scholarly journals The Risk Observatory: Developing an Aviation Safety Information Sharing Platform in Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Joram Verstraeten ◽  
Gerben van Baren ◽  
Rombout Wever
Keyword(s):  
Data Dissemination ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Accident Risk ◽  
Risk Models ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Safety Programme

<p>In Europe the accident rate in commercial aviation has stagnated at around 40 accidents per ten million flights: forty times higher than Europe’s ambition. Currently safety management is done per organisation, focusing on an organisation’s own domain. European research institutions and the aviation sector have joined their expertise in the EU-funded Future Sky Safety Programme. One project within the programme aims to enable inter-organisation and inter-domain safety management. The four year project will deliver a tool, the Risk Observatory, which acquires safety data and translates it into actionable safety information. In the first year, more than 20 European stakeholder organisations have been consulted to express their needs for a Risk Observatory. The resulting requirements have been used to develop an early prototype: mock-ups of dashboards and a user interface. The Risk Observatory has four main elements. (1) Tracking of safety performance indicators distilled from input safety data. (2) Trend diagrams and visualisations of accident risk. Risk models will be developed to translate the input data into accident risk. The risk models also allow (3) assessment of the effects of mitigation measures. There is added value in sharing qualitative safety knowledge, such as identified hazards, therefore, (4) a searchable repository is included. The early prototype is successfully used to validate and further specify the requirements. The need for inter-organisation and inter-domain safety data dissemination was confirmed by the stakeholders. In the coming years the project will develop a fully functional prototype risk observatory, risk models and a business model.</p>

scholarly journals A Study on Evaluation System of Risk Assessment at Coastal Activity Areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 226-237
Author(s):  
Seon Jung Park ◽  
Seol Hwa Park ◽  
Heui Jung Seo ◽  
Seung Min Park
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Accident Risk ◽  
The Status ◽  
Forecasting System ◽  
Safety Accident

Coastal safety accidents are characterized by a high proportion of human negligence and repeated occurrences of accidents caused by the same factors. The Korea Coast Guard prepares and implements various countermeasures to prevent accidents at coastal safety accident sites. However, there is a shortage of safety facilities and safety management personnel according to the limited budget. In addition, the ability to be proactively and proactively respond is low due to the limitations of the coastal safety accident risk forecasting system, which relies on the meteorological warning of the Korea Meteorological Administration. In this study, as part of preparing the foundation for establishing a preemptive and active coastal safety management system that can manage accident-causing factors, predict and evaluate risk, and implement response and mitigation measures after an accident occurs before coastal safety accidents occur. The establishment of a risk assessment system was proposed. The main evaluation factors and indicators for risk assessment were established through the analysis of the status of coastal safety accidents. The risk assessment methodology was applied to 40 major hazardous areas designated and managed by the Korea Coast Guard.

scholarly journals The Concept of Safety Management in the Electromobility Development Strategy

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2482
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Chruzik ◽  
Marzena Graboń-Chałupczak
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
System A ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Market Needs

Safety monitoring provides the detection of changes in systems or operations that may suggest any case of approaching a point close to exceeding the acceptable safety standards and indicates whether corrective/prevention actions have been taken. Safety information should be maintained within the scope of transport undertakings to ensure safety and be communicated to all responsible staff, depending on each person’s function in the processes. Regulatory authorities should continuously monitor the implementation of safety management processes and the processes performed by road transport service providers. Safety management, therefore, requires investment in development and modernisation to meet market needs resulting from the mobility of residents, the growth of transport, and the obligations of countries resulting from the transport and environmental policy pursued by the European Union. Along with changes in the transport system, a need to assess their significance for the transport system’s safety arises. Depending on the transport mode (rail, air, water, road), the scope of standardised requirements is quite different each time. The paper analyses the legal requirements and acceptable practices for assessing the significance of the change in all transport modes and develops a standard method for assessing the significance of the change that meets all the requirements of electromobility safety management systems.

An introduction to the industrial town’s safety management (ITSM) system

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hossein Ebrahimi ◽  
Seyedeh Melika Kharghani Moghadam
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
System Objective

BACKGROUND: In industrial towns, the dangers of each industry also poses a threat to other industries due to the proximity of different industries to each other. So there is a need for a safety management system. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to introduce a management system for managing the safety of industrial towns. METHODOLOGY: This cross-sectional and qualitative study was conducted in three main phases: (1) Identify the elements of the safety management systems using literature review, (2) Screening and determining useful elements using Delphi technique and (3) Determining the structure of safety management system. RESULTS: Participation of the industries and their compliance with the standards were considered as the system foundation. The networks of safety information of the industries, accident’s database, safety training, contractors, emergency management and management of the changes were placed on the foundation as the system columns. The Industrial Town’s Safety Management (ITSM) system as the system roof was placed on the columns. This structure was placed within a two-line framework including the trade secrets and program audit. CONCLUSIONS: The ITSM system consists of a set of factors that can help manage the safety of the industrial towns. This system will increase the safety level of industrial towns by incorporating some safety principles. However, the safety management of an industrial town is very complex and requires a great deal of efforts.

