Each industry that has people in it has hazards and incidents. Telecom is no exception. These hazards are generally rated by the risk factor inherent in them and, in doing so, each industry inadvertently nominates its biggest hazards, i.e. the ones with the highest incident potential. In the Telecom industry, the biggest hazards come from […]
The following is a conversation that was presented in a panel format during the National Safety Council’s Global Congress in Orlando, FL. QUESTION 1: Fatal Verses Non-Fatal Injuries – For the past 30 years and for a variety of reasons, we have seen a major decrease in the total number of recordable injury rate among […]
Have you ever heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences? The idea behind it is that actions of people or governments more often than not have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. One example of this phenomenon was the introduction of well-meaning bicycle helmet laws in New Zealand, Australia and Canada, which focused on increasing […]