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Mayer, David L., Scott F. Jones, and Kenneth R. Laughery. "Accident Proneness in the Industrial Setting." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 31, no. 2 (September 1987): 196–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128703100213.
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The central notion of the accident proneness concept is that people exposed to equivalent hazards do not have an equal number of accidents. If people were equally accident prone, one would expect accidents to be distributed according to chance. Using accident data collected at Shell Oil Company's Manufacturing Complex in Deer Park, Texas, the present study explored the proneness concept for major (OSHA recordable) and minor accidents by comparing the observed distribution of accidents to a chance distribution. The database contains information on 7131 accidents which occurred between 1981 and 1986. The methodology used to create expected values employed a Poisson distribution and assumed that accidents are distributed randomly among the population at risk. The minor accident data was also analyzed by job family. Chi-square analyses of the differences between the expected and observed distributions were found to be statistically significant, including within each job family. The data for minor accidents indicates a striking difference between the expected and actual distributions. Many more people suffered repeat accidents than would be predicted by chance. Approximately 3.4% of the employees accounted for 21.5% of the accidents. While the differences for major accidents was statistically significant, these results are not nearly so striking. The statistical effects are largely due to five employees who were involved in three major accidents in the five year period. In the context of this very large industrial setting, the problem of individuals having repeated minor accidents is significant and merits attention in developing safety interventions.
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Abbas, Mohsin, and Balkhyour A. Mansour. "A retrospective study about the trend analysis of Industrial accidents in Pakistan." International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health 5, no. 2 (August 6, 2017): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v5i2.14281.
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Background: Occupational accidents in developing countries like Pakistan are obvious due to poor occupational health safety infrastructure. Objective: This retrospective study aimed to analyze the industrial accidents in factories of Pakistan during 1993-2009. Methods and Material: An index value calculation method used to investigate the trends of occupational accidents. Accident rate (103), fatal accident rate (105), and non-fatal accident rate (103) were also calculated. Pakistan Statistical Year Books published by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) used as data source.Results: Data of total 10330 industrial accidents analyzed and decreasing accident rate found with average 3.1 accident per 103 factory workers. Fatal accident increased with an average of 23 fatal accidents per 105 factories workers. Regarding the severity of industrial accidents, minor accidents found at 74% followed by serious (18%) and fatal accidents (8%). Decreased trends of index values and accident rates can associate with the increased human development index of Pakistan, but increased fatal accidents in factories and under-reporting are major areas of concern for safety stakeholders. Conclusions: Despite industrial accidents decreased in factories but more in depth studies with more recent data about the root causes of accidents can be useful to draw a true picture of occupational accidents in Pakistan. Improved social security system in Pakistan can be helpful to the exact recording of occupational accidents data.
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Shahani, Comila. "Industrial Accidents: Does Age Matter?" Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 31, no. 5 (September 1987): 553–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128703100516.
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This study examined the relationship between risk of accident involvement and the aging process. It was predicted that the relationships between age and accident frequency and severity would differ depending upon job context. The study also examined the extent to which progressive selection was a factor. 7,131 accidents that occurred over a five year span in a large Southwestern petrochemical facility were analyzed. In addition, information about age and employment history was obtained for the 3,015 employees at this plant. There were no differences in the proportions of employees in different age groups across job families indicating progressive selection was not a factor in this workforce. Younger workers had higher overall accident rates than older employees; but there were few differences between them in the proportion of severe accidents incurred. The relationship between age and accident frequency and severity did not differ across job families (except in the oldest age group, where the accident frequency rate declined for two of the five job families).
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Aw, T. C., and J. M. Harrington. "Industrial accidents." BMJ 298, no. 6666 (January 14, 1989): 68–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.298.6666.68.
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Kang, Sung-Yong, Seongi Min, Won-Seok Kim, Jeong-Hun Won, Young-Jong Kang, and Seungjun Kim. "Types and Characteristics of Fatal Accidents Caused by Multiple Processes in a Workplace: Based on Actual Cases in South Korea." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 4 (February 11, 2022): 2047. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042047.
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As the social cost of disasters increases and safety is being emphasized, policy regulations at the national level have been implemented. However, various fatal accidents are continually occurring as continued economic development and enhanced technologies have increased demand and complicated the industrial structure. Workers in different industries, performing similar jobs, often experience different workplace hazards, which can result in similar types of accidents. Therefore, new policy regulations have been established to separate multiple processes and work in workplaces and are being implemented in several countries to minimize damage caused by new types of industrial accidents. Supervision and management appropriate for contractors or safety and health officials with legal obligations are required to play a regulatory role when these types of industrial accidents are likely to occur. This study classified accidental types and their characteristics based on actual cases, in which potential risks exist at multiple processes in a workplace. First, raw data of work-related fatalities that occurred in South Korea were reviewed and classified as fatal accidents caused by multiple processes in workplaces using the proposed method. Next, the classified actual cases were prepared as statistical data and analyzed based on the various categories. Finally, the accident type based on multiple processes, including risks and characteristics, in workplaces was proposed. As a result, this study improved the safety awareness and understanding of regulatory subjects regarding industrial accidents caused by multiple processes in workplaces and is expected to improve the effectiveness of the existing policy to prevent workplace accidents.
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Kim, Kwan Woo. "Characteristics of forklift accidents in korean industrial sites." Work 68, no. 3 (March 26, 2021): 679–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203402.
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BACKGROUND: Although using forklifts in industrial sites contributes to productivity, many workers have been injured or killed owing to industrial accidents caused by forklifts. OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed the characteristics of forklift accidents by employment type and work process, thereby identifying the factors contributing to industrial accidents and providing recommendations to prevent accidents. METHODS: Data on 1,061 industrial forklift accidents occurring in 2018 collected from the national injury insurance compensation database were analyzed. In addition to analyzing the accident characteristics, this study performed a risk assessment per forklift work process. RESULTS: Many accidents were associated with older workers, those employed for < 6 months, and workplaces with ≤49 workers. The risk was the highest for accidents involving caught-in objects in the loading/unloading step and collision accidents in the forward- and backward-driving steps. CONCLUSIONS: Measures are needed to prevent industrial forklift accidents. First, forklift and worker movement routes must be strictly separated or controlled by a work supervisor. It is necessary to secure a time margin for workers to avoid collapsing cargo by using an appropriate tool/jig during loading/unloading. Second, guidance, inspection, and support are needed to promote employers’ safety and health awareness in workplaces with < 50 workers. Lastly, intensive education and training concerning health and safety is required for workers with less than six months of experience.
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Fyfe, Paul. "Accidents of a Novel Trade: Industrial Catastrophe, Fire Insurance, and Mary Barton." Nineteenth-Century Literature 65, no. 3 (December 1, 2010): 315–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2010.65.3.315.
