AI cars are more vulnerable to hacker attack

A new report released by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) stated that autonomous vehicles – based on Artificial Intelligence to guide the car without needing a driver – are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that can be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians and people in other vehicles. The report focuses on undetectable cyber security intrusions for humans, including possible sensor attacks with light beams, oppressive object detection systems and malicious back-end activity.

The scenarios presented in the report include the possibility of attacks on decision-making and spoofing algorithms, which can trick the autonomous vehicle when it comes to “recognizing” cars, people or obstacles that do not exist. “The attack can be used to make AI ‘blind’ to pedestrians. This can cause confusion on the streets, as autonomous cars can reach pedestrians on the streets or in pedestrian crossings, ”says the report.

The AI ​​systems and sensors needed to make the vehicle run increase the area prone to a hacker attack. The authors of the research indicate that in order to resolve the vulnerabilities, it is necessary that companies, together with third-party suppliers, develop a safety culture throughout the production chain. In addition, cars will need a continuous review of systems to ensure that they have not been tampered with.

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.”

UP Engineer Earns Top Safety Honor

Union Pacific Locomotive Engineer and TSC (Total Safety Culture) Coordinator Wade Wilde of Ogden, Utah, has received the Class I railroad’s 2020 J.C. Kenefick Safety Award.

The annual award was presented during a virtual ceremony, which UP recently shared on Twitter. Named after former UP Vice Chairman, CEO and President John Kenefick, the award has been the top safety honor for a union employee since 1986. (Kenefick “guided the company into the era deregulation after the passage of the Staggers Act in 1980,” and worked to more than double the railroad’s size through acquisitions and to gain access to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, UP noted on its website.)

Wilde, the 2020 honoree, is a 16-year railroader who works in the Rocky Mountain Service Unit and is actively involved as a leader in the TSC program. A voluntary employee-led initiative, TSC “teaches employees safe behaviors while providing observations and feedback,” according to UP. “TSC directly empowers our union employees to address at-risk behaviors and receives the full backing of senior management.”

Traffic fatality plan up for review

A plan that aims to bring the number of traffic fatalities and serious injuries to zero will be up for public review during a virutal town hall next week.

The Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization will present a draft of its Vision Zero Action Plan at 4 p.m. Feb. 25 via Zoom.

Over the past year, the organization has been working with the county and the Healthy Eating Active Living Coalition to engage the community and get feedback on roadway safety concerns and opportunities.

Maui MPO Executive Director Lauren Armstrong said that they analyzed the data and came up with seven Vision Zero priorities from the draft plan: • Eliminate impaired driving. • Create safe speeds. • Eliminate distracted driving. • Create a safety culture. • Build safe streets for everyone. • Institutionalize vision zero. • Improve data to support decisions.

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.

Boeing Replaces Two More Directors as Part of Its Post-737 MAX Crisis Overhaul

Boeing (NYSE:BA) said late Wednesday that two of its directors are retiring. This is the latest development in the aerospace giant’s response to criticism over its handling of the 737 MAX crisis.

Boeing said that Arthur Collins Jr., a board member since 2007, and Susan Schwab, a director since 2010, would not stand for reelection. Collins is the one-time CEO of Medtronic, while Schwab is a former U.S. trade representative. The company is continuing to overhaul its governance following issues with its 737 MAX, which was grounded for nearly 20 months following a pair of fatal accidents in 2018 and 2019 that claimed a total of 346 lives. Post-accident investigations uncovered some embarrassing details about the safety culture at Boeing, eventually leading to the resignation of CEO Dennis Muilenburg.

Another board member, David L. Calhoun, replaced Muilenburg as CEO. Boeing last year replaced two longtime directors with new representatives who have engineering experience, adding former United Technologies exec Akhil Johri and Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. Including the most recently announced changes, four of the 10 directors have been replaced since the accidents.

Boeing chairman Larry Kellner said that “the board will continue to take steps to identify a pipeline of diverse candidates with appropriate expertise who bring qualified perspectives.”

Boeing still faces blowback from the crisis, including shareholder lawsuits accusing the board of lax oversight. Since the accidents, Boeing has also split the roles of chairman and CEO and added a safety committee to the board.

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.

GBP Panay Site attains 13M safe man-hours

GLOBAL Business Power Corporation (GBP) subsidiaries Panay Energy Development Corporation (PEDC) and Panay Power Corporation (PPC) recently achieved a milestone of 13 million safe man-hours without a lost-time incident (LTI).

