Many articles have been written regarding safety leadership and the importance of management participation in health and safety initiative at work. It had always been a strong area of interest to me and I would generally spend quite a lot of time reviewing much of these publications in an attempt to come up with the […]

Health, safety, and environmental orientations are essential to any organization’s HSE management system as it is a process where new employees, contractors or visitors becoming familiar with the various expectations prior to starting work. Many companies do not afford this process the importance it deserves, as they rush through the practice to get new employees […]

I am often asked about routes of conversion between the different chartered safety memberships worldwide. Health and safety recruiters are already well used to looking for professionals with safety affiliations as they recognize the chartered status as “a best in class” and realise that often they’ll get the highest professional standards from a chartered individual. […]

A permit-to-work system is a formal written system used to control certain types of work that are potentially hazardous. It is a document which specifies the work to be done and certain precautions that are required to be taken. Permits-to-work are an essential part of a safe system of work and only allow for work […]

Often during my time in a number of safety roles, I had been tasked with recruiting safety officers to support the HSE team in the various activities within the department. The majority of the time this involved interviewing safety personnel to work for our contractors for the full duration of a given contract or hiring […]

With outside temperatures starting to increase in many parts of the world, it may be the time to ensure employers are taking those important steps to protect workers from heat stress and heat-related illnesses. Heat can cause more than just discomfort, exposure to such environments can be life-threatening unless strong measures are in place to manage an organization’s work […]

Industries worldwide rely on contractors for various specialised types of works in their facilities or operational plants, in many cases these tasks are hazardous, with significant training, hazard mitigation and control required, specifically during peak periods of operations or in times of maintenance turnarounds. The hazardous work, coupled with the potential lack of familiarity regarding the facilities existing hazards, often pose […]

A worker is walking through a construction site, stepping over extension cords and planks from a nearby scaffolding erection. He turns a corner and nearly collides with one of his fellow colleagues. He tries to avoid the collision by stepping to the side and spills his hot coffee on his coverall in the process. This […]

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” Commonly used as an opening sentence at a management training session, renowned thinker Peter Drucker is famously credited with the above saying referring to the notion that you cannot be successful unless success is defined and tracked. Without clear objectives, you’re always going to be stuck […]