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Paul Fyfe, "Accidents of a Novel Trade: Industrial Catastrophe, Fire Insurance, and Mary Barton"(pp. 315––347) This essay argues for the industrial novel as a form of risk management, in dialog with the insurance business and its particular problems with fire. elizabeth Gaskell's abiding concerns for workplace accidents and compensation in Mary Barton (1848), focused by a spectacular mill fire, contests the definition and "writing"of risk on commercial terrain. At the same time, various fire insurers, scrambling to manage a risk that seemed beyond control, invented hybrid strategies of description that impinged on the domain of novelists. I demonstrate how changing concepts of accident and risk characterize the unstable political landscape of England's industrial north, measure the increasingly material pressures on property and life, and inform diverse practices of writing, particularly those that novelists shared with the insurance industry. ultimately, the "queer elements of the accidental and the arbitrary"for which Henry James denigrates the Victorian novel may derive from such historical circumstances in which writers like Gaskell absorb accidents as a practice of the genre.
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Won, Jeong-Hun, Hyeon-Ji Jeong, WonSeok Kim, Seungjun Kim, Sung-Yong Kang, and Jong Moon Hwang. "Mechanisms Analysis for Fatal Accident Types Caused by Multiple Processes in the Workplace: Based on Accident Case in South Korea." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 18 (September 11, 2022): 11430. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811430.
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This study aimed to develop the accident mechanism of fatal accidents taking place in multiple processes at the workplace. Multiple processes were defined as the existence of multiple work types and work processes in the same workspace. Recently, various processes are frequently conducted simultaneously in one workplace with the participation of several companies, and more workers are increasingly experiencing industrial accidents while working in multiple processes. To prevent accidents in the multiple processes caused by the sameness of work period and space, the accident process was investigated by analyzing the investigation reports on serious industrial accidents in South Korea, and then the accident mechanism model was developed. By utilizing the developed model, the major safety measures to be taken by the contractor for each of the 8 types of accidents caused by the multiple processes were drawn. The roles and responsibilities of the contractor to be implemented in order to prevent accident occurrence in multiple processes were proposed through the accident mechanism of each type of fatal accident. It is expected that the accidents taking place in the multiple processes can be prevented with the drawn results.
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Park, He rim. "A Study on effectiveness of the Serious Accident Punishment Act." Wonkwang University Legal Research Institute 39, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22397/wlri.2023.39.2.3.
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In Korea, even though there were laws such as occupational safety and health law and criminal law, such as occupational negligence and loss of life due to industrial accidents, the proportion of deaths from industrial accidents is still higher than that of advanced countries, and large-scale accidents such as the Icheon fire accident continue to occur. Accordingly, along with awareness of safety, the theory of responsibility for industrial accidents has become a hot topic. As part of that, it has been one year since the introduction of the Severe Disaster Punishment Act was enacted. As a result of the implementation, the investigation is prolonging as the proportion of cases processed is less than 30%, and the effectiveness of the Severe Accident Punishment Act is strongly questioned as only one case has been prosecuted. Rather, the news that the manager is strengthening legal services to avoid his responsibility is that the intention of introducing the Severe Disaster Punishment Act, which was expected to strengthen prevention and safety measures due to strong punishment, disproves that it is flowing in a different direction. Therefore, in this paper, in order to examine the direction of practical application of the Serious Accident Punishment Act, the Industrial Safety and Health Act, which already has similar constituent requirements, and the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 will be closely compared and examined, and accordingly, the problems of the Severe Accident Punishment Act will be examined. And, based on James Reason's Swiss cheese model, which analyzed the causes of accidents caused by industrial accidents, along with improvement measures for the effectiveness of the Severe Accident Punishment Act, I'll discuss what is the direction for reasonable attribution of responsibility and prevention of recurrence.
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Deghal Cheridi, Amina Lyria, Amel Dadda, Abdellah Bouam, and Ahmed Dahia. "Transient Simulation of an Industrial Steam Boiler." Algerian Journal of Signals and Systems 7, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 77–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.51485/ajss.v7i2.164.
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The safety analysis of an industrial installation is extensively based on modeling and simulation. However, the analysis of simulation using realistic computer codes like RELAP5/Mod3.2 will help understand thermal-hydraulic behavior of an installation during normal and accidental conditions. In a steam boiler operation, it is very important to evaluate numerous accident scenarios under real plant conditions. One of the main accidental transients is tube rupture of steam boiler. The main objective of this study consists toinvestigate the behavior of an industrial steam boiler installed in the complex of natural gas liquefaction (LNG) at Skikda in Algeria during feed water line break accident. A RELAP5 model was set up to simulate the entire system, the model represents all steam boiler components to be suitable for the analysis of the several accidents. The control and regulation systems are also considered. The model was qualified against the steam boiler data at steady-state conditions. As seen from the results, a good agreement was obtained. The transient simulation results show that the thermal-hydraulic code correctly predicts the behavior of the main steam boiler parameters and how the control system, when required, can successfully mitigate the accident.
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Pałęga, Michał, and Marcin Knapinski. "Analysis of Circumstances and Causes of Accidents Working in a Selected Industrial Undertaking." New Trends in Production Engineering 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 331–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ntpe-2019-0097.
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Abstract The subject of this publication is to analyze the circumstances and causes of accidents at work in a selected industrial enterprise that provides services in the field of waterjet cutting and laser beam. The paper present the statutory definition of an accident at work and its basic categories (light, heavy, mortal and collective accident). It also discusses the most popular accident investigation method – the TOL method, which classifies the causes of accidents into three basic groups: material-technical, organizational and human. In the further part of the work the characteristics of the waterjet operator’s work station were made, including the scope of activities, possible occupational hazards and preventive actions. Next, the results of the analysis of the circumstances and causes of accidents at work were presented. In the period from 2013 to 2018 eight accidents were reported, resulting in minor injuries, such as cuts and cuts, fracture of the phalanx, overloading of the spine, leg twisting or knee injury.
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Markowski, Adam S., and Dorota Siuta. "Selection of representative accident scenarios for major industrial accidents." Process Safety and Environmental Protection 111 (October 2017): 652–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2017.08.026.
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Gejje, Somashekar. "An Overview of Single Hospital Based Study on Industrial Related Accidental Injuries Needing Plastic Surgical Solutions." Journal of Advanced Plastic Surgery Research 2, no. 1 (March 31, 2016): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31907/2414-2093.2016.02.08.
