Environmental Safety Management Research Articles

Environmental Engineering Quality Safety Management System for Manufacturing Concrete Roof

The motivation behind this paper is to propose a coordinated administration arrangement of value, condition and wellbeing. The model depends on Product Liability Law, Industrial Standard for quality, Environment Performance Assessment Program for Environment Engineering, Industrial Standard for wellbeing, and Safety Performance Assessment Program. The model was planned and actualized in one of the greatest solid rooftop makers. The incorporated model at the contextual investigation is helpful as a rule to disposal of contentions between singular framework, essentially decrease of the inward reviewers and auditees' outstanding burden, just as production of new incentive in business.

USE OF IT-TECHNOLOGIES TO SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS DURING PLACEMENT OF CONSEQUENCES OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

The article is devoted to studying ways to solve the scientific and practical problem of increasing the efficiency of information and analytical decision support systems in emergency situations by reducing the processing time of monitoring data, as well as increasing the ability of information subsystems and components to interact and ensure the deployment of a single information infrastructure.The organization of the environmental safety management process in the event of emergencies provides for the implementation of a number of specific tasks inherent in traditional expert systems. First of all, this is the task of fixing in real time the behavior of the ecological system in an emergency, the formation and implementation of decisions in accordance with the dynamics of changes in its state. One of the most important tasks is the visual display of the current state of the object and the environment as a result of their stay in an emergency. The current state of the environment, as a rule, changes almost by accident, since it depends on many random factors.Modern management of the consequences of various types of emergencies is based on the current use of information technology, provides for the collection and processing of environmental information, forecasting the development of emergencies and risk assessment, integrating and consolidating environmental monitoring data in real time, creating expert systems and knowledge bases, coordinating actions and information support in organizing the interaction of forces and means.A mathematical apparatus is proposed for processing streaming data in order to implement control functions in environmental safety systems. An ontological system presents a diagram of data flows implemented during the deployment of the environmental safety management information infrastructure.

Situation forecasting and decision-making optimization based on using markov finite chains for areas with industrial pollutions

The paper considers the issues of predicting the situations and optimizing decision-making to improve the environmental situations in the areas with industrial pollution based on the finite Markov’s chains. The article systematizes the existing approaches to forecasting technological risks. The problems associated with the search for optimal forms of environmental safety management and approaches for predicting anthropogenic impact on the environment using mathematical models are considered. To predict the state of the environment, stochastic modeling is proposed, the basis of which is the theory of finite Markov chains. A technique for predicting and optimizing the economic effect on a discrete set of strategies has been developed. The figures show: building system states graph, determining the basic characteristics of system states, finding transition probabilities of Markov chains for non-critical states, a typical cycle of checking the model’s adequacy and system quality. Based on the analysis of existing approaches to forecasting technological risks, a methodology has been developed for forecasting and optimizing the economic effect on a discrete set of strategies. The proposed methodology allows combining economic estimates with the ability to predict the situations and optimize decision-making to improve the environmental situation in the areas of possible chemical pollution. Using the developed methodology will increase the efficiency of the industrial enterprises, facilitate generating informed management decisions, create software and hardware ways to respond the emergencies. The methodology for modeling engineering within nature complex systems and the optimization of decision-making based on finite Markov chains in the areas with industrial pollution will be helpful to researchers and operators of complex technical systems in predicting emergencies using environmental monitoring systems.

Integrated management systems as a basis for sustainable development

The issue of the urgency of the development and implementation of an integrated type of systems into management systems that combine mechanisms of safety management and hygiene of production processes and environmental safety were considered. Considering the purposes of sustainable development that form the priority directions of development of society, economy, industry and nature management, five main blocks that are responsible for the development of such areas as “SOCIETY”, “HEALTH”, “FINANCE”, “LABOR PROTECTION”, “ECOLOGY” are identified. All of these directions are cemented and have an extensive spectrum for cooperation and development, thanks for their combination, based on the security aspect. Therefore, among the sustainable development purposes there is one more parameter that influences the achievement of the set purposes, the factor “SAFETY” that integrates all the previously defined directions. An effective security strategy today is a risk-oriented approach based on risk assessment and selected strategies for influencing them. The using of integrated systems of enterprise management that combine the impact on the safety and hygiene of production processes and environmental safety of production, especially in industries with remote environmental impacts and significant health consequences for employees engaged in these industries allows to consider the issues of assessing existing and predicting the emergence of new risks more weighed, more reasonably and with less amount of resources.

