Category Archives: Safety@Risk™

#357 – CUTTING CORNERS TRIGGER VAPOR EXPLOSION – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Environmental health and safety should never take a back seat to making a profit. The former president of an oil waste reclamation plant learned that lesson the hard way. Peter Margiotta, 64 years old, just started an 18-month sentence in a federal prison after being found guilty of multiple criminal violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Rushing to get up and running before all the T’s were crossed and I’s dotted landed three of his former employees in the hospital and blew up a sizable chunk of his plant. Continue reading →

#355 – CHANGE MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Management of Change (MOC) is a process for evaluating and controlling modifications to facility design, operation, organisation, or activities. It is one of the most essential elements of Process Safety Management (PSM). In the chemical process industries and Oil & Gas (CPI), MOC is required to ensure that safety, health and environment are controlled. Every year with monotonous regularity, major accidents related to MOC failure is significant and caused by lack of MOC management, resulting in thousands of lives being lost, and $ billions in lost production. Continue reading →

#352 – SECONDARY EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS AND HOW TO PREVENT IT – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Asbestos can affect more than just the workers who are directly exposed to it – their loved ones and friends may be at risk, too.

Asbestos exposure doesn’t always end at work. Unfortunately, whenever an employee is at risk of exposure, so are their family and loved ones, unless the father or exposed parent takes precautions, before going home, that’s because of a phenomenon known as secondary asbestos exposure. starts with the presence of asbestos fibers in the workplace – the primary exposure. Continue reading →

#351 – PROGRAM RISK – OTTAWA’S LRT INTERNATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Once again Ottawa’s LRT train became International news after it derailed through Tremblay Station and into Capital Ward. This was shortly after another train had derailed just six weeks prior because of a broken axle and nine other trains were removed for inspections. The train that derailed last week was one of those nine that had just been inspected. Continue reading →

#349 – TECH SUPPORT FOR BABY BOOMERS – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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The Covid 19 Pandemic has created an urgent need for seniors to learn how to use social media and tele-conferencing

During the past 20 months the Pandemic has led to the emergence of video-conferencing technologies such as zoom and facetime, to help people maintain contact with family and friends providing crucial connectivity when physical contact was not possible. Continue reading →