The Development of a Safety Assessment Tool in the Manufacturing Industry

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanwadee Chinda ◽  
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Sae-Iew Chutima ◽  
Thanakorn Ruangsomboon ◽  
Chayanit Kumut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Assessment Tool

Review of Regional Workplace Development Cases

2012 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Arto Reiman ◽  
Seppo Väyrynen
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
Workplace Development ◽  
Organisational Factors

The labour-intensive manufacturing industry faces many working-life challenges in the rural, sparsely populated northern areas of Finland at both operational and strategic levels. These challenges vary, being in interaction with both technical and social systems and their combinations. In this paper, the authors review and evaluate needs, actions and results carried out to improve work and productivity in three regional industrial development cases. The actions discussed in this paper, such as work environment management, change management in general and the sociotechnical approach, are essential for the success of enterprises. Using the results of this research as a basis for developing design knowledge, two guidelines for strategic management purposes are proposed. These guidelines implement sociotechnical aspects into the work environment and its management, and recognise that it is important to focus on human and organisational factors in addition to technical end environmental aspects. A proposal for a specific, unique self-assessment tool for evaluating the level of the quality of the work environment in SMEs is also suggested.

Development of a Safety Assessment Tool for Long-Span Bridges

2014 ◽  
Vol 2451 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linjun Lu ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Xinyue Du
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span

A safety assessment tool for formulary candidates

2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (13) ◽  
pp. 1269-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Pick ◽  
Firouzan Massoomi ◽  
William J. Neff ◽  
Paula L. Danekas ◽  
Anne M. Stoysich
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool

scholarly journals POST-FIRE SAFETY OF CONCRETE COLUMNS, An engineering-oriented reliability-based assessment tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Van Coile ◽  
Robby Caspeele ◽  
Luc Taerwe
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Physical Stability ◽  
Concrete Columns ◽  
Reinforce Concrete ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Concrete Members ◽  
Fire Use ◽  
In Fire

<p>Concrete insulation properties and chemo-physical stability up to 400-500°C generally prevents concrete structures from collapsing in fire. Consequently, the safety assessment of reinforced concrete members – and specifically columns – is a must past any severe fire. This post-fire assessment should be based on reliability considerations, as many uncertainties are associated with both the fire evolution and the residual mechanical properties of the materials. The reliability considerations should clarify whether the column has an adequate safety level for its intended post-fire use. An easy-to-use reliability-based assessment method is presented in this paper to determine the bearing capacity of a reinforce concrete column after a fire, and the safety performance of the method is investigated. The proposed method is shown to be at the same time easy to use and very reliable.</p>

scholarly journals Safety Assessment for an ATM System Change: A Methodology for the ANSPs

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Di Gravio ◽  
Riccardo Patriarca ◽  
Francesco Costantino ◽  
Ivan Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Current System ◽  
System Change ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Evolutionary Scenario ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
Definition Of

Air Traffic Management (ATM) is a continuously evolving process, where many current system elements derive from a time when ATM characteristics were very different from today. Nowadays, the provision of ATM services has to design new solutions and adapt to new scenarios. Although ESARR 4 and EU Regulation 1035/2011 define the need of evaluating ATM system risks before implementing any change, they do not define a practical tool to support the decision-makers. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap, proposing a systematic methodology; the Preliminary System Safety Assessment Tool (PSSA-T) capable of helping the decision makers in evaluating safety implications due to system changes. PSSA-T relies on the definition of two Indexes, which have been built according to the Aerospace Performance Factor (APF) methodology, and allow safety assessment of any proposed change. In detail, the former Index compares the evolutionary scenario with the current one and the latter evaluates the evolutionary scenario in which there is a failure of intervention, in the hypothesis the system change has been implemented already. A preliminary study about the change from Flight Progress Strip (FPS) to the Electronic-FPS clarifies the outcome of the study.

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