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Industrial accidents are the major cause of industrial injuries. In 1956, a WHO group defined an accident as “an unpremeditated event resulting in recognizable damage. Causes of industrial injuries are classified as injury due to mechanical failure, injury due to defective material, injury due to electronic failure and injury due to faulty design of equipment and injury due to environmental condition. General Principles of managing industrial related injuries are: Elimination/Substitution, Engineering Control, Administrative Controls, Work Practice Controls, Personal Protective Equipment PPE. However every year throughout the world there are many industrial accidents and the world is paying heavily for that (i.e., for accidents and injuries) in terms of both human suffering and huge economic loss. A proper health care system should, therefore, be provided for control and prevention of industrial accidents among workers during their working period. Hence, in developing an efficient health care system, proper information on the status of occupational accidents/injuries in the industry are prime factors to be gathered. Keywords: Industry, Injuries, Reconstruction.
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MIKA, Otakar Jiří, and Pavel OTŘÍSAL. "Modelling of Accidental Impacts of Hazardous Chemical Substances in the Czech Republic." Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation 2022, no. 1 (November 3, 2022): 135–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.47459/cndcgs.2022.16.
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The issue of major chemical accidents in the Czech Republic is first mentioned from a historical point of view. The following are the main hazardous impacts of chemical accidents. The next part is a comparison of the accidental impacts of major emergencies, such as toxic leakage, explosion and fire, even with examples of several typical chemical substances. Some factors of the main hazardous chemicals with a focus on toxic substances are discussed in detail. The modelling of accident impacts is presented in the next section on a detailed comparison of the accident impacts of nine main industrial chemical toxicants. The article also draws attention to the serious danger of the possible misuse of toxic substances in particular for hostile acts of chemical terrorism.
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Yoo, Byung-Tae, and Woo Sub Shim. "Evaluating the Efficiency of the Process Safety Management System through Analysis of Major Industrial Accidents in South Korea." Processes 11, no. 7 (July 6, 2023): 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr11072022.
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The process safety management (PSM) system was introduced in South Korea in 1996, wherein a company voluntarily organizes and manages a chemical accident prevention system, which contributes to reducing chemical accidents. However, large- and small-scale chemical accidents occur frequently. This trend necessitates analysis and improvement of the PSM systems. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between major industrial accidents, their main causes, the status of accidents by company size and industry, and the PSM evaluation grade through an analysis of 130 accidents that occurred in the past 17 years (2005–2021). The results showed that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with fewer than 100 employees accounted for 36% of all accidents, indicating a higher occurrence rate than large companies. Additionally, the proportion of companies with inadequate PSM levels, rated as M-grade (M+, and M−), were 67.0%, suggesting a high probability of major industrial accidents. The results of this study show that a company’s voluntary safety management can be induced by an improved PSM system and management plan, which is expected to prevent major industrial accidents.
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Pecherkin, A. S., A. I. Grazhdankin, and N. L. Razumnyak. "Trends in the Dynamics of Background Indicators of Accident Hazards at Hazardous Production Facilities." Occupational Safety in Industry, no. 11 (November 2022): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24000/0409-2961-2022-11-14-19.
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For the constructive implementation of a risk-oriented approach in the field of ensuring industrial safety, the real guidelines are needed for the existing hazards of accidents, as well as the achieved and desired level of ensuring industrial safety. One of the important indicators of the industrial safety state can be the background risk of accidents, which is recorded not at a separate hazardous production facility, but in the branch systems of hazardous industries. By changing the ratio of the background risk of an accident in the industry and at a specific supervised facility, one can judge the status and the efficiency of industrial safety management systems at an operating hazardous production facility. A hazardous production facility, as the main source of knowledge about hazards and the application of forces in the field of ensuring industrial safety, has the distinctive properties of both «hazard» and «productivity». To assess the state of safety at a hazardous production facility, special indicators are required that show the interaction of the properties of «hazard» and «productivity». The article presents the trends in the proposed indicators of accident hazard in certain industries over the past 25 years. These indicators do not cancel, but only supplement the traditional indicators of accidents and injuries allowing to assess the risk of accidents in the transitional and crisis periods. The background risk of an accident is a representative indicator for assessing the efficiency of using both traditional control and supervision approaches and mastering modern risk-oriented approaches to industrial safety regulation.
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Baek, Heechong, Dong Ha Kim, and Yongil Jeon. "A Study on Disclosure Items of Safety and Health Management System for Major Injury Prevention." Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis 18, no. 2 (February 28, 2022): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14251/crisisonomy.2022.18.2.29.
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The Serious Accidents Punishment Act was enacted in a surprise move to raise corporate managers' interest and awareness of fatal accidents, effective on January 2022. The government policy to reduce serious disasters by punishments has significant limitations. Thus, it is important to conduct a study on estimating industrial accident costs in the safety and health management system so that companies can voluntarily check the workplace realities. In order to strengthen the occupational safety and health (OSH) management system, this study focuses on the development of safety accident cost disclosure items, estimating industrial accident loss costs, both direct and indirect. The OSH disclosure items can be divided into general information of companies, OSH management system, OSH budget and expenses, certification status, and corporate industrial accident information. And also the OSH disclosure survey form was developed.
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Bae, Suk Won, Sarah Soyeon Oh, Wha Me Park, Jaehoon Roh, and Jong-Uk Won. "Changes in Income after an Industrial Accident According to Industry and Return-to-Work Status." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 14 (July 22, 2019): 2603. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16142603.
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Objective: To investigate changes in the incomes of workers, particularly those in the construction sector, who experienced industrial accidents according to their status of return to work. Methods: We used data from the fifth Panel Study of Workers’ Compensation Insurance. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to compare annual differential incomes before and after the industrial accident, and a linear mixed model was used to investigate the changes in income from before to after the industrial accident according to the industry and return-to-work status. Results: A comparison of the industrial categories revealed that construction industry workers exhibited the greatest incomes before the accident and the greatest decrease in income after the industrial accident. Regression analysis for assessing changes in income after the industrial accident showed that a comparison by industry revealed a significantly greater reduction in income in the construction than service industry. A comparison by work status revealed significantly greater decreases in income in the reemployment and non-return to work groups than among those who returned to their original work. Conclusions: The economic statuses of the victims of industrial accidents decreased relative to the pre-accident statuses in all industries. The ability to return to original work is important for preserving the accident victim’s economic status.
