Language: English
How OSHA Changed the Industry
This video recounts the 1947 Texas City disaster and how it led to the creation of OSHA in 1970. It traces OSHA’s impact on workplace safety, its partnership with the transmission and distribution industry, and the integration of Human Performance and the Capacity Model to help workers fail safely. It highlights progress built on learning from tragedy.
Identifying Hazards
Start When Safe
Stop if Unsure
Preventive and Mitigative Controls
Hazards
This video defines hazards and STKY hazards and shows how context determines the difference. Through trenching and lifting examples, it explains that STKY hazards are those with the potential for life-threatening or life-altering injury. It emphasizes that recognizing STKY hazards helps crews focus controls where they matter most.
Layers of Control
This video shows how layering controls builds the capacity to fail safely. Using a light bulb analogy, it illustrates how each control reduces exposure to energy hazards, even when people or equipment fail. It reinforces the Capacity Model by urging crews to ask if existing controls are enough or if more layers are needed.
Cause & Consequences
This video shows how understanding both causes and consequences helps crews build stronger controls against unwanted events. Using ladder and lifting examples, it explains that causes trigger events while controls act as barriers, and consequences show how someone could be hurt. It reinforces that knowing both sides builds capacity for safe failure.
Controls
This video explains what makes a control effective and why STKY controls matter most. It shows how acts, objects, and systems work together to prevent or lessen serious events, using drilling operations and PPE examples to clarify the difference between controls and STKY controls. It emphasizes focusing on reliable, definable, and observable safeguards.