The Impact of a Legally Defined Just Culture on Voluntary Reporting of Safety Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-97
Author(s):  
Kevin J. McMurtrie ◽  
Brett R. C. Molesworth
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
European Law ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Reporting Behavior ◽  
Voluntary Reporting ◽  
Just Culture ◽  
System A ◽  
Reporting Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The aim of the present study was to examine commercial pilots’ reporting behavior and confidence in their airlines’ just culture. In pursuit of this aim, 539 European-based pilots participated in the study by answering an online questionnaire. The results are compared with an earlier study comprising Australian-based pilots. The results reveal that 84% and 57% of the European and Australian pilots, respectively, trust their airlines’ just culture. When comparing reporting behaviors, it was found that 53% of the Australian pilots and 33% of the European pilots stated they had failed to report, or had under-reported, safety information in their airlines’ safety management system. A distinct difference with the aviation regulatory backdrop that the two pilot groups operate within is the legal legitimization of just culture in European law. It is unknown whether this difference influences confidence in just culture or has an effect on reporting behavior.

scholarly journals P77 Pediatric drug data in Canadian drug monographs

2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (6) ◽  
pp. e49.1-e49
Author(s):  
A Patel ◽  
M Duffett ◽  
M Mazer-Amirshahi ◽  
P Raja ◽  
A Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Information ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Pediatric Drug ◽  
Optimal Drug ◽  
Pediatric Populations ◽  
Health Canada ◽  
Pediatric Indication

BackgroundOptimal drug therapy in children relies on availability of pediatric-specific information. European and American legislative initiatives have resulted in advancement of pediatric pharmacotherapy data. We aim to describe the quality and quantity of pediatric information in drug monographs of New Active Substances (NASs) approved by Health Canada.Design/MethodsCanadian drug monographs of NASs approved by Health Canada, from January 2007 until December 2016, were systematically reviewed for pediatric-specific information. Pediatric-specific information defined as: pediatric indication, dosing, pediatric-friendly dosage forms, and pediatric safety data.ResultsOver the period of the study, Health Canada approved 281 NASs. Of all the non-biologic NASs (205, 74%), 39(19%) were approved for use in pediatric patients. The number of drugs with pediatric approval was lowest in 2008 (1, 8%) and highest in 2016 (8, 32%), following no specific pattern. Neonates had the lowest rate of drug approvals through all pediatric age groups (4, 2%). All drugs with pediatric approval had pediatric-specific dosing information with the majority of them presenting pediatric safety data (79%). Pediatric friendly formulation was only available in 20%(8) of drugs with pediatric approval. Studies in pediatric populations were the source of pediatric information in 59%(23) of drugs with pediatric approval.Conclusion(s)Less than 20% of the NASs approved by Health Canada for use in adults contain pediatric approval. Neonatal populations remain a therapeutic orphan, with severe lack of dosing and safety information. Safe and effective pediatric pharmacotherapy requires well-conducted pediatric research to enhance pediatric drug data. Canadian children are in need for legislative initiatives to promote pediatric drug development.Disclosure(s)Nothing to disclose

scholarly journals A Framework for an Indoor Safety Management System Based on Digital Twin

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 5771
Author(s):  
Zhansheng Liu ◽  
Anshan Zhang ◽  
Wensi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Building Information

With the development of the next generation of information technology, an increasing amount of attention is being paid to smart residential spaces, including smart cities, smart buildings, and smart homes. Building indoor safety intelligence is an important research topic. However, current indoor safety management methods cannot comprehensively analyse safety data, owing to a poor combination of safety management and building information. Additionally, the judgement of danger depends significantly on the experience of the safety management staff. In this study, digital twins (DTs) are introduced to building indoor safety management. A framework for an indoor safety management system based on DT is proposed which exploits the Internet of Things (IoT), building information modelling (BIM), the Internet, and support vector machines (SVMs) to improve the level of intelligence for building indoor safety management. A DT model (DTM) is developed using BIM integrated with operation information collected by IoT sensors. The trained SVM model is used to automatically obtain the types and levels of danger by processing the data in the DTM. The Internet is a medium for interactions between people and systems. A building in the bobsleigh and sled stadium for the Beijing Winter Olympics is considered as an example; the proposed system realises the functions of the scene display of the operation status, danger warning and positioning, danger classification and level assessment, and danger handling suggestions.

