A paper on Engineering Safety 1

[a430]

Hello everyone,

I have been invited to present a paper in a seminar on engineering safety can someone help with some inputs please.

 

[DaveVikingPE]

Make sure your shoelaces are tied when you walk up to the podium.

 

[IRstuff]

And that your fly is zippered

Talk to the audience and not your slides
Don't read your slides
Memorize your slides


TTFN

 

[MintJulep]

Have photographs or even better, video in your presentation. Talk about what is happening on on the screen.

Do not put up slide after slide of text and simply read what is on the slides.

 

[MikeHalloran]

Bridges _in_ the river.

Airplane wreckage.

Explosions with surround sound.

Blood on the high...

... er, try to make your visuals interesting.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[GregLocock]

And you have to show the Tacoma Narrows bridge video. That is the LAW.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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[Ashereng]

Breath.

In - Out - IN - Out. Repeat.

Drink the water on the dais. Your throat will get dry and you may sound funky.



"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
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[jmw]

Oh dear, and to think you only wanted some topics to cover?
Still, all relevant....but what the guys may be saying is "give us something more to go on, narrow the field a bit."

JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[MintJulep]

Engineering is pretty safe. Pretty much I sit at a desk all day. Sometimes the coffee is too hot. When I go to the field I wear safety shoes or boots and a hard-hat.

What is the focus of the seminar? Who is sponsoring it? What is your area of expertise?

 

[HVACctrl]

ALWAYS use a factor of safety of at least 2!

Ed

 

[JAE]

I'm always impressed by the seriousness of posts on Eng-Tips.






X-)

 

[MintJulep]

Well heck, safety is a serious subject.

 

[kontiki99]

Rule 1: Engineers must never touch anything in the hangar or shop or aircraft without checking with a technician first.

 

[corus]

I've seen web sites that show photos of unsafe working practices, such as using a fork lift to raise another fork lift that raises something else. They're true stories and can add a wry smile to people who see them. Unfortunately I can;t remember the site.

corus

 

[monkeydog]

HVACctrl said to always use a factor of safety of at least 2.
I know some stress engineers that do that plus the PSF (Personal Safety Factor) - that is normally about 1.5

 

[dik]

Ya... like your safety lanyard should be twice as long <G>...

On one project, the fellow that was cleaning the end bearing caissons had a safety rope approx 100' long secured at the top; the depth of the hole was approx 40'...

Dik

 

[HVACctrl]

dik,
Once you figure in rope stretch, I think that might be a factor of safety of less than 0.4!

That's a definite failure!

I know you're kidding, but I don't think factor of safety really factors in (no pun intended) to rope length in this scenario. Rope strength would though!

Ed

 

[MegaProject]

You may be interested in the Lean Construction white paper, "Working Near the Edge: A New Approach to Construction Safety". (leanconstruction.com) I'm currently developing a presentation for a captive biweekly safety meeting audience intending to make this theoretical perspective positively captivating.

Also, as my thespian mother advised her students, "Speak to the back wall, then you'll never have to think further about effective voice volume for the room size."