Download or read book Safety Insights written by Nektarios Karanikas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public safety, as well as the safety of products and services, is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organisations and society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we take them for granted and we do not appreciate the challenges professionals meet to make the world as safe as possible. Safety failures are less frequent but become focal points of stakeholders and the public with a tendency to blame and not comprehend the context and the hard decisions professionals have to make when balancing safety with competing goals. This edited book includes case studies from industry practitioners exactly as they experience them without relying on the understanding of researchers who conduct studies and try to map the overall situation per case based on multiple interviews, observations and questionnaires. Included are case studies from the aviation, construction, oil and gas, telecommunications, transportation, health and public safety industries. They are stories told by frontline practitioners who work to keep the public safe. In each chapter, the author, based on his/her professional experience, shares two real cases, one "success" and one "failure", explaining the background and approach, and critically reflecting why his/her initiatives and activities worked or didn’t work. They are descriptive of the case, context and tools, techniques, methods and approaches followed and include the valuable safety lesson learned. This book is a forum for professionals to express and share with others their knowledge and experience usually found implicitly or hidden under formal and informal practices.
Download or read book Steps to Safety Culture Excellence written by Terry L. Mathis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a clear road map to instilling a culture of safety excellence in any organization Did you know that accidental injury is among the top ten leading causes of death in every age group? With this book as your guide, you'll learn how to help your organization develop, implement, and sustain Safety Culture Excellence, vital for the protection of and improvement in the quality of life for everyone who works there. STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence is based on the authors' firsthand experience working with international organizations in every major industry that have successfully developed and implemented ongoing cultures of safety excellence. Whether your organization is a small regional firm or a large multinational corporation, you'll find that the STEPS process enables you to instill Safety Culture Excellence within your organization. STEPS (Strategic Targets for Excellent Performance in Safety) demystifies the process of developing Safety Culture Excellence by breaking it down into small logical, internally led tasks. You'll be guided through a sequence of STEPS that makes it possible to: Create a culture of excellence that is reinforced and empowered at every level Develop the capability within the culture to identify, prioritize, and solve safety problems and challenges Maintain and continuously improve the performance of your organization's safety culture Although this book is dedicated to safety, the tested and proven STEPS process can be used to promote excellence in any aspect of organizational performance. By optimizing the safety culture in your organization, you will give the people you work with the skills and knowledge to not only minimize the risk of an on-the-job accident, but also to lead safe, healthy lives outside of work.
Download or read book Leading with Safety written by Thomas R. Krause and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on years of research and experience in the field, Leading with Safety redefines organizational safety as an activity that both leads other performance areas and in turn must be led. Thomas Krause poses the question, "What does it take to be a great safety leader?" — and answers with a comprehensive new model for understanding safety leadership as it affects organizational culture and safety climate. Leading with Safety defines the practices, tools, and systems essential to creating an injury-free workplace, including the role of employees at each level, special considerations for coaching the senior executive leader, and the two crucial aspects of human performance that every leader needs to know. Ending with inspiring real-world examples or organizations that have put these tools into practice, Leading with Safety is written for any leader who wants to lead with safety toward a more robust, productive and effective organization.
Download or read book Ergonomic Insights written by Nektarios Karanikas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a great collection of work design testimonies with transferable lessons across many industry sectors and domains. It discusses physiological and cognitive parameters, teamwork, social aspects, organizational, and broader factors that influence work design initiatives. It is important to learn from practitioner stories and real-world conditions that affect the theoretical applications of work design. Readers will benefit from understanding the struggles and successes of the authors. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of human factors and user needs, including decision making in (ab)normal and safety-critical situations, physical ergonomics, design-in-use modifications, and tailored training. The text examines holistic approaches that lead to improved work methods, worker engagement, and effective system-wide interventions. Ergonomic Insights: Successes and Failures of Work Design is primarily written for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupational health and safety. Educators will also benefit from using these case studies in class lessons.
