China’s urban rail transit (URT) construction is coming into the stage of rapid development under the guidance of national policies. However, the URT construction projects belong to high-risk projects and construction safety accidents occur frequently. Presently, safety risk management is in continuous development. Unfortunately, due to risk data deficiencies and lack of relationship between pa...

PURPOSE Safety precautions for the use of U-500 insulin in a hospital setting are described. SUMMARY St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, a 500-bed community hospital, formed a committee to develop a U-500 insulin policy to address the unique considerations required for this drug at all steps of the medication management process. An order set was designed by the multidisciplinary team to standa...

In recent years, accidents in food quality & safety frequently occur, and more and more people have begun to think highly of food quality & safety and encourage food producers to be able to trace the origin of ingredients and process of production along the supply chain. With the development of IT, more and more practices have shown that the supply chain of agricultural products should rely on ...

Since the "melamine" incident was reported in China, China’s dairy industry attracts more and more attention, leading some scholars to conduct research on quality management and safety monitoring issues of China’s dairy industry. The technology of the Internet of Things (IOT) is viewed as one of the best ways to solve the safety problems of China’s dairy industry by supporting the development o...

Safety and reliability studies are standard practice in the process industry, and much of the information produced would be of benefit to plant operators and supervisors. In this study an information system to support risk management is being developed. Included is an abnormal situation management (ASM) documentation tool which stores the safety and reliability information in a structured datab...

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of Safety I are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’

In recent years, China’s food safety problems emerge in endlessly, from the “Sanlu milk powder contains melamine”, “Shuanghui contains clenbuterol”, to Wal-Mart false green pork, the occurrence of these events, makes the “safe” on the tip of the tongue is more and more attention. Sports food safety supervision system is established in accordance with the Law of Food Safety in China. This is a j...