Holding Someone's Shoulder at Advanced Fire Fighting

Safety: Holding Someone's Shoulder at Advanced Fire Fighting

When fighting an Advanced Fire, holding shoulders is done for:

- Visibility: In a smoky environment, visibility can be reduced to almost nothing. Holding a teammate's shoulder ensures that no one gets separated or lost in the haze.

- Orientation and direction: Holding shoulders helps the team move as a unit, especially when navigating tight and unfamiliar spaces. The Fire Chief leads, and the Team Members follow like a chain.

- Safety and accountability: If one team member faints or is injured, the others will immediately sense it and can respond.

- Coordinated Action: Firefighting requires synchronized movements to handle hoses, maneuver fire extinguishers, and so on. Shoulder contact keeps everyone coordinated.

- Communication: Verbal communication is impossible during a fire. A push or pull on the shoulder can signal "stop," "move," or "danger".

The act of holding someone's shoulder is a sign of:

- I support you!

- We're moving forward together!

- We're back together!

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Fire in High-Risk Industries, Fire Triangle, Combustion and Extinguishing Processes

Safety: Fire in High-Risk Industries, Fire Triangle, Combustion and Extinguishing Processes

Fires in factories (chemical, garment & others) have caused:

- Deaths: Tens to hundreds of people

- Losses: Millions of dollars

- Damage to assets & the environment

The Fire Triangle is the conditions required for a fire to occur:

- Fuel: Any combustible material (wood, oil, gas)

- Heat: Sufficient energy to reach ignition temperature

- Oxygen: In the form of air, required for a chemical reaction

The Fire Triangle must be present simultaneously for a fire to ignite. Fire occurs when fuel reacts with oxygen under conditions of sufficient heat. Removing any one of these will extinguish the fire.

Combustion & Extinguishing Processes:

- Ignition: Heat raises the fuel to its ignition temperature

- Combustion: Fuel vaporizes & reacts with oxygen

- Propagation: Heat from the reaction ignites nearby fuel

- Extinguishing: Removing heat, fuel, or oxygen to stop the reaction

High-risk industries require Advanced Fire Fighting Training that covers a variety of topics related to Specialized Fire Suppression Systems because high-risk industries deal with:

- Flammable materials: Heat, gas, chemicals, electricity & more

- Machines that can break down, become hot & ignite

- Confined Spaces: Places where fire spreads quickly

To effectively extinguish a fire, Firefighters working in high-risk industries must:

- Have knowledge of Fire Science &  Firefighting Techniques

- Learn how fires start, grow & behave in various environments

- Create & conduct Safety Procedures & Fire Suppression Systems to prevent & control fires

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Leadership in High-Risk Industries

Leadership in High-Risk Industries

The Best Leaders working in high-risk industries will:

- Implement appropriate Safety Procedures

- Prevent incidents, accidents & emergencies

- Prevent injuries, mental illness & death

The Best Actions taken by the Best Leaders to prevent incidents, accidents & emergencies:

- Provide briefings before, during & after work is performed

- Comply with Safety Regulations

- Monitor compliance with Safety Procedures

- Not hesitating to stop the work when identifying hazards & emergencies

- Take the best action to save workers

The Best Leaders always build:

- A Culture of Excellence: Excellence in leadership, Excellence in work & Excellence in collaboration with teams & coworkers

- A Culture of Discipline: Discipline in work, Discipline in time & Discipline in adhering to Safety Procedures

- A Culture of Fairness & Equality: Fair treatment of teams & coworkers from different generations & ages & Equal treatment of female & male workers

- A Culture of Appropriate Communication: Two-way communication, Fair communication (listening & being heard) & Open & honest communication

- A Culture of Strength: Strength to work, Strength to face various situations (safe & unsafe) & Strength to handle challenges & problems

Train yourself, your colleagues & your employees to lead themselves & the team, both in the field & in the office, so that work can be done well & safety can be maintained!

Honor the company that supports your Leadership!

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Hazards, Risks and Controls in Offshore Oil and Gas Installations

Safety: Hazards, Risks and Controls in Offshore Oil and Gas Installations

Common hazards in Offshore Oil & Gas Installations:

- Toxic chemicals & gases, flammable hydrocarbons, leaks & ignition sources

- High waves, storms, wind, lightning & thunder

- High areas, slippery & unstable surfaces & Confined Spaces

- Oil spills

All of the above hazards can cause the following risks:

- Fires & explosions in wells & Oil & Gas Installations

- Helicopter accidents

- Operational disruptions: Downtime & damage to machinery & equipment

- Physical fatigue, slipping, tripping & falling, resulting in injury & death

- Collapsed & damaged Oil & Gas Installations

- Environmental pollution

- Losses

- Legal consequences

- Damage to reputation

Control the above hazards & risks by creating & having the following:

- PPE: Fire-resistant clothing, helmets, harnesses, Breathing Apparatus

- Extinguishing Fire Systems

- Gas Detection Equipment

- Permit to Work

- Maintenance & Audits (Inspection, Monitoring & Assessment)

- Safety & Emergency Response Training

- Fatigue & Stress Management

Take the Safety & Emergency Response Training for Offshore Workers in Offshore Oil & Gas Installations at the right Safety & Survival Training Center!

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Best Skills of The Best Leaders

Leadership: Best Skills of The Best Leaders

The Best Leaders working in High-Risk Industries must improve their operational performance by:

- Complying with & implementing Safety Procedures appropriately

- Developing their leadership skills

Some of the best skills that the Best Leaders must possess:

- Communicating & discussing with teams & coworkers about the work & safety to be done, employees to be coached & the company (goals, performance, development, challenges, results & successes)

- Aligning the company's mission & vision & the desired goals & results

- Being on-site, both in the office & in the field, to support the work & employees

- Clarifying the Roles & Responsibilities of each employee to align office & field expectations

- Providing coaching, mentoring & direct instruction to employees

- Implementing a Culture of Meetings & Briefings before, during & after work to ensure accuracy & safety

- Providing assessments, reports & coaching to employees so that employees can improve & refine their work, take pride in their work & feel valued & respected by their leaders & the company

- Reviewing the work done by employees to prevent mistakes & failures from happening again & successes can be maintained & repeated

- Appreciating & respecting employees through their abilities & the experience they have & the work they do

- Providing training programs for employees, so that employee skills can be enhanced & improved & employees can remain productive & able to perform the required work

The Best Leaders can develop their skills by taking the necessary training.

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I am Astrid Amalia, the Founder of GWB (GlobalWide Business) at https://globalwidebusiness.blogspot.com.

I write about #HSE, #Safety, #Security, #Survival, #Emergency, #Fire, #Oil, #Gas, #Energy, #Offshore, #Onshore, #Digital, #Technology, #Drone, #AI, #Information, #Communication, #Data, #Research, #Training, #Education, #Business, #Leadership, #Collaboration, #Innovation, #Health, #Yoga, #Social, #Life, #Mental, and more.

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