Happy New Year-Safety Resolutions 2009

Happy New Year to all of you there, who read this blog, subscribe via RSS and post useful comments! The year 2009 will be a watershed year in terms of the economy, our core beliefs, our politics and so many other things. Let us all resolve that we will keep safety uppermost in our list [...]

Yet another welding related fire-now in a nuclear plant!

As if we did not have enough of welding related fire accidents in conventional plants (read my last post on the issue here ), now we have a report of a similar accident in a Japanese nuclear plant.

Here is the incident reported by various agencies:

A fire broke out at a nuclear power plant in northern [...]

Meeting Safety Standards in Industrial Plants-what are the costs?

Running an industrial manufacturing plant in these days is tough.  First, you have to meet all the production and cost targets, whereas you are not allowed to hire more hands (due to the slowing economy), or to have any safety violations or incidents, nor any environmental issues. With shrinking budgets and an equally shrinking manpower, [...]