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Samia, Chettouh, Rachida Hamzi, and Mourad Chebila. "Contribution of the lessons learned from oil refining accidents to the industrial risks assessment." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 29, no. 4 (June 11, 2018): 643–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-07-2017-0067.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to employ lessons learned from the industrial accidents in Skikda refinery during the period from 2005 to 2016 as input data for the numerical simulation of risk consequences to identify the exposed areas to the various effects of industrial accidents.Design/methodology/approachIn order to assess how the lessons learned can contribute to modeling the accidents effects in the refining activities, this paper presents a combined statistical/dynamic approach that combines two main tools, namely, lessons learned from petroleum refining in Algeria and Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres software.FindingsThe results showed that fire is the most frequent accident at Skikda refinery that is mainly caused by equipment failures with a frequent involvement of crude oil and LNG. The NO2toxic effects are unacceptable. This means that in the case of a similar accident, the entire population will be exposed to an intolerable concentration of NO2. Therefore, people must be relocated to a safer place. The results indicate that the concentration threshold can be met beyond the distance of 1 km.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the economic importance of Skikda refinery and the absence of data related to the accidents in the refineries of Algiers, Arzew and Hassi Messaoud, this study is limited to the statistical analysis of accidents related to Skikda refinery.Practical implicationsThis approach makes the risk assessment more practical and effective for the appropriate utilization of safety barriers and for the whole decision-making process.Originality/valueThis work presents a review paper of accidents that occurred in the oil-refining sector in Algeria, whose objective is learning lessons from past accidents history, by identifying their immediate causes and effects on personnel, equipment and environment in order to propose prevention measures. The novelty of this work is highlighted by the fact that this statistical analysis of oil and gas refining accident is realized for the first time in Algeria. This is due to the difficulty of obtaining data on accidents in the Algerian refining sector; for this reason, the authors have limited the study to the Skikda refinery.
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Igboanugo, A. C. "Markov Chain Analysis of Accident Data: The Case of an Oil and Gas Firm in the Niger Delta Area of Nigeria." International Journal of Engineering Research in Africa 1 (February 2010): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/jera.1.29.
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Concerned that management of job-oriented accidents has remained a daunting challenge for all stakeholders in Nigeria oil-industry, a longitudinal study was made to appraise the patterning of episodic incidence of industrial accidents in a typical oil and gas company operating in the Nigeria flank of the oil-rich Niger Delta Basin. A 10-year historical accident data were characterized and found to have absorbing chain properties. Four open-and-shot transition states namely : fatality, accident, near-miss and unsafe act, that are subject to ergodicity, were identified and used to craft a value digraph which define the stable transition probability matrix. The results, which suggest that on the average, 59% of staff are wasted through fatality or severe accidents, also points to escalating rates of fatalities and disabilities stemming from accidents thus calling for the need to review the existing hazard operations studies (HAZOPS) and hazard identification schemes (HAZIDS) so as to assist in whittling down, as low as reasonably practicable, the perceived unpleasant trend. The author is of the opinion that industrial accident victims, unlike in road traffic accident (RTA), habituate several times before entering the absorbing state.
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Lim, Jeeyoung, Dae Gyo Jung, Chansik Park, and Dae Young Kim. "Computer Vision Process Development regarding Worker’s Safety Harness and Hook to Prevent Fall Accidents: Focused on System Scaffolds in South Korea." Advances in Civil Engineering 2022 (July 31, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4678479.
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In South Korea, industrial accidents continue to increase in frequency, with construction accidents accounting for more than a third of all industrial accidents. Specifically, by preventing fall accidents, the death rate from accidents can be reduced by 50%. Fall protection is required to prevent fall accidents, and investigating the reinforcement of the worker’s safety harness and hook fastening becomes imperative. This requires automation of computer vision confirmation of the safety harness and hook fastening. As the accident risk can be reduced by an effective safety culture in the system, it is necessary to monitor safety on site through a construction safety automation system. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop a computer vision process for safety harness and hook for preventing fall accidents in South Korea’s construction industry. This study focuses on system scaffolds that are widely used at construction sites. The application of this methodology to sample sites and field cases established its applicability. The proposed computer vision application methodology will serve as the foundation for visualization research in the construction industry, and image recognition will help reduce the safety accident rate. Accidents caused by failure to use a safety harness and hook can be reduced in South Korea as well as globally. Additionally, this methodology is applicable to roof construction, tower crane installation and dismantling work, as well as steel tower installation and dismantling.
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Bae, Suk, Sehyun Yun, Ye Lee, Jin-Ha Yoon, Jaehoon Roh, and Jong-Uk Won. "Income Changes Due to Disability Ratings and Participation in Economic Activities Caused by Industrial Accidents: A Population-Based Study of Data from the Fourth Panel Study of Workers’ Compensation Insurance (PSWCI)." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 11 (November 6, 2018): 2478. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112478.
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Industrial accidents cost a huge amount of money, but they also have negative consequences in many respects. We analyzed the data of the first to fourth panel study of workers’ compensation insurance (PSWCI). Repeated measures ANOVA was used to compare the annual income before and after the industrial accident, and a general linear model was used to identify changes in income due to disability ratings and participation in economic activities. The wages before the industrial accident and the annual income varied among the disabilities ratings. In addition, for affected workers, the average income during four years post-accident was lower than the average income before the accident. Regression analysis to see changes in income after the industrial accident showed that the group with a disability rating of 11–14 and no injuries had a suffered a greater income decrease than those with a disability rating of 1–3, and the unemployment group saw a greater decrease in income than the employment group. Workers who were affected by industrial accidents received lower incomes than before the accident, and even considering different disability ratings, there was a greater decrease in income among the unemployed group than in the working group.
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Choi, Jun Ho, Jong Yong Park, and Sang Gu Lee. "A study on the effects of the 4 factors(4M) of safety on excavator accident." Forum of Public Safety and Culture 25 (November 30, 2023): 261–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.52902/kjsc.2023.25.261.
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The construction industry is a disaster-prone industry, which accounts for about 50% of all industrial accidents, and the frequency of construction equipment use is increasing due to the large size and high-rise of structures in domestic construction projects, and the possibility of serious accidents is increasing, and in the event of a disaster, it is characterized by high intensity and high human and material losses. Despite existing research to solve these problems, construction machinery accidents have not decreased at construction sites, and this study aims to identify the cause of the accident by dividing the cause of the accident into four categories, examining the results, and contributing to the establishment of basic data to establish measures to prevent future construction accidents.
This study is composed of five categories and I. In the introduction, research background, purpose, scope of research, and research method were presented, and II. In the theoretical consideration, H. W. Heinrich's 1959 theory of accident chain reaction, F. E. Fird's latest theory of disaster chain, construction machine accident cases, and prior research, III. The research method consisted of research questions, research hypotheses, operational definition of variables, composition of measurement tools, and surveys, IV. In the analysis results, general characteristic analysis, correlation, hypothesis verification, V. Through the conclusion, the test results were recorded and the direction setting of the limitations of the study and the impact of the four elements (4M) of future safety on excavator accidents was presented.
<Table 7> shows how 'the four elements of safety (4M) affect excavator accidents at the construction site, which is a research problem, and the effects of Man (t=0.914, p=0.361) and Media (t=0.200, p=0.841) on excavators were not found to be significant. Accordingly, '[Hypothesis 1, 3] Human and environmental factors at construction sites will affect excavator accidents.' was rejected, and the effects of Machine (t=3.527, p<0.001), Management (t=5.988, p<0.001) on excavators have a significant impact, and accordingly, '[Hypothesis 2, 4] mechanical and management factors will affect excavator accidents at construction sites.'The research hypothesis 'was adopted.
