Workplace safety, leadership and risk insights from the Headline Podcast editorial team.
Por Andreza Araujo Host & Editorial Lead
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A chemical exposure result is only as useful as the conditions behind it. This F7 explainer gives supervisors and safety leaders three questions that define when sampling is representative, which control must remain available, and what change requires reassessment.
A risk-based inspection route helps a small plant spend field time where exposure and control uncertainty are highest. This 21-day guide shows EHS leaders and supervisors how to build a route that produces decisions rather than another calendar of routine walks.
A journey plan is not ready because a route, driver, and vehicle appear on the same form. This eight-check guide helps contractors and site leaders test whether the planned journey has clear limits, credible controls, and a response path when conditions change.
On January 4, 1966, an attempt to drain water from a propane storage sphere at the Feyzin refinery became a major fire. The UK Health and Safety Executive's case study shows how a familiar task, an unexpected restriction, and a vulnerable storage arrangement combined before the release ignited. This F5 case study turns the event into a practical review of routine operations that carry major-hazard potential.
A practical verification method for supervisors who need to confirm that a temporary guardrail can keep people separated from a fall or opening before work begins.
Cam Stevens's Episode 15 argument is not only about choosing better technology. It is also about knowing when not to deploy a tool, because an unnecessary device can add cognitive load, surveillance pressure, and false certainty without improving the control.
Personal protective equipment matters, but a PPE program becomes fragile when it carries a hazard that should have been removed, engineered out, or controlled through work design. This diagnostic gives EHS and operations leaders five decisions that keep PPE in its proper role while exposing the gaps that make the last barrier carry the whole system.
A practical supervisor workflow for confirming that atmospheric testing, equipment readiness, and entry decisions remain connected before confined-space work begins.
An eight-step method for supervisors and EHS leaders to turn a confined-space rescue plan into a tested operational control before entry begins.
Compare OSHA 1910, OSHA 1926, and MSHA Part 46 so mixed-site EHS leaders can choose the right regulatory lens for each work package.
