Safety Culture Plus

Great article on Six Sigma that I just ran across.  This is one of my favorite subject, as I believe in process improvement and capabilities.

Identifying success factors critical to deployment, and evaluating which tools have the most impact on projects

New research has identified the success factors critical to the success of a lean six sigma deployment, and the ones that make a difference etween partial and complete success.

The research also examined tool use in projects, and evaluated which tools were best understood, and which ones had most impact in projects. In finding that there is a link between understanding and impact, and that tool understanding is mixed, the analysis highlights the fact that

the greater understanding of the tool, the greater the impact.

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Your Personality Guide » Top Ten Success Factors Of Lean Six Sigma – Identifying Success Factors Critical To Deployment, And Evaluating Which Tools Have The Most Impact On Projects

Camtasia Studio allows you to record anything that you can view on your computer screen; including software applications, web pages, PowerPoint presentations, and much more.

Here is the link for some video screen cast and other information from Camtasia.

If you have not used this piece of software, I would suggest that you take a look.  I saw a nice video that I published the other day and asked the creator what he used:    It it a little little more that I would expected, but he does produce some nice screen cast.  Here is the feedback from him.

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By Joe Avancena

DHAHRAN – There is a need to closely and strictly supervise the implementation of safety procedures in the Kingdom’s workplaces in order to minimize industrial accidents, according to local safety practitioners.
“Supervision of workers who implement safety procedures is the key to ultimate safety,” said Engineer Renato Rey G. Barraca, a safety engineer working in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry.
Without supervision and the proper monitoring of how hazardous materials are disposed of by industries, including health institutions such as hospitals, the problems of industrial accidents, as well as environmental degradation, increase, according to Engineer Fernando M. Crisosto, an industrial safety engineer working on oil and gas installations in Al-Khafji, Eastern Province.
Barraca and Crisosto addressed last weekend a gathering of about 200 safety engineers and workers who attended a technical presentation and workshop seminar on spill prevention and control and hazardous materials and hazardous waste operations.

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Saudi Gazette – Need to supervise safety procedures in workplaces

ar 30, 2009 12:42 PM

Precious Yutangco
Staff Reporter

A man’s arm was severed during an industrial accident at a pasta-making facility in Scarborough early this morning.

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TheStar.com | GTA | Man’s arm severed in industrial accident

Times-News Online

Published: Monday, March 30, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 30, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.

A demolition worker was flown to Mission Hospitals in Asheville after an accident at the old Ecusta site in Brevard Monday morning.

At 10:44 a.m. the Brevard Fire Department received a call that a person was pinned in an industrial trackhoe, according to Assistant Fire Chief Bradley Elmore.

“Upon arrival rescue workers found a 35 foot, 12 inch steel pipe that has fallen from the third floor of a building under demolition,” Elmore said in a press release issued Monday afternoon.

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Man flown to Mission Hospitals after industrial accident | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times-News Online | Hendersonville, NC

 Preparing for an OSHA inspection

(March 30, 2009)

Issue:

You are nervous about an upcoming inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). What can you do to prepare? 

To read the answer click on the link below.

Preparing for an OSHA inspection

Great smoke detector screen cast that can be used for safety training.

Home Safety Guide II | The Home Schooling News

Staff Report
Published: March 29, 2009

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reports that a man was accidentally killed in an industrial accident Thursday.
Rufus Dudley, 48, was struck by a 12-foot two-by-four Thursday at 3 p.m. after it was ejected from a planer machine at Spanish Trail Lumber in Cypress.
Dudley was struck in the upper torso and died at the scene, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

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Man killed in industrial accident | Jackson County Floridan