Showing papers in "Safety Science in 2011"

TL;DR: The assumptions questioned in this paper involve four different areas: definitions of safety and its relationship to reliability, accident causality models, retrospective vs. prospective analysis, and operator error.

TL;DR: In this article, an effective method that combines fuzzy logic and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) is used to enhance emergency management by segmenting complex influencing factors into groups to improve them in a stepwise way.

TL;DR: This paper presents a state-of-the-art on ORA traditional methods, for the construction industry, discussing their limitations and pointing advantages of using fuzzy sets approaches to deal with ill-defined situations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied factors likely to influence young French drivers' intention to drive faster than 110km/h on a road where the speed limit is 90 km/h.

TL;DR: In this paper, a post-Newtonian analysis of failure in complex systems is proposed, making particular assumptions about the relationship between cause and effect, foreseeability of harm, time-reversibility and the ability to produce the "true story" of an accident.

TL;DR: A dynamic cellular automaton (CA) model is proposed to simulate the evacuation process in the rooms with obstacles, and effects of pedestrians distribution, doors position and doors width on the evacuation time are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified 659 fatality accidents from a data pool of 13511 OSHA-investigated cases and found that blind spots, obstructions and lighting conditions were the most common factors contributing to vision-related fatalities.

TL;DR: In this article, the theoretical basis for the development of early warning indicators used as early warnings of major accidents is established. But, the focus of these indicators is on the major hazard indicators, and less on personal safety indicators.

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: The results indicated that improper overtaking and not using a seatbelt are the most important factors affecting the severity of injuries on two-lane, two-way rural roads in Iran.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that when safety culture was strong, leader behaviour generated a higher safety climate among the members, which predicted their perceived safety behaviours. But they did not consider the way this influence is exercised, taking into consideration some important factors like safety culture and safety climate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the performance of the power grid of the western United States subject to three intentional attacks and showed that the effects of different attacks for the network robustness against cascading failures have close relations with the tunable parameter [theta].

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the understanding of the risk concept and how risk can be assessed and treated in resilience engineering, and argue that the basic ideas of resilience engineering can be supported by such risk perspectives.

TL;DR: A set of frequently used risk definitions are reviewed and their ontological status is analyzed to contribute to a clarification of the issue in order to strengthen the foundations of the meaning of risk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present information and indicators from the Risk Level Project (RNNP) in the Norwegian O&G industry related to safety climate, barriers and undesired incidents, and discuss the relevance for deepwater drilling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that risk management offers very little guidance to end point decision-makers; they need rules to guide their decisions, and that it is important, even within a risk management framework, that risk-management be translated into rule-compliance for end-point decision makers, where possible.

TL;DR: The proposition for the establishment of defense-in-depth as the guiding safety principle for the mining industry is concluded and possible benefits for adopting this structured hazard-centric system approach to mining safety are indicated.

TL;DR: A carefully designed survey of medical waste management in the capital city of Bangladesh is presented in this article, where a range of sampling strategies and data gathering techniques were used to collect data from healthcare establishments and other waste disposal operatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated tower crane safety in related to the understanding and degree of executing statutory requirements and non-statutory guidelines for the use of tower cranes in the Hong Kong construction industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Mamdani fuzzy model was developed to predict flyrock in the Gol-E-Gohar iron mine of Iran, which is one of the most hazardous side effects of blasting operation in surface mining.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a risk-based inspection (RBI) methodology to evaluate the maintenance strategy in industrial process which was constructed in one of the units of Fujian Oil Refinery ISOMAX unit.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how certified occupational and health management systems influence this process to evaluate how far they hinder or support learning and presented a model with which it is possible to identify and analyse improvement processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development of early warnings in the form of indicators for the Goliat field outside the northern coast of Norway, with planned production start in 2013-2014.

TL;DR: Reason’s theory of failures is applied to work out a systemic methodology to study risks impacting not only directly but also indirectly on patients, able to foster effective decision making about reducing failures and waste and to improve healthcare organizations’ maturity towards risk management.

TL;DR: A review and discussion of human reliability analysis (HRA) methodologies can be found in this paper, arguing that there is a need for considerable further research and development before they meet the needs of modern risk and reliability analyses and are able to provide managers with the guidance they need to manage complex systems safely.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the impact of certification on occupational health and safety management (OHSM) systems and show how certified OHSM systems function like a hinge between internal operations and an external audience, thus giving priority to work environment issues that may later become demonstrable guarantees for a safe and healthy work environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that if the motives for MSs are mainly external and the opportunities for influence too limited, it may be better for unions not to cooperate with management in a MS that may lead more to manipulation than to safe and sound work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of risk perception in use of private and public modes of transportation and investigated differences in worry, perceived control of transportation modes, as well as trust in authorities' risk handling, safety motivation, and attitudes towards transport safety.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed 23 studies that have examined safety climate within commercial and military aviation and found that the safety climate factors identified in the aviation safety climate questionnaires were consistent with the literature examining safety climate in non-aviation high reliability organizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of an EU stakeholder survey and interviews with EU policy level experts to assess their awareness, understanding and evaluation of the impact of policy initiatives for psychosocial risk management.