On the Possibility of Using Structuring Hazardous Production Situations to Manage Occupational Risks in Coal Open-Cuts

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
M. L. Rudakov ◽  
O M. Bolshunova ◽  
D. S. Sobyanin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Dominant Contribution ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Hazardous Production ◽  
Weight Coefficients

The paper deals with an approach to occupational risk management based on the structuring of hazardous production situations (OPS) on the example of a coal open-cut. The possibility of using weight coefficients in determining groups of hazardous factors is shown, based on which the dominant contribution of technological and subjective factors is highlighted. An example of assessment of risks and opportunities as elements of occupational safety management based on GOST R ISO 45001-2020 is demonstrated.

scholarly journals OPTIMIZATION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

2018 ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
A. Bochkovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Convex Programming ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Optimal Method ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Methodological Problems

The analysis of regulations in the field of labour safety and risks management was conducted. Several systemic methodological problems relevant to labour safety management system were identified. The main problems, complicating the realization of occupational risks management process are: uncertainty of purposes, complication of realization procedure and absence of tools for its optimization. To eliminate these problems optimal method of occupational risks management, based on mathematical models, was developed and proposed. Results of this study prove that the models should include indexes relatedto expenditures on occupational safety and also to harmful factors and their influence on an employee. The proposed models can be concidered as two optimization tasks, aiming at maximization of employee's safety together with the minimization of expenditures on occupational safety. These tasks are related to the convex programming and can be solved both with numerical methods and with the using of the standard MS Excel programme pack.

scholarly journals The labor protection specialist competence influence on the professional risk management state

2020 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 01087
Author(s):  
Elena Bakiko ◽  
Vitaly Serdyuk ◽  
Svetlana Yanchij ◽  
Ivan Ignatovich ◽  
Ekaterina Bardina
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Occupational Risks

The results of the authors’ research in more than 600 organizations have shown the labor protection specialist competence influence on the occupational risk management system state and the overall labor protection management system. It is revealed that the leading role in the labor conditions and safety improving strategy choosing and formation, as well as in the scientifically based method of professional risk assessment belongs to a labor protection specialist with a certain competence. The paper describes 16 occupational safety specialists’ professional competence levels and the main factors that determine their formation. The possibilities and abilities of specialists’ with different professional competence levels to assess professional risks are considered and presented in tabular form. About 100 data of different approaches and methods for assessing occupational risks are given, from which only a competent occupational safety specialist can choose the best method for his organization. His decision influences not only the assessing and managing professional risks procedure costs, determined by the particular method choosing, but also the overall occupational safety management system effectiveness in the organization. The conducted research has shown a significant occupational safety competent specialists role in ensuring the professional risks management in the organization and allowed to link his capabilities in assessing professional risks with his professional competence level. This information can motivate the employer to pay attention to the labor protection specialists’ role in ensuring the industrial safety and take care of their timely skills improvement.

scholarly journals Development of an Occupational Risk Assessment Tool for Laboratory Animal Facilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
April M. Clayton ◽  
James Hayes ◽  
George W. Lathrop ◽  
Nathaniel Powell
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Laboratory Animal ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Tool ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Risk Acceptability ◽  
Animal Care

Introduction: Laboratory animal facilities aim to provide excellence in animal care and welfare and support scientific research. Critical to these goals is to ensure a safe work environment for personnel comprising veterinary and animal care, laboratory research, and maintenance staff. Objective: Thus, performing occupational risk assessments allows for evaluation of risks from identified hazards associated with a variety of tasks ongoing in laboratory animal facilities. Methods: Herein, we present the development of an occupational risk assessment tool purposed to capture the dynamics of work performed in laboratory animal facilities, calculate and prioritize identified risks associated with procedures and processes, and inform and evaluate risk mitigations. Results: We also discuss a risk assessment for refining sharps use in nonhuman primate husbandry and care to demonstrate the utility of this tool to improve occupational safety in our animal facility. Conclusion: This tool and framework evolve into a holistic occupational risk management system that identifies, evaluates, and mitigates occupational risks; determines risk acceptability; consistently ensures communication and consultation with frontline personnel, stakeholders, senior leadership, and subject matter experts in biosafety, science, and animal care and welfare; and continuously strives to improve and enhance the operations of laboratory animal facilities.

