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Focus on PPE Selection and Issuance
The article describes the company's experience in the individual selection and testing of personal protective equipment, providing several alternative options for each type. The author explains how choosing comfortable workwear and footwear, taking risk assessment into account, helps establish a trusting dialogue with employees and maintain a safety culture in production. The material also addresses issues related to the use of a workwear rental service and the proper selection of safety glasses, gloves, earmuffs, and respirators.
Safety in Kindergarten
The author describes a personal experience of discovering dangerous defects in the load-bearing supports of a gazebo on a kindergarten playground while searching for a lost toy. Despite initial resistance from the administration, which was accustomed to limiting itself merely to the annual painting of structures, the damaged metal structures were replaced thanks to the parent's persistence. The article shows how attentiveness and the willingness not to walk past everyday hazards help to eliminate hidden threats to children in a timely manner at the local level.
Internet of Things: IoT Solutions for Monitoring Workplace Conditions and Ensuring Rapid Response to Emerging Issues
The article is devoted to the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the field of occupational health and safety and industrial safety for monitoring working conditions at enterprises. Using sensors and wearable devices, "smart" systems collect data on equipment condition and employees' physiological parameters, allowing workloads to be tracked and hazardous situations to be identified in a timely manner. The implementation of IoT solutions helps organizations manage occupational risks, respond quickly to emerging problems, and improve the quality of work life of personnel.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager
The author, a project manager in the HSE field, shares a practical view on project management, noting that standard training materials reflect only theory and do not convey the real essence of the Agile approach. The material examines the basic concepts of project activity, key differences between a unique project and a regular process, and practical examples from the HSE sphere. The article helps specialists who have encountered project management spontaneously and without preparation to understand the structure and nuances of this work.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Who is Involved in the Project?
The article describes the roles of the main project participants — the customer, the manager, and the team, as well as their tasks in achieving a common result. The author reveals the functions of the project manager as a motivator and backbone of the team, and also shows the distribution of responsibilities among cross-functional specialists. Using a practical example from the field of industrial safety, occupational health and safety, and environmental protection, it is shown how a project structure is formalized in a company to address the issue of occupational injuries.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: The Beginning
An HSE project manager shares practical experience in weekly planning and speaks about the application of the "1–3–5" method, which helps distribute tasks into one large, three medium, and five small ones. The article explains why it is important to formulate tasks through specific actions and verbs, which allows measuring and analyzing the results of a project sprint. Such an approach simplifies the planning process, helps achieve progress step by step, and enables timely adjustments to project implementation.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Tuesday
The article is devoted to the topic of effective communication and cascading information to all worker levels in the field of safety. Using the example of the "hive effect", the author demonstrates the role of overall involvement, as well as analyzes the key objectives of informing and the "golden rules" for conducting project meetings. The material explains how to use cascade meetings as project management checkpoints for monitoring risks and evaluating product quality.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Wednesday
The author shares experience in applying the distributed leadership model in a Metalloinvest project to implement a risk management system. The article describes the operating principles of a team of slightly fewer than 50 people, where responsibility is distributed across roles, and the main goal is reducing injuries. The material also reveals the manager's personal attitudes regarding competency assessment through a matrix, supporting employees, and motivating the team.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Roles in the Project
The article examines a practical role distribution structure in an HSE project team, developed on the basis of a corporate leadership model. The author describes in detail the areas of responsibility and key functions of the Project Initiator, Curator, and Single Responsible Person (EOL). The material allows a clear understanding of how tasks for strategic management, resource provision, and operational control of project progress are distributed among participants.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Thursday
The article describes the practice of holding meeting-free Thursdays, when managers go into the production shops for a qualitative assessment of the results of implemented initiatives. The author describes the preparation stage for walk-throughs based on data from the PBOTiOS Portal IT system and shares a scheme for their subsequent integration into the communication cascade.
A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: What? Is it Friday Already?
A project manager shares their experience of overcoming procrastination and multitasking accumulated by Friday. The article examines the causes of procrastination as a habit, and suggests focusing on the process instead of the final result. Using a personal example, the author shows how a team agreement to start the day with the performance of the most unpleasant task helped leave only light and clear tasks for Friday.
Soft Skills for HSE Specialists
The success of an occupational health and safety specialist depends on soft skills, including communication, teamwork, analytical skills, critical thinking, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. The article explains the importance of these qualities and provides recommendations for including training courses in the onboarding plan for the first three months. This makes it possible to form an effective specialist capable of finding compromises with the business for the sake of employee safety.