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Safety Engineering

The future of the profession in the U.S. Abstract: Safety engineering has been defined as the application of scientific and engineering principles and methods to the elimination of hazards. In the U.S., there has been some debate regarding the practice of safety engineering, particularly regarding

Publication: Professional Safety

Making safety a priority: if the metalcasting industry is to continue to survive and thrive, it must improve its safety rate, just as ferrous caster Lufkin Industries recently did.

Plant insurance. Product liability insurance. Vehicle insurance. We all purchase insurance to protect our assets from loss. But the cast components made and sold by metalcasters are produced by people, not just machines or facilities. How well are we protecting that asset? Although the metalcasting

Publication: Modern Casting

Safety Issues To Be Spotlighted Next Week in New Orleans

News Advisory: National and international safety issues will grab center stage next week when 16,000 people are expected to converge on New Orleans, La. for the 92nd annual National Safety Council Congress & Expo, the world's largest annual safety and health conference. Several of the nation's

Publication: U.S. Newswire

Safety under pressure: fierce competition and tight budgets have safety managers fighting for resources, and taking innovative steps to improve their safety programs. (National Safety Survey).

How do you get better when business conditions are so demanding? That's a question many readers who participated in our 2003 National Safety Survey are grappling with as they strive to protect employees and property, implement or improve safety management systems, and demonstrate to company

Publication: Occupational Hazards

Safety and quality: two sides of the same coin. (includes related articles)

The behavior-based approach to safety matches the statistical process control challenge associated with quality: statistical measurement of upstream safety factors. In many seminars and consulting sessions over the years, safety leaders familiar with quality initiatives have told me that the

Publication: Occupational Hazards

SAFETY FIRST PART TWO

HOW MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS ON YOUR SAFETY EQUIPMENT CAN HELP YOU FROM GETTING BURNED On November 4,1967, Vie Wilson and Ted Mangels won the inaugural Mexican 1000 by traveling 849 miles down the BaJa California peninsula in 27 hours and 38 minutes, for an average speed of 30.724 mph. Some 40

Publication: Dirtsports

Safety PLCs.(back to BASICS)

When is a PLC a safety PLC? Generally, a safety PLC is a programmable logic controller designed for use in mission-critical or safety-related applications; if a safety PLC fails, it does so without endangering people or processes. Actually, "safety PLC" is a bit of a misnomer. Even if a PLC

Publication: Control Engineering

Designer safety. (fashion in protective clothings)

Designer Safety No one would disagree that safety is the most important factor when choosing protective eyewear, shoes, and clothing. Comfort is also an important factor. But to many young (and not-so-young) workers, fashion is important as well. An example of the trend toward fashion in safety is

Publication: Occupational Hazards

Safety networks begin to emerge: Despite reluctance and regulations, safety fieldbus networks are starting to be developed and implemented by users seeking potentially huge savings.

The idea of a safety fieldbus may seem like an oxymoron. How the heck can you logically have one twisted-pair control loop operate in a safety-related environment that is traditionally, and often legally, required to have redundancy via hardwiring? Sure, practical objections aside, it would be

Publication: Control Engineering

Safety certification for the T & M World: preparation is the key to limiting product redesign and obtaining safety certifications on time.(Safety Certification Process)

Let's say you've designed a new product, and your marketing department and legal beagles say, "We need safety certification to sell it. And furthermore, we need it yesterday." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Get the picture? You may think the product is ready and should have no trouble passing safety

Publication: Test & Measurement World