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Proactive Risk Management Strategies for Oil & Gas Companies

Safety Services Company

However, the industry is exposed to many risks that can significantly impair operations, the environment, and the safety of people. Consequently, risk management is crucial to identify and mitigate damages while guaranteeing the safety of workers, the general public, and the environment.

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Why Another Tool Is Needed to Reduce Safety Risks

FDR Safety

Total rate (Case rate for days away Since 1992, US businesses, governmental agencies, and industry have substantially reduced the number of recordable injuries. equipment, training, programs), we may not be identifying and targeting the hazards and exposures that can most often lead to serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs).

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Feasibility For Machine Guarding Is A Big Deal For Employers and Employees

FDR Safety

Maybe there was an injury, and you added a guard, but the guard made it difficult or impossible to unjam the equipment or operate the machine. There is no such thing as being absolutely safe, or in other words, a complete absence of risk. All machinery contains hazards, and some level of residual risk.

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Auto Draft

FDR Safety

Maybe there was an injury, and you added a guard, but the guard made it difficult or impossible to unjam the equipment or operate the machine. There is no such thing as being absolutely safe, or in other words, a complete absence of risk. All machinery contains hazards, and some level of residual risk.

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The Importance of Safety During Disaster Relief

FDR Safety

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods present significant high-risk hazards to restoration employees, recovery workers and volunteers. If properly implemented this will save time and significantly reduce the chance of injury. For more advice on safety, please please reach out to FDRsafety.

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Manage Safety Risk – Get a “2 Fer”

FDR Safety

Our guest blogger today is Mike White , a new senior advisor for FDRsafety who comes to us after a great career at GM, where he was most recently Global Safety Director. If you manage for risk, you also manage for compliance. Thankfully, the groundwork to manage risk within GM and our joint process had been laid.

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How maintaining warehouse floors can reduce the risk of accidents

Construction Marketing

It’s not just here in the US either, over in the UK the unemployment is an identical rate of 4.7%. We might not consider it, but the underfoot conditions for this army of warehouse workers poses a big risk in many ways. Not least when it comes to the human cost of injuries among their workforce. Human cost….

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