Provision Of Safety Research Articles

Strategic directions of modern policy in the sphere of legal provision of public safety

The article analyzes the key problems of ensuring public security at the domestic and international levels associated with the modern energy policy which threatens the life and health of the planet's population. The task of implementing measures aimed at legal regulation related to the prevention of international crime is being updated. Interaction between law enforcement agencies and special services and state control bodies of foreign states requires development. It is important to improve the system of measures for the prevention in crime, the development and use of special tools aimed at reducing the level of criminalization in public relations. Suppression and prevention of criminal and other unlawful acts in the field of energy assumes counteraction to such crimes including corruption, embezzlement and misuse of budgetary funds. The activity of foreign organizations and special services, suppressing extremist and terrorist crimes aimed at causing damage to objects and infrastructure of the fuel and energy complex, deserves activation.

Contribution of ICOH to Address the Different OSH Needs among Countries: Results of a Survey.

The aim of this study is to map the coverage of occupational safety and health (OSH) rules and provisions and their enforcement at a country level worldwide. Members’ participation in the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) activities was also investigated. We used a questionnaire-based survey to collect data. An online questionnaire was administered from February 14 to March 18, 2018 to all ICOH members for the triennium 2015 to 2017 (n = 1929). We received 384 completed questionnaires from 79 countries, with a 20% response rate. To synthesize information about the coverage of OSH rules and provisions and their level of enforcement, a synthetic coverage index was calculated and combined with country, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and the human development index (HDI). We used multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) to analyze the members’ participation in ICOH activities. More than 90.0% of the sample declared that in their own country there is a set of rules and provisions regulating OSH in the workplace, and training procedures and tools to improve workers’ awareness. However, these rules and training procedures are mainly “partially” enforced and utilized (39.0% and 45.4%). There was no statistically significant association between country and GDP per capita and the synthetic coverage index, whilst controlling for HDI. The level of engagement in ICOH activities is higher in senior members (aged 65 years or older), coming from high-income countries, having held a position within ICOH, with a higher level of education and a researcher position. An integrated and multidisciplinary approach, which includes research, education and training, is needed to address OSH issues and their impact both at global and country level.

Concrete Lessons: Policies and Practices Affecting the Impact of COVID-19 for Urban Indigenous Communities in the United States and Canada.

Throughout the Americas, most Indigenous people move through urban areas and make their homes in cities. Yet, the specific issues and concerns facing Indigenous people in cities, and the positive protective factors their vibrant urban communities generate are often overlooked and poorly understood. This has been particularly so under COVID-19 pandemic conditions. In the spring of 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples called for information on the impacts of COVID-19 for Indigenous peoples. We took that opportunity to provide a response focused on urban Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. Here, we expand on that response and Indigenous and human rights lens to review policies and practices impacting the experience of COVID-19 for urban Indigenous communities. Our analysis integrates a discussion of historical and ongoing settler colonialism, and the strengths of Indigenous community-building, as these shape the urban Indigenous experience with COVID-19. Mindful of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we highlight the perspectives of Indigenous organizations which are the lifeline of urban Indigenous communities, focusing on challenges that miscounting poses to data collection and information sharing, and the exacerbation of intersectional discrimination and human rights infringements specific to the urban context. We include Indigenous critiques of the implications of structural oppressions exposed by COVID-19, and the resulting recommendations which have emerged from Indigenous urban adaptations to lockdown isolation, the provision of safety, and delivery of services grounded in Indigenous initiatives and traditional practices.

Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic in Construction Labor Productivity: A Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis

This research aims to identify and analyze the various factors affecting construction labor productivity covering the period from December 9, 2020 - January 31, 2021, a year after it was declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Due to the pandemic effect, the local government units in four selected study areas imposed intermittent Enhance Community Quarantine on all places to control the Coronavirus spread in compliance with the health department protocol. Fifty-five questionnaires returned out of 63 distributed are tabulated according to each group-related factor. The correlation analysis resulted in the highest coefficient value of 0.89 between the CTDEO and contractor groups. Meaning, most respondents have the same perception of the factors affecting construction's low labor productivity. Besides, results depicted that the absence of health workers on the construction site ranked 1st in the health & safety provision factor group with an RII of 0.97, followed by no safety engineers on the construction project sites with an RII of 0.93. From all the seven groups of factors, the health and safety group-related factors ranked 1st with an RII of 0.81, next, the schedule compression group with an RII of 0.78. Hypothesis testing asserted that working six days per week was one of the significant factors affecting labor productivity on the contractor's side, suggested by more than 50% of the respondents. The workforce group-related factors with an RII of 0.77 demonstrated a slight difference with the schedule compression group-related factors. Thus, the Covid-19 pandemic has a significant effect on the essential factors affecting construction's low labor productivity.

Perspectives of Australian hospital leaders on the provision of safe care: implications for safety I and safety II

PurposeThere is evidence that patient safety has not improved commensurate with the global attention and resources dedicated to achieving it. The authors explored the perspectives of hospital leaders on the challenges of leading safe care.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reports the findings of a three-year longitudinal study of eight Australian hospitals. A representative sample of hospital leaders, comprising board members, senior and middle managers and clinical leaders, participated in focus groups twice a year from 2015 to 2017.FindingsAlthough the participating hospitals had safety I systems, the leaders consistently reported that they relied predominantly on their competent well-meaning staff to ensure patient safety, more of a safety II perspective. This trust was based on perceptions of the patient safety actions of staff, rather than actual knowledge about staff abilities or behaviours. The findings of this study suggest this hegemonic relational trust was a defence mechanism for leaders in complex adaptive systems (CASs) unable to influence care delivery at the front line and explores potential contributing factors to these perceptions.Practical implicationsIn CASs, leaders have limited control over the bedside care processes and so have little alternative but to trust in “good staff providing good care” as a strategy for safe care. However, trust, coupled with a predominantly safety 1 approach is not achieving harm reduction. The findings of the study suggest that the beliefs the leaders held about the role their staff play in assuring safe care contribute to the lack of progress in patient safety. The authors recommend three evidence-based leadership activities to transition to the proactive safety II approach to pursuing safe care.Originality/valueThis is the first longitudinal study to provide the perspectives of leaders on the provision of quality and safety in their hospitals. A large sample of board members, managers and clinical leaders provides extensive data on their perspectives on quality and safety.

Legal Protection of Health Workers in the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling Covid-19 from a State Administrative Law Point of View

Article 28D paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution states that every person has the right to recognition, guarantee, protection and legal certainty that is just and equal treatment before the law, then Article 57 letter a of Law No. 36 of 2014 concerning Health Personnel also states that health workers in carrying out practices are entitled to obtain legal protection as long as carrying out their duties in accordance with Professional Standards, Professional Service Standards, and Operational Procedure Standards, but in their implementation, legal protection has not been seen to be carried out by office holders.The problem in this study is how the legal protection of health workers in the task force for acceleration of Covid-19 handling and what are the constraints of health workers in obtaining guarantees of occupational safety and health in the task force for acceleration of Covid-19 handling reviewed on administrative law.This research method uses a sociological juridical approach, by collecting data from field studies and literature studies, to find out the legal protection of health workers in the task force for handling Covid-19 acceleration reviewed on administrative law. The data obtained were analyzed qualitatively.Based on the results of the study it was found that health workers get legal protection in the form of supervision and guidance, but the legal protection efforts provided there are still weaknesses because some of the rights of health workers have not been fulfilled. In connection with the provision of occupational safety and health guarantees to health workers there are still several obstacles, including; due to the complicated bureaucracy of the Regional Government, and the uneven distribution of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). The government, in this case, has not been able to provide maximum legal protection and work health and safety insurance for health workers.

