M. Bhasi

TL;DR: Safety training was identified as the most important safety management practice that predicts safety knowledge, safety motivation, safety compliance and safety participation and path analysis using AMOS-4 software showed that some of the safety management practices have direct and indirect relations with the safety performance components.

TL;DR: A survey using a questionnaire was conducted among 2536 employees in eight major accident hazard chemical industrial units in Kerala as discussed by the authors, where 75% of the data collected was subjected to principal component factor analysis with varimax rotation using SPSS program.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an empirical investigation of the influence of management system certification on the relationship between safety management and safety performance in major accident hazard chemical industry and the perceptions of employees about six important safety management practices and self-reported safety behaviour are measured with the help of a questionnaire survey administered in eight chemical companies in the state of Kerala in India.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of additive addition and chemical modification on the pour point of coconut oil was analyzed using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and the results showed that the chemical modification procedures described in this work have been effective in improving the pour-point of the coconut oil to some extent.

TL;DR: The authors explore industry practices in risk management in a large offshore-outsourced Agile Scrum software development project, which consisted of distributed teams from two different IT vendors and the challenges to Agile culture and practices posed by offshore-outourced business model, distributed project teams and large team size characteristic of offshore projects.