Safety Management Framework Research Articles

Nutritional Guidelines and Fermented Food Frameworks.

This review examines different nutritional guidelines, some case studies, and provides insights and discrepancies, in the regulatory framework of Food Safety Management of some of the world’s economies. There are thousands of fermented foods and beverages, although the intention was not to review them but check their traditional and cultural value, and if they are still lacking to be classed as a category on different national food guides. For understanding the inconsistencies in claims of concerning fermented foods among various regulatory systems, each legal system should be considered unique. Fermented foods and beverages have long been a part of the human diet, and with further supplementation of probiotic microbes, in some cases, they offer nutritional and health attributes worthy of recommendation of regular consumption. Despite the impact of fermented foods and beverages on gastro-intestinal wellbeing and diseases, their many health benefits or recommended consumption has not been widely translated to global inclusion in world food guidelines. In general, the approach of the legal systems is broadly consistent and their structures may be presented under different formats. African traditional fermented products are briefly mentioned enhancing some recorded adverse effects. Knowing the general benefits of traditional and supplemented fermented foods, they should be a daily item on most national food guides.

A resilience framework for safety management of fossil fuel power plant

This paper investigates safety management of the fossil fuel power plants from a resilient perspective; we identified the principles for embedding resilience in fossil fuel power plants by considering both system characteristics and attributes of fossil fuel power plants. Then, a two-dimensional matrix framework is provided to guide resilience management. The first dimension is principles that a resilient system shall possess (“top management commitment,” “flexibility,” “awareness” and “learning”), the other dimension covers almost all the aspects that a fossil fuel power plant could involve. After that, a case study of “China Guodian Harbin Taiping Power and Heat Co., Ltd” is given to illustrate the application of the framework. Through the analysis, we found that physical configuration is of high-level resilience, i.e., the “hardware part” of the plant is desirable. However, elements related to external and internal cognitive and social domains are not ideal. Most of the components are of low resilience or medium resilience. Generally, as a state-owned enterprise, “Taiping power plant” is subjected to both the local economic environment and its lack of initiative.

A Total Safety Management framework in case of a major hazards plant producing pesticides

The aim of this paper is to present the framework for Total Safety Management through its application to a major hazards chemical plant, namely a pesticides producing unit. This framework was developed within the European Project entitled “Total Operation Management for Safety Critical Activities” (TOSCA) aiming at an innovative approach able to integrate and enhance safety, quality and productivity. The cornerstone of this framework is the “Common Operation Picture” notion, which involves a useful synthesis of the unit risk assessment, with the intention to provide understandable information to the relevant stakeholders and decision-makers. This framework has been applied to the storage area of a hazardous substance called dichloropropene, a flammable material used for pesticides production. The Fault Tree and the Bowtie methods have been used for the risk assessment of various accidental releases from the dichloropropene storage tanks. Production data, safety barrier information and results of risk analysis are stored in a database linked with accident sequences visualization tools.

Enhancing Safety Performance by Recognizing the Role of Perceived Management Commitment to Safety in the Jordanian Healthcare Industry: Conceptual Framework

<p>Nowadays, workplace safety is a clear concern for both individuals and organizations, particularly in developing countries such as Jordan. This is evidenced by the expanding body of safety-related literature published on this regard. This paper develops a conceptual framework of safety management based on perceived organizational support theory. The main aim of this framework is to disclose the causal links between a physiological empowerment, respect, perceived management commitment to safety and safety performance based on previous studies. Such framework could have impact on practical issues in healthcare industry, as well as enhancing the body of related literature on perceived management commitment to safety. Consequently, this framework presents a new trend concerning perceived management commitment to safety through investigating each dimension of safety climate individually. </p><p> </p>

A systemic modelling of ground handling services using the functional resonance analysis method

In contrast to air transport safety, safety in ground handling is not concerned only with aircraft accidents but also the Occupational Health and Safety of the employees who work at airport aprons. Ground handling safety costs the aviation industry tens of billions USD every year which raises the questions about the effectiveness of linear safety risk management of Ground Handling Services (GHS). This paper uses the state-of-the-art safety theory to justify and highlight the need for a systemic approach to safety risk management of GHS on the apron. A hybrid Total Apron Safety Management (TASM) framework, based on the combination of Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM), Grounded Theory, Template Analysis and Goals-Means Task Analysis (GMTA) was developed to support systemic safety modelling of GHS. The data that underpins the TASM framework includes extensive literature review, 15 observations, 43 interviews and expert judgement across five international airports. While the TASM framework can be applied in retrospective, prospective and system design analysis to improve both the safety management and the efficiency of apron operations, this paper showcases only one of its application on a case study of a historical safety occurrence. The results of the investigation carried out in this paper clearly demonstrate the benefits of the systemic as opposed to the existing linear approaches to retrospective safety analyses and the suitability of the TASM framework for occurrence analysis and prevention.

