SAFETY CULTURE IN PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (14) ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Zeynep Feride Olcay ◽  
Burcu Erdem
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Common Principle ◽  
The Common ◽  
Short Time

Accidents and occupational diseases; It causes loss of physical and mental health for employees and high amounts of income loss for employers and countries. In order to prevent all these losses from happening, technical and engineering measures are not enough and an internalized safety culture perception is required in management and employees. The common principle in order to protect it from accidents and diseases is to ensure that the employees act with safety awareness at every moment of the work, with the understanding of safety culture, which is defined as the set of values and rules, under the leadership of the management. Behavior and attitude patterns that do not change in a short time are shown as the main causes of accidents in business life. It is essential to create a culture that embraces safe behavior patterns and, as a result, a safe work environment created to prevent these accidents. In the implementation of this culture, the employees should be included in the process at every stage. In the study, a literature review on safety culture as a preventive factor in occupational accidents was carried out. As a result of the research, it was determined that the most appropriate method in the long-term in the prevention and reduction of accidents is the safety culture.

scholarly journals Development of fatigue, accident experiences and safety culture relationships to the risk of fishing perception on the accidents of fishing vessel small and medium

2018 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 03010
Author(s):  
Septi Nurindah Sari ◽  
Ratna Sari Dewi ◽  
Adithya Sudiano
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
High Workload ◽  
Lack Of Sleep

Working at sea is associated with many challenges and risk in the job, such as a high workload, inappropriate working hours, minimum time for hanging out with family and increasing the risk of accidents. When an accident occurs, the perception of the risk of occupational accidents seafarers increased so that all workers start to think about their safety. Fatigue is one of the factors that can affect the seafarer safety. Fatigue among the seafarers is affected by lack of sleep duration and low sleep quality. Besides fatigue, accidental experiences can also influence risk perceptions. When the workers themselves or their friends see or experience an accident, it is likely to increase the risk of accidents perception among the workers. In addition to fatigue and accident experience, safety culture can also affect the perception of risk. Safety training, hazard identification and risk assessment, safety awareness and incident reporting are several factors that can be used to assess the safety culture. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the influence of fatigue, sleep quality, accident experiences and safety culture on the risk perception of fishermans who works at the Indonesian maritime territoires.

scholarly journals The political economy of staying outside the Eurozone: Poland and Sweden compared

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Sławomir Czech
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Currencies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Starting Conditions ◽  
The Common ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Short Time

This paper deals with the issue of political constraints put on economic policies that derive from the distribution of power in democratic societies. Poland and Sweden are both euro-outsiders that are obliged to adopt the euro, but recent developments within the Eurozone and related to the 2008+ crisis engendered widespread reluctance among the public to give up national currencies. Within a short time, the general support for the euro turned strongly negative, making it a grave challenge for politicians to pursue the adoption of the common currency. On this background, we reflect on the alleged correspondence between these two countries that would allow to follow similar policies toward euro introduction. We point to the idiosyncrasy of the Swedish case that makes it virtually impossible to emulate its policies by a country like Poland with very different long-term goals and starting conditions. By doing so, we highlight the context of policymaking that seems crucial to a successful art of political economy.

Determination of native (wood derived) formaldehyde by the desiccator method in particleboards generated during panel production

Holzforschung ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Birkeland ◽  
Linda Lorenz ◽  
James M. Wescott ◽  
Charles R. Frihart
Keyword(s):  
Hot Pressing ◽  
Urea Formaldehyde ◽  
Chromotropic Acid ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Emission Testing ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Common ◽  
Short Time

Abstract Hot-pressing wood, particularly in the production of wood composites, generates significant “native” (wood-based) formaldehyde (FA), even in the absence of adhesive. The level of native FA relates directly to the time and temperature of hot-pressing. This native FA dissipates in a relatively short time and is not part of the long-term FA emission issue commonly associated with hydrolyzing urea-formaldehyde bonds. This paper demonstrates that the common desiccator/chromotropic acid method is very specific for FA and is not influenced by other volatile compounds set free from wood during hot-pressing. Furthermore, it is shown that particleboard produces native FA at high levels even in the absence of adhesives or in the presence of one type of no-added formaldehyde (NAF) adhesive. Soy-based adhesives suppress native FA emission and provide low FA emission levels in both the short and long term. This study highlights an often overlooked aspect that should be considered for emission testing: standardizing the time and conditions employed immediately after pressing and prior to the onset of emissions testing. Addressing this issue in more detail would improve the reliability of correlation between data obtained by rapid process monitoring methods and emission measurements in large chambers.

scholarly journals X. A new method of deducing a first approximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric observations

1814 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 121-186
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Conic Sections ◽  
Sir Isaac Newton ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Common Principle ◽  
The Common ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
Short Time ◽  
General Fact ◽  
The Universe

