Safety Management Techniques Research Articles

Enhanced Tailings Dam Beach Line Indicator Observation and Stability Numerical Analysis: An Approach Integrating UAV Photogrammetry and CNNs

Tailings ponds are recognized as significant sources of potential man-made debris flow and major environmental disasters. Recent frequent tailings dam failures and growing trends in fine tailings outputs underscore the critical need for innovative monitoring and safety management techniques. Here, we propose an approach that integrates UAV photogrammetry with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract beach line indicators (BLIs) and conduct enhanced dam safety evaluations. The significance of real 3D geometry construction in numerical analysis is investigated. The results demonstrate that the optimized You Only Look At CoefficienTs (YOLACT) model outperforms in recognizing the beach boundary line, achieving a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 72.63% and a mean Pixel Accuracy (mPA) of 76.2%. This approach shows promise for future integration with autonomously charging UAVs, enabling comprehensive coverage and automated monitoring of BLIs. Additionally, the anti-slide and seepage stability evaluations are impacted by the geometry shape and water condition configuration. The proposed approach provides more conservative seepage calculations, suggesting that simplified 2D modeling may underestimate tailings dam stability, potentially affecting dam designs and regulatory decisions. Multiple numerical methods are suggested for cross-validation. This approach is crucial for balancing safety regulations with economic feasibility, helping to prevent excessive and unsustainable burdens on enterprises and advancing towards the goal of zero harm to people and the environment in tailings management.

PENERAPAN JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS (JSA) DALAM MENGANALISA KESELAMATAN DAN KESEHATAN KERJA (K3) PADA PROYEK PEMBANGUNAN

In a development project there is Occupational Safety and Health (K3) both in planning, implementing and maintaining work. One of the efforts to reduce the risk and danger of work accidents is by applying safety management techniques, namely using Job Safety Analysis (JSA) to support safe and efficient work procedures. The purpose of this research is to analysis the implementation of Occupational Safety and Health (K3) implementation activities with the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) method. Collecting data in this study through the distribution of questionnaires, direct observations and interviews with contractors as service providers, construction management consultants, sub.contractors and foremen in the construction project of the Integrated Science Olympiad Laboratory of MAN 2 Kudus. Data analysis techniques using qualitative metods generally use tabulation of research characteristic through descriptive scales such as high, medium and low. The results of this research explain that the validity test of alla variables in proven valid, while for the reliability test all variables are proven to be reliable and the value of the Relative Interest Index (IKR) data obtained with the “important” factor. So it can be concluded that the efforts to control Occupational Health and Safety (K3) on the project can be applied and affect the project performance
 

Framework for measuring resilience of safety management systems in Australian building repair and maintenance companies

Introduction: The complex and dynamic nature of building repair and maintenance (R&M) work tends to create safety risks for workers. Resilience engineering approach is identified as a complementary to conventional safety management techniques. Resilience of safety management systems is characterized by the capabilities to recover from, respond during, and prepare for unexpected situations. This research aims to conceptualize resilience of safety management systems in the building repair and maintenance context by introducing resilience engineering principles into the safety management system concept. Method: Data were collected from 145 professionals in building repair and maintenance companies in Australia. The structural equation modeling technique was utilized to analyze the collected data. Results: The results confirmed three dimensions (i.e., people resilience, place resilience, and system resilience) with 32 measurement items for assessing resilience of safety management systems. The results revealed that safety performance of building R&M companies was significantly affected by the interactions between people resilience and place resilience and the interactions between place resilience and system resilience. Conclusions: Theoretically, this study contributes to the safety management knowledge by theoretically and empirically supporting the development of concept, definition, and purpose of resilience for safety management systems. Practical Applications: Practically, this research proposes a framework for assessing the level of resilience of safety management systems that is characterized by employees’ capabilities, supportiveness of workplace, and supportiveness of management to recover from safety incidents, react during unexpected situations, and prepare for preventative actions before occurrence of undesirable events.