In the excavator accident, mechanical factors such as connection and mechanical device malfunction of the brought equipment and management factors such as safety inspections of equipment and surroundings before work are the most affected by the disaster impact. Accordingly, it is necessary to establish and implement measures through risk assessment during excavator work to identify industrial accident characteristics and social issues by industry and occupation to reduce accidents and deaths caused by industrial accidents, It is necessary to present policy directions and alternatives to prevent accidents and deaths more efficiently through multidimensional surveys and analysis of the risk of deaths and accidents in the area, and active research should be conducted.
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Yoon, Young-Geun, Changbum Ryan Ahn, Sang-Guk Yum, and Tae Keun Oh. "Establishment of Safety Management Measures for Major Construction Workers through the Association Rule Mining Analysis of the Data on Construction Accidents in Korea." Buildings 14, no. 4 (April 4, 2024): 998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings14040998.
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Despite increasing industrial advancements, fatal and severe accidents, such as “Falls,” “Struck-by,” “Hit by an object,” “Be crushed,” and “Caught-in/between” accidents, persist in developed countries, including Korea. Various methods, including risk assessment, monitoring systems, technology improvements, and safety education, are being implemented to reduce accidents. However, only a few studies have revealed the causes of accidents and their interrelationships; these studies are based on limited data. Korea recently published accident data using national statistical systems, including the construction safety management integrated information (CSI), enabling the analyses of major accident types. Here, we selected various representative accident cases to minimize the duplication of the data published from 2019 to 2023 and applied the Material, Method, Machine, or Man (4M) analysis method, a risk assessment technique, to perform an accident-type-based association rule mining (ARM) analysis of the accident factors. Through the ARM analysis, we quantitatively identified complex correlations for major accidents. Based on the 4M factors derived through this analysis, we improved a 2–4 model for accident causation and proposed safety management measures for each construction entity.
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Lee, Taejun, Keanseb Woo, Panyoung Kim, and Hoekyung Jung. "Design and Implementation of Industrial Accident Detection Model Based on YOLOv4." Applied Sciences 13, no. 18 (September 9, 2023): 10163. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app131810163.
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Korea’s industrial accident rate ranks high among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Moreover, large-scale accidents have recently occurred. Accordingly, the requirements for management and supervision in industrial sites are increasing; in this context, the “Act on Punishment of Serious Accidents, etc.” has been enacted. Aiming to prevent such industrial accidents, various data collected by devices such as sensors and closed-caption televisions (CCTVs) are utilized to track workers and detect hazardous substances, gases, and fires at industrial sites. In this study, an industrial area requiring such technology is selected. A hazardous situation event is derived, and a dataset is built using CCTV data. A violation corresponding to a hazardous situation event is detected and a warning is provided. The events incorporate requirements extracted from industrial sites, such as those concerning collision risks and the wearing of safety equipment. The precision of the event violation detection exceeds 95% and the response and delay times are under 20 ms. Thus, this system is believed to be used at industrial sites and for other intelligent industrial safety prevention solutions.
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Kwon, Kui-Kam, Woo-Kyun Jeong, Hyungjung Kim, Ying-Jun Quan, Younggyun Kim, Hyunsu Lee, Suyoung Park, et al. "Appropriate Smart Factory : Demonstration of Applicability to Industrial Safety." Academic Society for Appropriate Technology 7, no. 2 (November 20, 2021): 196–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.37675/jat.2021.7.2.196.
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As industrial safety increases, various industrial accident prevention technologies using smart factory technology are being studied. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which account for the majority of industrial accidents, are having difficulties in preventing industrial accidents by applying these smart factory technologies due to practical problems. In this study, customized monitoring and warning systems for each type of industrial accident were developed and applied to the actual field. Through this, we demonstrated industrial accident prevention technology through appropriate smart factory technology used by SMEs. A customized monitoring system using vision, current, temperature, and gas sensors was established for the four major disaster types: worker body access, short circuit and overcurrent, fire and burns due to high temperature, and emission of hazardous gas. In addition, a notification method suitable for each work environment was applied so that the monitored risk factors could be recognized quickly, and real-time data transmission and display enabled workers and managers to understand the disaster risk effectively. Through the application and demonstration of these appropriate smart factory technologies, the spread of these industrial safety technologies is to be discussed.
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Kovshov, Stanislav, Ruslan Istomin, Andrei Nikulin, and Alexandra Sotiriu. "Industrial Injuries Appraisal in Mines of JSC “SUEK Kuzbass”." Advanced Materials Research 1001 (August 2014): 414–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1001.414.
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In this article the existing appraisal system of industrial injuries applied in mines of JSC “SUEK Kuzbass” is considered. Its merits and demerits are analyzed. As addition to applied system it is offered to use a topographical industrial injuries analysing method. Its application allows to investigate more deeply the reasons of industrial injuries and to undertake measures for its minimization. This article includes the estimation risk method of industrial injuries in mines which based on the statistics of industrial accidents and allows managing more efficiency of financing to labour. Technical approach for industrial accidents analysis in mines is represented. More over it contains information about geological and technical conditions the place of industrial accident. It has been proved the possibility to forecast industrial accident in mines by each factor which based on score method of the risk estimation For the first time realized classification of mines on the group where the main measure is the result of using the new method. The result of the study introduced on the industrial safety executive system of JSC “SUEK Kuzbass” (Russia).
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Rusakova, T. I. "ANALYSIS OF THE LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES." Ukrainian Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, no. 2 (020) (June 3, 2024): 82–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.30838/j.bpsacea.2312.260324.82.1046.
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Problem statement. The task of the research is evaluation the dynamics of changes in the level of injuries at work depending on the main causes of the accident. Technical, organizational, psychophysiological, technogenic, social, natural and environmental causes are closely interrelated and have a significant impact on the number of victims of accidents at the industrial plants, as well as on the number of victims of accidents with fatal consequences. The purpose of the article. The assessment of changes in industrial injuries at Ukrainian enterprises during 2010−2022. The establishing connection between social and industrial factors affecting the rate of industrial accidents. The creation of correlation-regression models for statistical evaluation and analysis of the influence of factor variables on the results of injury. Methodology. The use of descriptive statistics for the analysis of the dynamics of changes in the level of industrial injuries. Carrying out a correlation analysis to establish the density of connection between factor variables and resulting features. The use of regression-variance analysis to obtain coefficients of regression mathematical models and statistical indicators that explain the probability of significance of these coefficients. Calculation of the value of the relative error of the calculation data obtained according to mathematical models to confirm their adequacy. Scientific novelty. Multiple correlation-regression models have been developed that take into account the main causes of the accident as factor variables affecting the injury rate and the rate of fatal accidents. Practical significance. Mathematical models make estimate the impact of the main causes of accidents on the level of industrial injuries. The implementation of improved methods and means of safe activity at work is an important tool for correcting the cause-and-effect relationships of industrial injuries. Conclusions. The correlation-regression models were created to analyze the level of industrial injuries in Ukraine. The numerical calculations were carried out according to these models. The average values of the relative errors of the calculated data are 1.55 % and 6.08 %, which indicates the adequacy of the developed models.