scholarly journals Operational Control in the Process Safety Assurance

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-131
Author(s):  
Tatiana Karkoszka
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Operational Control ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
Effective Manner

AbstractThe need of ensure the safety in the realised industrial processes results directly from their negative influence both on environment and workers’ health, and, as a result – the associated material losses. Safety management must be based on the risk management, results of which are the basis of risk acceptability assessment and taking action of the systemic character directed on risk minimisation. Those actions should guarantee technical condition of the used technological installations and monitoring and control equipment as well as organisational solutions, which in the effective manner are going to minimise the probability of occurrence of environmental and occupational accidents, and – in the case of their occurrence – minimise the influences. Therefore research on the practical solutions of process safety assurance, both in the regular conditions of work and in the time of the emergency are of the crucial meaning. That is why the value of the paper is being constituted by the authorial model of operational control, which aim is to guarantee the process safety from the perspective of the both: technical and occupational safety. The worked out model is the systemic tool giving the guidelines of operational management and allowing for the homogeneous management in the range of environmental safety and occupational safety and on the basis of – being the fundamental element of the model – risk management. The worked out model can be implemented in case of any organisation which wants to assure the safety of the realised processes by risk and system management.

scholarly journals Managing occupational risks of greenhouse workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 00149
Author(s):  
Roman Chaplin ◽  
Svetlana Zhukova ◽  
Sergei Istomin ◽  
Sergey Fomin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Reference System ◽  
Management System ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Agroindustrial Complex

The article analyzes the results of a study on the implementation of an information system for managing occupational risks at a protected ground agro-industrial complex enterprise. By using the author’s model of an automated information and reference system for assessing and controlling occupational risks, which contains the main elements of an occupational risk management system – a hazard identification block, an occupational risk analysis and assessment block, and an occupational risk management block, the company’s management builds a strategy to increase the efficiency of the labor protection management system, expanding its operational and functional capabilities. The amount of occupational risk is calculated according to the author’s method based on the information entered in the database of the automated information and reference system, according to such parameters as: health status, length of service, age, qualification of the employee, training in labor protection requirements and violation of labor protection requirements by a specific employee, category risk for identified industrial hazards. The introduction of an automated information and reference system for assessing occupational risks at the protected ground agroindustrial complex enterprise allowed not only to see possible risks, but also to accurately calculate their level, and to develop preventive measures to manage the identified risks.

Considering the Synergetic Effects at Occupational Risk Assessment in Oil Mines

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
A.I. Fomin ◽  
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E.V. Nor ◽  
T.V. Grunskoy ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Synergetic Effects ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Hazardous Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Negative Factors

The analytical review of labor conditions in the oil mines of the Yaregskoye field has demonstrated that the majority of work places (82 %) are considered hazardous, of subclass 3.1–3.3. The analysis of the basic process operations for high-viscosity oil production using the thermoshaft method has determined the combinations of hazardous production factors at work places. Studying the diversity of versions and combinations of negative factors and their complex impact on oil mine workers enabled detecting a synergetic effect that increases the risk of development of occupational diseases. It is established that for occupational risks assessment considering the potential interaction of hazardous production factors and their impact on personnel’s health is crucial. Today, the synergetic effects are not considered for occupational risk assessment in oil mines. Development of a methodological approach to occupational risk assessment including synergy is required. The suggested method is based on building up a mathematical model for occupational risk assessment with combined effects of negative factors that uses the combined effect coefficient considering the impact of synergetic effect. Comparing the data on labor conditions’ classes, occupational disease indices and obtained results, including the synergetic effects for the main underground occupations of the oil mines has demonstrated the bias approach for the earlier occupational assessment that neglected occupational risks to health in conditions of combined impact of negative factors. Within calculations, the significance of synergism math model for occupational risk assessment is confirmed.

