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Dayton, OH — Communications tower workers using cable safety sleeves for fall protection must make sure the cable is secured and properly tensioned before starting work. The reminder is part of a new video from NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association. The video highlights the continued collaboration between NATE’s Safety Equipment Manufacturers Committee and the University of Dayton’s Structures and Materials Assessment, Research, and Test (SMART) Laboratory. Together, the groups test equipment – under real-world conditions – that meets the standards of the American National Standards Institute. The team performed more than 150 test drops. Its biggest takeaway? “If you…

Environmental, health and safety professionals: Listen up. It’s time to discuss workplace safety in a way that goes beyond the Hierarchy of Controls. No machine guarding, hazard identification or compliance talk. Dive into the realm of comprehensive, whole-person safety while unveiling a new approach to reduce injuries, cut costs, and foster quality and efficiency – all while ensuring employees feel comfortable and proud of their work. Learn more about the five practical, yet highly impactful, steps to reevaluate work environments, effectively bringing human-centered safety to life within your organization. Source link

Commuters and pedestrians who use the East Legon Under-bridge road say the portion of the stretch has become risky to use in the past three weeks. They’re worried about a broken height limit pole designed to warn drivers of the height limit of the under-bridge, which has broken from its original position and is currently standing on the main street. According to vendors in the area, the wreckage was caused by a towing vehicle that bumped into the pole about three weeks ago, causing the dislocation of part of the edifice to the main road. Speaking to JoyNews, a vendor…

Washington — The death of an offshore worker conducting a pressure test on a well surface casing has prompted the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to issue a safety alert. The agency’s investigation into the May 2021 incident found that the victim and a co-worker were using a high-pressure well to supply pressure to the well casing. They installed temporary test equipment that included a high-pressure hose and a digital pressure gauge, but didn’t use the pressure regulating device and pressure safety valve. The workers were unaware of the casing pressure rating during the test. The well casing exploded…

A gory accident occurred Saturday dawn around 3:45 am at Awoshie in the Ablekuma North Constituency claiming about 13 lives. This happened after a public transport ran into an abandoned truck at Banyard intersection in Awoshie in Accra. The red passenger vehicle, with registeration number GW 6302-21, ran into the unattended truck bearing registration number GB 8896-21 with the brand inscription “Everpure.” Eyewitness account has it that the driver of the red Toyota Hiace bumped into the stationary KIA Rhino Truck loaded with bags of sachet water which has been left parked in the middle of the road due to…

About five persons are feared dead in an accident that occurred on the Ablekuma-Awoshie Highway in the Greater Accra region. Five others including the driver have also sustained varying degrees of injury. The accident occurred on Saturday dawn, a few metres from the Anyaa market. It involved a Sprinter bus with registration number GB 8896-21 and a pick-up. An eyewitness told Adom News’ Aisha Ibrahim who was at the scene that, the Sprinter was conveying passengers from Ablekuma to Lapaz. He said the driver crashed into the stationary pickup which was faulty trapping passengers in the commercial vehicle. Bystanders, with…

According to the Chief Fire Officer of the Ghana National Service, fire outbreaks recorded nationwide in 2023 have reduced compared to figures in 2022. Mr Julius Kuunuor, the CFO, said the fire outbreaks declined by a margin of 274, representing 4.92% for the first 11 months of 2023. He noted that the Service recorded 5256 incidents compared to 5,530 recorded in the same period of 2022. “This is due to the extensive Public Fire Safety Education carried out nationwide. Through the timely intervention of the Service, properties worth millions of cedis were salvaged,” he said.  Mr Kuunuor said this at the…

The Deputy Minister for Health, Hon Tina Gifty Mensah has launched the Public Health Workforce Strategic Plan on the theme ‘Building a Resilient One Health Public Health Workforce in Ghana’ to better respond to emerging public Health Threats. The Public Health Workforce Strategic Plan will provide prompt access and the highest quality health services through equitable deployment and retention of qualified workforce in Ghana’s human, animal and environmental health. Hon. Tina Mensah in her address said, the Ministry collaborated with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and innovation, and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to develop this…

The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has launched the expansion of the Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme. Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, which approximates about 3000 children every day worldwide. Nearly 500,000 African children under the age of five die from this disease annually. In Ghana, there were 5.7 million confirmed malaria cases in 2021, out of which 275 people died. Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu disclosed in a statement at the launch that Children under the age of five accounted for 1.6 million of those cases and 125 of the reported deaths. Hon. Agyeman-Manu said Ghana officially introduced the…

Employees as part of their duties with respect to HSE are required to assist their employers to achieve health and safety targets by complying with policies, procedures and processes. One way of living up to this expectation is through incident reporting. Nonetheless, some organizations are knowingly or unknowingly faced with some barriers that challenge good incident reporting and therefore are not able to meet and improve upon their HSE performance. Let’s dive into some of the reasons why employees fail to report incidents or why they are reluctant to live up to this responsibility: Blame game culture: In a working…