Necessity of Disaster and Safety Management Policy Considering Gender Sensitivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunhui Chung
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Policy

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.

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.

scholarly journals Controlling mechanisms to ensure the financial security of instrument-making enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Pavlo Pronoza ◽  
Tetyana Kuzenko ◽  
Nataliya Sablina
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Instrument Making ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Controlling System ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The Impact

The unpredictability of the development of the Ukrainian economy in the world economic space requires continuous improvement of the financial security management policy of business entities. The use of controlling mechanisms to ensure the necessary level of financial security enables the stable development and competitiveness of enterprises. The article highlights the conceptual aspects of ensuring the enterprise’s financial security using controlling mechanisms. The concept of control¬ling within the enterprise’s financial security is considered. An assessment of the enterprise’s financial security in the instrument-making industry of the engineering complex of Ukraine was made using an integrated safety indicator using taxonomic analysis techniques. It is noted that to ensure stable functioning and development of the enterprise, it is necessary to identify factors (threats) that lead to the loss of the proper level of enterprise’s financial security. To assess the impact of financial condi¬tion indicators on the level of effectiveness of financial safety management in engineering enterprises, a multivariate statistical analysis of correlation relationships was carried out and factor loads were calculated. It is proposed to organize the formation of a controlling system with an emphasis on ensuring an adequate level of enterprise’s financial security. The use of the proposed developments in the activities of the enterprises of the instrument-making industry allows increasing the efficiency of their functioning and to put the existing system of ensuring financial security to a new level.

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