A 10-step safety management framework for construction small and medium-sized enterprises

It is of great importance to develop an occupational health and safety management system (OHS MS) to form a systemized approach to improve health and safety. It is a known fact that thousands of accidents and injuries occur in the construction industry. Most of these accidents occur in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This article provides a 10-step user-friendly OHS MS for the construction industry. A quantitative OHS MS indexing method is also introduced in the article. The practical application of the system to real SMEs and its promising results are also presented.

What Do Gas Blows, Iron Dust Accumulations and Sulfidation Corrosion Have in Common?

This paper presents an analysis of three process incidents recently investigated by the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB): (i) Kleen Energy natural gas explosion (Middletown, CT), (ii) Hoeganaes Corporation iron dust flash fires and hydrogen explosion (Gallatin, TN), and (iii) Chevron Richmond refinery pipe rupture and fire (Richmond, CA). The starting point for the analysis is identification of the main hazardous materials, activities or conditions underlying the specific incident losses. These are, respectively: (i) Kleen Energy - purging of process pipelines with natural gas, (ii) Hoeganaes Corporation - accumulations of combustible iron dust in work areas, and (iii) Chevron Richmond refinery - a pipeline damage mechanism known as sulfidation corrosion. While the three incidents have many aspects in common, chief among the similarities are the key process safety concepts of inherently safer design (ISD), recognition of warning signs (precursor events), and safety culture. Each incident is analyzed for evidence of these concepts. The analysis is drawn from the relevant CSB investigation reports with the primary objective of illustrating the strong experiential learning that case histories of actual incidents can provide. While the lessons learned from these incidents are useful in and of themselves, capturing these lessons by incorporation in a safety management framework extends their usefulness to the prevention and mitigation of other potential process incidents. A typical process safety management system is employed in the current work to accomplish this secondary objective. Overall conclusions are made concerning the effectiveness of ISD, precursor recognition, and safety culture with respect to risk reduction in the process industries. It is anticipated that this work will help in communication of lessons learned to both the research and practice communities.

Supervision and instruction in fitness facilities: A safety and legal risk management framework

Supervision and instruction in fitness facilities: A safety and legal risk management framework

Security management of protected multi-service networks for special purposes

The article examines the conceptual framework of automation safety management of protected multi-service networks for special purposes (PMN SP). It discussed the pyramid model of management of PMN SP, major functional management tasks of PMN. The decomposition of the problem of the information security in PMN is given. A formal statement of the task of safety management PMN SP is presented. The security threats, security services, their distribution by level of model OSI, the interaction functions and security mechanisms are considered.

In search of a Common Conceptual Framework for Safety, Quality and Sustainability Management

In search of a Common Conceptual Framework for Safety, Quality and Sustainability Management

A framework for child safety and health management by analogy to occupational safety and health management

Child accidents and diseases are characterized by many factors. Thus, a system approach to child safety and health (CSH) including different management levels is indispensable. However, the literature is scarce in holistic approach to CSH management. In this paper, a unified framework for CSH is proposed by analogy to occupational safety and health (OSH) system. In this framework, CSH management comprises decisions and actions on global, macro, and micro-levels for a safe and healthy environment for children. Global level represents international organizations working for CSH, macro level represents national regulations, and micro-level represents home environments and public places. The decisions and actions at each level are linked to the subsequent level by input/feedback relation. The framework is illustrated by hypothetical examples, and provides a holistic practical approach to CSH management. Other OSH management approaches and best practices can also be adapted to the proposed CSH system.

A vision-based motion capture and recognition framework for behavior-based safety management

Abstract In construction, about 80%–90% of accidents are associated with workers' unsafe acts. Nevertheless, the measurement of workers' behavior has not been actively applied in practice, due to the difficulties in observing workers on jobsites. In an effort to provide a robust and automated means for worker observation, this paper proposes a framework of vision-based unsafe action detection for behavior monitoring. The framework consists of (1) the identification of critical unsafe behavior, (2) the collection of relevant motion templates and site videos, (3) the 3D skeleton extraction from the videos, and (4) the detection of unsafe actions using the motion templates and skeleton models. For a proof of concept, experimental studies areundertaken to detect unsafe actions during ladder climbing (i.e., reaching far to a side) in motion datasets extracted from videos. The result indicates that the proposed framework can potentially perform well at detecting predefined unsafe actions in videos.

A Gap Analysis of Airport Safety Using ICAO SMS Perspectives: A Field Study of Taiwan

Safety is critical to the success of the aviation industry, and as it continues to develop worldwide and link more people and places, how aviation safety is standardized has been and will continue to be a global concern. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has developed a comprehensive framework for safety management at airlines and airports, known as Doc. 9859 Safety Management Manual (SMM). Safety Management Systems (SMS) have since been required to be implemented by all ICAO member states beginning January 2010. Taiwan, administered by the Republic of China (ROC), is in a unique position as a non-member state of ICAO that is strongly connected to the world’s aviation system. Using the Delphi Technique and convenient sampling, this research is a case study of how aviation safety is managed at a major international airport in Taiwan with respect to ICAO’s SMS standards. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with participants from three major organizations operating at the surveyed airport: air traffic controllers, the airport management company, and a ground services provider. Results found that despite Taiwan’s non-member status with ICAO, safety management was very consistent with ICAO SMS standards, especially in the areas this study focused on: safety policy and objectives, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion.