Legal Protection of Health Workers in the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling Covid-19 from a State Administrative Law Point of View

Article 28D paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution states that every person has the right to recognition, guarantee, protection and legal certainty that is just and equal treatment before the law, then Article 57 letter a of Law No. 36 of 2014 concerning Health Personnel also states that health workers in carrying out practices are entitled to obtain legal protection as long as carrying out their duties in accordance with Professional Standards, Professional Service Standards, and Operational Procedure Standards, but in their implementation, legal protection has not been seen to be carried out by office holders.The problem in this study is how the legal protection of health workers in the task force for acceleration of Covid-19 handling and what are the constraints of health workers in obtaining guarantees of occupational safety and health in the task force for acceleration of Covid-19 handling reviewed on administrative law.This research method uses a sociological juridical approach, by collecting data from field studies and literature studies, to find out the legal protection of health workers in the task force for handling Covid-19 acceleration reviewed on administrative law. The data obtained were analyzed qualitatively.Based on the results of the study it was found that health workers get legal protection in the form of supervision and guidance, but the legal protection efforts provided there are still weaknesses because some of the rights of health workers have not been fulfilled. In connection with the provision of occupational safety and health guarantees to health workers there are still several obstacles, including; due to the complicated bureaucracy of the Regional Government, and the uneven distribution of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). The government, in this case, has not been able to provide maximum legal protection and work health and safety insurance for health workers.

Police experiences of bystander assistance in pre-hospital care of road traffic accident victims in Abuja, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundGlobally, most deaths from road traffic accidents (RTA) occur before the injured person reaches hospital. This mortality burden is disproportionately higher in Africa, with Nigeria having a mortality burden from RTA, at 21·4 per 100 000 people, that is six-times higher than that in high-income countries such as Norway (3·1 per 100 000 people). Bystander first aid is associated with improved survival of trauma victims and Norway has a high rate of bystander first aid to RTA victims (89%); however, data on bystander first aid for RTA victims are lacking in Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to: (1) determine the bystander assistance rate to RTA victims; (2) assess the prevalence of bystander first aid to RTA victims; and (3) evaluate bystander non-helping behaviours to RTA victims. MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study that used observer-report data collected from police officers at 31 police stations in Abuja, Nigeria. A stratified randomised sample of 428 police officers were interviewed using a structured electronic pre-tested questionnaire for data collection. The questionnaires were self-administered. We collected data on sociodemographic characteristics of police officers and they were asked to report information on bystander assistance, first aid, and non-helping behaviours during their last pre-hospital care encounters with RTA victims in Abuja. To calculate the bystander assistance rate and the prevalence of first aid, we defined bystander assistance as any activities such as calling the police or ambulance service and first aid to save the lives of RTA victims. First aid was defined as basic care such as chest compression or wound dressing given to stabilise RTA victims either at the scene of injury or during transportation to the hospital. Descriptive statistics were summarised using STATA v. 14.0. FindingsBetween Nov 21, 2018, and Dec 8, 2018, we included data from 281 police officers who had ever provided pre-hospital care to RTA victims in Abuja. The bystander assistance rate to RTA victims was 93·2% (n=262). Provision of first aid and calling the police or ambulance service were the most common form of bystander assistance (31·3% [n=82] and 28·2% [74], respectively). Other bystander assistance included provision of safety for RTA victims or first-aiders (20·2% [53]), and search and rescue for life and property near the accident scene (19·8%% [52]). The rate of bystander first aid to RTA victims was 29·2% (82). Of the bystander non-helping behaviours reported (6·8% [19]), gazing or just looking accounted for the most (68% [13]), followed by stealing victims' property (21% [4]). InterpretationThe rate of bystander first aid to RTA victims in Nigeria is significantly lower than those in high-income countries such as Norway and is likely to contribute to increased RTA mortality. Our findings highlight the need to increase community access to first aid trainings and behaviour-change interventions to improve RTA victims' health outcomes. FundingNIH and Fogarty International Center Training Grant for Partnerships to Develop Injury Research Capacities in Sub Saharan Africa (5D43TW010463-03) by Office of Global Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

