It was 1973 and I was finishing off my undergraduate degree. A change from electrical engineering to physics had meant I had one subject to go and I took a job at the nearby Chrysler car factory
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Another holiday job gave me insights into heat stress. I was in high school and my holiday job was helping an electrician install fire alarms in a new school. My job was to get into
Installing insulation
Have you noticed that newsreaders refer to both hypethermia and hypothermia as hypathermia? It is quite rare for them to annunciate the words properly. It doesn’t matter if its someone fished out of the ocean or collapsing in a marathon. Its seen as the same condition! One of my pet […]
Hypathermia
Dangerous orphaned radiation sources continue to be a problem, highlighted by the Goiânia accident
Goiânia – 20 years on
Cambridge University recently published Darwin’s private papers online. The search engine is fast and the website well put together. It will be interesting to see if Charles Darwin made many observations about the workplace. Should be fun. David Bromwich April 2008
Darwin’s private papers online
The WHO library is not a well known resource for OHS professionals, but it does have some gems. One of the oft quoted articles on heat stress is available as
WHO heat stress classic
In Australia, it is easy to look mainly to the US, with rich content form websites at NIOSH, OSHA, US EPA, MSHA and other agencies. The European scene is rapidly growing and has a diverse research base, though some of it is not in English. One listserver, OSHmail is particularly […]
OSHmail Listserver
I was curious to see where my publications are cited outside the journal listings. it looks like Griffith University makes available a record of my work. I also found a German website, Scientific Commons that lists many of my publications – a few from others. There is both a German […]
Citations
I have seen industrial ventilation systems in many factories that are designed to remove “heavier-than-air” vapours from the ground. Unfortnately the factory owner has often wasted many thousands of dollars
The Heavier-Than-Air Myth
Just for the record, I am in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I am using the GeoPress add-in by Andrew Turner from High Earth Orbit allows geospatial information to be added to blogs. DB I’ve stopped using it – it got in the way and slowed my blog down. Better to just […]