IMPLEMENTING AN INNOVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY - ECOIND

The paper presents the activities performed for the implementation of the innovation management system integrated into the existing quality, environmental, and occupational health and safety management system of the ECOIND institute. The basic terms used in the project are defined and the international and Romanian standards are explained. The results obtained consist in identifying, introducing and describing the processes related to innovation and establishing the interaction of these processes with the other processes of the management system, establishing the policy and objectives related to innovation, reviewing the system procedures and the quality, environmental and occupational health, and safety management manual to include the innovation processes and elaborating the occupational procedures to keep these processes under control. The paper shows the main benefits of the innovation management system and the impact of this system for NRDI ECOIND in several aspects: technical, technological, economic, social, and environmental.

The Impacts of Consumer Rights Enthusiasm on Innovative Food Packaging Management

An urge for food packaging container safety and environmental protection has driven consumer rights enthusiasm towards an energetic and positive sense of innovative consumption consciousness. In this study, Taiwanese consumers were taken as the research objects, consumer rights enthusiasm as the independent variable, a desire for environmental protection and safety management in food packaging containers as the intermediate variable, and innovative consumption consciousness as the variable, to explore the strength of consumer rights enthusiasm on the safety and environmental protection in food packaging containers, and the impacts of its eagerness in innovative consumption consciousness of packaging containers. An empirical analysis was conducted to verify the results, and the study found that the stronger the consumer rights enthusiasm, the higher the desire for environmental protection and safety management in food packaging containers is. Also, the stronger the desire for environmental protection and safety management in food packaging containers, the higher the innovative consumption consciousness is.

Development and validation of a questionnaire designed to assess employee satisfaction of environmental health and safety management system (HSE-MS)

Development and validation of a questionnaire designed to assess employee satisfaction of environmental health and safety management system (HSE-MS)

Development of priority measures (solutions) for the environmentally safe management of municipal waste at the community level

Environmentally safe waste management remains one of the priority areas of civil society. Despite the introduction of a number of regulations, such as Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19.11.2008, the issue of effective management in the field of waste management not resolved. Therefore, the process of solid waste management at the level of territorial communities is considered as the object of research. Among the main shortcomings of this process is the lack of effective mechanisms and algorithms for systems to support informed decisions on waste management in their specific area.The article proposes and discloses a scientific and methodological approach to integrated expert and analytical evaluation of the processes of household waste management and substantiates the feasibility of environmental safety management measures. In the course of the research the decomposition of the household waste management process was carried out. This allows to identify the sources and characteristics of hazard detection, among which the largest contribution is made by waste incineration plants without energy (47.41 %) and the conditions of waste accumulation with increasing hazard (54.95 %). Using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) allows to take into account individual and collective judgments of experts, which not only improves the quality of research but also allows to determine the priority of environmental safety management measures. According to the calculations, the most important (44.01 % of the total contribution) is the measure to introduce the best available technologies for solid waste management. Obtaining such results is possible due to the fact that the method of analysis of hierarchies allows to determine the step-by-step transitivity and consistency of expert assessments.Compared to similar methods the proposed method, as simple and straightforward, is quite easy to use. This increases the effectiveness of transparent decision-making at the grassroots level through the involvement of highly qualified environmental and public administration professionals.

Features of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of legislation on specially protected natural territories in modern Russia

