Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences

Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences
Author: Urban Kjellen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498736661

This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to improve risk assessments, investigations, and organizational learning inside companies in order to prevent unwanted occurrences. The book helps the reader in analyzing the subject from different scientific perspectives to demonstrate how they contribute to an overall understanding. It also gives a comprehensive overview of different methods and tools for use in safety practice and helps the reader in analyzing their scope, merits, and shortcomings. The book raises a number of critical issues to be addressed in the improvement process.

Risk-Reduction Methods for Occupational Safety and Health

Risk-Reduction Methods for Occupational Safety and Health
Author: Roger C. Jensen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119493994

Provides a thorough overview of systematic methods for reducing risks encountered in diverse work places Filled with more theory, numerous case examples, and references to new material than the original text, this latest edition of a highly acclaimed book on occupational safety and health includes substantial updates and expanded material on management systems, risk assessment methods, and OSH-relevant concepts, principles, and models. Risk-Reduction Methods for Occupational Safety and Health is organized into five parts: background; analysis methods; programmatic methods for managing risk; risk reduction for energy sources; and risk reduction for other than energy sources. It comprehensively covers both system safety methods and OSH management methods applicable to occupational health and safety. Suitable for worldwide applications, the author’s approach avoids reliance on the thousands of rules, codes, and standards by focusing on understanding hazards and reducing risks using strategies and tactics. Includes more content on methods for reducing risks, citations of recent research, and deeper coverage of OSH-relevant concepts, theories, and models Merges methods and principles traditionally associated with occupational hygiene, ergonomics, and safety Provides substantial updates on management systems and theories of occupational incidents, and includes new case studies in many chapters to help demonstrate the "real world" need for identifying and implementing risk-reduction strategies Addresses occupational risks that go beyond current regulations and standards, taking an international approach by stressing risk-reduction strategies Supports adoption of the book for university courses by providing chapter-specific learning exercises and support materials for professors Risk-Reduction Methods for Occupational Safety and Health is ideal for safety professionals, system safety engineers, safety engineers, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, and anyone with OSH responsibilities. It is also an excellent resource for students preparing for a career in OSH.

The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off

The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Author: Professor Erik Hollnagel
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1409485994

Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly ‘human error’. This bias towards performance failures leads to a neglect of normal performance. It assumes that failures and successes have different origins so there is little to be gained from studying them together. Erik Hollnagel believes this assumption is false and that safety cannot be attained only by eliminating risks and failures. The alternative is to understand why things go right and to amplify that. The ETTO Principle looks at the common trait of people at work to adjust what they do to match the conditions. It proposes that this efficiency-thoroughness trade-off (ETTO) is normal. While in some cases the adjustments may lead to adverse outcomes, these are due to the same processes that produce successes.

Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World

Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World
Author: Stein Haugen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 3202
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351174657

Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presented at the 28th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018 in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21, 2018. The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk management Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World will be invaluable to academics and professionals working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors: offshore oil and gas, nuclear engineering, aeronautics and aerospace, marine transport and engineering, railways, road transport, automotive engineering, civil engineering, critical infrastructures, electrical and electronic engineering, energy production and distribution, environmental engineering, information technology and telecommunications, insurance and finance, manufacturing, marine transport, mechanical engineering, security and protection, and policy making.

Prevention of Accidents Through Experience Feedback

Prevention of Accidents Through Experience Feedback
Author: Urban Kjellen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203186176

Providing a practical introduction to the basic theories and principals of accident prevention through diagnosis and feedback control, this book presents the various methods and tools of safety, health, and environment (SHE) practice where experience feedback is employed. These include methods of accident and near accident reporting and investigation, workplace inspection, SHE performance measurement, and safety analysis and auditing. It also assesses potentials and limitations of the different methods and tools, including learning from experience of unwanted events and errors. It includes highly applicable data on developing a computer-supported SHE information system.

Nutritional Care of the Patient with Gastrointestinal Disease

Nutritional Care of the Patient with Gastrointestinal Disease
Author: Alan L Buchman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 3428
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1138001236

This evidence-based book serves as a clinical manual as well as a reference guide for the diagnosis and management of common nutritional issues in relation to gastrointestinal disease. Chapters cover nutrition assessment; macro- and micronutrient absorption; malabsorption; food allergies; prebiotics and dietary fiber; probiotics and intestinal microflora; nutrition and GI cancer; nutritional management of reflux; nutrition in IBS and IBD; nutrition in acute and chronic pancreatitis; enteral nutrition; parenteral nutrition; medical and endoscopic therapy of obesity; surgical therapy of obesity; pharmacologic nutrition, and nutritional counseling.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1254
Release: 1966
Genre:
ISBN:

Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety

Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1966
Genre: Accidents
ISBN:

Considers S. 2972 and similar H.R. 8989, both titled the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act of 1966, and related S. 996 and S. 3094, to establish Federal mine safety standards and a program of inspections and regulations enforcement. Includes Interior Dept report "Health and Safety Study of Metal and Nonmetal Mines, Vol. I" (p. 115-190).