Download or read book Mindful Safety written by Christopher Langer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesising the latest thinking from neuroscience and psychology with the practice of safety management, Mindful Safety shows how a much stronger safety culture can be built from the ground up. Case studies, applied research and practical exercises all demonstrate how attention, and the ability to focus, can significantly boost performance and resilience, whilst reducing human error and the number of safety incidents. Representing a new kind of safety thinking to meet contemporary challenges, the book covers four critical levels: the individual, the relational, the organisational and the societal. The approach can be successfully applied to the healthcare, road, rail, aviation and energy sectors for greater safety and performance. The emphasis on self-care, strengthening relationships and learning from positives signals a clear shift in safety management thinking. This is not just an insightful, analytical approach, but an action-based one ready for implementation. Few approaches in the field tackle the subjects of sleep, fatigue, distraction, smartphone addiction, workplace stress and mental health with the same vigour, or provide the safety toolkit for fighting a pandemic. If you want to create the right mindset to achieve exceptional results in these uncertain times, this book will show you how. It is aimed at professionals in the health and safety industry, as well as graduate students in human factors, ergonomics, industrial engineering and production engineering.
Download or read book Digitalization and Analytics for Smart Plant Performance written by Frank (Xin X.) Zhu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the topic of integrated digitization of plants on an objective basis and in a holistic manner by sharing data, applying analytics tools and integrating workflows via pertinent examples from industry. It begins with an evaluation of current performance management practices and an overview of the need for a "Connected Plant" via digitalization followed by sections on "Connected Assets: Improve Reliability and Utilization," "Connected Processes: Optimize Performance and Economic Margin " and "Connected People: Digitalizing the Workforce and Workflows and Developing Ownership and Digital Culture," then culminating in a final section entitled "Putting All Together Into an Intelligent Digital Twin Platform for Smart Operations and Demonstrated by Application cases."
Download or read book Reliability 91 written by R.H. Matthews and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Reliability Techniques and their Application.Reliability 91, 10-12 June 1991 was held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, UK, organised by SRD (the Safety and Reliability Consultants of AEA Technology) and the institution of Quality Assurance (IQA), and supported by the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA).
Download or read book Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation written by Alan J. Stolzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Civil Aviation Organization has mandated that all of its member states implement Safety Management Systems (SMS) in their aviation industries. Responding to that call, many countries are now in various stages of SMS development, implementation, and rulemaking. In their first book, Safety Management Systems in Aviation, Stolzer, Halford, and Goglia provided a strong theoretical framework for SMS, along with a brief discourse on SMS implementation. This follow-up book provides a very brief overview of SMS and offers significant guidance and best practices on implementing SMS programs. Very specific guidance is provided by industry experts from government, industry, academia, and consulting, who share their invaluable insights from first-hand experience of all aspects of effective SMS programs. The contributing authors come from all facets of aviation, including regulation and oversight, airline, general aviation, military, airport, maintenance, and industrial safety. Chapters address important topics such as how to develop a system description and perform task analyses, perspectives on data sharing, strategies for gaining management support, establishing a safety culture, approaches to auditing, integrating emergency planning and SMS, and more. Also included is a fictional narrative/story that can be used as a case study on SMS implementation. Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation is written for safety professionals and students alike.
Download or read book Safety Differently written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resu
Download or read book Behavioural Insights and Organisations Fostering Safety Culture written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents research on applying BI to changing the behaviour of organisations, with a focus on fostering elements of a safety culture in the energy sector. It presents comparative findings from experiments with energy regulators in Canada, Ireland, Mexico and Oman, as well as guidance for applying BI to safety culture going forward.
