#Occupational safety
Occupational safety (OS) within the context of modern production challenges and regulatory legal framing. Accumulates core methods for managing the comprehensive system protecting the life and health of workers effectively.
Key Safety Rules Save Lives
Most workplace accidents can be avoided by complying with safety rules created to prevent hazards. The article explains the fundamental principles of worker protection — from risk assessment and equipment lockout to the use of PPE and a conscious attitude toward danger. The material shows how compliance with these rules helps eliminate chance occurrences and preserve life and health while performing work.
Dynamic Risk Assessment: The Key to Safe Work Execution
The article is dedicated to dynamic risk assessment (DRA) — an operational paperless assessment performed before starting and during work to identify and prevent hazard factors. The material examines the algorithm for conducting the assessment based on the traffic light principle, as well as common employee mistakes when analyzing threats. The publication contains recommendations for the effective implementation of DRA at the site for transitioning to conscious safe behavior and protecting worke...
Using Checklists: Making the Complex Simple
Checklists in the field of occupational health and safety and industrial safety allow for systematizing control and minimizing human error, turning the complex process of safety assessment into a sequence of clear steps. Thanks to a unified methodology, such a tool becomes a guide for both beginners and experienced specialists, preventing important parameters from being missed under tight time constraints. The use of clear and practical inspection algorithms simplifies internal audits, reduces t...
Click It Before You Get Caught
The article discusses the importance of using seat belts based on traffic accident statistics and real transport incidents. The material describes the experience of JSC SUEK-Kuzbass in implementing an online monitoring system with video analytics that records violations 24/7. The publication explains how automated control helps systematically eradicate violations and protect the lives and health of employees.
"Confined Spaces" Procedure
The article is dedicated to practical experience in applying the "Work in Confined Spaces" procedure at an enterprise. The author describes key steps to increase its effectiveness, including conducting an inventory of facilities, assessing risks using a checklist, preparing a mobile safety kit, and in-person employee training. Attention is also paid in the material to appointing a supervising occupational health and safety specialist, regular audits, and annual practice of evacuation skills.
Artificial Intelligence: A New Benchmark in HSE
The article is dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence, chat models, and low-code platforms in the field of occupational health and safety to transition from administrative reporting to risk forecasting and management. The material explains how digital tools accelerate the development of solutions and reduce the volume of routine operations, not replacing the specialist, but enhancing their expert role. The author also examines the practical stages of implementing no-code applica...
Standard Operating Procedure
A standard operating procedure (SOP) records step-by-step procedures for performing operations, occupational health and safety requirements, and risk mitigation measures to ensure work safety and quality. Using JSC Rosatom Steklovolokno as an example, the article examines the stages of SOP development, hazard identification rules, and criteria for selecting priority operations. The material demonstrates how the document helps prevent incidents and train personnel, serving as an effective tool fo...
Job Rotation: How to Overcome the "Habituation Effect"
The article is devoted to the problem of the "professional blind spot" in occupational health and safety, due to which specialists stop noticing accumulating risks in familiar areas. As a solution, the author considers the rotation of duties — a planned change of areas of responsibility that restores vigilance and a "beginner's eye". The material explains the advantages of such an approach for the development of the safety system and describes practical steps for its implementation at the enterp...
Safety as a Standard: How Implementing the LOTO System Shapes a New Production Culture
The article is devoted to the implementation of a pilot project for the introduction of the Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) system in 2024 for safe equipment maintenance. It describes the five main stages of implementing a standardized protocol for the physical lockout of energy sources — from hazard identification and purchasing lockout devices to personnel training. The material shows how successful experience in applying LOTO transforms production culture and why this practice is currently being scaled...
"Decent Work Means Safe Labor": How Vorkuta Trains Personnel for the Gas Industry
The article tells about the competition 'Decent Work – Safe Labor', which since 2016 has been helping Vorkuta prepare its own personnel for the gas industry. As part of the project, high school students study the basics of life safety, get acquainted with gas transportation professions, and analyze real production case studies. The program shows the connection between school subjects and work tasks and increases the interest of young people in working in their hometown.
Cross-Inspections: An Effective Tool for a "Fresh Perspective"
The article discusses cross-inspections in the field of occupational health and safety and industrial safety—a methodology in which inspections are conducted by specialists from other departments. Such an approach helps overcome the 'eye-blurring effect,' as external experts objectively identify violations that are routine for the regular team. Implementing this system allows for the timely elimination of hidden risks, the sharing of best practices, and the reduction of injuries at the enterpris...
Hazard Blindness: An Invisible Threat and Ways to Combat It
In the work of occupational health and safety and industrial safety specialists, routine can cause “eye fatigue” — a dulling of attention due to which dangerous deviations begin to be perceived as the norm. The article analyzes the risks of this effect on the effectiveness of the occupational health and safety management system and workplace inspections. The material describes systemic prevention methods that make it possible, through rotation, objective control tools, and employee training, to...