I suspect the “failures” of the Japanese nuclear reactors after the March 2011 earthquake will present less of a health problem than the media is reporting (see postscript at the end – I could be wrong) In normal operations, a nuclear power station is likely to produce a much smaller […]
Incidents
The hidden danger of fungi and bacteria will be present after flooded Australian houses and buildings are renovated. The key to prevention will be the early treatment of cavities and surfaces before fungi and bacteria really get a hold.
Queensland floods, the cleanup
Hovding, a company in Malmo, Sweden has developed an “invisible” helmet that is worn as a collar around the neck and inflates to protect the head and neck. I don’t know how tear and scuff resistance it has or what it will cost. The device uses MEMs accelerometers and will be available […]
Invisible Self-Inflating Helmet
Safety and Health coerns opften collide. In the end the focus is on safety despite overwhelming evidence that health is a bigger issue.
When Safety is not Health
I may have been the first to publish about the ticking time-bomb of Hessian bags used to to transport asbestos, then used to make carpet underlay. Bromwich, D. W. (2006). “The 2005 Australian Asbestos Codes of Practice – An Occupational Hygiene Perspective.” Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia […]
Measuring asbestos in carpet underlay
The 2009 Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report has just been released, following the disastrous Bushfires in Victoria in January 2009 where 73 people died. Some of the recommendations do not seem to have been though out. For example, Recommendation 7.1 includes “the safest option is always to leave early rather […]
2009 BushFires Royal Commission Interim Report
Dangerous orphaned radiation sources continue to be a problem, highlighted by the Goiânia accident