Process safety control for occupational accident prevention

2015 ◽  
pp. 377-382 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Occupational Accident ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Safety Control

Industry Process Safety

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-151
Author(s):  
Ales Bernatik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Major Accident

This chapter deals with the issue of process safety in industrial companies and major accident prevention. In the present-day technologically advanced world, industrial accidents appear ever more frequently, and the field of major accident prevention has become a dynamically developing discipline. With accelerating technical progress, risks of industrial accidents are to be reduced. In the first part, possible approaches to quantitative risk assessment are presented; and continuing it focuses on the system of risk management in industrial establishments. This chapter aims at providing experiences, knowledge, as well as new approaches to the prevention of major accidents caused by the implementation of the Seveso III Directive.

Major accident prevention through applying safety knowledge management approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omid Kalatpour, MSc, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Knowledge Repository ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Chemical Accident ◽  
Safety Knowledge

Objective: Many scattered resources of knowledge are available to use for chemical accident prevention purposes. The common approach to management process safety, including using databases and referring to the available knowledge has some drawbacks. The main goal of this article was to devise a new emerged knowledge base (KB) for the chemical accident prevention domain.Design: The scattered sources of safety knowledge were identified and scanned. Then, the collected knowledge was formalized through a computerized program. The Protégé software was used to formalize and represent the stored safety knowledge.Results: The domain knowledge retrieved as well as data and information. This optimized approach improved safety and health knowledge management (KM) process and resolved some typical problems in the KM process.Conclusion: Upgrading the traditional resources of safety databases into the KBs can improve the interaction between the users and knowledge repository.

Is there a need for new theories, models and approaches to occupational accident prevention?

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 950-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Hovden ◽  
Eirik Albrechtsen ◽  
Ivonne A. Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Occupational Accident

Bringing to life line-of-sight for major accident prevention

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 641
Author(s):  
Philip Askew ◽  
Vikrant Mulgund ◽  
Leesa Tan ◽  
Robin Wright
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Major Accident ◽  
Safety Cases ◽  
The Uk

The process safety of exploration and production has evolved since Piper Alpha with safety cases, hazard identification studies (HAZIDs) in design and, more recently, Bow-Ties becoming industry norm; however, recent incidents such as Texas City, Macondo, Varanus Island and Montara have shown industry and regulators from the UK, Australia and beyond that complacency cannot be allowed. The industry has been acting on process safety, but it has struggled to bring it to life in daily operations. Missed warning signals, poor change management, failure to follow procedures, capability issues and lack of communication have been preventable factors in these incidents. Recent efforts in Australia, using the line-of-sight methodology, are advancing process safety by bringing to life major accident prevention. The methodology focuses organisations on systematic management of preventative barriers to accidents and can be applied to all elements of the value chain. The methodology involves: conducting analysis of safety cases; assessing performance standards and safety to identify critical preventative barriers; developing measures and assigning accountabilities to monitor barrier effectiveness; and, developing tracking and reporting systems to provide visibility across operations management. A case study about an Australian operator has shown benefits in improved safety and operational performance. This is done by focusing the operators on critical barriers (as well as their normal daily jobs), better visibility on the state of operations and hence allowing a proactive approach to managing process safety. The system is in its infancy, but it is being improved to support line-of-sight becoming a standard tool across the industry.

Occupational Accident Prevention

2008 ◽  
pp. 403-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Booth ◽  
Anthony J. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Occupational Accident
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