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Pradyavita, Vicitra, Muhammad Zainul Arifin, and Sobri Abusini. "Model Peluang Kecelakaan Mobil Penumpang pada Ruas Jalan Nasional Gempol Kabupaten Pasuruan." Rekayasa Sipil 17, no. 2 (May 3, 2023): 230–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21776/ub.rekayasasipil.2023.017.02.16.
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The increase in accidents is caused by a vehicle, humans, roads, and environmental factors. On the gempol national road in Pasuruan,Regency,0this;study;aims,to;identify;the;characteristics;of,car,drivers, roads, and opportunity models that cause accidents. Data analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) included 243 questionnaires of drivers who had experienced accidents. Road Characteristics based on user perceptions that focus on geometric conditions at the accident site are the most prevalent accident modeling results that affect accident intensity. If we want to reduce accident rates, we should prioritize addressing geometric conditions at accident sites, as well as socializing traffic awareness and installing signs in accident-prone areas.
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KALDA, G. S., Yu S. SOKOLAN, К. А. RYBALKA, and D. SZPAK. "SOCIAL INSURANCE AGAINST INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES : TRENDS OF LEARNING FOR STUDENTS." Ukrainian Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, no. 2 (July 9, 2022): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.30838/j.bpsacea.2312.260422.37.849.
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Problem statement. The article analyzes the situation in some countries of the world and Ukraine related to insurance accidents. It is shown what causes of accidents prevail and what they are connected with. The necessity of a large-scale teaching in the educational institutions, connected with the labor protection, accidents prevention, accidents insurance has been analyzed in order to provide the future specialists with the full understanding of possible problems at work and ability to handle them. The relevance of international cooperation in the field of labor protection, accident prevention and the system of insurance against accidents and occupational diseases is considered. The purpose of the article. Analysis of the legislation and scientific research on the development for field of protection against accidents at work and occupational diseases, and to provide a brief description of the European countries legislation on assistance to workers in the insured event case. Conclusions. The analysis of development tendencies for social insurance against accidents and occupational diseases by the example of EU countries and Ukraine has fulfilled. It shows the importance of preventive insurance programme creation, which includes implementing regulatory measures by incorporating labor protection norms into social insurance programs against accidents and occupational diseases; strengthening monitoring of occupational safety both in the enterprise and at national level; eliminating the informal economy by applying the International Labor Organization standards. More attention should also be focused to injury prevention, training workers, training students − future workers and managers, providing them with more educational services in disciplines that can provide knowledge on the preservation of life and workers health.
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Gavrilova, О. "TO THE ANALYSIS OF EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE OF SOCIAL INSURANCE FROM ACCIDENTS OF PRODUCTION AND PROFESSIONAL DISEASE." Social Law, no. 2 (April 19, 2019): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.37440/soclaw.2019.02.05.
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The article analyzes the foreign experience of social accident insurance industrial accidents and occupational diseases in countries such as Bulgaria, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and others. The author noted that the use of advanced foreign experience in the field of social insurance against industrial accidents and occupational disease is impossible without rethinking and abandoning the dominant today in Ukrainian society the state-paternalistic approach, according to which the full responsibility for the social security of the population rests with government agencies.
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Erdreich, John. "Warning audibility in industrial accidents." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125, no. 4 (April 2009): 2629. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4784028.
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Vernon, W. "Boom time [industrial accidents prevention]." Engineering Management 15, no. 5 (October 1, 2005): 42–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/em:20050509.
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Renni, Elisabetta, Elisabeth Krausmann, and Valerio Cozzani. "Industrial accidents triggered by lightning." Journal of Hazardous Materials 184, no. 1-3 (December 2010): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.07.118.
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Lopes, António M., and J. A. Tenreiro Machado. "Power Law Behavior and Self-Similarity in Modern Industrial Accidents." International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 25, no. 01 (January 2015): 1550004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218127415500042.
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Advances in technology have produced more and more intricate industrial systems, such as nuclear power plants, chemical centers and petroleum platforms. Such complex plants exhibit multiple interactions among smaller units and human operators, rising potentially disastrous failure, which can propagate across subsystem boundaries. This paper analyzes industrial accident data-series in the perspective of statistical physics and dynamical systems. Global data is collected from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) during the time period from year 1903 up to 2012. The statistical distributions of the number of fatalities caused by industrial accidents reveal Power Law (PL) behavior. We analyze the evolution of the PL parameters over time and observe a remarkable increment in the PL exponent during the last years. PL behavior allows prediction by extrapolation over a wide range of scales. In a complementary line of thought, we compare the data using appropriate indices and use different visualization techniques to correlate and to extract relationships among industrial accident events. This study contributes to better understand the complexity of modern industrial accidents and their ruling principles.
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Wei, Jiuchang, Han Wang, and Xiumei Guo. "Stock Market's Reactions to Industrial Accidents." International Journal of Business Analytics 1, no. 2 (April 2014): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijban.2014040102.
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This study attempts to explore whether and how stock market responds to industrial accidents. We employ the event study method to look into the responses of stock markets to 83 accidents experienced by various listed companies in China, and explore how industrial accidents influence stock market in the different markets. Findings imply that the stock market shows negative reaction with respect to these accidents. However, as time goes by, the market reaction tapers off. In the bear market, the negative market reaction was highly significant. Small-sized companies, in comparison with other companies, have a most significant reaction to accidents and they also have the worst ability to recover from accidents. The findings of this study can help the investors to better understand how the stock market reacts to the industrial accidents in different market environments and under other conditions.
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Hwang, Jong-Moon, Jeong-Hun Won, Hyeon-Ji Jeong, and Seung-Hyeon Shin. "Identifying Critical Factors and Trends Leading to Fatal Accidents in Small-Scale Construction Sites in Korea." Buildings 13, no. 10 (September 28, 2023): 2472. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13102472.
