“The ultimate aim of Integra Safety Inc. is to make safety an integral aspect of performance regardless of the task,” explains Clay Purdy, who helped found the Medicine Hat-headquartered company about two years ago. “Safety should be a value linked with every activity or task in a work routine. Safe work should be the enduring…
In Calgary’s corporate headquarters, it had been long been acknowledged, very quietly of course, that Saskatchewan’s energy regulator is “a bit lax” in how it policed the oilpatch. Executives believed they could get away with more. Sadly, last fall a consortium of media claimed it had uncovered almost five years of violations in how industry…
By Bill Stomp More propane and petroleum marketers are benefitting from cutting-edge technology in the form of innovative apps that handle everything from geo-location, on-site invoicing, safety inspections, sales improvements, marketing automation and digital replacement of paper forms and documents. Hardly a week goes by without some new app rolling into the marketplace to help…
Outages and shutdowns at industrial plants are awfully expensive. Unscheduled stoppages are technically called “incidents,” but are otherwise known as massive screw-ups. The scale of the screw-up is the scale of the cost, usually. Keeping costs down means keeping production up. And that’s where Turnarounds come in. A deliberate, scheduled stoppage for maintenance or reconfiguration…
By Nick Candito Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Progressly Reducing job-site injuries and safety hazards is the ultimate goal for many health and safety professionals. Unlike comfy office jobs, field operators and field service technicians face safety hazards on a daily basis. Whether it’s the risks of being on the road or the very real…
By Heather Douglas Ask any CEO who doesn’t want to face the cameras because of a safety incident during a plant turnaround, what his or her top priority is. Unequivocally, that person will tell you it’s to ensure the health and safety of all workers involved. Often workers need to clean and repair equipment in…
