12/9/2019 Many organizations make a cognizant effort to hire new blood as this ensures that stagnation within their workforce does not become a problem. By having new hires, long-time employees can be used as mentors, providing knowledge on company procedures and processes; thus, ensuring that company protocol is reviewed – Read more…
2/22/2021 It is truly amazing how fast time flies. I was thinking of an event that seemed like it happened a few years ago, but it was closer to 25 years. But the incident remains fresh in my mind. I was working at a naval facility in Southern California. It Read more…
9/9/2019 S&H professionals always emphasize the importance of hazard recognition. That’s because, once a hazard is identified, the possibility of an incident occurring from that hazard is significantly reduced. The fact is, some of the greatest disasters of the world were the result of not seeing when danger was present. Read more…
7/29/2019 After the second earthquake that hit California a few weeks ago (epicenter, Ridgecrest – a small desert community), Governor Gavin Newsom announced that there would be a re-assessment of the State’s building codes to ensure structures will be able to withstand future earthquakes of even greater magnitudes. This decision Read more…
6/11/2018 It is understandable that many people lump the organizational processes of lessons learned, feedback and continuous improvement within the same category. True, they do have similarities, but there are differences as each serving their specific purpose. To begin, feedback is part of a larger, all-encompassing work process described within Read more…
3/26/2018 It was on March 11; a Sunday evening in New York City when a helicopter plunged into the East River, killing five people. Only the pilot survived. For those not familiar with New York City, New York’s East River separates the Boroughs of Manhattan from Queens and Brooklyn, and Read more…
12/18/2017 In the past, I have discussed the tragedies of the Ghost Ship Incident (an artist colony in Oakland, Ca that caught fire in December, 2016), the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Incident in New York City during the beginning of the 20th century and the Hamlet Chicken Processing Plant in 1991, Read more…
8/14/2017 Ethyl Mercaptan got out of her car and took in the view of the project site. She was here to help with an accident investigation. The other day there was a pretty bad incident where a worker was hit by a water truck that was spraying the roads as Read more…
5/15/2017 Undoubtedly when we are pressed to think of great disasters in history, the tragedy of the Titanic comes to mind. And while the story of the titanic has a multitude of points to be learned, other tragedies have their stories that should not be forgotten; if not for the Read more…
3/14/2016 The terms, leading and lagging indicators were first used in the financial world. While a leading indicator is designed to help determine or predict the future, a lagging indicator provides information as what went right or wrong. Thus, a leading indicator uses information prior to an event or occurrence, Read more…