One of the ways to protect natural territories is the obligation authority to carry out prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of environmental legislation which directly establishes the obligation of individual entities to exercise this type of control. However, this obligation is not duly enforced. It creates a situation where on the one hand, there are positive goals of the state in the field of environmental protection, on the other hand, the positive desire of the nature user to comply with the law, and it leads to a negative result. The issue to enforce the law in the field of environmental control has remained relevant for a long time, and each stage of reforming environmental legislation increase its importance. The article describes the subject, object, tasks and purpose of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of laws in the field of environmental safety and environmental management. So, the subject of prosecutorial supervision is the activity of prosecutors aimed at regulating public relations in implementing the law. The article classifies the subjects of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of legislation on the specially protected natural territories as supervised and non-supervised. The purpose of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of legislation on specially protected natural territories is to ensure the rule of law in the field of environmental safety and environmental management of specially protected natural territories. The authors divided the tasks of prosecutorial supervision in this area into general, special and private. The paper assesses the problems influencing the effectiveness of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of legislation on specially protected natural territories, which include: the imperfection of the legislative framework; inefficiency in management, control and cadastral registration of such territories; contradictions arising from the interaction and coordination of bodies that manage, protect and control specially protected natural territories with prosecution authorities. The authors offer recommendations aimed at improving the efficiency of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of legislation on specially protected natural territories.

Applied Research on Agricultural Big Data

With the continuous advancement of digital informationization, the agricultural field has naturally entered the era of big data. At present, big data technology has achieved remarkable results in the Internet industry, but it is still in its infancy in the agricultural field. Due to the complexity of the agricultural field itself and the obvious diversity and heterogeneity of data, the agricultural Internet of Things in the big data environment is facing many difficulties and challenges, especially the collection and storage of massive data. The purpose of this article is to study the application of agricultural big data. This article briefly introduces the background of the development of agricultural big data and the significance of developing agricultural big data, and summarizes the meaning of big data. At the same time, this article summarizes and analyzes the major applications of agricultural big data in production process management, agricultural resource management, and agricultural ecology environmental management, agricultural products and food safety management. In the experimental part, this paper designed and implemented an agricultural big data system platform based on Hadoop. This article simulated the query of 10, 100 and 1000 records respectively for 10,000, 100,000, 1 million and 10 million records, and the average response time was 56ms. The experimental results show that the performance of the agricultural big data platform designed in this paper can meet the needs.

Control of Environmental Safety in the Construction of Subway in Megapolis

It was noted that in the construction of subways, the achievement of planned indicators is possible with the use of innovative construction technologies, in particular of tunnel boring machine (TBM). The analysis of the factors that determine the negative impact on the environment when using the TBM is compared with civil construction. The scientific novelty and practical results is given. It was proposed to take into account the degree of attractiveness of the territory when deciding on the location of construction sites. An approach is proposed to determine the attractiveness of the territories for the construction of metro facilities. The task of managing environmental safety during the construction period has been formulated. The procedure for managing environmental safety in the construction of subway lines is given. It is shown that as criteria for making management decisions, indicators characterizing the degree of influence of the physicochemical nature on the state of the environment should be used. It is said that the most rational option for minimizing the negative impact on the OS should be considered as a complex implementation of measures, at which simultaneous reduction of several negative factors to achievable levels is achieved: noise and vibration effects, pollutants of various chemical nature entering the atmosphere, etc. The principles of environmental safety management during noise and vibration effects, as well as the disposal of soil and soils formed during the construction of metro facilities are substantiated

Study on Environmental Safety Management System and Improvement of Management Capacity in Western Sichuan

The western Sichuan is a region with various first-class environmental problems like earthquakes and geological disasters. In field studies, people responsible for the environmental safety of western Sichuan argue that the region is confronted by the shortage of fund and expertise. And there are even people claiming that “all they need is money”. It seems that “fund” and “expertise” lie in the core of the problem, which is still in question. The paper, aiming at improving the management system and capacity of geological disasters in western Sichuan, used the landslide in Die Xi in 2017 as the case study to explore the problems and challenges confronting the region, including the weak legal system, defective management mechanism and ineffective disaster prediction.

FORMING THE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT OF THE CITIZENS ‘INTELLECTUAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

