Tweed Courthouse: New Approach to Life-Safety Management in a Landmark Public Building

APT Bulletin ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Waite ◽  
Nancy A. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Life Safety ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Public Building

scholarly journals Carbon copy

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Reveley ◽  
John Singleton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Underground Coal Mining ◽  
Underground Coal Mine ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Carbon Copy ◽  
Historical Usage

Purpose By juxtaposing fatal colliery explosions in early twentieth-century Britain and in 2010 at Pike River, New Zealand, this paper aims to investigate the generalizability of the mock bureaucracy concept to underground coal mining disasters. Design/methodology/approach The main source is published official accident inquiries; a methodological reflection justifies the use of these materials. Findings Mock bureaucracies existed in the British underground coal mining milieu from the time when safety rules were first formulated in that industry context. As for Pike River, it is an exemplary case. The development in 1970s Britain of a new approach to safety management (the Robens system), and its subsequent export to New Zealand, means that a contemporary coal mine under financial duress, such as Pike River, is a prime site for mock bureaucracy to flourish. Originality/value Although the concept of mock bureaucracy has been applied to an explosion in an underground coal mine before, this is the first paper to explore the concept’s historical usage and generalizability in explaining the environing context of such explosions.

The Willed and the Unwilled Monument

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mechtild Widrich
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The Willed and the Unwilled Monument: Judenplatz Vienna and Riegl’s Denkmalpflege takes a new approach to the competition for the Monument and Memorial for the Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime in Austria. Noting the complication of the case by the discovery of medieval archaeological remains on Vienna’s Judenplatz, and the ambivalence of the jury in choosing a sculptural project that made no reference to these remains, Mechtild Widrich turns to a lucid source of thinking about memory and public building, Alois Riegl’s essay on the monument cult (Denkmalkultus) and the newspaper articles and government documents he produced on the same subject. Through Riegl’s distinction between “willed” and “unwilled” monuments, and the force the latter exert on the subjectivity of modern spectators, the choice and execution of Rachel Whiteread’s “Nameless Library” in Vienna becomes intelligible, as do wider trends in restoration and commemoration of the late 1980s and 1990s.

scholarly journals Flight safety event management method as illustrated by a guided reactivity model

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
B. I. Bachkalo ◽  
S. D. Baynetov ◽  
S. G. Bolbat
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Event Management ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
System Protection ◽  
Dynamic Events ◽  
Safety Event ◽  
Event Based

The article provides a brief analysis of the problems of the existing flight safety management system in the state aviation of the Russian Federation, based on the lack of stable positive dynamics of accidents reduction. Brief conclusions from the analysis of the currently proposed scientific approaches for accidents reduction are given. The most significant practical results in the field of building a safety management system for a particular flight are considered. A new approach to the implementation of on-board flight safety management systems based on event management is proposed. The method of event-based safety management of a particular flight allows us to exclude the real time manifestation of known dangerous factors. To implement it, all processes related to known hazards are described in the form of events and assembled into complete groups of events. Control of the occurrence of the complete groups of events, their analysis and event management are carried out by event management models developed for each dangerous factor. When a certain number of events in one or several complete groups of events is reached, the aviation system protection algorithm, by preventing the occurrence of the remaining one or several events of the complete group, prevents erroneous actions of the crew, which prevents the occurrence of aviation incidents and accidents. As an example of the method implementation, the principle of forming an automated guided reactivity model of the event control contour for the dangerous factor "Violation of the Established Minimum Safe Parameters of the Aircraft Flight" in relation to an arbitrary maneuverable aircraft is considered in the article. The system, having registered the events that determine the group flight, is included into the analysis of dynamic elementary events determining the position of the wingman relating to the leading aircraft inside the event control contour in terms of range, angle of sight and altitude separation. When the parameters of one of the dynamic events approach the boundary of the event control contour, the system uses a recommendation or control action to set limits to the parameters not to go beyond the contour, which prevents the occurrence of erroneous actions of the crew.

