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Construction work comes with some inherent risks. As the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) points out, “The fatal injury rate for the construction industry is higher than the national average in this category for all industries.” However, you can work to keep your company below that average by taking precautions. Workplace safety is essential for keeping your employees healthy and injury-free and to bolster job satisfaction and trust in the managers and the company and protect yourself against the expense of lawsuits and replacing injured workers.

Fire Safety Engineering is the engineering discipline that applies scientific and technical principles to safeguard life, property, loss of income, and threat to the environment from the effects of fires, explosions, and related hazards. It is associated with the design and layout of equipment, processes, and supporting systems. It is concerned with fire prevention, control, suppression, and extinguishment and provides for consideration of functional, operational, economic, aesthetic, and regulatory requirements. The goal of Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) has always been to design an optimized strategy that provides the necessary human safety and property protection. Developing Fire Safety Engineering as a Practice in Nigeria This article is geared towards creating awareness of FSE concepts used internationally and potential growth for the Safety design practice in Nigeria.

Joyfully, the raining season is already getting intense in most part of the country.  It is necessary that the government and the people take proactive measures to address the scourge. As a first throw of the dice, we advocate for the integration of flood risk management with spatial planning.  Sustainable urban planning with green infrastructure and technological alert systems will be helpful. In this regard we call for strategic planting of trees especially in municipals. This is not time for rhetorics or jamborees couched in the euphemism of summits and seminars or convention on flood.  In fact as a matter of necessity, we call for the use of Self Closing Flood Barriers (SCFB) in communities and high risk flood zones as river defences should be constructed too to prevent rivers from bursting their banks.  Likewise, Government must create and enact a functional flood control and management policy immediately.  We implore the 36 states and the FCT authority to create retention basins for harvesting flood water from major rivers and for possible ground water recharge. That way, excess water from major rivers is stored and safely handled without wrecking havoc.  There should also be intense public enlightenment. Traditional rulers, council chairmen, community and youth leaders should rally to educate the people on the dangers of ignoring flood warnings.  This should be closely backed up by a radical evacuation of people living in flood danger zones.  States and Local Governments must have their flood hazard maps and community action plans that is functional and in use.

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,

Accidents are generally sudden and unexpected occurrence that leaves one with undesired outcomes such as wounds or losses. Accidents could occur during construction and destruction activities, resulting in injury, mostly incurred by workers on the worksite.

The gale of domestic gas accidents has rocked the country leaving behind wake of avoidable fatalities. In recent times, hundreds of lives have been lost to this problem with businesses and properties worth billions of Naira destroyed, as these tragic events always leave us with unanswered questions. Yet nothing concrete seems to be done to tame this tide. What is particularly worrisome is that many of the deaths and losses arising from gas explosions are preventable. Except urgent steps are taken, Nigeria may soon become an unsafe haven for the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) sector. Something must be done and urgently too otherwise the population may well be waiting for their turn in the gas burner or fire.

Ironically, there is a growing perception that the safety sector is an “old boys club” made up middle-aged men adorned in high visible jackets, wielding a clipboard and prohibiting workers with the “do’s and don’ts” in a commanding fashion. This translates to the difficult and unpalatable terrain a woman must cope and survive in and convincingly win the hearts of men that she can equally fit in. This conundrum continues to play in almost all other spheres of life but is more severe in the safety profession.

Assets that require zero downtime, zero fire hazard, high sensitivity to effects of traditional fire extinguishing agents, high economic value, high socio-cultural value, or historical heritage, such as – museums, art galleries and historic facilities, power storage facilities – battery, inverter and ups, banking and treasury facilities, telecom data storage, transmission and switching facilities, oil and gas offshore facilities, and laboratories and weather-controlled facilities. needs special hazard protection in the choice of fire suppressants.

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

The consequences of environmental pollution is visible in severe. In recent times the world is grappling with and chronic deadly diseases; the destruction of aquatic life (both flora and fauna) has damaged the natural habitat of man and some precious irreplaceable wildlife as the world keeps getting warmer and hotter, continuous depletion of soil quality has greatly altered food production (quality and quantity), depletion of earth resources has resulted to deterioration of life cycle and expectancy and opened the door for other calamities like earthquakes, cyclones, flooding to wreck our world. Evidently, all of these have caused irreplaceable damage to humankind.