introduction: patient safety and its requirements fulfillment are today one of the useful valuation indicators in healthcare organizations. thus, patient safety culture and its promotion are referred to as one of the most important issues raised in the country. the present study aims to examine the effective factors (personal and organizational) in patient safety culture from the point of view ...

In agriculture, it is required to establish and integrate food traceability systems and risk management systems in order to improve food safety in the entire food chain. The integrated traceability system for agricultural products was developed, based on innovative technology of RFID and mobile computing. In order to identify individual products on the distribution process efficiently, small RF...

Occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) have become popular as agencies such as OSHA expect to propose regulations and as consensus standards and industry programs such as ANSI/AIHA/ASSE Z10, OHSAS 18001 and National Mining Association’s (NMA) CORESafety are implemented. Other management-system-like processes have been implemented over the years as well, including OSHA’s Proce...

This paper presents a system approach for safety management of complex system. System engineering which is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed is the framework of the approach. It allows taking into account the safety requirements in system engineering process to facilitates traceability of these requirements ...

safety performance is the overall performance of the organization safety management system in the operational system of safety. in the present study, the components of safety performance included visible management leadership, employee participation, training, inspection, implementation tools, and maintenance. the objectives of this study were to assess safety performance, and to analyze differ...

Risk management is becoming increasingly important for railway companies in order to safeguard their passengers and employees while improving safety and reducing maintenance costs. However, in many circumstances, the application of probabilistic risk analysis tools may not give satisfactory results because the risk data are incomplete or there is a high level of uncertainty involved in the risk...