Empowering Effective Teamwork for Machine Risk Reduction in the Workplace

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Etherton
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Team Leadership ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Leadership Skill ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Injury Reduction ◽  
Tolerable Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools ◽  
Risk Reduction Measures

The need for teamwork creates new requirements for engineers who use the new ANSI guidelines (B11 TR3-2000) for reducing risks associated with machines. Specifically, the guidelines state that “...a team of involved personnel (e.g., operators, maintenance, engineering) should participate in the risk assessment and reduction effort.” The goal of such teams is to achieve tolerable risk. If they are to be effective team members, engineers will need skills in team leadership; identifying tasks and their associated hazards; using risk assessment tools; developing consensus about degree of risk; and selling the team’s proposed risk reduction measures to management. This paper describes the stages of the TR3 process and focuses on engineering leadership skill development. Leadership must face the challenges of change and instill a sense of trust in the process so that a machine risk assessment team’s injury reduction work can be effective.

scholarly journals Risk assessment tools available to inform a nurse practitioner’s determination of tolerable risk

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ricki Smith
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tolerable Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools

Risk in health care, often discussed in terms of its tolerability, is an abstract term that is patient- and context-specific. An older adult living at risk can be someone falling frequently at home risking a fractured hip, to someone self-neglecting. Family Nurse Practitioners working in Primary Care are well-situated to support patients over time and to mitigate risk. A better understanding of the risk assessment tools available to inform a level of risk tolerability for Nurse Practitioners working in Primary Care may enhance clinical reasoning and enhance their comfort with the concept of risk, resulting in consistent care delivery for patients. Evidencebased literature highlights the complexity of both defining and assessing risk, which is further reflected within the assessment tools. For these reasons, the purpose of this integrative literature review is to provide recommendations, founded in current literature findings, regarding the comprehensive risk assessment tools used to inform a Nurse Practitioner’s determination of tolerable risk for community-dwelling older adults. A search of three databases, as well as hand searches, resulted in nine tools for analysis. The interpretation of the findings suggested that risk assessment tools varied in their approach to risk, with some focused preventatively on risk mitigation while others could be applied in real-time to assess the severity of a perceived risk. Each tool included elements of risk which together, comprise a comprehensive, holistic risk assessment to be considered in the ongoing assessment of tolerable risk. A positive risk-based approach is also a shift in risk perception that Nurse Practitioners are encouraged to consider. The implications for practice include how the described approaches guide decision-making and the definitions of tolerable and intolerable risk can steer the Nurse Practitioner’s care, as well as to inform future research and the development of new risk assessment tools.

IMPACT ASSESSMENT ON STORM SURGE RISKS TO CONTAINERS CONSIDERING GLOBAL WARMING

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikito Hisamatsu ◽  
Rikito Hisamatsu ◽  
Kei Horie ◽  
Kei Horie
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Inundation Depth ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools ◽  
Risk Maps ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Vulnerability Functions

Container yards tend to be located along waterfronts that are exposed to high risk of storm surges. However, risk assessment tools such as vulnerability functions and risk maps for containers have not been sufficiently developed. In addition, damage due to storm surges is expected to increase owing to global warming. This paper aims to assess storm surge impact due to global warming for containers located at three major bays in Japan. First, we developed vulnerability functions for containers against storm surges using an engineering approach. Second, we simulated storm surges at three major bays using the SuWAT model and taking global warming into account. Finally, we developed storm surge risk maps for containers based on current and future situations using the vulnerability function and simulated inundation depth. As a result, we revealed the impact of global warming on storm surge risks for containers quantitatively.

scholarly journals The Benefits of Risk Assessment Tools for Prostate Cancer

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian M. Thompson ◽  
Donna P. Ankerst
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools

Suicide risk assessment in a large public mental health service: do suicide risk classifications identify those at risk?

2021 ◽  
pp. 103985622098403
Author(s):  
Marianne Wyder ◽  
Manaan Kar Ray ◽  
Samara Russell ◽  
Kieran Kinsella ◽  
David Crompton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Suicide Risk Assessment ◽  
Public Mental Health Service ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools

Introduction: Risk assessment tools are routinely used to identify patients at high risk. There is increasing evidence that these tools may not be sufficiently accurate to determine the risk of suicide of people, particularly those being treated in community mental health settings. Methods: An outcome analysis for case serials of people who died by suicide between January 2014 and December 2016 and had contact with a public mental health service within 31 days prior to their death. Results: Of the 68 people who had contact, 70.5% had a formal risk assessment. Seventy-five per cent were classified as low risk of suicide. None were identified as being at high risk. While individual risk factors were identified, these did not allow to differentiate between patients classified as low or medium. Discussion: Risk categorisation contributes little to patient safety. Given the dynamic nature of suicide risk, a risk assessment should focus on modifiable risk factors and safety planning rather than risk prediction. Conclusion: The prediction value of suicide risk assessment tools is limited. The risk classifications of high, medium or low could become the basis of denying necessary treatment to many and delivering unnecessary treatment to some and should not be used for care allocation.

Analysis of Cerebral Vascular Lesion Pools in Ischemic Stroke Based on the Analysis and the Prognostic Assessment of Risk Factors in Patients with Primary and Recurrent Ischemic Stroke

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Oksana Mikitey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Recurrent Stroke ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Vascular Lesion ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Vascular Lesions ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools

Stroke is an important medical and social problem, and stroke risk assessment tools have difficulty on the interaction of risk factors and the effects of certain risk factors with analysis by age, gender, race, because this information fully available to global risk assessment tools. In addition, these tools tend to be focused and usually do not include the entire range of possible factors contributing. The aim of the study was to conduct a comparison of brain vascular lesions pool with ischemic stroke (II) based predictive analysis and assessment of the main risk factors in patients with primary and recurrent ischemic stroke. Prognostically significant risk factors for recurrent ischemic stroke is not effective antihypertensive therapy, multiple stenoses any one pool vascular brain, duration of hypertension (AH) over 5 years and regular smoking patients (p<0.001). In the initial localization in the second vertebrobasilar recurrent stroke was significantly (p<0.05) more developed in the same pool in women than in men; and the localization of the primary carotid AI in the pool, re-developed stroke often unreliable in the same pool in women than in men.

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