Occupational Risk Management - Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2008

Sustaining, Integrating & Moving Beyond BBS

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7th Annual Behavioural Based Safety

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25, 26, 27 & 28 November 2008

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Garden Court, OR Tambo International Airport

Risks in today's business environment arise from many sources, impacting everything from compliance and security to strategy and operations. IRCA Global's Corporate Risk Division guides organisation's to fully recognise and manage risk, offering not only depth and breadth from global expertise, but a proven compilation of tools, methodologies and training packages sustained by hands on best practice. Our professional team can embed well-established risk management techniques in your organisation, helping you to identify and manage business risks more effectively.

International training, auditing, implementing & consulting.

uvex Safety South Africa, offers safety conservation training in all eleven official languages at distributors and end users, and carries out on-site surveys.

The current lease on life for the South African industry and economy is platinum demand, driven in part by the health fears of more developed and less spacious countries.

An environmental directive was issued against Independent Foundries in Roodepoort following numerous complaints of excessive dust emissions over a long period.

Directors should transcend current needs, or crisis management, and practice corporate governance as a lifestyle and an art.

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"We should function as an alert mechanism to prepare for the future," says Institute of Directors' (IoD) chief executive Lindie Engelbrecht.

In my and my colleagues' experience at various industrial sites, several problems conspire to dilute the value that organisations should derive from site inspections. I list these below, and invite management and officials to check whether their processes have transcended these problems.

Workshops on reducing road incidents involving chemicals transport in Johannesburg and Durban in July, was informed that half these incidents were due to 'driver error', and a third due to 'external environmental factors'.

Hearing conservation specialist Brad Witt went on a workshop road show in August to share practical information on preventing and testing noise-induced hearing loss. Suppliers, trainers and end users in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Polokwane, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth learned from Witt (MA, CCC-A), who is the audiology and regulatory affairs manager at Howard Leight Industries in San Diego, USA. Using visual and audio demonstrations, he shared advanced hearing conservation principles at the event, hosted by local supplier HSE Solutions, at the venues around SA.

Standards and testing for many aspects of personal protective equipment (PPE) are limited to a few practicable parameters, not accounting for large differences in job-specific criteria, and large differences in performance among the various models on the market, reports Edmond Furter.

Nature offers an enzyme to clean any chemical spillage, all it takes is microbes and time.

Hydrogeology is an environmental specialisation that is often poorly paid, forcing specialists into mining or oil industry jobs. Groundwater modelling, which Umvoto specialises in, is likewise a Cinderella in university courses around the world.

Logistics life cycle studies reveal the net environmental impact of most consumer products to loom large. Our consumer economy is anything but cool and clean, reports Edmond Furter.

From Adv Raynard Looch :

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Thank you for the report on the introduction of AARTO. The 'shut up and pay up' paradigm usually involves bribes, and breaks the public spirit for road safety.

Close to 10 million South African adults are totally illiterate or semi-literate. That affects the ability of a significant proportion of the population to earn a decent wage, and affects the earning potential of employers.

Training and events diary.