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The upstream oil and gas industry in Canada is significant in size and employs thousands of workers who are exposed daily to workplace hazards, which include arc flash and shock. Occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMSs) are common and mature within the companies that are producers and the service industries that support the producers, but there is a lack of included content related...
The focus on training workers to be aware of and have respect for electrical hazards has dramatically increased in recent years. Employers both large and small recognize their responsibility in providing timely and appropriate information in combating this toxic workplace substance. Fatalities and injuries due to electrical contact are on the decline mainly, in this author's opinion, due to this increased...
Winders are hazardous machines. They require operator contact between each set of rolls, for threading, re-filling the unwind stand and inserting cores. New winders are fully automated with designed-in safeguards. However, most operating winders are legacy machines requiring much manual intervention and do not have as many designed-in safety devices as new machines. The winder is usually the first...
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