Assets are designed to hardly fail, not be hard to source and be easy and cheap when considered for maintenance to achieve harmonization between productivity, supply chain, and maintenance cost by means of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability analysis with the prime objective of enhanced product quality over the product life cycle. Waste reduction, optimization of profit, and total Life Cycle Cost (LCC).
The dry season is upon us and with the dry season, there is heat. The heat brings some special safety considerations: sunburn, heat rash, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and dehydration. No matter where you live if it gets hot enough and/or humid enough, you could be affected. Also, everyone has a different tolerance level and some people are much more sensitive to heat and sun than others.
With more organizations opting for a hybrid model or keeping their staff remote, industry leaders should consider
when they ramped up their digital efforts to adapt to remote working and make virtual experiences work.
Risk Management affirms the latent capacity of governments businesses to effectively manage Safety, Security, and Environmental risks. Risk management provides a clear and structured approach to identifying and management of risks and is carried out pre-loss. It is a core requirement for the sustainable development and growth of a business or nation. For ORM,
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Process Explained Failure Modes and Effects Analysis is a formal methodology for identifying potential failure modes and their associated hazards which is suitable for the detailed engineering design of a product or process. The steps are as follows: Describe the system or process whose failure modes are sought. Identify the ways in which the system or process might fail. These failure modes may be identified by historical data, personal experience, or a process similar to brainstorming. Identify the symptoms of each failure mode that might aid in the detection
ICT, TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES & CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: ACCEPTED STANDARD, BENCHMARKS & MITIGATIVE MEASURES
Fire safety is a fundamental consideration in building design and management, but unfortunately, one that is often overlooked as concepts like firewalls are today more likely to be associated with IT security than with physical safety. This concept utilizes both passive and active means for fire risk detection and mitigation. From an engineering perspective, fire risks are avoidable to residual levels or to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) and this is achieved using proper engineering principles benchmarked to several performance criteria to prevent the occurrence of a fire incident or contain and extinguish the incipient fire.
Generally, policies put in place to combat wildfires are rallied around several policies. To start with, Government and all stakeholders must be fully prepared in acquiring first intervention equipments such as forest fire trucks, aircraft dispensers, communication gadgets amongst many others. Also new technologies such as Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems should be leveraged on to improve on data acquisition and analysis for fire forecasting and prediction as prevention is increasingly considered as the most important approach to wildfire management. Investing in fire prediction and prevention is paramount proactively; and a commitment that must be at the heart of all which must evidently play out at local, sub national and regional levels. Africa must strengthen education and awareness improvement on wildfire prevention to teach citizens on personal and corporate safety tips . More so, policymakers must focus on strengthening cooperation and mutual integration between stakeholders and countries as fire knows no borders or sector. This will require greater coordinated expertise through public – private partnership and concerted multidisciplinary research.
JCI continues to trail the SAFETY & SECURITY PATH in the new Energy Culture.
Engineered for Lithium-Ion batteries used in fixed energy storage systems, our new early warning detection system indicates when there is a malfunction within the battery cell, through the detection of off-gases, allowing actions to be taken that can prevent thermal runaway.
“An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases… A conflagration is a large fire.” What suddenly increases is temperature, pressure, energy and material volume, thus making explosion and conflagration destructive. Flammable solids (especially dusts or particulate solids), liquids, and gases are most sources of explosion. There are three types of explosions, namely CHEMICAL EXPLOSION, MECHANICAL EXPLOSION, and NUCLEAR EXPLOSION.