scholarly journals Natural Language Processing Based Method for Clustering and Analysis of Aviation Safety Narratives

Aerospace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Rodrigo L. Rose ◽  
Tejas G. Puranik ◽  
Dimitri N. Mavris
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Aviation Safety Reporting System

The complexity of commercial aviation operations has grown substantially in recent years, together with a diversification of techniques for collecting and analyzing flight data. As a result, data-driven frameworks for enhancing flight safety have grown in popularity. Data-driven techniques offer efficient and repeatable exploration of patterns and anomalies in large datasets. Text-based flight safety data presents a unique challenge in its subjectivity, and relies on natural language processing tools to extract underlying trends from narratives. In this paper, a methodology is presented for the analysis of aviation safety narratives based on text-based accounts of in-flight events and categorical metadata parameters which accompany them. An extensive pre-processing routine is presented, including a comparison between numeric models of textual representation for the purposes of document classification. A framework for categorizing and visualizing narratives is presented through a combination of k-means clustering and 2-D mapping with t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE). A cluster post-processing routine is developed for identifying driving factors in each cluster and building a hierarchical structure of cluster and sub-cluster labels. The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), which includes over a million de-identified voluntarily submitted reports describing aviation safety incidents for commercial flights, is analyzed as a case study for the methodology. The method results in the identification of 10 major clusters and a total of 31 sub-clusters. The identified groupings are post-processed through metadata-based statistical analysis of the learned clusters. The developed method shows promise in uncovering trends from clusters that are not evident in existing anomaly labels in the data and offers a new tool for obtaining insights from text-based safety data that complement existing approaches.

scholarly journals Centralised Biological Therapy Registry for Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis – Overview and Methodology

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
R Sutka ◽  
J Pec ◽  
T Pecova
Keyword(s):  
Plaque Psoriasis ◽  
Biological Therapy ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Severe Plaque Psoriasis ◽  
Set Up

Abstract The introduction of new pharmacotherapy entities in the last decade accentuate the necessity to set up treatment guidelines based on real life evidence. Randomized controlled trials remain golden standard of a research. Data derived from studies aiming on daily clinical practice should bring needed, added value. Disease prevalence growth, due to increased life expectancy, better diagnostic procedures and earlier medical intervention, as well as ever growing demand for highly priced, sophistically produced drugs put stress on healthcare budgets even in developed countries. Large databases commonly called - therapy registries are implemented to collect data on therapy effectivity in terms of effectiveness, safety and patient long-term on therapy survival. Registries importance rose together with biological therapies introduction. New in class molecules entered the market conditionally being obliged to provide additional e.g. safety data. Such procedures require involvement of many different professionals, e.g. physicians, professional medical bodies, IT experts, database administrators, statisticians and government institutions. Paper based, followed by computer based forms were distributed among physicians to collect these data. eHealth technologies provide physicians with centralized, more intuitive applications. The particularities of different diagnosis caused great variations within each specific registry launched. Important information was missing since they were pointed out as optional and many were redundant causing frustration among physicians due to inadequate administrative workload. The main objective of this work was to set up the therapy registry standards and procedures. Methodology of „ideal“ moderate to severe plaque psoriasis biology therapy registry development, introduction, administration and evaluation was prepared to assist any government institution or professional body when planning registry deployment. Electronic application based on widely used MS Excel platform was developed and installed in the biological therapy centers as a standalone application for the pilot use.

Managing process safety information based on process safety management requirements

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Abdul Aziz ◽  
A. Mohd Shariff ◽  
R. Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Process Safety

Contractor and supplier management: mitigating risk by better decision making

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 642
Author(s):  
Dag Yemenu ◽  
Richard Cerenzio
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Comprehensive Management ◽  
And Performance

Global industry trends show increased outsourcing of non-core business activities (i.e. construction, maintenance, engineering, etc.) to third-party contractors. Data from several industries show that contractors face 1.5–3 times higher incident rates than in-house employees. This extended abstract covers leading-edge approaches for managing contractor risk, presently implemented by organisations in the oil and gas, mining and manufacturing industries. Using a database of more than 35,000 contracting companies and 220 owner/operator companies, this extended abstract accumulates more than six years of extensive health and safety data to show trends associated with health and safety management and performance improvement. Using statistical analysis methods, actionable leading indicators and insightful trends are discussed. Best practices of contractor management and decision-making tools based on a comprehensive management-system approach to contractor-risk management are also examined. Discussed is a practical model to address the following key elements: Gathering, reviewing and verifying contractor information as part of the due-diligence process. Analysing leading and lagging performance indicators. Driving safety through feedback, benchmarking, and continual improvement.

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