Download or read book Equity Market Structure written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL SCREENING METHODS II written by Dr. Trilochan Satapathy and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete handbook on toxicology covers basic principles, regulatory criteria, and sophisticated methods for understanding and assuring the safety of varied chemicals in the following pages. Introduction to toxicology, "Toxicology Fundamentals and Regulatory Guidelines," covers broad overviews, mechanistic toxicology, regulatory frameworks, and descriptive toxicology. Focus is on OECD, ICH, EPA, and Schedule Y regulatory criteria, as well as the history and importance of Good Laboratory Practise (GLP) in drug development. As the book explores "Types of Toxicity Studies and Test Item Characterization," it examines acute, sub-acute, chronic, and particular acute investigations, including oral, cutaneous, and inhalational toxicity studies. Test item characterisation procedures are carefully explained, emphasising their importance in regulatory compliance and toxicity evaluation. This leads to "Advanced Toxicology Studies," which covers reproductive toxicology, genotoxicity, and in vivo carcinogenicity. These investigations provide a thorough view of possible dangers and evaluate drug safety. The book then discusses "IND Enabling Studies and Safety Pharmacology," which covers the necessary research for IND applications. Exploring regulatory settings, corporate views, and safety pharmacology in drug development provides a complete knowledge of experimental substance safety. The third part, "Toxicokinetic and Alternatives to Animal Testing," emphasises toxicokinetic assessment and discusses new methods. Following the evolution of safety assessment practises, these options are investigated for ethical and regulatory consequences. Students, researchers, and professionals traversing toxicology's difficult landscape may find this book invaluable. Its extensive coverage, from basic concepts to sophisticated approaches, makes it an important tool for protecting humans and ecosystems in the dynamic pharmaceuticals and beyond industries.
Download or read book Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods written by Paul M. Salmon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science. These methods are being used to understand and resolve complex societal problems in areas such as transport safety, workplace safety, medication error, disaster management, child abuse, financial crises, terrorism, climate change and public health and wellbeing. This handbook presents practical step-by-step guidance for practitioners and researchers wishing to use these methods to tackle complex problems. Each method includes an example case study which demonstrates how the method can be applied and how the results can be interpreted and translated into practical recommendations. The book presents practical guidance on state-of-the-art systems thinking methods and offers case study applications describing systems thinking methods in novel areas. It explains how to translate the outputs of systems thinking methods in practice and introduces systems thinking with an overview of Human Factors and Ergonomics applications. This book will serve as a great reference for students and engineers in the field of systems engineering, complex systems and the design and development of systems, including ergonomics/human factors and systems engineers, designers, architects, industrial engineers, project management engineers, reliability engineers, risk engineers, software engineers and computer engineers.
Download or read book Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Factors in Transportation written by Gesa Praetorius, Charlott Sellberg and Riccardo Patriarca and published by AHFE International. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023), July 20–24, 2023, San Francisco, USA
Download or read book Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2017 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Security Analytics written by Mark Talabis and published by Syngress. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Security Analytics gives you insights into the practice of analytics and, more importantly, how you can utilize analytic techniques to identify trends and outliers that may not be possible to identify using traditional security analysis techniques. Information Security Analytics dispels the myth that analytics within the information security domain is limited to just security incident and event management systems and basic network analysis. Analytic techniques can help you mine data and identify patterns and relationships in any form of security data. Using the techniques covered in this book, you will be able to gain security insights into unstructured big data of any type. The authors of Information Security Analytics bring a wealth of analytics experience to demonstrate practical, hands-on techniques through case studies and using freely-available tools that will allow you to find anomalies and outliers by combining disparate data sets. They also teach you everything you need to know about threat simulation techniques and how to use analytics as a powerful decision-making tool to assess security control and process requirements within your organization. Ultimately, you will learn how to use these simulation techniques to help predict and profile potential risks to your organization. - Written by security practitioners, for security practitioners - Real-world case studies and scenarios are provided for each analytics technique - Learn about open-source analytics and statistical packages, tools, and applications - Step-by-step guidance on how to use analytics tools and how they map to the techniques and scenarios provided - Learn how to design and utilize simulations for "what-if" scenarios to simulate security events and processes - Learn how to utilize big data techniques to assist in incident response and intrusion analysis
