Showing papers in "Safety Science in 2010"

TL;DR: In this paper, a structured method for hazard analysis and assessment for construction activities, called "Construction Job Safety Analysis" (CJSA), was developed within the framework of research toward a lean approach to safety management in construction, which required the ability to predict fluctuating safety risk levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used hierarchical regression analysis to examine the effects of safety leadership dimensions on self-reported safety behavior, such as safety motivation, safety policy, and safety concern.

TL;DR: The results indicated that occupational accidents tend to occur during the worker's first day at the workplace, when the construction project has an excessively low health and safety management, and when workers failed to adopt safeguards or ignored hazard warning signs in the workplace.

TL;DR: It is shown that effective leaders play a pivotal role in promoting team performance and safety and is characterized by clear and unambiguous behaviour which is adaptable to situational demands and shared between team members.

TL;DR: The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment provided subsidy over the period 2004-2008 to a number of companies to introduce changes aimed at reducing accidents by changing their safety culture and aspects of their safety management.

TL;DR: It was found that the most important determinants of systems theory are basically not present in the road-user approach, however, even if the Vision Zero approach clearly takes step towards systems theory, it does leave room for articulating even more features of system theory.

TL;DR: A survey of 287 Victorian drivers to quantify the extent to which drivers reportedly engage in a range of potentially distracting activities; the factors that influence their willingness to engage; and the strategies they use, if any, to manage distraction as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Based on the deep analysis of the essence and defects of RMA, some extensions on risk matrix approach are presented and their superiorities compared with the related quondam methods are demonstrated by a case study.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the association-rule method of data mining in performing an analysis of 1347 accidents in the Taiwan construction industry during the period 2000-2007 and found that such accidents tend to occur when certain combinations of hazards are present - especially working in high places without protective measures, loss of balance when in motion, failure to use protective equipment, insufficient experience, and injurious contact with unstable structures.

TL;DR: It is crucial to identify those ENm that may cause occupational health and safety risks from those ENM which are innocent, hence allowing prioritization of regulatory and preventive actions at workplaces at national, regional and global levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach of maintenance selection based on risk of equipment failure and cost of maintenance is presented, where analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and goal programming (GP) are used for maintenance policy selection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of experience feedback (the CHAIN model) that emphasizes the whole chain from initial reporting to preventive measures and identify important research needs in the field of learning from accidents.

TL;DR: The results show that the developed system can be a collaboration tool for designers, project engineers, safety officers, and other project participants and it can raise safety awareness of the team and it leads to revisions of design and plan to be consistent with safety.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fuzzy extended fault tree analysis (FFTA) was proposed to enhance the execution process of shipping accident investigation (SAI) by combining the effects of organizational faults and shipboard technical system failures under a unique risk assessment scheme.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed policies regarding accident prevention in the European Union and more specifically in Directive 92/57/EEC on the implementation of minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile construction sites, concentrating on prevention through design.

TL;DR: The STAMP approach has been used to analyze the China-Jiaoji railway accident and some improvement measures have been proposed, the accident spreading processes have been discussed and modeled and will be helpful to analyze accidents spreading in a broad sense and establish effective emergent measures for accident response management.

TL;DR: A German version of the HSOPSC was developed and its dimensionality and predictive validity was investigated, highlighting the importance of capturing the impact of different management levels, especially in large hospitals, and differences between professional groups in order to design interventions accordingly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used dominance analysis on a sample of 548 railway workers and found that the dominant factor predicting upward safety communication was perceived management attitudes toward safety, followed by job demands interfering with safety and then leader-member exchange.

TL;DR: This paper discusses occupational accident modelling challenges associated with a changing working life, and asks whether ideas from models developed for high-risk, complex socio-technical systems can be transformed and adapted for use in occupational accident prevention.

TL;DR: In this article, a new methodology for identifying and assessing risks simultaneously by applying MAGDM technique is presented, which includes a new procedure for classifying potential risks which it is named potential risk breakdown structure (PRBS) based on project work breakdown structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an extended analysis of occupational accidents in a steel district, strongly advocated the environmental hypothesis, while the so-called individual hypothesis is favored by the American Safety First Movement, starting as a private initiative in 1906 by US Steel, and later spreading out over Western European countries.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study on Bellevue hazardous waste fire in Western Australia demonstrates the use of systems thinking and causal loop diagrams to explain the systemic structure sustaining a safety culture and identify effective interventions to improve the safety culture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed guidelines for identifying, analyzing and disseminating information on near misses in construction sites, based on four categories: (a) whether or not it was possible to track down the event; (b) the nature of each event, in terms of its physical features (e.g. falling objects); (c) whether they provided positive or negative feedback for the safety management system; and (d) risk, according to the probability and severity associated with each event.

TL;DR: In this article, a self-completion questionnaire survey carried out among a representative sample of the Norwegian adult population (N=260) results indicated that only job insecurity behaviors were indirectly related to turnover intentions and risk behavior via their impact on psychological well-being.

TL;DR: A framework to measure safety culture maturity in the Brazilian oil and gas companies was formulated based on the model of Hudson (2001) and a questionnaire was designed to measure five aspects of organisational safety indicative of five levels of cultural maturity as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the SUNflower-pyramid framework is used to compare road safety performance between countries in the European Union, and other countries worldwide, based on the number of killed and injured road users and the quality of response in policy documents.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the differences between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in terms of performance and organizational, cultural and economic differences between the two types of enterprises.

TL;DR: Results indicate that model of PaIFs is effective and able to acquire as much information as possible about precursors and near misses and thus, in part, overcome the deficiency of lacking sufficient and adequate historical accident records.

TL;DR: It is found that managerial and worker participation in OHS initiatives characterizes safer workplaces and general concern of management towards OHS—illustrated by both attitudes and concrete actions—is also associated with lower injury rates.

TL;DR: In this article, major hazards risk indicators are proposed for offshore installations, based on what has been used by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway for the Risk Level approach in the Norwegian offshore petroleum industry.