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The scope of marine safety covers both active audit, and passive safety elements as to be captured in the inspection checklist drafted from the templates in the applicable standards. Overall aspects of life safety, and fire safety covers – personal protective equipment, safety of tools and machinery, electrical safety, fire safety, handling of materials, chemical and hazardous substance storage, working at height safety, and behavioral safety. The ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS) guidelines can be adapted to any of the specialized codes and standards that are applicable in marine industry. The checklist for ISO 45001 standard is a good footing for marine safety audit, apart from the SOLAS convention agreement, which serves as a discipline specific guideline.

Constructability Review is a process of identifying and mitigating possible project implementation failures at the design stage. It can be done through the traditional review or computer-based review. This is a third-party review of an engineering deliverable from Detailed Engineering (construction package – plans and specifications) before obtaining bids for construction. The review is done to identify any potential conflicts or deficiencies that may affect the contractor’s ability to perform the construction based on those documents

Top Consideration for Safe Guarding of Life, Environment and Asset from Fire Accidents in High Rise Building

The concept of Safety in Design methodology considers how to eliminate, isolate or minimize the risks of death, injury and ill health (to as low as reasonably practicable) to those who construct, operate, maintain, decommission or demolish an asset. It avails the opportunity to proactively reduce the health and safety risk to personnel during the life of an asset, understanding the environment, identifying stakeholders and planning safety in design procedure.

Every good company wants to provide excellent service and balance business needs and goals. As such excellence and professionalism is hard work. On that wise, some days are rewarding an energizing, others are challenging making it difficult to keep up the standard. Therefore, Safety Consultants and Solution Provider (SCSP) mandate of compliance is embedded on the understanding that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Ironically, there is a growing perception that the safety sector is an “old boys club” made up middle-aged men adorned in high visible jackets, wielding a clipboard and prohibiting workers with the “do’s and don’ts” in a commanding fashion. This translates to the difficult and unpalatable terrain a woman must cope and survive in and convincingly win the hearts of men that she can equally fit in. This conundrum continues to play in almost all other spheres of life but is more severe in the safety profession.

Bangladesh has a history of industrial disasters as past industrial tragedies were attributed to safety lapses.  Between 2004 and 2020, about 2,308 people died of fire incidents. Last year, fire engulfed a food and drink factory killing about 52 people. In February 2019, a blaze ripped through a 400 old area cramped with apartment shops and warehouse in the oldest part of Dhaka and killed at least 67 people.  In 2012, about 117 workers died when they were trapped behind locked exits in a garment factory in Dhaka.  The country’s worst industrial disaster occurred the following year when the Rana Plaza garment collapsed killing more than 1,100 people. In 2010, another fire occurred in Dhaka in a house illegally storing chemicals, killing at least 123 people. The varying disturbing tragedies underscore the importance and urgent implementation of effective industrial and personal safety framework and vigilant enforcement.

The Need for Fire Protection of IT Infrastructure & Data for business continuity