Framework of Safety Management for Production Plants in Process Industry

Framework of Safety Management for Production Plants in Process Industry

A framework for construction safety management and visualization system

With recent rapid advancement of visualization technologies, recognized research work for improving construction safety management practices has been conducted for identifying safety risks as well as worker onsite training. However, most of the previous studies were limited to reflect the site safety management process, which normally consists of planning–education–inspection phases. This study proposes a framework for a novel safety management and visualization system (SMVS) that integrates building information modeling (BIM), location tracking, augmented reality (AR), and game technologies. A prototype system has been developed and tested based on an illustrative accident scenario. The potentials and technical limitations of the prototype SMVS have been evaluated by site safety experts. A case study was also implemented, whose results show that the SMVS has a great potential to improve the identification of field safety risks, increase the risk recognition capacity of workers, and enhance the real-time communication between construction manager and workers.

Construction Safety Management Framework based on Smart Mobile

With increasing number of serious construction disasters such as death, a safety management in real-time is more required recently. One of the ways to support the needs, a convergence with Information Technology (IT) has been noticed. Although number of inefficiencies including a limitation of IT equipment (weight, control inconveniences) has been concerned, data exchanging and processing fields have been improved at a wide range with an advance of mobile communication and an introduction of smart mobiles that are simple and convenient. In this research, a framework is realized in connection with smart mobile to find the problems of current safety management and derive demands in order to support effective safety management. Two smart mobile applications, Safety Management application and Safety Guideline application, enable a real-time safety management and less re-work by provided safety information.

Establishing National Medical Imaging Incident Reporting Systems: Issues and Challenges

Radiology incident reporting systems provide one source of invaluable patient safety data that, when combined with appropriate analysis and action, can result in significantly safer health care, which is now an urgent priority for governments worldwide. Such systems require integration into a wider safety, quality, and risk management framework because many issues have global implications, and they also require an international classification scheme, which is now being developed. These systems can be used to inform global research activities as identified by the World Health Organization, many of which intersect with the activities of and issues seen in medical imaging departments. How to ensure that radiologists (and doctors in general) report incidents, and are engaged in the process, is a challenge. However, as demonstrated with the example of the Australian Radiology Events Register, this can be achieved when the reporting system is integrated with their professional organization and its other related activities (such as training and education) and administered by a patient safety organization.

Integrated framework for safety management and uncertainty management

Safety management and uncertainty management have traditionally been completely separate functions. The two disciplines are, to a large extent, based on different scientific pillars. The safety discipline typically produces frequency estimates of specific hazardous events, whereas the uncertainty discipline produces prediction intervals based on probability distribution quantiles, in addition to mean values. Furthermore, the safety discipline has a focus on risk acceptance criteria, whereas the uncertainty discipline makes top-ten and similar lists to rank the most critical uncertainty aspects. These differences make it difficult to obtain an integrated framework for safety management and uncertainty management. However, the recent introduction of risk perspectives highlighting the uncertainty component of risk has provided an improved basis for development of such an approach. By seeing risk as a two-dimensional concept covering events and consequences on the one side and uncertainties on the other, the content and boundaries of risk assessments are changed. The gap between the two disciplines can, to a large extent, be bridged. The purpose of the current paper is to present and discuss an integrated framework for these disciplines and traditions, based on this risk perspective. The starting point is petroleum operations, but the discussion is, to a large extent, general.

定性的リスクマトリクスを用いた予防型安全管理のフレームワークに関する考察 : リスクアセスメント改善のためのリスクコミュニケーション(機械要素,潤滑,設計,生産加工,生産システムなど)

定性的リスクマトリクスを用いた予防型安全管理のフレームワークに関する考察 : リスクアセスメント改善のためのリスクコミュニケーション(機械要素,潤滑,設計,生産加工,生産システムなど)

A strategic safety management framework through balanced scorecard and quality function deployment

The aim of this paper is to propose a safety management framework for construction companies. A literature review was carried out to identify significant factors that would improve safety performance. Two management tools—namely, the balanced scorecard and quality function deployment (QFD)—were used to construct the framework. Strategic goals were established for each of the following perspectives of the balanced scorecard: financial and cultural, employee, process, and learning. Afterwards, a questionnaire was prepared using the QFD approach. The goals in the financial and cultural perspective were defined as the safety-related needs of the organization ("customer requirements" in the original QFD approach); and the goals in the remaining perspectives included the actions that the organization could take to meet its needs. Results of the questionnaire were used to set the final strategic goals in the balanced scorecard. Safety performance measures and initiatives were used to accomplish the goals in the balanced scorecard. Key words: safety management, balanced scorecard, quality function deployment.