What permit to work software actually has to do
A permit system earns its place by closing itself, proving isolation and surviving an audit. What to look for, and what usually goes wrong.
· 6 min read
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Safety and fleet operations, written up
Notes on the problems this software exists to solve, written by the people who build it. No vendor comparisons, no gated PDFs.
TRIR and LTIFR: how the numbers are actually calculated
Two rates, several conventions, and one number most organisations get wrong. How TRIR and LTIFR are derived, and why exposure hours decide everything.
· 7 min read
Stop work authority: making it more than a poster
Every site says any worker can stop the job. The difference between sites where that is true and sites where it is not comes down to what happens next.
· 5 min read
Tanker journey closure and where the litres go
Shortage on a fuel haul is normal until it is not. How journey closure turns a dispute about litres into a reconciled record against a route standard.
· 6 min read
Driver compliance for hazmat haulage: the documents that expire
Licences, medicals, DDC, JCP, drug and alcohol, route permits, hydro tests. The compliance problem in haulage is not collecting documents, it is noticing when they lapse.
· 5 min read
Five root cause methods, and when each one earns its keep
5 Whys, Fishbone, Fault Tree, Bow-Tie and TapRooT. What each is good at, where each falls down, and how to choose without turning every incident into a project.
· 7 min read