This article is devoted to the process of modeling dynamic systems of city intelligent transport systems (CITS) with the help of information technologies. The proposed means of fundamentally new integrated subsystems CITS, simultaneously covers arrays of heterogeneous data and use modern neural network technologies to provide information support for the management of transport systems. The safety of the ecological state as a result of the influence of urban traffic in the conditions of industrial centers was formalized for information technologies. Descriptions are executed as mathematical models of complex particles of objects of the city intellectual transport network with the use of heterogeneous fragments. Strategies and methods of systematic management are analyzed for solving complex problems of reducing the ecological load of the city. Ontological descriptions in basic model forms that are focused on ensuring the safety and ecology of urban applications to overcome contamination, risks and threats. This direction involves the creation of systems for automated management of transport infrastructure, which at the moment requires the solution of a range of scientific and technical tasks.The built-in neural network models of dependence will effectively solve planning problems with controlling influences on the infrastructure of urban intelligent transport systems, which will improve the characteristics of the traffic flow and reduce the environmental burden on the environment. The analysis of transport infrastructure and the activities of organizations that have a direct influence on it, has allowed us to propose a scheme for the use of heterogeneous information in the information support of the management of environmental safety and the throughput of the street-road network of urban intelligent transport systems. Keywords: information technology, transport system, situational management, risks, models of the situation.

A system approach to environmental safety management in mining

The list of restrictions, including spatial, temporal, geological, economic, regulatory, etc., within which the mining enterprise operates as a natural-technical system is given. The general scheme of a natural-industrial system and the restrictions which determine the conditions for its functioning is given. It is stated that any natural-industrial system being a sophisticated complex dynamical system is at the same time an inertial system which quality is important for its operation and management decisions. A scheme of functioning of a naturalindustrial system in time has been presented. The process of its functioning is described. With regards to complexity of environmental issues and environmental legal regulations in mining, a risk assessment approach is proposed which is based on taking into account the external limitations and impacts of different origin, related to environmental safety restrictions. Based on the conclusions of different authors the need to consider a mining enterprise as a dynamic “natural - industrial” system which is permanently under impact of changing external factors is demonstrated. An example of changes of environmental legal regulations as one of the external impacts is given.An example of changes in one of the external limitations that determine the risks of environmental management decisions is given. An analysis of changes in the legal requirements for hazardous wastes management over the past 20 years (from 2000 to 2019) is presented. The possible consequences of these changes for mining enterprises are described.. In addition, the risks that arise for mining enterprises in the event of failure to comply with these environmental requirements are described as well. Conclusions are drawn about the possible areas of application of the approach given in the article.

Effect of Wood Vinegar on Adsorption and Desorption of Four Kinds of Heavy (loid) Metals Adsorbents

Wood vinegar (WV) is a common agricultural additive used for treatment of soil and stimulation of plant growth. Phosphate rock powder (PR), coal fly ash (CFA), zeolite (ZE) and bentonite (BE) are the common adsorbents for heavy (loid) metals (HMLs)-contaminated soil treatment. The present study focused on the effect of desorption of Pb(II), Cd(II) and As(III) from adsorbents in the presence of WV. The experimental results revealed that the removal fractions of HMLs from adsorbents gradually decreased and then remained steady with the increase of dilution ratios of WV. Subsequently, the optimal additive concentration of WV on different adsorbents was obtained. The experiment results revealed that acetic acid was the dominating component in WV affecting adsorption capacities of adsorbents for HMLs. Moreover, the research took the first time to discover that the addition of WV effectively modified the structure of adsorbents to improve adsorption capacities for HMLs. Given the advantages of low cost and green products of WV, this study not only provided an effective guidance for rational management of agricultural and environmental safety, but paved a new path to modify the structure of adsorbents for better adsorption capacities for HMLs via addition of WV.

Lessons Learned from Implementation of a Web-Based Environmental Health and Safety Management Database in an Academic Medical Center

An environmental health and safety program for an academic medical center involves managing complex and diverse safety issues. The ability to ensure that required activities are performed and documented as well as ready access to environmental health and safety data to internal stakeholders are a few of the benefits that implementing a centralized environmental health and safety database can provide. The Environmental Health & Safety Department at the University of Texas Medical Branch is organized into operational groups based upon specialty (biological safety, radiation safety, occupational safety, fire safety, and environmental protection management). Historically, the organization has followed a decentralized approach to data management, with each specialty keeping data in their own format and inaccessible to employees in other specialties. Beginning in 2014, the department began the implementation of a unified environmental health and safety database. This database allows for a standardized approach ...

