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UPDATED: May 28, 2021 18:52 IST Oil rig personnel rescued by the Indian Navy in Mumbai on May 18 (Indian Navy/AP) The gloomy portent to India’s worst-ever offshore disaster was a series of satellite images. On May 15, meteorologists in the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Delhi didn’t have the slightest doubt what the INSAT-3D imagery was showing them. The menacing low-pressure vortex they saw heading north just off India’s west coast was an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’, likely one of the biggest cyclones to hit the west coast in decades. The IMD alert that day sounded ...

The UN have really blown it this time! No doubt concerned that CO2 propaganda is failing the UN Environment Program, a well-known collection of crackpots, no offense intended, have now decided to obsess on methane. Alighting, typically, on anthropogenic emissions at the expense of natural sources, they have highlighted bovine emissions, in other words they’re worried about cow farts. No doubt some of these hysterics are genuine, in the sense that they have limited capacity for rational thought, but there’s more to the global warming nonsense than scientific illiteracy. You’ve guessed it...

© DCT Media Abigail Longhurst lays flowers outside Dunblane Primary School. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up There was nothing unusual about the Wednesday morning in March 1996 when I headed into work at the Scotsman building in Edinburgh city centre. As 9am became 10am, and ideas, schedules and forward planning conferences were drawn up, nobody could imagine what was unfolding in a little school 35 miles away. In these days,...

03/05/21 National Safety Council Itasca, IL — Safety leaders shouldn't focus in on the holes in their “Swiss cheese” (safety systems) but rather the whole cheese before the holes begin to form. That was one of the messages from Corrie Pitzer during the Occupational Keynote on March 4 at the virtual National Safety Council Safety Congress & Expo. The CEO of global consulting firm Safemap International shared an example of a mine that had zero fatalities in 40 years. Above the 120 workers in that mine, however, was a potentially catastrophic hazard: The air intake was located near the die...

By Katrina Krämer2021-03-01T14:30:00+00:00 Virtual reality could convert safety training from what can sometimes be a box-ticking exercise into something people are invested in, which ultimately might make working in chemical plants safer. Accidents both in research labs and in chemical manufacturing plants can have drastic – and often deadly – consequences. Only two months ago, one person died and three were injured in an explosion at US chemicals maker Optima. The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters lists 165 chemical spills and gas leaks since 1940, killing 4000 peopl...