Hazards and Safety Management in Pharmaceutical Industries: A Survey of Experts' Opinion

India's pharmaceutical sector is essential to the production and distribution of medications to millions of people worldwide. Pharmaceutical manufacture, however, has several dangers and hazards that could endanger the health and safety of employees, the environment, and the community, just like any other industrial sector. Chemical exposures, like handling dangerous pharmaceuticals and chemicals, as well as physical dangers including loud noises, moving machinery, and ergonomic concerns can all be found in the pharmaceutical industry. The management of biological risks, such as handling live microbes and possibly contagious materials, is another issue that pharmaceutical businesses must address. In the pharmaceutical industry, safety management is crucial for maintaining regulatory compliance, safeguarding employee health and safety, and preventing serious accidents and incidents. This entails adopting stringent safety procedures, supplying thorough training to staff, conducting risk analyses, maintaining suitable ventilation and containment systems, and making sure that hazardous products are stored and disposed of properly. The risks and safety management techniques used in the Indian pharmaceutical business serve to emphasize the significance of placing a high priority on safety in this industry. Sample of 157 respondents (experts from pharmaceutical industry) were surveyed to know different Hazards and safety management in pharmaceutical industries and found that that it is important to establish norms, and carrying out routine audits and inspections, conduct regular risk assessments to detect potential physical hazards and putting preventive measures and create plans for emergencies.

Exploration of Safety Management and Maintenance Techniques for Special Chemical Equipment

Exploration of Safety Management and Maintenance Techniques for Special Chemical Equipment

안전관리에 대한 사업장의 역할

This research begins with the idea that the workplace plays a significant role in occupational safety and accident management. Government programs to address safety events and disasters have recently included the science and technology of the fourth industrial revolution. As a result, the purpose of this study is to investigate the experimental impact of these policies and responses to the fourth industrial revolution on workplace safety management. According to the research, it was discovered that the larger the policy influence, the better the workplace safety management. The interaction between policy impact and the response to the 4th industrial revolution was investigated, and it was found that the response to the 4th industrial revolution had a positive effect that reinforced the good impact of government policies on workplace safety management. Therefore, the government should develop policies to notice and respond to workplace safety incidents on a daily basis. We are also drafting policies so that workplaces can conduct their own safety management based on the characteristics of employees and organizations, as well as safety management techniques that combine technologies from the 4th industrial revolution.

A Safety Warning Algorithm Based on Axis Aligned Bounding Box Method to Prevent Onsite Accidents of Mobile Construction Machineries.

Mobile construction machineries are accident-prone on a dynamic construction site, as the site environment is constantly changing and continuous safety monitoring by human beings is impossible. These accidents usually happen in the form of machinery overturning or collapsing into risk areas, including the foundation pit, slopes, or soft soil area. Therefore, preventing mobile construction machineries from entering risk areas is the key. However, currently, there is a lack of practical safety management techniques to achieve this. Utilizing a wireless sensor device to collect the location information of mobile construction machineries, this research develops a safety warning algorithm to prevent the machineries moving into risk area and reduces onsite overturning or collapsing accidents. A modified axis aligned bounding box method is proposed according to the movement patterns of mobile construction machineries, and the warning algorithm is developed based on the onsite safety management regulations. The algorithm is validated in a real case simulation when machinery enters the warning zone. The simulation results showed that the overall algorithm combining the location sensing technology and the modified bounding box method could detect risk and give warnings in a timely manner. This algorithm can be implemented for the safety monitoring of mobile construction machineries in daily onsite management.

Addressing process safety challenges in downstream industries in Brunei Darussalam

International oil and gas corporations operating in Brunei may apply process safety management (PSM) and analysis techniques, resulting in varying approaches and measures to address process safety issues. Global corporations may have developed their own process safety standards while smaller firms employ established ones. This research compares the local PSM systems and standards with international ones to determine which employers face the most difficulties in implementing or increasing process safety inside their organizations. This study found that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations are used by 30% of local users in downstream operations. Common challenges encountered by local users are management/leadership commitment to process safety (11.9%), mechanical integrity and management of safety critical devices (5.3%), management review and intervention for continuous improvement (4.9%), communication amongst workers (3.8%), management of change (3.8%), operational control, permit to work and risk management (3.8%) and incident reporting (3.8%).

