occupational safety

The importance and challenges of traceability in manufacturing

During my career, traceability has always played a significant role in solving problems. Usually, traceability has helped us to find the root causes of production problems and quality deviations. An engineer’s job is often quite a detective job. Often the roots of problems led to maintenance downtime. In the process industry, there is a lot of online data, maintenance system device data and production diary entries. Even these were not always enough to find the root causes of problems, because a lot of things are done […]

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Did you know that poor communication often increases the risk of accidents? Read how the situation is corrected.

Zero accidents is everyone's goal in working life, and achieving it requires the commitment of all personnel to the goal, as well as processes and methods that support safety. In industrial maintenance downtimes and troubleshooting, the flow of information is one of the most significant factors in ensuring work safety - and it can be improved with modern methods. Repairs and maintenance work involve ensuring the safety of the site. Work may not be started under any circumstances, if safety

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No more accidents!

No more damage! The recent sad news in the media regarding work accidents made me think again about what we in Finnish industry and workplaces in general could do differently and better. In my own industrial career, which has already lasted more than thirty years, I myself have been a person in charge in organizations where serious work accidents have occurred. The worst and saddest accident in my working career happened in 1998, when I concretely got […]

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Is the digitalization of industry fast enough?

I stopped for a moment to think about communication technology, mobile technology and how significantly they have changed my everyday life at home, but especially in my work in the process industry. I start this story from the beginning of my studies in 1994. At that time, the use of e-mail on Unix machines was quite new. In 1996, at my summer job at a paper factory, foremen primarily used pagers and landlines to communicate information. E-mail already existed, but it was still not used much for information

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