Comets are distinguished from the planets not only by the peculiarities that immediately strike the eye, but likewise by the circumstances attending their motion in the heavens. All the planets move round the sun in orbits nearly circular; they never deviate far from the ecliptic on either side; and they move in a manner not extremely irregular, and in one direction, according to the order of the signs in the zodiac. Comets, on the contrary, when they first come into view, assume gradually greater degrees of brightness, which they again lose by like gradations, and then disappear; thus seeming to visit the neighbourhood of the sun for a short time only, after which they retire into the immensity of space: they are seen in all quarters of the heavens: and their motion is exceedingly various and irregular; confined to no direction; sometimes greatly curved, and often hardly distinguishable from a rectilineal course. If, to phenomena so dissimilar, we add the prejudice which almost universally prevailed, that comets have only a temporary existence, and are produced by occasional causes, we shall not perhaps have much reason to be surprised that the true account of those bodies, which represents them as forming a part of the same system with the planets, eluded the sagacity of Kepler, to whom we are indebted for the first accurate knowledge of the laws of the planetary motions. This step in our knowledge of the universe was reserved for Sir Isaac Newton. The principal and leading discovery of that great philosopher consisted in generalizing the laws of Kepler; in proving that they are necessary consequences of a more general fact, namely, that all the planets are continually deflected from a rectilineal motion towards the sun in the inverse proportion of the squares of their distances from that body. He demonstrated that the motions of such a system of bodies must be performed in the conic sections, having the sun in the focus, the species of the curve depending upon the proportion of the rectilineal velocity to the quantity of the deflection towards the common centre. This theory comprehends an infinite variety of motions, all flowing from one common principle; and the ellipse alone, by the changes of form which it undergoes according to the degrees of its eccentricity, seems, at one extreme, when it is greatly elongated, as well adapted to account for the phenomena of the comets, as it is, at the other extreme, when it differs little from a circle, to represent the motions of the planets.

scholarly journals Growing a cyber-safety culture amongst school learners in South Africa through gaming

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmarie Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Identity Theft ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Cyber Safety

Virtually all school learners today have access to ICT devices and the internet at home or at school. More and more schools are using ICT devices to improve education in South Africa. ICT devices and internet access have enormous advantages and assist learners in learning and teachers in teaching more successfully. However, with these advantages come numerous ICT and cyber-risks and threats that can harm learners, for example cyber-bullying, identity theft and access to inappropriate material. Currently, South Africa does not have a long-term plan to grow a cyber-safety culture in its schools. This research therefore proposes a short-term initiative in the form of a game-based approach, which will assist school learners in becoming more cyber safe and teach learners about the relevant cyber-related risks and threats. The research is based on a quantitative survey that was conducted among primary school learners to establish if the game-based approach would be a feasible short-term initiative. The aim of the research is to establish if a game based approach can be used to improve cyber-safety awareness. This approach was plotted into the required ICT and cyber-safety policy required by all schools.

Barriers to Physical Activity in Adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Langguth ◽  
Tanja Könen ◽  
Simone Matulis ◽  
Regina Steil ◽  
Caterina Gawrilow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Outcome Expectations ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Tailored Interventions ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Age Range

During adolescence, physical activity (PA) decreases with potentially serious, long-term consequences for physical and mental health. Although barriers have been identified as an important PA correlate in adults, research on adolescents’ PA barriers is lacking. Thus reliable, valid scales to measure adolescents’ PA barriers are needed. We present two studies describing a broad range of PA barriers relevant to adolescents with a multidimensional approach. In Study 1, 124 adolescents (age range = 12 – 24 years) reported their most important PA barriers. Two independent coders categorized those barriers. The most frequent PA barriers were incorporated in a multidimensional questionnaire. In Study 2, 598 adolescents (age range = 13 – 21 years) completed this questionnaire and reported their current PA, intention, self-efficacy, and negative outcome expectations. Seven PA barrier dimensions (leisure activities, lack of motivation, screen-based sedentary behavior, depressed mood, physical health, school workload, and preconditions) were confirmed in factor analyses. A multidimensional approach to measuring PA barriers in adolescents is reliable and valid. The current studies provide the basis for developing individually tailored interventions to increase PA in adolescents.

The foundations of peaceful coexistence after the war ... Mosul is a model

2019 ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Omar Hashim Thanon
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Mass Displacement ◽  
The Common ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Post War ◽  
Common Destiny

Since peaceful coexistence reflects in its various aspects the concept of harmony between the members of the same society with their different national, religious and sectarian affiliations, as well as their attitudes and ideas, what brings together these are the common bonds such as land, interests and common destiny. But this coexistence is exposing for crises and instability and the theft of rights and other that destroy the communities with their different religious, national, sectarian, ethnic aspects, especially if these led to a crisis of fighting or war, which produces only destruction and mass displacement, ttherefore, the process of bridging the gap between the different parts of society in the post-war phase through a set of requirements that serve as the basis for the promotion of peaceful coexistence within the same country to consolidate civil and community peace in order to create a general framework and a coherent basis to reconstruct the community again.      Hence the premise of the research by asking about the extent of the possibility and ability of the community of religious and ethnic diversity, which has been exposed to these crises, which aimed at this diversity, basically to be able to rise and re-integrate within the same country and thus achieve civil and community peace, and Mosul is an example for that, the negative effects of the war and the accomplices of many criminal acts have given rise to hatred and fear for all, leading to the loss of livelihoods, which in the long term may have devastating social and psychological consequences.        To clarify all of this, the title of the first topic was a review of the concept and origin of peaceful coexistence. While the second topic dealt with the requirements of peaceful coexistence and social integration in Mosul, the last topic has identified the most important challenges facing the processes of coexistence and integration in Mosul. All this in order to paint a better future for the conductor at all levels in the near term at the very least to achieve the values of this peaceful coexistence, especially in the post-war period.

Markets, Technological Change and Economic Growth (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture)

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (4I) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Lipsey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Short Time

I am honoured to be invited to give this lecture before so distinguished an audience of development economists. For the last 21/2 years I have been director of a project financed by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and composed of a group of scholars from Canada, the United States, and Israel.I Our brief is to study the determinants of long term economic growth. Although our primary focus is on advanced industrial countries such as my own, some of us have come to the conclusion that there is more common ground between developed and developing countries than we might have first thought. I am, however, no expert on development economics so I must let you decide how much of what I say is applicable to economies such as your own. Today, I will discuss some of the grand themes that have arisen in my studies with our group. In the short time available, I can only allude to how these themes are rooted in our more detailed studies. In doing this, I must hasten to add that I speak for myself alone; our group has no corporate view other than the sum of our individual, and very individualistic, views.

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