- December 31, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Overseas Occupational Health And Safety News

There’s a lot going on worldwide, and it can be hard to remain on top of whatever. Here’s five things you require to understand that you may have missed this week.
1. What to Anticipate in 2019 in Safety
Bloomberg composes that the huge relocations in office safety in 2019 are most likely to consist of the occupational office health and wellness commission considering the effect of increased temperatures and heat direct exposure due to environment change. There’s likewise most likely to be a concentrate on safeguarding workers from violent acts, which is an area OSHA does not have particular guidelines on yet.
2. Gatwick Drone Event a Mystery
Investigators in England are puzzled over the drone incident at Gatwick airport last week that closed down operations for 36 hours and bothered 140,000 tourists. One damaged drone was found, a couple were detained and then launched without charge and now it’s not clear that there were even any drones in the airport’s airspace to start with.
3. Train Operators Struggle to Fulfill Security Due Date
Rigorous new safety standards for American trains that involve innovation to prevent derailments like the one that killed 4 in New York in 2013, and 3 in Washington in 2017, are meant to be in force by December 31, however operators are not yet ended up setting up the systems. Favorable Train Control works to slow down trains that are on course for accident or moving too fast. It’s in place in large parts of the United States, but some track owners are looking to get a due date extension to finish installation, as they will not be done by December 31.
4. Hot Air Balloon Catches Fire in Victoria, Australia
A Boxing Day hot air balloon jaunt relied on disaster on Wednesday, when the basket of the balloon, just recently launched above the Yarra Valley, ignited. One woman was sent out to hospital for observation, and the basket was totally destroyed after the ballooners made an emergency landing. An investigation is underway, but a representative for the ballooning market said the pilot was very knowledgeable and managed the catastrophe properly.
5. Rhode Island, New Jersey & & New Hampshire Safest States
The federal information on office injuries in 2017 was launched this month and the rate of injury at work was lowest in Rhode Island, New Jersey and New Hampshire. All three states had a rate of injury of 1.6 per 100,000 workers. North Dakota and Alaska had the highest rates of injury, at 10.1 and 10.2 per 100,000 workers respectively. Overall the rates are slightly down on 2016.
Associated Posts
Get weekly knowledge from iAuditor straight to your inbox.