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From NDT and Nuclear sites to P6 plans and collecting pots full of pee… there’s not a lot I haven’t done! So here’s just a few! Most satisfying: ☢️ ALARA Engineer Assistant - (It was a real title, I promise) Collecting dose accruals from divers going into the vessel, ensuring all divers stayed under set limits, making plans for when radiation hotspots were found and liased with the shift planners to ensure nobody was sent into the vessel nearing their dose limit. Why most satisfying? Because I had to use the most beautiful spreadsheet I’ve ever seen in my life! Strangest: 💧 Seeing 50 shades of pee whilst carrying out D&A tests as part of the induction process for some of the biggest outages… not the nicest 😅 Most rewarding: 📑 Changing the process for NDT reporting for all parties involved. Making the process more efficient, less time consuming and saving the client moohlah! Scariest: 😱 Marking up boiler tubes on what seemed like 600 levels of scaffolding… it’s fair to say heights are not my thing! Timekeeping, planning, estimating, cost control… the list continues! But having knowledge and experience in many different areas is why I’m able to support my clients with so many different tasks, not just your standard admin! Needing a little business support? I can help! (Aslong as heights aren’t involved 🤣) 🌎 www.haighva.co.uk 📧 [email protected] 📱 DM! P.S - What’s the strangest and scariest tasks you’ve ever had to complete?

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THE SKY IS FALLING! During my days as a safety professional at Hope Creek Nuclear Generating station in New Jersey, an employee was walking along a safe walkway (no need whatsoever for a hard hat or safety glasses), and a stick fell from the sky and hit him in the eye. We surmised during the investigation that a bird (there were plenty of birds from the marsh and waterways nearby) had dropped a stick, and it hit the victim. The stick had fallen from above. It was a bull’s-eye (or a person’s-eye if you prefer!). Directly hitting his eye, the stick scratched the man’s cornea! The next day, during our daily outage meeting, I explained that we had had a recordable incident and gave the details when it came to my turn to report on recent events. “What are we going to do to prevent this incident from happening again?” Was the inevitable questions posed to me by the plant manager? Without hesitation (I had thought this through the night before) I gave him a foolproof solution. I said two guys from the maintenance department are hunters, and I will get them to shoot every bird within a 25-mile radius of the plant! Of course, I was only teasing. But it got a fun reaction out of the other managers at the meeting. The plant manager and I knew each other well. He smiled, too, shook his head, and got the point. We weren’t going to do anything. Thankfully, the plant manager was a reasonable person. He agreed there was no need for a knee-jerk reaction and that what happened did not result from a lapse in our safety performance. It became a standing joke for a bit. Whenever anything wrong happened, we blamed it on a bird flying overhead. But besides that, the event was just something that hurt our numbers. I’ve seen the opposite happen many times, though! When much time is wasted, time and effort are wasted on a kerfuffle that was a rare mishap without a reasonable cure. Even in hindsight, what could have been done to prevent a bird from dropping a stick? Better training? Positive discipline? The victim didn’t even look up. Still, the stick scratched his cheek and hit his eye. Have you had a similar experience? I’d love to hear about it. What did you or your company do? ‘till next time. Richard [email protected] https://bit.ly/42bUDTa

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Recently there has been much talk about Nuclear Verdicts and a broker’s potential liability. I could understand potential liability in cases of coercion by the broker, but not in carrier selection. What do you think? is it reasonable for brokers to have a policy NOT TO look to 3rd party intellectual property platforms to determine safety fitness of a motor carrier when selecting a motor carrier to move their loads? I’m certainly no lawyer, but as a freight broker, my question is, “why should brokers not look solely to the FMCSA regarding safety fitness?” After all if the FMCSA determines a Motor Carrier “Safe/Approved to Operate”, shouldn’t the carrier also be deemed as “Safe/Approved to Use” by a broker? If brokers use their own safety fitness protocols and second-guess the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration could that be doing more harm than good? What are your thoughts on tbe subject? PS. I am not referring to due diligence and compliance verification as it pertains to fraud. This post is strictly about safety fitness of motor carriers.

Fascinating article about how nuclear verdicts can affect your company.

Comprehensive information on Radiation safety in the oil and gas industry

essential as part of layout planning and equipment seating is concern especially for mini WHP or LWS where limited foot print