A comparative analysis of the provision of student housing safety measures

PurposeSecurity, safety, environment and health have become an integral part of facility management (FM). Therefore, FM departments within organisations are required to put measures in place to safeguard facility users. This paper thus aims to investigate and compare the safety and security measures that are provided in the student housing of two universities in South Africa.Design/methodology/approachA mixed method approach was adopted; interview was used to collect qualitative data, whereas a questionnaire was used as an instrument to collect quantitative data. Content analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data, whereas both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data.FindingsIt became evident that university B had a better provision of safety and security measures in the student housing than university A. The study also found that both universities had some lapses in the safety and security measures provided in the student housing. Measures that were lacking in both universities were weapon detector, closed-circuit television (CCTV), water sprinkler system, burglar bars on the doors, lift for disabled students, disabled toilet facility, traffic light, tags for vehicles, first aid box, accident book and medically trained personnel.Research limitations/implicationsData were collected from only two universities, making it difficult to generalise the findings of the research. For a broader perspective, a study that expands the number of participating universities is recommended.Practical implicationsThe facility management and safety department in the universities can use the recommendations to improve on the safety and security measures required in the student housing. Moreover, the recommendations can contribute to the development of policy frameworks for student housing safety.Originality/valueThere is a paucity of studies on student housing safety/security worldwide, and South Africa in particular. With this study, the authors contribute to the body of knowledge in this area of research.

Gender Justice and Indian Labour ( Legislative and Judiciary Approach)

Gender Justice in the spirit of social justice is about more than simply questioning the relationship between men and women. Some of the Acts related to employment were enacted during the British period as well as after Independence. These Acts not only regulated the hours of work but also contained provisions of health, safety, and welfare of women workers and guarantee equality before the law and equal treatment to women workers.

The spectral treasure house of miniaturized instruments for food safety, quality and authenticity applications: A perspective

BackgroundOptical technologies, relying on spectral analysis, are more and more implemented in portable devices for food analysis. Thereby, each food safety, quality or authenticity provision as well as each technology requires the generation of a dedicated spectral database with reference data. Currently, knowledge on how these databases might be connected or transferred across food commodities, targeted compounds or devices are very limited. Hence, repetitive work is conducted and technologies are not optimally used. Scope and approachThis perspective focuses on the currently available technologies and approaches for data handling and database transfer across miniaturized devices and technologies for food safety, quality and authenticity assessments. Key findings and conclusionsFor almost every food commodity or target compound a miniaturized spectroscopic device can be applied with the respective database to compare findings. Recent developments in optical spectroscopy allow more possibilities for their use as well as facilitate the production of portable devices. A multifunctional device hyphenating several sensors and broadening the application range is still not marketed. Newly developed software architecture, accessing and extracting data, helps to overcome sample heterogenicity or spurious measured data. In addition, several data fusion approaches using machine learning and deep learning strategies are available to fuse spectroscopic data with itself or other non-spectroscopic data. Following the research results presented in this field, spectral data can possibly be re-used and shared across instruments and locations, highly increasing the applicability of data sets. Thereby, obstacles such as policy or confidentiality are taken into account.

Service Quality of domestic airlines in the face of COVID-19 in Nepal

The coronavirus pandemic has turned the aviation industry on its head, transforming the passenger experience drastically. The airlines have faced significant challenges due to both the Covid-19 pandemic, the sequence of lockdowns and the provisions of safety and security legislation. There is more concern about the growing feeling that passengers are aware of the level of service. Airlines not only need to focus on service quality in today's highly competitive air transport environment, but also need to focus more on safety and security issues, especially at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The research related to these dimensional studies becomes more important in the COVID-19 scenario. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the impact of service quality dimensions on the overall quality of service of domestic airlines in Nepal in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. A quantitative methodology with a descriptive and explanatory research design was adopted in the study. A sample of 200 passengers recently travelling after the lockdown and reopening of the domestic airline service has been contacted. Out of which 160 responded to the questionnaire. In the sense of COVID-19 post lockdown operations, the service quality of domestic airlines is affected by various factors. All the likely factors that influence the quality of airlines need to be considered by airlines. Reliability, assurance, tangibility, empathy, and responsiveness are the variables. All these aspects play an important role in providing passengers with a reliable service. The dimensions of reliability, tangibility and responsiveness need to concentrate more on having the standard of service as desired in the sense of COVID-19 by domestic airlines in Nepal. It means that during COVID-19 and similar situations, tangibility must concentrate on the highest level of operation.