The independent power producer’s safety management program encourages everyone in upholding safety and health consciousness in their day-to-day tasks without sacrificing the quality of workmanship.

“We are truly proud of what PEDC and PPC have collectively achieved despite the challenging year it has been. This 13 million safe man-hours achievement equates to the consolidated efforts of our sites in maintaining the safety of our workplace. We place a high level of importance in creating a positive safety culture as we believe that it is key in performing our duty to provide reliable power supply for our consumers,” said FVP Petronilo Madrid – Panay Operations.

Ep.66 What is the full story of just culture (part 3)?

Topics:

Creating a solid reporting system. At what point does something become an incident? Voluntary vs. mandatory reporting. When your organization is facing prosecution. How reporting gets stifled. The problem with penalties. Looking after all parties involved in incidents. The outcomes safety professionals want. Practical takeaways.

Quotes:

“I think this is the struggle with those sort of systems, is that if they are used frequently, then it becomes a very normal thing…but that means that people are using that channel instead of using the line management as their channel…”

“I think unless we work for a regulator, we need to remind ourselves that it’s not actually our job, either, to run the prosecution or even to help the prosecution.”

“If you think your system is fair, then you should be proud of explaining to people exactly how it works.”

DB Cargo UK achieve the ISO 45001 standard across three UK sites

DB Cargo UK operations at three depots, Crewe IEMD, Stoke WMD and Toton TMD, have been under observation for the past couple of years to work out where improvements in health & safety and risk management procedures could be made.

Teams at these sites have been working hard on assessment results, leading to an increase from OHAS 18001 to ISO 45001.

This effort has not been made easy with COVID-19’s impact, but despite this, operations in rolling stock and locomotive maintenance, and repair of many trains in the UK are now completed with the new standard in place.

National Maintenance Manager Raj Basi said: “Considering the restrictions that have been in place over the past 12 months, this is a fantastic achievement and will give our customers the assurance they need that the maintenance activities we carry out on their behalf are being done safely and in line with all our legal requirements,”

“The ISO 45001 standard means that going forward Maintenance colleagues at all levels in the business will have a much greater involvement in the identification and management of health and safety risks through greater consultation and participation.

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“Strong leadership and giving colleagues a greater voice will ensure we continue to develop a safety culture rooted in local, grassroots experience as well as industry best practice,” added Raj.

FAA denied SpaceX a safety waiver. Its Starship SN8 rocket launched anyway

On Dec. 9, 2020, SpaceX sent one of its Starship Mars rocket prototypes, dubbed SN8, on a high-altitude test flight for the first time. The successful launch and flight ended with a dramatic and explosive hard landing, which Elon Musk had warned ahead of time might be the outcome.

On Tuesday, we learned the whole scene came in defiance of the Federal Aviation Administration, the US regulatory agency that oversees much of commercial space activity and licenses SpaceX’s Starship prototypes to operate in American airspace.

“Prior to the Starship SN8 test launch in December 2020, SpaceX sought a waiver to exceed the maximum public risk allowed by federal safety regulations,” reads a statement from an FAA spokesperson. “After the FAA denied the request, SpaceX proceeded with the flight. As a result of this non-compliance, the FAA required SpaceX to conduct an investigation of the incident. All testing that could affect public safety at the Boca Chica, Texas, launch site was suspended until the investigation was completed and the FAA approved the company’s corrective actions to protect public safety.”

How Estancia Valley Solid Waste Authority Bolstered its Safety Record

Management was working on instilling a safety culture before it began assigning special recognition, with its earliest efforts being a form that employees fill out to identify job hazards they may see in the field or in the office. Managers do a job analysis for each employee, based on the form responses, every three months.

And they point out when they see a potential safety issue based on how employees fill out the form. Supervisors and a representative from each department come together for safety meetings to discuss identified concerns.

“We include representatives from each department because supervisors may have one idea, but we can get more perspective from employees of what some of their issues are on the job,” Cabber says.

The tiers for the incentive program were actually created at these meetings.

The Authority’s managers believe that incentives help bring about culture change because they make people more aware.

