A Search for Methods of Planning Effective Consumer Safety Management Policy, Investigation for Change on Safety Act and Major Issue Relating Consumer Products and Children’s Products : Based on Coexisting and Consumer-Oriented View

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyungok Huh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Consumer Safety

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Crash Involvement of Commercial Vehicle Drivers: Evaluation of Commercial Vehicle Drivers’ Characteristics in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Lee ◽  
Jiho Yeo ◽  
Ilsoo Yun ◽  
Sanghyeok Kang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Commercial Vehicle ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Commercial Vehicles ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Different Types

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of driver-related factors on crash involvement of four different types of commercial vehicles—express buses, local buses, taxis, and trucks—and to compare outcomes across types. Previous studies on commercial vehicle crashes have generally been focused on a single type of commercial vehicle; however, the characteristics of drivers as factors affecting crashes vary widely across types of commercial vehicles as well as across study sites. This underscores the need for comparative analysis between different types of commercial vehicles that operate in similar environments. Toward these ends, we analyzed 627,594 commercial vehicle driver records in South Korea using a mixed logit model able to address unobserved heterogeneity in crash-related data. The estimated outcomes showed that driver-related factors have common effects on crash involvement: greater experience had a positive effect (diminished driver crash involvement), while traffic violations, job change, and previous crash involvement had negative effects. However, the magnitude of the effects and heterogeneity varied across different types of commercial vehicles. The findings support the contention that the safety management policy of commercial drivers needs to be set differently according to the vehicle type. Furthermore, the variables in this study can be used as promising predictors to quantify potential crash involvement of commercial vehicles. Using these variables, it is possible to proactively identify groups of accident-prone commercial vehicle drivers and to implement effective measures to reduce their involvement in crashes.

scholarly journals Work safety climate. Comparison of selected occupational groups

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243056
Author(s):  
Marta Stasiła-Sieradzka ◽  
Agata Chudzicka-Czupała ◽  
Marta Znajmiecka-Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Individual

Implementation of effective programs to improve occupational safety should be linked to an understanding of the specific nature of the given job. The aim of the research was to compare occupational groups with different job-related specificities: industrial production line workers, retail workers and mine rescuers, in terms of their assessment of the work safety climate. The survey covered 2,995 respondents with diversified demographic characteristics. The study used an abridged version of the Safety Climate Questionnaire by Znajmiecka-Sikora (2019) to assess 10 separate safety climate dimensions. The results of the MANOVA multivariate analysis, Wilks’ multivariate F-tests and univariate F tests prove that there is a statistically significant difference between the respondents representing the three occupational groups collectively in terms of global assessment of all work safety climate dimensions, and also indicate significant differences between workers belonging to the three occupational groups in terms of their assessment of the individual dimensions of the work safety climate, except the organization’s occupational health and safety management policy as well as technical facilities and ergonomics, which may be due to the universality of the requirements set for organizations with regard to these two aspects of safe behavior. The differences observed in the assessment of the remaining work safety climate dimensions induces one to promote more differentiated and individualized activities, taking into account the work specificity and the nature of the threats occurring in the respective working environment of the representatives of the different occupations. The difference in assessment of the work safety climate found in the research encourages one to create practical programs for safety, not only in the procedural and technical dimension, but also in the social and psychological one.

Heavy Metal Concentrations in Canned Fruits of Litchi chinensis, Prunus persica, and Ananas comosus Marketed in the Philippines

2013 ◽  
Vol 634-638 ◽  
pp. 1570-1573
Author(s):  
Judilynn N. Solidum
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Prunus Persica ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Ananas Comosus ◽  
Litchi Chinensis ◽  
Consumer Safety ◽  
Flameless Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy ◽  
Metro Manila ◽  
Food Commodities

Monitoring of heavy metals in consumer products is essential in order to aid in the production of safer food commodities for the Filipino public. Ten canned fruits commercially available in Metro Manila, Philippines were randomly selected for the study. Five brands of canned fruits of Prunus persica (peaches), three of Litchi chinensis (lychees) , and two of Ananas comosus (pineapple) were tested for lead, cadmium and chromium levels. The fruit and syrup portions were separately tested quantitatively for the said heavy metals through Flameless Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy. Chromium was found to be present in nine out of the ten syrup samples from the canned fruits while cadmium is present in one syrup sample of canned peaches. All the amounts of the heavy metals were in acceptable chromium and cadmium levels for consumption. Lead was observed to be present in acceptable values in the solid fruits of all samples analyzed. Four syrup samples showed lead levels with the syrup from peaches exceeding the allowed safe limit. The rest of the syrup samples went below the detection limit of the instrument. Higher number of canned fruits and other canned products in the market must be analyzed with regard to lead, cadmium and chromium to complete the baseline data related to contaminants in these products for consumer safety.