Human milk banks: a need for further evidence and guidance

Human milk banks: a need for further evidence and guidance

Определение подвижности глинистых материалов, используемых при создании инженерных барьеров безопасности для изоляции радиоактивных отходов

Large-scale efforts implemented under the Unified State System for RW Management including the construction of near-surface disposal facilities for RW Class 3 and 4, as well as provision of long-term safety at nuclear legacy facilities require the scientific community to develop systems of engineered safety barriers preventing radionuclide releases into the environment. In the near future, at least 70 storage facilities for non-retrievable RW will require the installation of such barrier systems. The quality of barrier materials constituting to the system of engineered safety barriers (EBS), including their ability of providing a uniform backfilling of cavities inside the structures, is viewed as an important design parameter requiring proper assessment both under the production control of materials and quality control of designed EBS, including relevant in situ testing.

НАУЧНЫЕ ОСНОВЫ РАЗРАБОТКИ ГИДРОТЕХНИЧЕСКИХ УСТРОЙСТВ ДЛЯ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ НАДЕЖНОСТИ И БЕЗОПАСНОЙ РАБОТЫ ВОДОЗАБОРОВ

Purpose: to consider a classification list of heuristic methods allowing solving various design problems in relation to hydraulic facilities located on reclamation systems, taking into account the conditions of the functional operation of soft floating structures as water intake structures. Materials and methods. Efficient use of water resources includes an ecosystem approach, which allows considering water body together with the catchment area, the implemented activities for water discharge (Q, m³/s) with the provision of environmental safety in zones of influence of water intake as a single system. The ecosystem approach to the water bodies under consideration (rivers, reservoirs, etc.) should provide for a set of design and structural measures in water technological complex to ensure environmental safety in the zones of its influence. Results and discussion. Ensuring the fulfillment of these two conditions implies the solution of a number of basic tasks to improve the existing constructive and technological units and to create new ones using modern high-strength synthetic fabric materials of national production. The selection of the required calculated volumes of supplied water resources from the object is from 1 to 100 m³/s and more, which cannot but affect its ecological component, while preserving biological resources and the fish species composition should be implied. Conclusions. In formation of constructive solutions to ensure environmental safety in the zones of influence of water technological complex, one of the most promising directions is the methodological basis for the synthesis of soft floating structures, which ensure the preservation of biological resources in a water body, protection from bottom and suspended sediments, as well as fulfillment of environmental safety requirements.

Specialized railway carriage for grain

This article deals with the worked out specialized railway carriage for grain for the transportation process throughout the Republic of Uzbekistan railway network, with the unconditional provision of train traffic safety, which is one of the most important components of the rolling stock of railway transport. The features of the load-bearing structure of the railway carriage for grain are that it is made based on a four-axle platform and a universal container. Evaluation of the strength of the metal structure of the grain car was carried out following the requirements of the “Standards for the calculation and design of new and modernized cars of the railways of the Ministry of Railways with a gauge of 1520 mm (non-self-propelled)”. Based on theoretical studies, it was justified that the design of a railway carriage for grain with a capacity of 83.6 m3 and a carrying capacity of 65 tons. For the first test of a railway carriage for grain, the number 43925684 was assigned. The proposed new grain carriage will reduce operating costs and reduce rolling stock downtime during reloading operations. It will create the possibility of fulfilling contractual agreements drawn up for small volumes of traffic within the country.

Криотехнология обеспечения пожарной и экологической безопасности резервуаров автозаправочных станций