Fostering an electrical safety culture

At the end of each year, it is an annual tradition for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to release the top 10 most cited violations of the year across all industries. However, the year 2020 has proved to be anything but traditional, and the final numbers have yet to be tabulated. Early reports have indicated that the number of violations for Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) have exceeded last year’s; however, until these numbers can be verified by OSHA, we can analyze previous years’ data where the number of violations and their deviation has been minimal. Veteran safety consultants urge employers to keep an eye out for the annual OSHA Top 10 report. This list is one of the best starting points on the path toward fostering a robust safety culture, as one safety consultant advises. “Minimally, an employer should have the responsibility of asking, ‘Do any of these Top 10 affect me?’ Because this is the easiest place if our friends from OSHA should come to visit,” says JoAnn Dankert, senior safety consultant at the National Safety Council. “I think a portion of why we see these over and over again is there’s a lot of parts to many of the standards, which makes it easier for OSHA to cite us if we missed something, and some parts take time to implement,” says Dankert. “They aren’t necessarily bad, but they do take resources, and for smaller organizations, people might be doing HR and safety, or they’re doing facility maintenance and safety. Maybe they’re the person, the admin, that sits in the lobby and they’re trying to do safety on the side.”

NTSB: Bryant’s Pilot Disregarded Training

Celebrity allure met aviation safety culture and the pilot threw his training out the window. So concluded the NTSB today in issuing its long-awaited probable cause finding in the January 26, 2020 crash of a Sikorsky S-76B that killed retired basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight others near Calabasas, California.

The NTSB found that pilot Ara Zobayan conducted the flight significantly counter to his training likely in an effort to please his celebrity passenger and deliver him to his final destination, even as weather progressively deteriorated during the Part 135 VFR flight. Zobayan, an 8,500-hour IFR-rated pilot, had logged just 75 hours of instrument time and all but 68 hours of that was simulated, the NTSB found. And although the S-76 was equipped with an autopilot, Zobayan did not use it as he attempted to climb through a cloud layer as terrain and ceiling began to converge.

The NTSB concluded that “the probable cause of this accident was the pilot’s decision to continue flight under visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which resulted in the pilot’s spatial orientation and loss of control. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s likely self-induced pressure and the pilot’s plan continuation bias which adversely affected the pilot’s decision-making, and Island Express Helicopter Inc.’s inadequate review and oversight of the safety management processes.”

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.”

Another Harmony fatality, less than a week after company-wide safety day

Harmony said an employee was fatally injured on February 3 following a seismic event that triggered a fall of ground at its Target mine in the Free State province.

It’s Harmony’s third fatality within the first five weeks of this year, after nine fatalities were reported at its South Africa operations in 2020.

Relevant authorities were informed immediately and an investigation was underway, the company said.

CEO Peter Steenkamp reiterated Harmony’s goal was “zero harm” and said every effort was made to embed a proactive safety culture.

The company had declared a safety day after reporting its second death in 15 days in January, a winch-related fatality at its Phakisa mine which is also in Free State.

Chairman outlines county legislature goals

Secondly, Chagnon wants the county to hire a safety coordinator and energize the safety culture throughout county operations. “A safety coordinator would make sure each of our departments and work sites has the proper safety procedure, equipment, and training, to do job safely,” he said.

In 2020, a private contractor was killed while at the county landfill in Ellery. Last winter, a snowplow driver hit a vehicle, killing the driver.

Chagnon noted a safety coordinator would be the lead investigator in those type of situations, as well as when there’s a serious injury.

FAA Investigates Explosive Landing of SpaceX’s Mars Starship Prototype

Tuesday’s launch had actually been delayed by the FAA. SpaceX wanted to launch the SN9 (Serial Number 9) prototype on Jan. 28.

According to The Verge, SpaceX violated the terms of its FAA test license with the launch of the SN8 prototype on Dec. 11.

Reuters reported that SpaceX sought a waiver to exceed the maximum public risk allowed by federal safety regulations. The FAA denied the request, Reuters reported, but SpaceX proceeded with the test, which ended when the rocket exploded while trying to land.

After the SN9 launch was delayed, Musk tweeted, “Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure. Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.”

In a statement Tuesday, an FAA spokesperson said, “The FAA required SpaceX to conduct an investigation of the incident, including a comprehensive review of the company’s safety culture, operational decision-making and process discipline. All testing that could affect public safety at the Boca Chica launch site was suspended until the investigation was completed and the FAA approved the company’s corrective actions.”

That cleared the way for Tuesday’s launch of the SN9 prototype.

Water Safety CEO Urges Fishermen to Take a ‘Risk-Based’ Approach

The Chief Executive of the State agency, Water Safety Ireland, has made an appeal to all fishermen to take a “risk-based approach” to safety throughout the year to reduce tragedies which coastal communities have endured.

John Leech says that the first quarter of the year “normally brings with it some of the worst fishing vessel tragedies of the year.”

“I would like,” he says, “to see all our fishermen use a risk-based approach throughout the year and that their families support them in their endeavours. This will help reduce these awful tragedies that our coastal communities have endured each year.

