclear plant. Another said they must acknowledge the company’s inadequate safety culture.
TEPCO introduced training two years ago for all employees to learn from the Fukushima accident. It says it will use the new facility for training and to promote awareness through dialogue among members.
Ep.54 Do safety communication campaigns reduce injuries?
Topics:
What we mean by “safety communication campaigns”. Surveying the efficacy of communication campaigns. ‘70s-era seat belt campaigns. ‘80s-era home safety campaigns. The conclusions from the communication campaign studies. What makes a communication campaign successful. Why the best safety research is often outside the workplace. Message retention rates. Practical takeaways.
Quotes:
“It doesn’t have to be a poster, it could be broadcast communications, video clips, stuff on a website, even a podcast. But it’s a verbal or written message from the organization…”
“Most of this research is conducted on very large scale behaviors, which are things that people generally agree are bad behaviors. So, many of the campaigns that are most effective and are being studied are to do with things like drink driving or cigarette smoking.”
“There could well be some more diffuse, more long-term effect here on the climate that our measurements just aren’t capturing…”
NBAA Webinar Focuses On Saying ‘No’
One of the tenets of business aviation is its versatility and flexibility, but what happens when you can’t go? The owner or principal of business aviation aircraft are typically both “hard-chargers” and highly successful, so telling a passenger that the flight is delayed or canceled is difficult. To explore how best to break the difficult news, manage expectations, and explore sensible options, NBAA recently hosted a webinar entitled “Making Tough Calls in the Interest of Safety.”
Hosted by NBAA Western regional representative Phil Derner, the webinar touched on the need to “say no,” how best to communicate those options or decisions, and the need for a strong safety culture within a flight ops organization. Panelists included Wyvern CEO Sonnie Bates and Solarius captain Brad Lindow, both holding CAM certifications.
Common themes during the presentation were to present a unified message from the crew, supported by the organization; create a plan; and build upon an established safety culture.
Safety culture transformation—The impact of training on explicit and implicit safety attitudes
The present paper investigates the changeability of safety culture elements such as explicit and implicit safety attitudes by training. Therefore, three studies with different time frames, training durations, and settings will be presented. In the first study, the short‐term attitude change of students from an international environmental sciences study program was measured after safety training in a chemical laboratory. In the second study, the medium‐term attitude change was assessed after a Crew Resource Management training for German production workers in the automotive industry. In the third study, the long‐term attitude changes were measured after safety ethics training in a sample of German occupational psychology and business students. Different self‐report measures were used to evaluate the training effectiveness of explicit safety attitudes. The change of implicit safety attitudes was assessed by Implicit Association Tests. The results of all three studies revealed a significant training effect on the explicit safety attitudes, but not on the implicit ones. Besides the training effect on the explicit attitudes, there was no effect of time frame (short‐, medium‐, long‐term), training duration (2 h, 2 days, 12 weeks), and setting (chemical laboratory, automotive industry, safety ethics study program) on the attitude change. Based on the results, conceptual, methodological, and practical implications for training effectiveness and safety culture transformation are discussed.
Jeffaust William Finds Success In Safety
When St Lucian native Jeffaust William left his island home to spearhead a workplace safety-improvement programme at Red Stripe, he did not know that in just three years the company would become his extended family, and Jamaica his second home.
Now the safety, health and environment manager at the beer company, William is convinced that his ability to swiftly integrate into and impact this initially foreign space has been largely because of his deep appreciation for people.
“I am all about workplace safety, first and foremost, because I value people,” William noted. “I’ve experienced one too many times in the past where I had to accompany workers to the hospital because they fell victim to accidents that could have been easily avoided. Watching someone in pain, seeing the impact something like that has on his or her colleagues and their families, that’s not a position I want anyone to ever have to be in. For me, my work is all about getting employees to value their safety by seeing themselves as a vital and irreplaceable part of a larger organisation.”
In 2017, the HEINEKEN Company charged William with devising a novel strategy for bolstering Red Stripe’s culture around workplace safety. After delivering a thorough and insightful proposal at the end of what was to be a six-week initiative, he was promptly invited to also lead the strategy’s implementation phase – an offer he accepted with much confidence.
“I didn’t hesitate when the company asked me to stay on as part of the family. I am a people person, so as we were implementing the new safety culture, I liked that I got to work across multiple departments and really deepen relationships with my colleagues. I especially liked bringing out the innate competitiveness in most Jamaicans. Working closely with the total productivity management manager, our team created interdepartmental competitions to really get people accustomed to the new workplace culture. It was amazing to watch how that sent occupational health and safety compliance soaring,” noted William.
Ep.52 What is the relationship between safety climate and injuries?
We frame our conversation around the paper, Safety Climate and Injuries: An Examination of Theoretical and Empirical Relationships.
Tune in to hear us talk about retrospective studies, the perception of safety vs. actual safety, and the influence of injuries on safety climate.
Topics:
Retrospective studies. Organizational and psychological safety climates. Perception of safety and actual safety. Designing research to answer your question. Influence of injuries on safety climate. Contamination. Practical takeaways
Taking your safety temperature
More than 86,000 patients who live along Southwest Florida’s waterways or within 1,200 square miles of Lee County benefit from Lee County EMS’ (LCEMS) first-rate medical services each year. This respected EMS service runs both ALS and BLS ambulances as well as an air medical program. But something is different at LCEMS – an exceptional focus on improving patient safety to support the best possible care in the safest manner for all patients.
PATIENT SAFETY BOOT CAMP While patient safety has always been a core value for LCEMS, the focus was heightened in March 2017 when Lee County hosted the Center for Patient Safety’s first EMS Patient Safety Boot Camp. This day-long interactive session helps leaders set the patient safety tone with improved communication and a non-punitive culture. LCEMS’ patient safety program focuses heavily on a just culture framework, encouraging employees to self-report errors and near misses. These reports form the basis for increased learning and improvement.