integrated safety management Articles
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Health & Safety Management Explained
The Health & Safety of employees has never been more important. With rapidly changing working conditions and the emergence of new hazards, disconnected systems in information silos aren’t just inefficient, they’re dangerous. That’s why leaders in every industry are prioritizing enterprise-wide safety culture and integrating Health & Safety management into a company-wide ...
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Integrated risk assessment and safety management; transportation of dangerous goods
Regional risk assessment aims at identifying risks at regional levels by taking into consideration a large number of technical systems and their potential negative impact on the population and environment. This paper introduces a virtual case study for the risk assessment of transportation of dangerous goods in Switzerland; it solves it by means of Decision Support Systems and Stakeholders ...
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Strategies for mitigating risk to buildings from abnormal load events
Building structures customarily are designed to withstand loads from their occupants and the natural environment. The normal design process provides a measure of structural integrity that is also available to withstand events that traditionally have been outside the design envelope, including accidents, misuse, and sabotage. Changes in design and construction practices over the past several ...
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Management systems for sustainable construction: integrating environmental, quality and safety management systems
The management systems implemented by contractors are paramount to encouraging sustainable construction. Evolving from developments in the manufacturing industries, a number of forward-looking contracting organisations are at the forefront of establishing Integrated Management Systems (IMS) within the UK. IMS can provide a framework for sustainable construction through the effective management of ...
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Decision-support software tools for integrated risk assessment of hazardous substances in complex terrain
This paper presents the ongoing research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, related to the design and implementation of an IDSS (integrated decision support system) dedicated to integrated risk assessment and safety management with application to the transportation of hazardous substances. One of the goals is to construct advanced models to estimate (a) the optimal ...
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Can I Use SharePoint for Safety Management?
SharePoint is a diverse Microsoft software application. It is the most popular collaboration and document management system in the world, with over 190 million users. SharePoint’s diversity has led to adoption across business functions, including Safety Management—so how can you use it, and should you? SharePoint has key functional areas assisting with safety management ...
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Vaclav Havel Airport Prague Case Study
"The Scarecrow BIRD Tab system is very effective and easy to use. Airport operational staff can operate with the BIRD Tab system professionally after several weeks of experience " -Jan Kadlec , Head of Airfield Operations Václav Havel Airport Prague is the main international airport of Prague, the capital of Czech Republic It serves around 15 million passengers to over 155 scheduled ...
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Do You Need A Safety Management System?
Managing workplace safety is an important goal that many corporations have recognized as a logical and effective way to provide a better environment for employees to work in, and to cut corporate costs. A key component in safety management is the software system used to record, manage, and analyze safety related data. With an effective system, the safety team can see exactly where accidents and ...
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Multi-gas detector functions, characteristics and options
1. Take you understand multi gas detector A multi gas sensor detects a specific gas and measures whether the gas is present near the sensor, or its content in the air. Therefore, gas sensors are often indispensable in safety systems. The gas sensor has many different types and can measure different gases. There are sensors that measure non-toxic gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, and ...
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Editorial: Dealing with technical risks in a region
The ETH Polyproject on 'Risk and Safety of Technical Systems' took the initiative to research various aspects related to regional risk assessment and safety management. This Editorial asks, What is integrated area risk assessment and safety management? It briefly considers how to define a region and the objectives and scope for an integrated regional risk assessment and safety management (IRRASM) ...
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Culture clash: Use training to build your safety culture
Culture is the tendency in all of us to want to do the right thing in the right way at the right time, ALL the time — even when no one is looking. Culture is the result of all the actions and inactions in institutional and work force memory. Good cultures evolve from common values and attitudes developed as the group seeks to properly solve common problems; it is hard to measure and more ...
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Reliability data for modelling complex systems: some comments on data-handling in integrated regional risk assessment and safety management
Reliability data assessment may be a part of integrated regional risk assessment and safety management (IRRASM). This article considers the description and modelling of technical events within reliability analysis. Normally, problems arise in a practical approach, for example in the description of components and their failures, to warrant homogeneity of samples and to choose an adequate source of ...
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Guidelines for the selection of consultants advising SMEs on integrated quality, environment, health and safety management systems
Introduction The aim of this CWA is to provide a guide for professional integrated management system consultants, as well as internal personnel acting as an integrated management system manager. Organisations managed under the ISO 9000 principles, are required by legislation to satisfy environmental and health and safety systems requirements as well. Although standards application and ...
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ABC Tree commits to safety, curbs fines with Intelex software
TORONTO—Courtesy of Intelex Technologies Inc.’s proven Safety Management Solutions, U.S. vegetation and utility management provider ABC Tree has been able to build a safer work environment and mitigate the impact of fines imposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). ABC Tree, one of America’s largest and fastest-growing vegetation management and electric ...
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De Beers - Case Study
De Beers is running their entire Canadian operations, including several remote locations in Northern Canada from their head office in Toronto, Canada. They are using Intelex's fully integrated Environmental, Quality and Health & Safety Management System. Challenge Required a robust management system to maintain ISO 9001, ISO14001 and ISO 17025 certification. Wanted a system to track ...
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Behaviour change and worker engagement in the construction industry case study
The Client Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has the day-to-day responsibility to protect people against risks to health and safety arising out of work activities. They do this through research, information and advice, promoting training, new or revised regulations and codes of practice, inspection, investigation and enforcement. The Problem The construction industry is one of the UK's most ...
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Increased demand for XRF analyser hire
Steve Drake, NDT Market Manager at Ashtead Technology believes that XRF is one of the most important technologies in the company’s fleet of NDT and environmental testing instruments. “With a small amount of training, almost anyone can implement detailed inspections in a wide variety of applications, and with most instruments being lightweight and robust, XRF analysers are among the ...
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Managing Low-level Radioisotopes as Part of a Company´s Total Lifecycle of Chemicals and Radioactive Materials
Chiron Corporation is one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies with businesses in biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood testing. In addition to manufacturing facilities, Chiron has an extensive research and development organization, which works with chemicals and radioactive materials. Under Federal, State and Local regulations, as well as corporate operating procedures, ...
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Leveraging the Web for Environmental Quality, Health and Safety
Untitled Document The principles of continual improvement from management systems such as ISO 14001 and Six Sigma are well known. Less clear is how these principles can be applied to environmental quality, health and safety (EQH&S) performance. In today's competitive business world, it's difficult for an organization to find time to proactively implement and manage ...
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Future-proofing Against Operational and Labor Challenges While Maintaining Critical Infrastructure
Before COVID-19’s arrival, critical infrastructure operators and their supporting contractors were well aware of the need to effectively recruit new employees as more and more skilled field employees approached retirement, while concurrently working to upskill the existing workforce and begin leveraging new technologies to fill the resulting gap. Now, the need (and desire) to work remotely, ...
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