Formerly the Naval Officer who led that Service’s Diving Unit and took part in many search-and-rescue operations, John Leech delivers a message about the need for “an enhanced maritime safety culture” on this week’s Podcast.

Potholes a growing concern for drivers in the UK

Potholes are perceived by motorists to be a much more significant concern on the road than they were three years ago, overtaking texting and drink driving as a worsening problem according to the findings of a new report from the UK’s largest road safety charity.

PotholesIAM RoadSmart’s annual Safety Culture Report, which tracks drivers’ changing attitudes to key road safety issues over time, discovered that three in four motorists (75 per cent) now perceive potholes to be a bigger issue for road users than they were three years ago. This was followed by driver distraction (68 per cent) – such as texting or talking on a mobile phone – and traffic congestion (65 per cent).

Further findings from the report, now in its sixth year and which involves surveying more than 2,000 motorists, also discovered that around nine in ten (89 per cent) drivers have been affected by potholes over the last year.

NHS ‘Never Event’ Mistakes Are Not Yet Truly Preventable, According To Safety Watchdog

The independent Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) says labelling some mistakes as never events could fuel a blame culture in the health service.

The HSIB said that at least seven so-called NHS “never events” should be reclassified because the health service has failed to put in place effective measures to stop them from happening.

They added that NHS England should remove the never event incidents from the list of 15 it requires hospitals to report, due to the fact that they are not “wholly preventable” and the NHS has not properly recognised the systemic risks that mean they keep occurring.

Examples of the errors include a nine-year-old girl who was given a drug by injection that should have been given by mouth, and a 62-year-old man having the wrong hip replaced during surgery.

Other incidents included a 26-year-old man who had a feeding tube incorrectly inserted into his lung rather than his stomach and a woman who had a vaginal swab left inside her following the birth of her first child.

NHS England have stated that there are steps hospitals can take which mean the mistakes should never happen, but HSIB have said that many of the steps are administrative and do not completely take into account the nature of the errors, how they happen, or the environment staff are working in.

Ep, 64 What is the full story of just culture (part 1)?

For the next few weeks, we are going to cover ‘just culture’ and focus mainly on Sidney Dekker’s book of the same name.

The laws currently on the books encourage businesses to focus on liability instead of actual safety. By focusing on culpability for an accident, this is a way for businesses to get out of compensating the worker for injury. This is just some of what we will discuss today.

Topics:

Safety theory vs. safety practice. Safety culture and the Swiss Cheese Model. Updates in the third edition. The definition of just culture. To whom you apply the process and why it’s important. Listening and actually hearing. Systemic and individual action. Can an individual be too much of a danger? Preventing unnecessary blame. What to expect from this series of episodes. Practical takeaways.

Reckless Flying Led To Swiss Ju-52 Crash

The Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board has determined a couple of highly experienced but reckless pilots flying a non-airworthy Ju-52 vintage aircraft entered a stall/spin that killed them, another crew member, and their 17 passengers on a sightseeing flight on Aug. 4, 2018. The aircraft was flown at low altitude and to close to the rugged terrain at low airspeed. The board deduced it was momentarily upset by turbulence that the pilots should have expected and accounted for in flying the plane in that area. The three-engine transport spun nearly vertically into a mountainside near Piz Segnas in the Swiss Alps. “The flight crew piloted the aircraft in a very high-risk manner by navigating it into a narrow valley at low altitude and with no possibility of an alternative flight path,” the board determined. “The flight crew chose a dangerously low airspeed as regard to the flight path.”

But the investigation also determined that the risky behavior was nothing new. “The flight crew was accustomed to not complying with recognized rules for safe flight operations and taking high risks,” the report said. Both pilots were high time former Swiss Air Force pilots who were well trained in mountain flying. The board said their decision to fly at about 300 AGL and about 100 feet horizontally from the ridges could not have been borne of ignorance. Rather, it said, it reflected a deficient safety culture that permeated every aspect of the company the operated that aircraft and its two sister Ju52s on hundreds of passenger flights every year.

“In particular, the air operator’s flight crews, who were trained as Air Force pilots, seemed to be accustomed to systematically failing to comply with generally recognized aviation rules and to taking high risks when flying Ju 52 aircraft,” the report said. It also found shoddy maintenance performed by technicians who were not up to the job and that the three BMW radial engines were not able to make full power. The tour company at the time of the crash, Ju-Air, went out of business in 2018 and a new company, Junkers Flugzeugwerke, is trying to regain government approval to operate the two remaining aircraft.