This article describes the process of improving risk management practices in a foundry of the ALFET Company (Algeria). The proposed methodology is based on the decision matrix risk assessment technique. This technique allows making a risk assessment for each source of risk (machine, man, environment, and management), which leads to the determination of the overall risk rate during the activity ...

Several changes in the macro environment of the companies over the last two decades have meant that the competition is no longer constrained to the product itself, but the overall concept of supply chain. Under these circumstances, the supply chain management stands as a major concern for companies nowadays. One of the prime goals to be achieved is the reduction of the Bullwhip Effect, related ...

Tianjun Zhang 1,2,3, Lei Zhang 2,3,* ID , Shugang Li 2,3, Jialei Liu 4, Hongyu Pan 2,3 and Shuang Song 2,3 1 College of Science, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China; [email protected] 2 School of Safety Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China; [email protected] (S.L.); [email protected] (H.P.); [email protected] (S...

The paper presents the collective results from a number of Safety Management System audits. The audit protocol is based on the Health and Safety Executive publication ‘Successful health and safety management’ and takes into account formal (written) and informal procedures as well as their implementation. Focused on permit-to-work systems, these have shown a number of common failings. The most c...

Background: Today, occupational safety play the vital role to reduce the number of accidents. In other words, it is necessary to pay attention to improving the safety performance of employees in organizations. Indeed, safety performance is part of safety activities, describing the behavioral aspect of employees and being influenced by various factors. The purpose of this research is to provide ...

This report was prepared for the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to provide background information on the evolution of the term "safety culture" and the perceived relationship between safety culture and the safety of operations in nuclear power generation and other hazardous technologies. There is a widespread belief that safety culture is an important contributor to the safety of oper...

[Context and motivation] Safety evidence plays an important role in gaining confidence in the safe operation of a system in a given context. For a large system, it is necessary to provide information about thousands of artefacts that might be used as evidence and about the relationships among themselves and also with other safety assurance assets. [Question/problem] Past research has only addre...

Improved management of safety during procurement of computer-based safety-critical systems is one of the key concerns of the Australian Government’s Department of Defence Software Acquisition Reform program. This paper reports some lessons learnt from a task currently being undertaken by the Defence Acquisition Organisation, Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the Software Verifi...

Background and purpose: The safety climate refers to employees’ perception of safety which can be affected by job-related stress in the workplace. This study aimed to assess the safety climate and investigate the relationship between job stress factors and safety climate dimensions in a dairy industry. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The data was collected using two se...