n September 2024 the International Organization for Standardizations (ISO) published the results of its 33rd annual certification results. This includes results for ISO 9001, its quality management system certification. ISO 9001 is the largest and flagship of ISO’s certifications. Two other certifications with the highest number of certifications are ISO14001 Environmental and ISO 45001 Occupational Health. Continue reading
#461 – BEING AN EFFECTIVE SAFETY PRACTITIONER – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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“The safety profession can wear on you. Safety professionals often need more support in terms of staffing. Companies tend to lean more and more on us and it’s not easy to avoid burnout.”
“I feel incredibly fortunate to work with my team to improve safety every day. We have such an important job that is sometimes rather thankless and unnoticed. Good safety is, unfortunately, often invisible.” Continue reading
#461 – PROJECT ENGINEER SYNDROME – MALCOLM PEART
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Engineers…they are the people who design, build, or maintain engines, machines, or structures. They fix things that are broken and typically look for solutions rather than creating problems. Some engineers proclaim themselves as being “solutions driven”…but are they? Continue reading
#461 – NEW AI AESTHETIC IN FILMS – HOLLY WILLIS
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Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures.
In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form. Continue reading
#461 – SIMPLE QUESTIONS FOR ASSESSING AI APPLICATIONS – MICHAEL SHARP PH.D.
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Welcome knowledge seeker! Do you feel dazzled and awed by the great potential of Artificial Intelligence aka AI? Perhaps hesitant or lost when words like ‘convolution,’ ‘deep learning,’ or ‘autoencoder’ are thrown around? Well, fear not, friend, for you have come to just the right place! You don’t need to be a computer wizard or a super genius to understand how using AI can impact your system and, more importantly, if using it is worth the investment. Continue reading