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Hi folks, When a person is working alone or with another person the job related risks and the work environment risks are the same according to my understanding. The employer has to take all precautions reasonable to prevent harm to the workers whether they are working alone or as a team. The risk re...

Hi Folks, When hiring service contractors ( mechanical, electrical) for working in chemical plants, do they have to follow the procedures of the hiring employer or of their own? I believe that the contractor employer also has a duty of care towards their employees. I am asking this as to the liabili...

Greetings folks, We are in a process of developing a lone worker procedure. we do not use any technology solutions. To establish a check in what can supervisors do if they have 8 reporting staff and they need to call in periodically? The supervisor will be swamped with calls from staff? Is periodic ...

Hey folks, One of the supervisors suggested that when 2 persons are working together they both must be considered as working alone. The reason being if one person goes down and is incapacitated the second person is now working alone. My argument was that the second person will not be working if one ...

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Hi Folks, Our maintenance crew use elevated work platforms viz scissors lifts and articulating boom lifts. For work on a roof can they place the equipment against the wall of the building> get out of the platform through the gate> perform work beside the platform with it as a guard rail or use the t...

Hi Folks, We have a few lifbuoys/rings and rope around our facility as we have water ponds which pose a drowning hazards. We are looking out for replacing them and reaching out to the champions to know if you know of criteria that we can adopt(checklist) to qualify if the buoy and rope integrity is ...

Hi Folks, What is the distinction between a root cause and a contributing cause? Or is there one really? My understanding is that the root cause is one that if eliminated or controlled or changed will prevent the mishap/problem/event from recurring. A contributing cause is the one which on its own a...

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Thank you for the many responses. Special thanks to Jack for a more detailed response and help me thinking in the right direction.I am indebted to this group of wonderful people who live up to the motto of the group and go all out to provide credible solutions.

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Hi Folks, Our existing emergency eyewash and showers are not having any alarms triggered upon activation. We are planning to replace a couple due to ageing. The contractor has provided us a quote with local audio visual alarms on the new ones. I am reaching out to know if installing them is helpful ...

Thanks Alexis, I will develop something instructions based on this. Our maintenance technicians are exposed to the paint. They work on equipment that is from the 70s and when removing equipment example pumps the foundations are all painted. There is potential that it will be chipped and the technici...