his is the first instalment of my blog series on the health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulatory landscape across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides an overview of the GCC, key HSE challenges across the GCC, common findings from HSE regulatory compliance audits conducted across the region and difficulties facing companies operating across the GCC in complying with HSE regulations.
Category Archives: General
General HSE blogs
Artificial Intelligence in HSE Regulatory Compliance Monitoring (or How to Write a Blog Post in Eight Seconds).
In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent across a wide range of industries. One area where AI is having a significant impact is in the field of health, safety, and environment (HSE) regulatory compliance monitoring. With the help of AI, HSE professionals can better monitor and manage compliance with […]
Introducing TIPS – Today’s Incident Prevention System
Notwithstanding the claims promoted by many companies of their million upon millions of hours of work done without a loss time incident, we are all very much aware that accidents happen. (If interested on my thoughts on the incident reporting scam please read this blog post – Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Loss Time Injuries).Accidents […]
“I Don’t Give a **** If You Don’t Believe in Climate Change…”
Paris Agreement, climate change, and greenhouse gasses – do you understand what these terms really mean? Do you understand that decisions we make today will have consequences far into the future? While climate change may seemingly have no apparent consequence to the day-today activities of most HSE professionals, I firmly believe that each and every […]
Silent Killers in Kitchens – Household Air Pollution
Today I have the pleasure of introducing a guest blogger, Ms. Ther Aung (soon to be Dr. Ther Aung), a former employee of mine and now a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia. Ther has an extensive background in industrial hygiene and public health and has just completed some fascinating research on […]