scholarly journals Modern regulations of safety assurance for maglev transportation

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Vladimirovich Shmatchenko ◽  
Pavel Andreevich Plekhanov
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Railway Safety

In article regulatory framework of maglev are considered, the international experience is analysed and conclusions for Russian practice are drawn. Modern management methods of safety of transport systems are based on principles of advance to occurrence of dangerous events. These principles include: - application of forecasting methods (aprioristic estimation methods) at an estimation of safety and substantiation of safety measures - a principle of «the new approach»; - estimation of safety taking into account risk from action of casual and systematic failures; - safety management in a complex with management of reliability, availability, maintainability, material support and life cycle cost. Necessity of application of «the new approach» to railway safety, including the high-speed railways, formally has been established by the Railway Safety Directive 2004/49/EC. This Directive orders to use: - analysis and management of risk at all life cycle stages of the technical systems participating in formation of traffic service, and at early stages of life cycle are made look-ahead estimations of risks which are compared with admissible values of risk; - common safety targets, common safety indicators and common safety methods on all space of the European Union; - common approaches to certification of safety and the harmonised supervision bodies; - common typical safety management system, based on ISO 9001principles. For activity expansion on performance of Railway Safety Directive of the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization CENELEC have been developed and now frame standards EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129 are applied.

Use Management System to Improve Highway Safety

2011 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 1524-1527
Author(s):  
Zhao Hui Li ◽  
Yan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Highway Safety ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Logical Architecture

Based on discussed the characteristics of highway traffic accidents’ severity and distribution in detail, this paper puts forward a new approach that is use safety management system to improve highway safety, establishes it’s logical architecture, puts emphasis on the advantage of institution, standard, safeguard, supervision and implementation.

Resilience Engineering: A New Approach for Safety Management

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Schafer ◽  
T. S. Abdelhamid ◽  
P. Mitropoulos ◽  
T. Mrozowski
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Resilience Engineering ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals 2025

2016 ◽  
pp. 1663-1670
Author(s):  
Stacie L. Fain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Airport Management ◽  
New Approach

Several governmental entities: the Secretary of Transportation; the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Commerce; the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); and industry, aligned their resources to develop the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), a new approach to safety at airports in the United States (U.S.). NextGen places the responsibility for safety within airport management and changing the FAA's role from testing, inspecting, and certifying to approval and periodic audits of the Safety Management Systems (SMS) programs at U.S. airports. The purpose of the research was to determine, through a comprehensive literature review and evaluation, whether SMS will be used as the framework for U.S. airports to move safely into the year 2025. The researcher concluded that the vision for SMS implementation was well defined and the requirements fairly clear, but guidance and support for SMS implementation at U.S. airports are lacking.

scholarly journals Evaluation of resilience engineering using super decisions software

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholam Abbas Shirali ◽  
Leila Nematpour
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Resilience Engineering ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
Top Management Commitment ◽  
Network Process

Background: Resilience engineering (RE) is a new approach to upgrade safety management systems. Due to its novelty in the field of safety, RE seems to be promising in providing good indicators to assess priorities in organizational strengths/weaknesses while planning to promote safety within organizations. Several methods have been recently developed to evaluate RE performance. The current study is an attempt to quantify and determine the priorities of RE dimensions in a steel industry using analysis network process (ANP). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 489 male workers of a steel industry participated. For this purpose, the RE questionnaire was distributed among workers and, then, super decisions software (version 3.2) was used to analyze the data. Results: The results indicated that there was a sufficient level of RE in the organization where top management commitment with normalized weight 0.1781 and awareness-opacity with normalized weight 0.1483 were ranked as the first and last priorities of the organization, respectively. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the top management system, with the adoption of safety policies, has been able to improve the performance of RE in the organization. Managers should consider appropriate measures to improve the RE situation.

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