scholarly journals Monitoring of separate elements of the management system for the safety of slaughter products of small cattle

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (92) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
O. M. Gorobey ◽  
L. O. Tarasenko ◽  
M. S. Khimich ◽  
O. T. Piven ◽  
O. V. Petrenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Experimental Period ◽  
Serological Tests ◽  
Research Reporting ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Consumer Safety ◽  
Prophylactic Measures ◽  
Preventive Vaccination

The problem of providing the population with food is one of the most important and complex among the problems that society faces today. Food must not only meet the human needs for essential nutrients and energy, but also perform preventive and curative functions. Mutton is one of the foods that meets these requirements. It is distinguished by its high nutritional properties and taste. It can be a potential source of various pathogens and pollutants under certain condition that will pose a risk to the health of the consumer. Monitoring of separate elements of the safety and quality management system of slaughter products of small cattle under the influence of epidemiological (veterinary) factors was the aim of our research. Reporting on veterinary medicine issues in the Tatarbunarsky district of the Odessa region for 2013–2017, which was processed statistically, was the material of our research. It found that the main specific mass of number of small cattle grown in Homstead farms by inhabitants of the area. The district veterinary service carried out a number of diagnostic and treatment-and-prophylactic measures during the trial period. In the Household farms only mandatory activities were carried out, which are founded from the budget account (serological tests for brucellosis and preventive vaccination against Anthrax). Analysis of the volumes and conditions of slaughter of small cattle in the area showed that the number of slaughtered animals invariably decreases from year to year and 100% of slaughter is carried out by the farmer in the conditions of homestead farms. It was also established that in the experimental period, according to results of pre-slaughter clinical examination of animals and post-slaughter examination no cases of illness were identified. Selling of slaughter products of small cattle is carried out through a distributing facilities of agrofood markets of district and region. The analysis found that all carcasses that entered to the markets succumbed to veterinary-sanitary examination in State Laboratories of Veterinary-Sanitary Examination, the results of which in 2015 and 2016 reveald cases of invasive diseases (fasciolosis and echinococcosis). This fact is worrying about the quality of its conducts in the conditions of the household slaughter, accuming that during the post-slaughter veterinary-sanitary examination no cases of illness have been identified. Summarizing the monitoring results we obtained, we concluded that at this stage the safety management system for the products of slaughter of small cattle cannot fully guarantee consumer safety and requires urgent complex measures to increase efficiency.

Embedding a New Health and Safety Culture Within an Indian National Gas Transmission Company

2019 ◽  
pp. 593-600
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Muduli ◽  
Vivek Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Participative Leadership ◽  
Integrated Management System ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Staff Skills

Samuel Daniels led a five-year campaign to embed a healthy and safety culture in a National Gas Transmission Company in India. He took the challenge of establishing a safety culture in the company, which was dominated by a bureaucratic mindset. Although the company had a safety management policy based on ISO-certified integrated management system, the standard operating procedures, work procedures, guidelines, and formats were confined to mere documents, and any new change invited resistance from leadership. Samuel initiated several changes but could not sustain the gain. Lack of openness, trust, sharing, two-way communication, and participative leadership has systematically killed all the efforts to effectively manage safety. OCD strategy such as conducting a “cultural audit” to understand strategy, structure, systems, style, staff, skills, and shared values of the company; improved teamwork and cooperation; effective communication; and greater consultation, flexibility, work innovation at individual and group level have been suggested.

Safety Management of Textile Products in the European Union and Estimation of its Efficiency. Part 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3(141)) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Renata Salerno-Kochan ◽  
Mateusz Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Risk Category ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Chemical Hazards ◽  
Present Part ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Textile Products

This paper presents the second part of an analysis aimed to show the reasons for which textiles are among the consumer products most commonly notified as dangerous on the EU market. In the first part, the authors performed a synthetic review of legal regulations regarding safety requirements for clothing and textile products and carried out an analysis of the RAPEX alert system database in order to identify the origin of textiles representing a serious risk and evaluate the activity of EU countries in reporting dangerous textiles in this system. In the present part, the authors have focused on the main threats posed by textiles and analysed the RAPEX notifications mainly in terms of the nature of risk the textiles pose. It was shown that the main sources of serious risks are cords, drawstrings and small accessories in children’s clothes, as well as chemical hazards, attributed mainly to the presence of dangerous aromatic amines and some heavy metals; they are the second most common risk category posed by these products.

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