Analysis of the Occupational Risk Management at the Enterprises during Lifting Equipment Operation

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
I.I. Taranushina ◽  
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O.V. Popova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Bridge Crane ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Equipment Operation ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Lifting Equipment

The model for assessing the levels of occupational risks was introduced and is used at the mechanical engineering enterprises during lifting equipment operation. The analysis of injuries carried out six months after the start of its use and familiarization of employees with the register and the level of hazards showed a decrease in risk levels in relation to previous periods. The results of the study of the procedure for managing occupational risks when working on three types of cranes are presented: electric bridge crane; gantry crane and single-girder electric supporting bridge crane. The first two listed cranes are installed at hazardous production facilities. After drawing up a plan for assessing occupational risks at the stage of risk identification, the method of questionnaires was used to collect information about production processes and determine the register of hazards. To analyze the work of the occupational health and safety management system, a multi-level control of the technological process and ensuring its safety was introduced. In practice, the relevance and availability of the Fine — Kinney method for assessing the levels of occupational risks was confirmed. When studying the significance of the impact of the procedures (elements) of the occupational health and safety management system on the probability of a hazard and, consequently, on the final level of occupational risk, the method of expert assessments was used. The methods for formalizing assessment results proposed and implemented in the organizations reflect all the stages of the process and provide answers at any stage of the study of the occupational risk levels. The measures developed based on the results of the assessment of occupational risk levels allow to maintain safe working conditions and prevent the occurrence of hazards that lead to injuries at work.

scholarly journals STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
V.I. MORGACHOVA
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Acceptable Level ◽  
Production Operation ◽  
Rapid Reduction ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Future Work

 In the course of work it was demonstrated that occupational risk is considered to be the probability of harm to health as a result of exposure to harmful and / or dangerous production factors during the labor process. A prerequisite for occupational safety in production activities is knowledge and assessment of the activities of sources of danger, risk assessment tools, the degree of impact of hazards on people and taking the necessary measures. Risk management is carried out in the performance of each production operation performed by employees of the enterprise, and is aimed at eliminating or reducing unacceptable risks through the implementation of appropriate protective measures. Without the analysis and management of occupational risks, it is impossible to create safe conditions, as well as reduce injuries and reduce occupational diseases. One of the main methods of occupational risk analysis that gives the best results is the method of analysis of causation using a dynamic model. In order to identify hazards, assess risks and implement protective measures that can ensure the acceptable level of risks of future work, it is necessary to consider the production task and visit the work site. Work is allowed if there are no additional hazards and protective measures of the Risk Assessment Map are actually implemented. It is forbidden to perform the work when identifying additional hazards that require reducing the risks of additional resources and the decision of management. It is strictly forbidden to perform the work until the rapid reduction of the level of risk to an acceptable level begins − with the identification of additional hazards that require the development and implementation of protective measures at the expense of personal resources.

scholarly journals METHODICAL APPROACHES TO IMPROVING THE INFORMATION PROVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
O. Kruzhilko ◽  
N. Volodchenkova ◽  
I. Tkalych ◽  
H. Demchuk
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Initial Data ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
State Level ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Occupational Risks

The article presents the results of the analysis of the current state of information support of the labor protection management system in the aspect of transition to the introduction of risk-oriented approach. It is noted that the system of labor protection management, which was formed in accordance with the command-administrative principles of the planned economy, in today's conditions was not effective enough, so it needs to improve its information support. One of the shortcomings of the existing information support of labor protection management can be considered unresolved issues of integration of various information systems (IS) in the field of labor protection, designed to solve management problems, which does not allow to form generalized information bases, to conduct analytical data processing. Assessment of occupational risks requires systematic monitoring of enterprise performance indicators, provides for forecasting the dynamics of changes in these indicators, as well as taking into account other factors that potentially affect occupational risks. To automate the process of collecting and analyzing initial data, modeling and calculating the forecast of occupational risk, it is proposed to create a specialized monitoring information system. Given the need for significant financial costs for the implementation of this project, other approaches to improving information support are the gradual creation of separate subsystems of the monitoring system. The main directions of improvement of information support of occupational risk management are formed, in particular modernization of information systems at the state level and enterprise level is offered. The statistics accumulated during the operation of these systems can be used as initial data for occupational risk assessment and further development of sound preventive measures.

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