For The Sake of Safety podcast: Episode 3
In our third episode of For The Sake Of Safety we explore the role of the Professional Engineering Institution in promoting safety with Emma Thompson, Executive Director, SOE.
Soft skills in engineering
An engineering apprenticeship or degree is just part of what employers are looking for in new recruits.
Woldsway Training continues UK-wide irtec accreditations with flexible assessment offer
Fleetcare Maintenance and Mammoet the latest companies to accredit their technicians to the irtec standard.
Community spirit
The Environment Agency, along with a variety of partner organisations, is celebrating 10 years of successful soft engineering along rivers in Cumbria, England
Suit up
The International Space Station is a modular space station in the low Earth orbit and just like industrial, commercial and domestic facilities across our planet, it typically needs to be maintained, repaired and upgraded by its residents. External tasks call for some serious personal protective equipment
No more clouds over cyber security
Leading experts in cyber security have produced an authoritative guide that could help factories and process plants better protect their resources. Steed Webzell spoke to the guide’s project lead to find out more
Work wearable
Vehicle manufacturer Iveco has introduced a wearable ‘exoskeleton’ device from industrial automation specialist Comau. This is helping to reduce the fatigue on the upper limbs suffered by the operators engaged in activities inside the various production departments of the company
Getting air
Hemel Hempstead-based company Atlas Copco celebrated a century of UK operations in November. A few months on – and during the UK lockdown over Coronavirus – OE spoke to Alexander Pavlov, general manager at Atlas Copco Compressors UK & Ireland, to find out what the compressors division has planned over the next 100 years
In times of change - message from SOE CEO Bruce McGill
This comment piece comes from Bruce McGill, CEO at the Society of Operations Engineers, and first appeared in Operations Engineer's Summer 2020 print issue.
Preventing infection
The Covid-19 pandemic has cast human hygiene into the spotlight with repeated messages of ‘wash your hands’. The vital importance of this is clear when it can directly impact on lives, but even at normal times, good hygiene should be the norm. Regular cleaning of hands and assets can reduce infections and the economic losses that they cause