Lead contamination of soils, sediments, and vegetation in a shooting range and adjacent terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A holistic approach for evaluating potential risks

Indoor environments have a large impact on health and well-being, so it is important to understand what makes them healthy and sustainable. There is substantial knowledge on individual factors and their effects, though understanding how factors interact and what role occupants play in these interactions (both causative and receptive) is lacking. We aimed to: (i) explore interactions between factors and potential risks if these are not considered from holistic perspective; and (ii) identify components needed to advance research on indoor environments. The paper is based on collaboration between researchers from disciplines covering technical, behavioural, and medical perspectives. Outcomes were identified through literature reviews, discussions and workshops with invited experts and representatives from various stakeholder groups. Four themes emerged and were discussed with an emphasis on occupant health: (a) the bio-psycho-social aspects of health; (b) interaction between occupants, buildings and indoor environment; (c) climate change and its impact on indoor environment quality, thermal comfort and health; and (d) energy efficiency measures and indoor environment. To advance the relevant research, the indoor environment must be considered a dynamic and complex system with multiple interactions. This calls for a transdisciplinary and holistic approach and effective collaboration with various stakeholders.

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Holistic Analysis and Risk Assessment of an Industrial Organization Processes

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.474.21 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 474 ◽

pp. 21-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Viliam Cibulka

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Industrial Organization ◽

Dynamic Modelling ◽

Holistic Approach ◽

Reliable Information ◽

Added Value ◽

Mutual Relationship ◽

Manufacturing Organizations ◽

Potential Risks ◽

Holistic Analysis

In the paper there is presented a new holistic approach to an analysis and assessment of organization processes risks by an application of dynamic modelling. It relates to a procedure, allowing to make provision for and to ensure, in addition to characteristic mutual relationship in organization processes with partners, also their dynamics and indefiniteness of the environment, multicriterial assessment of processes, and a general optimization from a point of defined indicators, an aggregate analyses and assessment of organization processes risks. By help of such process there are firstly optimized all process variants of organisation. We can consider this as an added value, because the manager is disposing with results of holistic analysis and assessment of organization and process risks that means gaining of reliable information about potential risks (threats and opportunities) of an organization processes and resulting to some consequences including the opportunities. The information gained in such way results in many cases in a draft of new variants (innovations) of organization processes, by which the identified and evaluated risks are eliminated or application of an efficient strategies suggestion for their elimination. Holistic approach to an organization processes modelling has been applied on some selected manufacturing organizations, resulting in reliable results of risk analyses and assessment.

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