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Small-scale construction sites in South Korea account for about 91.5% of all construction workplaces and contribute to 72.3% of the total accidents and fatalities. Safety measures at these sites are often underestimated, and proper safety education is lacking. In particular, the fatality rate is about 4.43 times higher compared to medium-/large-scale construction sites. In this study, a systematic analysis was conducted to examine the causes and trends of industrial accidents in small-scale construction sites to address these issues. This study analyzed industrial accidents in small-scale construction sites using statistical analysis, LDA topic modeling, and network analysis based on data from the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) from 2018 to 2022. The analysis revealed that the most critical cause of accidents in small-scale construction sites is ‘Scaffolding and working platforms’, with accidents primarily involving ‘Fall’. Furthermore, various risk factors and accident trends were identified in apartment construction, new building projects, and mobile scaffolding usage. This study systematically analyzed the causes and trends of industrial accidents at small-scale construction sites, providing important evidence to enhance safety management and preventive measures. The results are expected to play a crucial role in establishing a safety culture at construction sites and ensuring the wellbeing of construction workers.
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Arun, P. A., S. M. Tauseef, and U. Uniyal. "Comparison of Accident Databases and Analysis of Past Industrial Accidents in the Chemical Process Industry." Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research 12, no. 4 (August 1, 2022): 8922–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.48084/etasr.5079.
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Despite India being home to some of the worst chemical industry disasters, there is no proper accident reporting and analysis mechanism. The National Informatics Centre of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) presented an online accident database called CAIRS to assist Past Accident Analysis (PAA). This paper compares CAIRS with major accident databases widely used by safety professionals. The parameters considered for compassion are scope, accessibility, method of data collection, quality, and the frequency of reporting. Past accident analysis showed that the total number of reported events is more or less steady and the number of major accidents is decreasing marginally in European countries, whereas in India only a few states report accidents using the CAIRS platform. The analysis raised serious concerns about the monitoring of reported information in the Indian database. At present, the information available in this database is not reliable and any conclusion based on this information can be misleading. Suggestions are offered to enhance the efficacy of the Indian accident database.
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Wahyuni, Wahyuni. "Risk Factors Associated with Work Accidents on Nurses in Dr. RM. Pratomo District General Hospital Bagan Siapiapi Rokan Hilir District." Jurnal Kesehatan LLDikti Wilayah 1 (JUKES) 2, no. 1 (April 30, 2022): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.54076/jukes.v2i1.210.
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The results of the 2016 National Safety Council report show that the Occurrence of work accidents in hospitals was 41% greater than another industrial workers. Based on the results of interviews conducted with 10 nurses in Dr. RM. Pratomo District General Hospital, 6 of them work accidents while the other 4 nurses did not experience work accidents. The purpose of this study was determine the risk factors associated with work accident on nurses in Dr. RM. Pratomo District General Hospital. The study used an analytical survey method with a cross sectional approach. The research population is all nurses as many as 124 people with a sample of 95 people were taken using accidental sampling technique. Data analysis used univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis with logistic regression test statistics. The results showed that the p-value = 0.326, knowledge = 0.008, attitude = 0.241, action = 0.031, policy = 0.030 and use of PPE = 0.007. The conclusion of this study is that there is relationship between knowledge, actions, policy and the use of PPE with work accidents, While tenure and attitudes have no relationship with work accidents. It is hoped that this research can be used as input for hospital management, especially hospital leaders, heads of installations/sections on the importance of implementing work safety.
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Kátai-Urbán, Maxim. "Managing the Environmental Risks of Dangerous Goods Warehouses." Hadmérnök 15, no. 4 (2020): 89–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.32567/hm.2020.4.6.
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Industrial accidents occurring at logistics facilities used for the storage of dangerous goods can have, as a result of contaminated water generated during fires, major environmental consequences to the surface and ground waters. In the present study, the author presents the causes and effects of major industrial accidents that may occur in logistics warehouses used for the storage of dangerous goods, as well as the interpretation of the series of serious accident events. Then he examines the design of facilities for the collection and storage of contaminated fire water.
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Grazhdankin, A. I., A. S. Pecherkin, and V. I. Sidorov. "On the Possibility of Uniform and Counterproductive Identical Criteria for Assessing the Risk of an Industrial Accident." Occupational Safety in Industry, no. 10 (October 2023): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24000/0409-2961-2023-10-36-44.
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The risk-oriented approach in ensuring industrial safety is intended to orient industrialists, supervisory authorities and the expert community in the existing emergency hazards and threats of today industrial Russia. In recent decades, there is a dangerous trend of opportunistic introduction of universal criteria for safe operation. In fact, instead of a risk-oriented approach, a risk-prescriptive approach is proposed. Any risk assessment methodology is only a means for measuring hazard, and is not at all a guarantor or a witness of compliance with safety. In order to eliminate measurement errors as much as possible, it is required to evaluate not the absolute level of accident hazard, but the relative one. The tools for measuring hazard (accident risk assessment at a hazardous production facility) cannot give a reliable, comprehensive conclusion about the safety of a hazardous production facility. Safety is not a mechanistic absence of hazard, but a systemic property of the technical-social system «source of hazard — those at risk» to function in conditions of changing hazards and threats that arise from them. Hazards are objective, and safety is a cultivated systemic property of hazardous industries to prevent the transformation of hazards into threats. In a risk-oriented approach to industrial safety, it is required to distinguish between information social engineering technology risk management (impact on ideas about hazards and threats) and organizational and technical management of a directly hazardous production facility, controlled by hazard analysis with a reliable assessment of the risk of an accident. The main criterion for ensuring the safe operation of a hazardous production facility should be considered a set of limit values of safe operation parameters and conditions for non-occurrence of emergency threats of major industrial accidents in the performance of existing industrial safety requirements. Criteria for acceptable accident risk must be established in accordance with the industry level of emergency threats. Due to the significant variety of possible causes of accidents, scenarios for their occurrence and development, a wide range of possible consequences of industrial accidents, it is not possible to establish absolutely identical, so-called «unified» criteria for acceptable accident risk for different hazardous production facilities: acceptable accident risk as a measure of acceptable hazard, cannot be accepted as a single criterion for ensuring industrial safety of a hazardous production facility. Unified criteria for assessing the risks of accidents at industrial facilities are not single and individual microscopic probabilities that are not the same for all different industries. Unified criteria are a unified set of methods for developing, establishing, testing and adopting criteria for assessing hazards using risk as a special measure of hazard.
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Cozzani, Valerio, Michela Campedel, Elisabetta Renni, and Elisabeth Krausmann. "Industrial accidents triggered by flood events: Analysis of past accidents." Journal of Hazardous Materials 175, no. 1-3 (March 2010): 501–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.10.033.
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Koo, Chae-Chil, Dong-Hyun Seo, and Pil-Hyeok Lee. "Analysis of Explosion Accidents in a Chemical Plant using STAMP, a Systematic Cause-and-effect Analysis Technique." Fire Science and Engineering 35, no. 5 (October 31, 2021): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/kifse.ff34dc1f.