Introduction. The principles of comprehensive fire and environmental safety of gasoline tanks using cryogenic technology in the installation of environmental and fire safety on the example of gas stations are substantiated. Goals and objectives. Substantiation of the principles of comprehensive provision of fire and environmental safety of gasoline tanks at filling stations using cryogenic technology in the installation for ensuring environmental and fire safety (OEEFS). Methods. Fire and environmental safety of closed containers for storing liquid hydrocarbons (in our case, gas station tanks) can be ensured by: - recirculation of vapors in closed volumes - "gas tank-reservoir"; - capturing hydrocarbon vapors on breathing fittings; - dilution of the vapor phase in the gas space of the tank to reduce the emission of vapor-air mixtures to the outside; - phlegmatization of the vapor-air space of the reservoir with inert gases; - combining these methods (the method reflected in the application of OEEFS). Results and discussion. A diagram of the application of cryotechnology in the construction of an installation for ensuring environmental and fire safety is shown in Fig. one. Conclusions. Despite the objective pros and cons of a particular recovery technology, the final choice depends on the specific operating conditions of the equipment at the facility: the technically achievable level of minimizing emissions, logistics chains, types and characteristics of raw materials, etc. Therefore, to achieve maximum efficiency and versatility, our technological scheme includes the use of an additional unit: carbon-vacuum adsorption, liquid absorption or membrane module. Keywords: gas stations, fire safety, cryogenic technology, gasoline, environmental safety

Topical questions of crime prevention in the Darknet

The article considers the topical issue of a significant growth of crimes in the field of information technologies most of which are committed in the dark and hidden web. The research object is social relations in the sphere of Internet crime prevention. The research subject is the methods and mechanisms of crimes using information systems, and the technologies of information safety provision and deanonymization. The main task of the research is to develop the scientifically-grounded ideas aimed at the enhancement of the technique of analysis and assessment of crimes committed via information and telecommunication systems. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that the authors systematize, generalize and analyze the standard mechanisms of committing crimes using information technologies. Based on this analysis, the authors formulate suggestions and recommendations. The article considers the main methods and mechanisms of information safety provision (anonymity on the Internet, and some promising technologies of deanonymization which can be used in the process of crime detection and investigation. The authors formulate a basic model of an offender which can be used for a primary profiling of a criminal. They also formulate an approach to the assessment of his potential which takes into account the peculiarities of using computer equipment in criminal activities in information and telecommunication networks.   

МЕСТО СИСТЕМЫ МОЛНИЕЗАЩИТЫ И ЗАЩИТЫ ОТ СТАТИЧЕСКОГО ЭЛЕКТРИЧЕСТВА В МЕТОДИКЕ ОЦЕНКИ ВЕЛИЧИН ПОЖАРНОГО РИСКА НА ПРОИЗВОДСТВЕННЫХ ОБЪЕКТАХ

Purpose. The authors of the article draw attention to the explicit lack of such probable sources of combustible medium ignition as static electricity discharges, a direct lightning strike, as well as the impact of secondary factors of lightning (electrostatic and electromagnetic induction) in the Methodology for determining the estimated fire risk values at production facilities of. Methods. Statistical analysis methods: data assembling and grouping statistical observation materials; sampling; correlation and regression analysis, etc. have been used in the study. Findings. The article considers the established practice of determining the fire risk values and contradictions have been found between the Methodology for determining fire risk values at production facilities and the Technical regulations on safety of buildings and structures. The statistics analysis of fires caused by lightning and electrostatic discharges and the experience of other countries have made it possible to conclude that an additional coefficient should be introduced when calculating fire or explosion probability from the degree of compliance with lightning protection requirements. The authors draw attention to the problem of a risk-oriented approach – focus on the calculation result, which has an impact on ensuring fire safety. Research application field. It is advisable to include the results of the study in the scientific-research and development work of scientific-research organizations of EMERCOM of Russia and other ministries and departments. The materials can also be used when discussing the procedure for applying the risk-oriented approach to the control and supervisory activities in the Russian Federation. Conclusions. Failure of taking into account the state of protection against lightning and static electricity when calculating the fire risk of the facility reduces the reliability of the assessment for participants in the fire safety provision system.

Применение автономной и дистанционно-управляемой техники на открытых горных работах

The article describes design principles for autonomous cargo transportation systems and social aspects of their implementation. Economic prerequisites for creation of autonomous cargo transportation systems in Russia and in the world are analyzed as well as the composition of the complex autonomous system. Issues of economic justification for implementation of autonomous cargo transportation systems, regulatory framework and safety provision of autonomous dump truck application are also addressed.