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Ensuring contract worker safety in complex organizational systems
Published in Ales Bernatik, Lucie Kocurkova, Kirsten Jørgensen, Prevention of Accidents at Work, 2017
J. Hayes, D. Paterno, Effie Eleftheriadis, S. Tepe
To prevent accidents and ensure worker safety, the creation and nurturance of effective safety culture is essential. Reason (1997) famously proposed that an effective safety culture has four key characteristics namely: A just culture in which a high degree of trust exists between management and workers including clear definitions of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour and an acknowledgement that genuine errors sometimes happen. This encourages the second characteristic:A reporting culture which encourages all workers to report incidents and minor errors (in addition to accidents) without fear of unfair sanctions as the basis for organisational learning.A learning culture which is able to make use of small opportunities such as incident reports to reflect on the state of safety.A flexible culture which has the ability to cope with the constant change experienced by most organisations in the modern world.
Hazard Risk Assessment
Published in Mary K. Theodore, Louis Theodore, Introduction to Environmental Management, 2021
Risk evaluation of accidents serves a dual purpose. It estimates the probability that an accident will occur and also assesses the severity of the consequences of an accident. Consequences may include damage to the surrounding environment, financial loss, or injury to life. This chapter is primarily concerned with the methods used to identify hazards and the causes and consequences of accidents. Issues dealing with health risks have been explored in Chapter 37. Risk assessment of accidents provides an effective way to help ensure either that a mishap does not occur or reduces the likelihood of an accident. The result of the risk assessment allows concerned parties to take precautions to prevent an accident before it happens.
Management Safety Activities
Published in Raymond J. Colvin, The Guidebook to Successful Safety Programming, 1992
Once an organization’s safety goals are established by senior management, they must be transmitted throughout the structural hierarchy in order to be effective in practice. The means of communication are important and may include meetings, written guidelines, accident investigation procedures, inspections, ongoing supervisory training, and other methods. Exhibit 2J provides guidelines for supervisors to use in solving departmental safety problems. The exhibit may also suggest other methods of communicating safety goals at other levels in the company.
Construction of injury process from Japanese consumer product narrative injury data using an ontology-based method
Published in International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2023
Xiaodong Feng, Kun Zhang, Fang Jiang, Yoshiki Mikami
Because the causal relationships between injury information are typically identified and interpreted by human experts in contrasting ways, different injury analysts face challenges in fully understanding how an injury event occurs. To assure a consistent understanding of the injury process, it is necessary to interpret cause-and-effect relationships in the construction of the injury process. In particular, accidents occur owing to a combination of human, physical, environmental, and managerial factors (Qureshi, 2008). Accident causation models can assist in describing the causes, processes, and consequences of accidents to determine how accidents happen (Fu et al., 2020). In addition, the development of accident causation models can clarify the causal relationship between these factors. Consequently, an accident model can define the intrinsic causal relationship between injury information, thereby describing the process of injury occurrence. Therefore, accident causation models are used in this study to define intrinsic causal relationships for consumer product injury data.
A systematic review of contemporary safety management research: a multi-level approach to identifying trending domains in the construction industry
Published in Construction Management and Economics, 2023
Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Mahmoud Ershadi, Marcus Jefferies, Manikam Pillay, Peter Davis
Two process-driven and people-driven perspectives characterize new research on safety management concepts. From a process-driven perspective, processes need to be further examined in detail to identify accident causation and the primary factors that lead to safety incidents. This perspective emphasizes the mechanism that causes accidents on various occasions. A chain of events that create accidents is investigated to find why accidents happen and how to prevent them in practice. In the people-driven perspective, attitude, behaviour and interactions of people are studied to explore underlying aspects of safety management. The inherent perception of individuals affects their safety behaviour and communications that contribute to shaping safety climate and culture in an organization. The network of dynamic relationships between safety agents and staff determines the quality of safety outcomes. This study argues that new safety management research calls for the coherency of these two perspectives and simultaneous consideration of their associated factors in a single framework. In this regard, the application of systems theory would be beneficial to capture the dynamic behaviour of effective factors in construction organizations.
Investigating barriers to accident precursor reporting in East Azerbaijan Province Gas Company from the perspective of HSE officers: a qualitative study
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Rasoul Ahmadpour-Geshlagi, Neda Gilani, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Mostafa Javanmardi, Seyed Shamsaledin Alizadeh, Saeid Jalilpour
Iran National Gas Company is one of the major national companies whose activities have many hazards. In this company, as in many large companies, accident precursor reporting has been considered. The purpose of accident precursor reporting is to prevent accidents and reduce damage to employees, environment, assets and reputation. For this purpose, the instructions for reporting anomalies in this company have been published and communicated to all provincial gas companies. An anomaly refers to any unsafe conditions or acts in the workplace. For this purpose, the instructions for reporting anomalies in this company have been prepared and communicated to all related provincial gas companies. There are four important terms in these instructions that are mentioned here. An anomaly refers to any unsafe conditions or acts in the workplace. An incident is an event that has harmed people or damaged equipment, property and the environment, or could have led to them. A near miss is an event that can lead to illness, injury or damage to facilities, the environment, the reputation of a company and business losses, but does not. In fact, any event that has the potential to cause injury or damage or loss, but does not occur under certain conditions, is called a near miss. An accident is an incident that has resulted in injury to people or damage to equipment, property and the environment.