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Workplace hazards and safety practices in the small-scale industries

ElSharkawy Mahmoud Fathy

Production Engineering Archives

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2024

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Vol. 30, Iss. 2

241--250

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The small-scale industries are considered a major sector of economic investment in the world. Small-scale industries typically suffer from problems such as poor management systems, poor safety training, difficulties in complying with legislation, and absence of safety performance. This study aimed to measure the levels of heat stress and noise and assess the safety performance in small-scale industries. Twenty industrial workshops were selected representing four different types of small-scale industries (foundries, automotive repair, metal processing, and aluminium processing) in Alexandria, Egypt. Inside each selected workshop, both levels of heat stress and noise were measured by calibrated instruments. A pre-designed checklist evaluated the adequacy of the safety performance. Noise levels ranged between 86.4 ± 2.0 and 89.7 ± 2.7 dB exceeding the recommended value (85 dB). In the most studied workshops, the levels of heat stress were relatively high, especially in the foundries. Besides, the safety practices at all these workshops were poor or very poor. The most obvious safety problems included poor housekeeping, lack of PPEs, inadequate illumination, absence of emergency exits, and insufficient fire extinguishers. The results emphasize the responsibility of the local authorities to give more atten-tion and interest to this type of industry.

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Barrier management as proactive approach for technical integrity and risk management

Rahim Yousif

Safety and Reliability of Systems and Processes

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2023

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Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar 2023

199--206

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Technical Integrity Management system is a program for continuous follow up on selected technical barriers against major accidents and critical elements for production regularity. Technical integrity management is a crucial element in running a business in safe, sustainable, and effective. The technical integrity is based on the available data in the plants/installations, competences and skills within the organisations and emphasizes on gaining a complete overview of technical conditions of safety systems and barriers. The system helps the companies to document and follow-up the technical state of its operations and assets throughout the platform/installation life cycle. The program contributed to increased risk understanding of safety barriers and better compliance with national and industrial requirements. The system helps risk owners, production managers, platform management to take rational and informed decision quickly. It is a main contribution to understanding the condition of platforms and assets and a great input to better understanding the related risks to safe operations and preventing the undesired events including prevention of major accidents. The main aim of this chapter is to highlight the importance of barrier management and technical integrity management programs is prevention major accidents by identifying the weaknesses related to equipment, systems, and barriers through controlling different accident scenarios.

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Fall from height accidents in the construction industry in Saudi Arabia

Mahmoud Abubakar Sadiq, Sanni-Anibire Muizz, Alsafwani Ahmed

Architecture Civil Engineering Environment

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2023

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Vol. 16, no. 2

101--110

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Falls from height (FFH) are considered the most dangerous accident in the global construction industry, especially in emerging economies like Saudi Arabia. This study investigates the causative factors responsible for FFH accidents in the construction industry in Saudi Arabia. The approach used by the study entailed a review of the extant literature to identify the main causes of FFH accidents. The identified causes were used to develop a questionnaire survey, which was administered to construction professionals in Saudi Arabia. Useable feedback from ninety-one responses was obtained and consequently analysed using the Relative Agreement Index (RAI). The results revealed that the top three causes include “lack of training”, “no safety inspection”, and “no safety meeting and seminar between stakeholders”. The causes were also categorized into three groups including “unsafe acts”, “unsafe conditions”, “communication barriers”, and “management commitment”, where “unsafe acts” was the most influential category. The significance of this study is its potential to help control the occurrence of FFH in the construction industry through the adoption of relevant controls, safety training, and risk-based decision-making in the planning and execution of construction works.

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The influence of a goal programming approach for safety management practices on the performance of a selected Indian construction organization

Prasad S.V.S. Raja

Production Engineering Archives

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2019

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Vol. 24

43--47

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The construction industry in India is the second most important contributor to its gross domestic product. However, high rate of accidents and fatalities have tarnished the image of industry in India. Although the industry contributes significantly to the Indian economy, safety management is the primary concern alongside with frequent workplace accidents. The role of safety management is vital to improve safety performance of an organization. The functions of safety management include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and coordinating safety activities with an aim to minimize accidents/injuries. Safety trainings, employee participation, compliance of safety procedures and motivational schemes are part of safety management which influences the overall safety performance. Several metrics were developed to measure the safety performance of an organization but not a single measure will reflect the overall performance. The present study considered parameters pertaining to the safety management which have influence on the safety performance of a construction organization in India. The parameters are analyzed by formulating a goal programming model. The results of the study suggests that much improvement is needed in the area of safety trainings and the revised targets were established.

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Procesy zarządcze w systemie zarządzania bhp a poziom bezpieczeństwa w przedsiębiorstwie

Skład A.

Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Technika, Informatyka, Inżynieria Bezpieczeństwa