Process Safety for Sustainable Applications

Process safety techniques have been used in industry for decades to make processes and systems safer and to optimize them, and thus to improve sustainability. Their main aim is to prevent damage to people, equipment and the environment.In this overview, process safety and risk management techniques are shown that can be applied in the different life cycle phases of an application without much implementation effort. A broad and universal applicability in a wide range of business sectors is set as the main focus.In addition to the application of system improvement techniques, a number of additional considerations, such as maintenance and the consideration of abnormal operating conditions, are included in order to be able to comprehensively improve a system or application.

한국공군의 첨단 항공기 도입에 따른 안전관리방안 연구

The purpose of this study is to ensure safety by proactively identifying hazards that could be derived from changes in mission form and environment as the advanced aircraft such as F-35A stealth fighter, KC-330 Multi-role transport and tanker, RQ-4B high altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, etc are introduced that the Republic of Korea Air Force(ROKAF) has never been operated so far. To this end, the safety management methods based on proactive and predictive approaches used in advanced countries(US Air Force, UK Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force) operating aircraft types same or similar things being newly powered by the ROKAF were reviewed. In addition, the direction for improvement of the safety management methods operating in the ROKAF and the measures necessary for establishment of the new safety management techniques to be applied were suggested.

Meta-learning for Safety Management

The experience gathered from normal industrial operations allows us to associate its degrading conditions with the potential for an accident. Such association is the basis for the definition of the system risk and appropriate safety measures. If a skilled operator observes further degrading conditions, his/her mind quickly learns from this new experience, derives an updated risk level, and tunes the safety measures. Similarly, safety management techniques aim to construct a risk model while learning from past and new observations with the purpose to warn of an imminent accident. However, the model can be tested only in hindsight, after the occurrence (or the missed occurrence) of an accident. How can we generalise and model the risk analysis learning process? How can we optimise its configuration towards new observations? This study discusses these issues of meta-learning for safety management by considering the case study of a drive-off scenario involving an oil and gas drilling rig, for which a risk assessment approach based on machine learning is developed. The results indicate the way forward for a generalisation of risk analysis learning processes and their optimisation.

Resilience Engineering Indicators and Safety Management: A Systematic Review.

A safe work environment is crucial in high-risk industries, such as construction refurbishment. Safety incidents caused by uncertainty and unexpected events in construction refurbishment systems are difficult to control using conventional safety management techniques. Resilience engineering (RE) is proposed as an alternative to traditional safety management approaches. It presents a successful safety management methodology designed to deal with uncertainty in high-risk work environments. Despite the fact that RE resides in the safety domain, there is no common set of RE indicators to measure and assess resilient in the work environment. The main aim of this research is to explore RE indicators that have been identified as important in developing and assessing the resilient work environment in high-risk industries, particularly in construction refurbishment. Indicators have been attained through a systematic literature review of research and scholarly articles published between the years 2004 and 2019. The literature review explored RE indicators in various industries. Descriptive analysis and co–occurrence-based network visualization were used for data analysis. The findings revealed 28 RE indicators in 11 different high-risk industries. The results show that the four commonly used indicators were: top-management commitment, awareness, learning, and flexibility, all of which have a strong relationship with RE. The findings of this study are useful for stakeholders when making decisions concerning the most important RE indicators in the context of their research or practice as this would avoid the ambiguity and disparity in the identification of RE indicators.

Investigation into Road Construction Safety Management Techniques

Rwanda is undergoing rapid development in transportation through constructing new roads and upgrading existing ones. During implementation of these projects, many accidents for road workers, road users and environment issues are raised due to unsafe road construction management techniques. This existing problem was carried out within the City of Kigali for three ongoing road construction projects namely road Ruliba-Karama-Nyamirambo, Kigali Urban Road Upgrading Projects of Agatare and the Sonatube-Gahanga- Akagera road, in order to investigate about the road construction safety management techniques. From the findings, 64.28% results showed that the maintaining of health and safety policy in the road construction sites is applied and there exist different means of maintaining safety, such as the provision of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to the workers at the level of 57.14% as per the project managers; but from the field observations, it is alarming, and many workers do not wear as required. It was also found that 50% of accidents occurring in excavation works among all work performed during road construction are due to lack of adequate safety measures. The paper indicated that 85.71% of the concerned workers do conduct training and induction in their road safety construction sites, but on the other hand the level of accidents due to lack of safety recorded in the road construction sites is still high at the level of 78.57%. The mostly affected are unskilled laborers and this observation begs the question about the training and induction of workers in road safety and its effectiveness of on the concerned workers. The paper suggests some different safety measures to apply for providing safe road working environment according to the standard and gives some key recommendations for Rwanda.