Estudio de factores que afectan la integración de los sistemas de gestión en el Centro Nacional de Biopreparados, Cuba


 Objetivo: Diagnosticar de manera integrada la gestión de la calidad, ambiental y de seguridad y salud en el Centro Nacional de Biopreparados para la integración de los sistemas de gestión. Metodología: A partir de la revisión bibliográfica relacionada con las tendencias actuales para la integración de modelos de gestión, el empleo de métodos como la encuesta, la observación, trabajo en equipo, listas de chequeo, matriz DAFO y estadística descriptiva, se diseñó y aplicó un procedimiento que permitió detectar las brechas que incidían en la organización tanto en el contexto interno como externo. Resultados: Como resultado se obtuvo que existía duplicidad en la información documentada, no integración de políticas y objetivos de gestión, identificación y evaluación de los riesgos de cada sistema de forma independiente, auditorías no integradas, consumo de agua y electricidad como aspectos ambientales con impacto negativo, el grado de integración de los requisitos de las normas medianamente cumplido y poca integración de los requisitos de las normas percibida por los trabajadores. Conclusiones: La aplicación del procedimiento permitió detectar las brechas que influían de manera negativa en la gestión y el desempeño de la organización, lo que condujo a identificar la necesidad de diseñar e implementar un modelo integrado de gestión de la calidad, ambiental y de seguridad y salud en el trabajo.
 

МОНІТОРИНГ РАДІАЦІЙНОГО ЗАБРУДНЕННЯ ТЕРИТОРІЇ ЧОРНОБИЛЬСЬКОЇ ЗОНИ

Urgency of the Research. Thirty-five years have passed since the Chernobyl accident. During this time, the environment has undergone constant changes under the influence of natural and human factors. Knowledge of these changes is impossible without the separation of anthropogenic processes from natural, which is why they organize special observations on various parameters of the biosphere, which change as a result of human activity. It is in the observation of the environment, the assessment of its actual state, and the forecasting of its development, that the essence of monitoring of radiation pollution of the territory of the Chernobyl zone is under the present conditions. Target setting. Investigation of modern technological procedures and technical means of monitoring to further create a system of integrated radiological control of the environment will ensure the prevention and elimination of negative changes in the state of the environment in the territory of both the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (ChEZ) and throughout Ukraine. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Recent publications and reports on open access concerning the problems of monitoring of radiation pollution of the Chernobyl zone in the current conditions have been considered. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Maintaining integrated radio-ecological environmental monitoring in areas where radiation hazards are located requires constant monitoring and monitoring of the radiation environment in the environment in order to determine its level of contamination and respond quickly to emergencies and prevent possible radiation accidents, as well as to prevent their occurrence. and the environment. The research objective. Comprehensive monitoring of radiation pollution requires the adaptation of the RODOS system to the conditions of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and potential specific sources of emissions in the ChEZ, the creation of a complete register of collected data for the adaptation of the RODOS system to the conditions of the ChEZ, a systematic description of sources of emissions from forest fires, fires, during the decommissioning of the ChNPP. The statement of basic materials. The article deals with the issues of integrated radio-ecological monitoring of the environment in the areas of radiation hazard objects, the use of an automated radiation monitoring system (ASCRO), the implementation of a real time decision support system in response to nuclear accidents - RODOS in Chernobyl. Conclusions. The implementation of ASCRO and RODOS systems in the Chernobyl zone has allowed to create a comprehensive system of radio-ecological environmental monitoring of the state, regional and local levels, which is intended to solve the main tasks of environmental safety management, including, at high risk objects.

Environmental safety management of used packaging of pesticides and other dangerous substances

In Ukraine, there is a problem of environmentally hazardous handling of used packaging of pesticides and other toxic chemicals and hazardous waste which can pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. The paper presents modern methods of disposal of pesticide packaging in the world and the situation in Ukraine. The Ukrainian and world environmental legislations regulating the problem of pesticide packaging management are analyzed. The scheme of processing and disposal of pesticide containers is proposed. Types and materials from which pesticide packaging is made are analyzed. Methods and equipment for washing of pesticide containers and handling of washing solutions are given. As a result, it is recommended to intensify the process of organizing a system for collecting, certifying and setting up licensed pesticide and other hazardous waste disposal facilities, as well as ensuring state support and the use of the best international experience.

Використання методу домінуючого динамічного забруднювача для управління екологічною безпекою систем очищення промислових стоків

Використання методу домінуючого динамічного забруднювача для управління екологічною безпекою систем очищення промислових стоків