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2018

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T. 6

307--326

PL

System zarządzania bhp składa się z zestawu oddziałujących pomiędzy sobą procesów, a jego cel to zapobieganie wypadkom przy pracy i chorobom zawodowym oraz zapewnianie bezpieczeństwa w miejscu pracy. Przeprowadzono szereg badań, w ramach których dowiedziono, że realizacja wybranych pojedynczych procesów w sferze zarządzania bhp wywiera pozytywny wpływ na bezpieczeństwo zatrudnionych. Podjęto również wiele prób udowodnienia, że systemy zarządzania bhp są skuteczne, tj. spełniają swój cel. W badaniach tych stosowano różne miary skuteczności odnoszące się zarówno do całego systemu, jak i do poszczególnych procesów. Część badaczy posługiwała się wskaźnikami wypadków przy pracy, badała i analizowała zmiany w ocenie fizycznego i psychospołecznego środowiska pracy oraz zmiany w ocenie samopoczucia pracowników, a także wskaźniki w zakresie konkurencyjności i wyników ekonomicznych przedsiębiorstw. Inni opierali się w swoich badaniach na wynikach pomiarów poszczególnych procesów. Niemniej dotychczas przeprowadzone badania nie dały jednoznacznej odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy systemy zarządzania bhp wdrożone w przedsiębiorstwach są skuteczne ani jakie czynniki o tej skuteczności decydują. Bez wątpienia zapewnianie skuteczności systemów zarządzania bhp wymaga wdrażania, utrzymywania i doskonalenia w przedsiębiorstwach zestawu podstawowych procesów. Jednak istnieją odmienne poglądy na temat tego, które z tych procesów pełnią w systemach kluczową rolę. Według różnych naukowców i praktyków, skuteczność systemów zależy przede wszystkim od wiarygodnej i szczegółowej oceny ryzyka, od otwartej komunikacji i rzeczywistego zaangażowania pracowników, od wysokiej jakości szkoleń w zakresie bezpieczeństwa, od wnikliwego audytu i przemyślanych działań prewencyjnych lub od dojrzałego przywództwa w zakresie bhp. Proponuje się, aby - celem rozstrzygnięcia wątpliwości w tym zakresie - zastosować metodę rozmytych map kognitywnych. Wskazanie procesów w systemie, które w największym stopniu decydują o jego skuteczności ułatwi określenie priorytetów w obszarze doskonalenia systemów i może znacząco i pozytywnie wpłynąć na bezpieczeństwo zatrudnionych w przedsiębiorstwach, które wdrożyły systemy.

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The Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSH MS) consists of a set of processes that interact with each other, and its goals are to prevent injury and/or ill health to workers and to provide safe and healthy workplaces. A number of studies have been conducted, which proved that the selected occupational health and safety management processes have positive impact on the safety of employees. A the same time a lot of effort has been made to prove that OSH MSs are effective, i.e. meet their goals. In their studies, researchers applied different measures of effectiveness, relating to the entire system or individual processes: they used occupational injury rates, examined and analyzed changes in the assessment of the physical and psychosocial work environment and changes in the assessment of employees well-being, or took into account competitiveness and economic performance indicators. In some studies safety performance was measured by application of performance indicators for individual processes. Nevertheless, the research carried out so far did not give a definite answer to the question whether the occupational health and safety management systems implemented in enterprises were effective and which factors determined this effectiveness. Undoubtedly, ensuring the effectiveness of OHS MSs in enterprises requires the implementation, maintenance and improvement of a set of basic processes. However, there are different views about processes playing a key role in the systems. According to various scientists and practitioners, the effectiveness of systems depends primarily on a reliable and detailed risk assessment, on open communication and real employee involvement, on high quality safety training, on comprehensive audit and thorough preventive actions or on mature OSH leadership. In order to resolve this issue it is suggested to apply the Fuzzy Cognitive Map approach. Identification of processes that affect the system effectiveness most will facilitate the continual improvement of OSH MSs and can significantly increase employee safety in enterprises.

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Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Derivatives of 1,1,2,2-Tetranitraminoethane (TNAE)

Zhu C., Meng Z., Xu Z., Liu W., Liu Y., Shi X., Liu Y., Xie T.

Central European Journal of Energetic Materials

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2018

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Vol. 15, no. 3

435--444

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The introduction of anions and cations into energetic materials can significantly improve their physicochemical and energetic properties. The K, Zn, Ba, Cu and Pb salts of 1,1,2,2-tetranitraminoethane (TNAE) were synthesized using TNAE as the starting material, and were characterized by IR spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. All of the energetic salts exhibited relatively high thermal stabilities (decomposition temperatures ranging from 195.1 °C to 279.3 °C) and high densities (ranging from 2.1 g·cm–3 to 3.7 g·cm–3). It was demonstrated that the introduction of metal ions conveys better thermal stability than covalent TNAE itself. More importantly, the Zn, Ba and Cu salts exhibited good thermal stability, high density, low sensitivity, and therefore have the potential to be a new class of insensitive, highly energetic explosives for practical applications.

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Polish Railway Safety Performance in 2016

Mindur L., Sitarz M., Wachnik R.

Logistics and Transport

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2017

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Vol. 36, No. 4

5--14

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In comparison, railways are the safest mode of land transport, not only regarding pure safety performance indicators but also considering external costs to society and to a member state. As for Polish railways, the year 2016 was the safest since 2008 even despite the growth of the railway market. There are still elements that need to be taken care of, such as continuous improvement of safety culture so that there can be a consistency in safety statistics, and improvement of total safety performance. The other key aspect is the analysis of human factor with the involvement of professionals in the area of human performance since it seems that current activities are insufficient. Authors would like to summarise this short article regarding railway safety performance by saying that undoubtedly, railways are constantly the mass transport mode to choose regarding the safety of travel.

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Validating a Safety Climate Model in Metal Processing Industries: A Replication Study

Braunger P., Frank H., Korunka C., Lueger M., Kubicek B.

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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2013

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Vol. 19, No. 1

143--155

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This paper attempts to replicate a safety climate model originally tested in Australia to assess its applicability in a different context: namely, across production workers in 22 medium-sized metal processing organizations in Austria. The model postulates that safety knowledge and safety motivation mediate the relation between safety climate on the one hand and safety compliance and participation on the other. Self-report data from 1075 employees were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the replication study largely confirmed the original safety climate model. However, in addition to indirect effects, direct links between safety climate and actual safety behavior were found.