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Occupational hazards counteraction in industrial work environment - selected management problems

Tabor Joanna, Moraru Roland-Iosif

System Safety : Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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2022

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Vol. 4, nr 1

282-292

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The aim of the article is to present the basic strategies for counteracting threats that are used in an industrial work environment, with particular emphasis on strategies based on the concept of safety barriers. The article presents the main categories of safety barriers and the basic safety functions implemented within the key barrier systems. In addition, the most commonly used criteria for assessing safety barrier systems as well as safety functions are presented. The most characteristic examples in this regard are given. The analysis was carried out in terms of the implementation of barrier management towards reducing the risk of adverse events in the industrial work environment.

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Chemical risk assessment in a selected Romanian stainless steel processing company

Moraru Roland-Iosif, Popescu-Stelea Mihai

System Safety : Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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2022

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Vol. 4, nr 1

257-268

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The production and use of chemicals are continuously increasing worldwide. For example, the global output of chemicals increased approximately 12 times between 1970 and 2020. The burden of disease attributable to exposure to chemicals is significant. World Health Organization estimates that globally, about 5 million deaths and 90 million disability - adjusted life years are attributable to occupational, environmental exposure and management. Public authorities and employers need access to reliable information on chemicals and practical, widely-accepted risk assessment methods in order to effectively control and minimize this threat. To support the management of chemical substances in small and mediumsized enterprises, the UK Health and Safety Executive developed the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Essentials (COSHH Essentials), a control banding technique that determines the management method by assigning the qualitative work environment characteristics of the enterprises to a hazard and exposure prediction band. Qualitative tools were used for assessing the risk of these chemicals, creating solutions, and implementing control measures in various industrial fields. The present paper synthesizes the results of an extensive research study, dedicated to the evaluation of chemical risks within a Romanian company which has as object of activity the mechanical processing of steel laminates and their treatment by methods of electrochemical deposition of hard chromium / electrochemical nickel plating. The application of the simplified health, safety and environmental risk assessment methodology developed by the French National Security Research Institute (INRS) was considered to be the most appropriate in the preliminary phase of identifying and prioritizing the risks associated with chemicals used in technological processes in selected company. Based on the obtained results, the prevention and protection plan regarding the chemical risks was elaborated, the implementation of which led to the reduction of the workers' exposure and to the minimization of the probability and severity of the potential consequences.

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Applying elvie - tool for psychosocial risk assessment: results of a case study

Moraru Roland-Iosif, Posyłek Mirosław

System Safety : Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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2022

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Vol. 4, nr 1

245-256

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About half of European workers believe that stress is common in their workplace and that it is the cause of about half of all lost working days. In Europe, 25% of workers report suffering from work stress all the time or most of their working time, with a similar percentage reporting that stress adversely affects their health. Estimates of costs borne by employers and society are considerable, amounting to tens of billions of euros at European level. Considering the exponential increase in the last decade of the impact of occupational stress and the direct implications on the health and well-being of workers, coupled with the low level of attention paid to this risk by employers and labor inspectorates in Romania, this paper aimed at developing a company-level research to validate the applicability of a specific psychosocial risk assessment tool. The preliminary results obtained confirmed the need to increase the real attention paid to this component of the health status of workers - and implicitly of enterprises - allowing the substantiation of a plan of measures designed to minimize psychosocial risks in the investigated company.

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Managing the dust degree – related risks in Valea Jiului collieries: a synthesis

Burdea Florin-Ionel, Moraru Roland-Iosif

System Safety : Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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2021

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Vol. 3, nr 1

139--151

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The paper aims to make a synthesis regarding the risks associated with the presence of industrial dust in the underground atmosphere of the coal mines. Thus, in the first part of it are presented relevant aspects regarding the health risk associated with the exposure to silica dust, as well as the flammability and explosiveness of the coal dust, in correlation with the mechanism of the explosion. The second part is dedicated to identifying and substantiating measures to combat the explosiveness of coal dust. In presenting the mentioned measures, the emphasis is placed on highlighting the scope and the specific advantages and disadvantages of each measure, with particular emphasis on the possibilities offered by the use of less employed techniques in mining operations in the Jiu Valley, such as it is, for example, the treatment of mining works with hygroscopic substances. The purpose of the authors is to offer the experts in the field of management of occupational safety and health in the mining industry an overview, in conjunction with specific information elements that facilitate the decision-making processes regarding the minimization of the hazards associated with the degree of coal dustiness in the Jiu Valley collieries.

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Risk analysis, evaluation and management tool development for civil explosives deposits

Burdea Florin-Ionel, Moraru Roland-Iosif, Burdea Crinela Monica

Polish Journal of Management Studies

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2021

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Vol. 24, No. 2

67--87

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This paper presents the results of in-depth research conducted over three years, in order to establish a methodological approach, as well as to develop specific application tools aimed to identify, formalize and structure the safety requirements applicable to risk management in storage facilities of explosive materials for civilian use in Romania, with the possibility of generalizing them to other similar deposits that are covered by the Seveso Directive on major accidents involving hazardous substances. With the use of analysis through the event tree at its core, this study centralizes, in addition to the methodology developed to manage the safety of explosives depots, also some of the results of its validation by applying the tools developed in seven explosives deposits in Romania. The results obtained are currently used in the development of a software package dedicated to the management operational and safety risks in civilian explosive storage facilities with at least national applicability, which will be the ultimate product of this research.

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W artykule przedstawiono wyniki pogłębionych badań prowadzonych na przestrzeni trzech lat, mających na celu ustalenie podejścia metodologicznego, a także opracowanie konkretnych narzędzi aplikacyjnych mających na celu identyfikację, sformalizowanie i uporządkowanie wymagań bezpieczeństwa w zakresie zarządzania ryzykiem w obiektach magazynowych materiałów wybuchowych do użytku cywilnego w Rumunii, z możliwością uogólnienia ich na inne podobne depozyty, które są objęte dyrektywą Seveso w sprawie poważnych awarii z udziałem substancji niebezpiecznych. Wykorzystując analizę poprzez drzewo zdarzeń w swoim rdzeniu, badanie to centralizuje, oprócz metodologii opracowanej w celu zarządzania bezpieczeństwem składów materiałów wybuchowych, również niektóre wyniki jej walidacji poprzez zastosowanie narzędzi opracowanych w siedmiu złożach materiałów wybuchowych w Rumunii . Uzyskane wyniki są obecnie wykorzystywane do opracowania pakietu oprogramowania dedykowanego do zarządzania ryzykiem operacyjnym i bezpieczeństwa w cywilnych magazynach materiałów wybuchowych, o zastosowaniu co najmniej krajowym, który będzie ostatecznym produktem tych badań.