Safety is the state of being “safe”, the condition of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
This may be a slightly off topic subject for Operational Excellence, but hopefully you will see that although this article is written from a Safety Professional’s point of view, that there are many areas within operations that this subject could influence and be applied as well. As you are no doubt aware, traditional safety has…
The Economist means that security guards worth their salt are paid to be paranoid – and computer-security researchers are no different. Many had long suspected that governments use the internet not only to keep tabs on particular targets, but also to snoop on entire populations. And now, stung by revelations of ubiquitous surveillance and compromised software, the…
According to some technology and intelligence specialists, U.S. NSA Code Cracking supposed to protect the online traffic of the world’s largest Internet companies, will do more harm than good. These revelations raise fresh questions about the security of data held by companies including Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. According to a particular senior staff technologist,…
Bloomberg reports that credit bureaus and payment companies are turning to social media to help them verify a person’s identity and even assess consumer creditworthiness. One such example is EBay Inc.’s PayPal, who have officially begun trials to see whether social posts can help prove identities, and to detect whether customers are lying about their finances.They are…
The Economist examines the regulatory and legal challenges posed by the 3D printing of gun parts. This, as a reaction to what happened when a law student at the University of Texas leased a Stratasys 3D printer, with the aim of wanting to print a gun. The law student in question, Mr Wilson’s motives are…
Data recording technology devices commonly found in airliners called “black boxes” allow investigators to discover what caused an airliner to crash. Similar recording systems are fitted to some trains, ships and lorries. Now a bill in America’s Congress seeks to make it compulsory for data recorders to be fitted to all cars by 2015. The idea is that…