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The process safety management system for chemical plants was introduced approximately 25 years ago. With the improvement in the safety management levels for the safe operation of the chemical plants, the number of serious industrial accidents has gradually decreased; however, increased damages have been observed when accidents do occur. The cause of accidents has also increased in cases where several factors, including social and cultural factors, are complexly related, in addition to facility and human factors. The need for an overall integrated systemic approach related to society, technology, and organization, and a sequential approach for finding the direct cause of accidents, is growing while analyzing the accidents. For this reason, foreign countries have introduced and applied a method to analyze accidents in an integrated manner from a systemic point of view; however, reports of cases or research results used in Korea. In this study, the case of explosion accidents, which occurred during a trial operation at a domestic chemical plant, was analyzed using Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, a systematic accident analysis technique, to reveal the primary cause, organizational, and operational problems, so that it can be used for future investigations when other accidents occur.
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Dwyer, T., and A. E. Raftery. "Industrial accidents are produced by social relations of work: A sociological theory of industrial accidents." Applied Ergonomics 22, no. 3 (June 1991): 167–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-6870(91)90156-c.
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Chen, Ming Liang, Zhi Qiang Geng, and Qun Xiong Zhu. "Method for Estimating the Domino Effect in Quantitative Assessment." Applied Mechanics and Materials 319 (May 2013): 536–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.319.536.
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Accidents caused by the domino effect are the most destructive accidents in the chemical process industry. These chains of accidents may lead to catastrophic consequences and may affect not only the industrial sites, but also people, environment and economy. However, quantitative risk assessments do not usually take the domino effect into account in a detailed, systematic way, mostly because of its complexity and the difficulties involved in its incorporation. A method for quantitative assessment of domino effects is presented. The consequence and probability of a certain accident can be estimated. The domino sequences from the initial accident to the last accident can be obtained. The method has been implemented in a case study. The results show that it can indeed be used to estimate the impact of the domino effect in quantitative assessment.
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Xue, Peng Li, Xiao Feng Sun, Yun Song, Yan Jun Cheng, and De Zhi Sun. "Lessons Learned From Major Environmental Accidents and Regulations on Hazard Control in China." Applied Mechanics and Materials 204-208 (October 2012): 3462–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.204-208.3462.
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China is suffering from severe environmental accidents that many have catastrophic impacts on public health and the environment. It is urgent to update the standards for environmental accidents prevention in China. This paper analyses the causes of fifty-three major accidents that happened in 2008 to obtain insight to help prevent similar events in the future. The results show that production accidents, which were mainly triggered by process analysis, training and human error, were the dominant causes of environmental accidents in China. In addition, current regulations on the control of environmental accident hazards and their implementation are also presented in this paper, which comprise legal requirements centering on hazardous chemicals, industrial safety evaluation, risk analysis and preparation of emergency plans. Based on our analysis, some key points that should be developed in future environmental accident hazard control measures are put forward with the aim of shedding light on decision making and risk management in China.
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Rahim, Norizan Baba. "DYNAMIC SAFETY INTERACTIONS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF WORK LIFE: A PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENGINEERS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES." International Journal of Innovation and Industrial Revolution 3, no. 9 (December 5, 2021): 09–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijirev.39002.
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In Malaysia's manufacturing industry, workplace accidents and injuries are a big problem. This industry has made only minor progress in terms of reducing fatalities and significant injuries. The fatal injury rate decreased marginally; however, the previous year's severe injury rate stayed unchanged. (Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), 2021). As a result, manufacturing safety continues to be a severe issue in Malaysia. The organisational nature of industrial accidents has been highlighted in safety literature, and empirical study has focused on determining the organisational, managerial, and environmental elements that influence accident causation. The majority of prior works have emphasised the concept of safety culture (or safety climate). Scholars have recently begun to look into additional organisational elements, such as the impact of organisational environment, leadership style, and occupational stressors on industrial accidents. This study presents a conceptual framework to investigate the interaction between safety climate and safety behaviour in Malaysia's manufacturing sector, with the goal of developing more effective safety interventions to reduce accidents.
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Permyakov, Mikhail, Alexander Ilyin, Vladimir Andreev, Konstantin Voronin, and Tamara Krasnova. "Assessment of reliability and accident risk for industrial buildings." MATEC Web of Conferences 251 (2018): 02007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201825102007.
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The methodology contains principal provisions on defining reliability and accident risk of industrial buildings and establishes requirements necessary to identify the life expectancy of a building. The methods are intended to be used in diagnostics and identification of the technical condition and life expectancy of buildings that exceeded the lifespan established in their design, reference documentation or after accidents and renovations.
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Hosmer, Larue Tone. "Lessons From The Wreck Of The Exxon Valdez." Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 (1998): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ruffinx1998112.
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Investigations of large scale industrial accidents generally take one of two alternative approaches to identifying the cause or causes of those destructive events. The first is legal analysis, which focuses on the mechanical failure or human error that immediately preceded the accident. The second is socio-technical reasoning, which centers on the complexities of the interlocking technological and organizational systems that brought about the accident. Both are retrospective, and provide little insight into the means of avoiding industrial accidents in the future. This article looks at six levels of managerial responsibility within a firm, and suggests specific changes at all levels that should logically help in the prevention or mitigation of these high impactllow probability events. The most basicneed, however, is for imagination, empathy, and courage at the most senior level of the firm.
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Chen, Qing Guang, Guo Hua Chen, and Qing Ye. "Assessment Model of Accident Emergency Management System Performance for Chemical Industrial Park Based on Immune Mechanism." Applied Mechanics and Materials 321-324 (June 2013): 1894–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.321-324.1894.
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Chemical accidents happen in workplaces all around the world. To improve the accident emergency management system is an important methodology to reduce the casualty and loss caused by accidents. In the light of the principles of immune system, the paper tried to analyze the accident emergency management system of chemical industrial park. It elaborated the similarities between immune system and accident emergency management system in the aspects of their existing environment, action object, function and adjustment mechanism. Immune mechanisms were used to formulate the assessment indexes of accident emergency management system performance. Inspired by immune system that keeps the living body healthy in “no antigen condition” and “touching antigen condition”, the assessment index system was formulated from the perspectives of “non-emergency condition” and “emergency condition”. Through the improved analytic hierarchy process, the weights of assessment indexes were calculated. Furthermore, the linear weighted model was applied in the building of the assessment model, which was then used to analyze the accident emergency management system of a chemical industrial park in Guangdong province, China. Through the data from expert investigation questionnaires, the scores of nine assessment indexes reflected accident emergency management system performance were obtained. The result showed that the model is helpful in analyzing the accident emergency management system performance and in improving the accident emergency management system in chemical industrial parks.