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From: Stephen Beaton <Steve.Beaton**At_Symbol_Here**DAL.CA>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] SafetyZone: [New post] Chemical safety through history
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:52:07 +0000
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This is a very thought-provoking article. Definitely a worthwhile read. Debbie made an excellent comment regarding the use of “common sense” to keep workers safe. Humans don’t know what they don’t know.

What is common for one, may not be common to the other. To quote Mark Twain, “Common sense is not that common.” In safety culture (and life in general), we cannot rely on something that does not exist. Humans are not born with good sense; they acquire it all through their lives through experience, education and training.

 

 

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Jyllian Kemsley posted: "From Chemical Heritage Magazine's Summer 2008 edition, here's a piece about historical chemical incidents, from a potassium explosion temporarily blinding Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac to several chemists dying from hydrogen fluoride and fluorine poisoning: "No"

 

New post on The Safety Zone

 

Chemical safety through history

by Jyllian Kemsley

From Chemical Heritage Magazine's Summer 2008 edition, here's a piece about historical chemical incidents, from a potassium explosion temporarily blinding Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac to several chemists dying from hydrogen fluoride and fluorine poisoning: "Not-So-Great Moments in Chemical Safety"

Jyllian Kemsley | August 5, 2015 at 7:30 am | Categories: Featured | URL: http://wp.me/pRCdG-rNL





 

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