Welding, Cutting and Brazing Checklist Welding, cutting and brazing pose a unique combination of both health and safety hazards to workers. The risk from fatal injuries
Machine Guarding Guarding of moving parts of machines and equipment is important to the safety of oilfield workers. A Hazard Assessment of the equipment on a
Why Have Safety Meetings? Records indicate that drillers who regularly hold crew safety meetings have fewer accidents, less drilling trouble and do a better over-all job
Who’s Responsible? When an accident happens, the blame is usually placed on someone or some thing. Many times the cause of the accident is never really
Which Is It? “LOST-TIME ACCIDENT” or “DISABLING INJURY” “NO-LOST-TIME ACCIDENT” or “MINOR INJURY” For many years, we have used the term “Lost-Time Accidents” to refer to
A Supervisor’s Responsibility in Accident Prevention The success of any safety program is affected directly by the extent to which the supervisor actively participates. For example,
Safety Consciousness We all know that safety consciousness is the most potent factor in the prevention of accidents. Safety consciousness may be defined as awareness of
Production + Safety = Security Safety poses no different problem from any other business or economic activity. First, we should get our facts about the problem
Know Your Accident Problems Let’s define what we mean by the word accident. An accident is an unplanned event that interrupts the completion of an activity