Comprehensive safety management practice of urban water environment treatment project

In order to effectively improve the safety management level of water environment treatment projects and reduce the incidence of safety accidents, we propose a comprehensive safety management method PNCC (predict, notify, check, control) based on KYK (kiken yochi katsudo, i. e., hazard prediction activities), causal analysis, analytic hierarchy process, 5S (seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, shitsuke, i. e., sort, straighten, shine, standardize, sustain) and PDCA (plan, do, check, action) theory. During the implementation of PNCC, new technologies such as quick response code, video surveillance system and controlling safety APP are applied to promote the realization of full-staff, whole-process, all-round management and continuous improvement. The PNCC model is successfully applied in the Maozhou River Water Environment Treatment Project. The proposed theory and safety management techniques can also be applied to other construction projects.

Data Mining of Hidden Danger in Operational Production

This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper IPTC 19485, “Data Mining of Hidden Danger in Enterprise Production Safety and Research of Hidden-Danger-Model Conversion,” by Kun Tian, Hong-Qiao Yan, Ya-Ming Mao, and Shun-Cheng Wu, CNPC, prepared for the 2019 International Petroleum Technology Conference, Beijing, 26–28 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed. The value of hidden-danger data stored in text can be revealed through an approach that can help sort and interpret information in an ordered way not used previously in safety management. These optimized data then can be used to apply safety-management techniques precisely, centralize operations, and reduce risk•levels. Introduction The collection and storage of huge amounts of data have demonstrated a lack of coordination between the development of data-collecting capacity and the means to analyze those data accurately. Some experts use analytical methods to study the relationship between security factors and accident events to guide equipment maintenance, quality testing, and related work. However, extracting hidden-danger data stored in text format has been a challenge for the petroleum and petrochemical industries. The data-mining technique discussed in the complete paper uses Chinese word segmentation, Chinese lexical annotation, named entity recognition, and other techniques to extract keywords from the text. Then, a structured hidden-danger database is built through a process of keyword mapping and extraction, data cleansing and integration, and data selection and transformation. Finally, the use of a data-stream sliding-window model and a correlation analysis comprises a meth-od of correlating hidden dangers and promotes the application of enterprise safety management. Theoretical Basis The mining of hidden-danger data includes mainly the preprocessing of text data, the construction of a structured data base, and data analysis. Collecting a Professional Vocabulary. Hidden-danger data are stored in textual form, but data-mining and machine-learning models cannot deal with these nonstructured (or half-structured) types of information directly. Thus, natural-language processing must be used. The collection of a professional vocabulary forms the basis of hidden-danger data analysis. Mechanisms by which this is accomplished include the•following: Chinese word segmentation. The hidden-danger description of Chinese character sequences is treated by segmentation, which aims to obtain a number of separated words, the meanings of which can be recognized by the computer automatically. New-word collection. Chinese word segmentation can be an ineffective technique in identifying professional vocabulary terms in hidden-danger data. For example, the phrase “health, safety, and environment (HSE) management system quantitative audit standards” might be divided into the subphrases and words “HSE,” “management system,” “quantification,” “audit,” and “standard,” all of which might be unsuited to meet problem-analysis requirements. Therefore, in practice, according to the position of each word in the text, one can find adjacent words that are used frequently and can merge these in order to build a vocabulary for analysis purposes. Collation with word meanings and lexical labels. Because problems are described by different people with different expressions, organizing the meanings of words within the vocabulary and standardizing the processing of the vocabulary are essential. To facilitate later analysis, the lexical characters should be labeled on the basis of collation to word meaning. At that point, a professional vocabulary can be created.

Taming the wild river rapids: How process safety can apply outside the process industries

AbstractOn the 25th October 2016, the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld on Australia's Gold Coast suffered a pump failure, resulting in the tragic deaths of four riders. This incident was investigated by the police and later a coronial inquest to determine how a tragedy like this could occur. As a process safety professional, it was interesting to follow the coronial inquest findings and then think about how process safety management may have helped to prevent this incident. Assuming that a process safety event can be defined as a high consequence or potential consequence low likelihood loss of control event, this incident had all the hallmarks. Therefore, it is possible to apply the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) framework for process safety to identify where the system failed and understand how it could be averted in future. This article will explore various elements of the incident and how process safety management techniques may have helped, including that the ride had been modified to be different from all other similar rides, that the staff did not know how to stop the ride in an emergency and that all means to stop the ride required manual detection and intervention, with no alarms or shut down systems installed.

Designing and Developing an Effective Safety Program for a Student Project Team

In the workplace, safety must be the first priority of all employers and employees alike. In order to maintain the safety and well-being of their employees, employers must demonstrate due diligence and provide the appropriate safety training to familiarize employees with the hazards within the workplace. Although, a student “project team” is not a business, the work done by students for their respective teams is synonymous with the work done in a place of business and thus requires that similar safety precautions and training be administered to students by their team leads and faculty advisors. They take on the role of supervisors within the team dynamic. Student teams often utilize the guidelines and policies that their universities or colleges have developed in order to build a set of standard operating procedures and safety training modules. These guidelines aid in providing a base for training for the team, however, they are no substitute for training specific to the safety risks associated with the work the team is doing. In order to comply with these requirements, a full analysis of the workplace is required to be completed. A variety of safety analysis techniques need to be applied to define the hazards within the workplace and institute appropriate measures to mitigate them. In this work, a process is developed for establishing a safety training program for a student project team, utilizing systems safety management techniques and the aspect of gamification to produce incentives for students to continue developing their skills. Although, systems safety management is typically applied to the design of active safety components or systems, the techniques for identifying and mitigating hazards can be applied in the same fashion to the workplace. They allow one to analyze their workplace and determine the hazards their employees might encounter, assign appropriate hazard ratings and segregate each respective hazard by their risks. In so doing, safety level assignment can be completed to ensure team members are trained to be able to work on the systems associated with a given risk level.

Use and relevance of quality, safety and environment management tools and techniques: an empirical investigation, case of Moroccan companies

A large number of tools and techniques to improve the quality of products assess environmental impacts and manage the risks to health and safety at work, are available. It is interesting to characterise them in order to better understand their relationship and their relevance in different situations. Focusing on the level of use of these tools by responsible persons and target the most mentioned that seem most appropriate to different situations. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to examine the level of use of quality, safety and environment management tools and techniques. To do this we use the responses of animators and representatives of QSE management systems in 34 Moroccan companies at least certified according to ISO 9001. After a diagnosis of the most serious, common and repetitive health and safety risks of all the companies surveyed, we discuss the action plans that are available to the Moroccan companies to evaluate the different health and safety problems at work. Finally we integrate all QSE tools and techniques encountered in a continuous improvement PDCA.

Use and relevance of quality, safety and environment management tools and techniques: an empirical investigation, case of Moroccan companies

Use and relevance of quality, safety and environment management tools and techniques: an empirical investigation, case of Moroccan companies

Barriers and Facilitators to Voluntary Reporting and Their Impact on Safety Culture

ABSTRACTObjective: Determine barriers and facilitators to effective voluntary reporting system (VRS) operation.Background: As human error accounts for a larger portion of accidents and incidents in high-risk industries, federal agencies that define regulations and guidelines promote various safety management techniques, including more robust safety data collection. VRSs aim to identify and address “near misses” (errors identified before resulting in negative outcomes) through employee disclosure of committed errors and violations. Despite their value, VRSs are underutilized.Method: A literature review was conducted to understand successful safety management practices and challenges, and define reporting requirements for accidents, incidents, and near misses (which rely on voluntary disclosure). Variations in the policies, processes, and utility of several VRSs were explored, and common themes were identified. Interviews were then conducted with VRS developers, users, and managers to further explore these themes.Results: The literature review narrowed the focus to confidential, nonpunitive VRSs for process and product safety concerns, such as the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP). Common themes exposed 8 categories of barriers and facilitators to effective VRS operation, participation, and use of report data. The literature review verified and elaborated on these barriers, and offered solutions (facilitators) based on personal observations and experiences.Conclusion: Consistent themes associated with effective and ineffective VRS operation can be used to improve VRS participation and the effectiveness of error prediction and prevention capabilities.