Safety Engineering - Science topic

In this article, the concept of determination of a complete set of distinguishable diagnostic states has been utilised, which has been well known since the 1980’s and, in essence, could refer to any item with any application and any structural features. The only condition set for this item, is its ability to be described by a structure consisting o...

"Software System Safety Engineering" is an advanced training program offered by Tonex, designed to equip professionals with the essential knowledge and skills needed to ensure the safety and reliability of software-intensive systems. In today's complex technological landscape, software safety is paramount, and this course provides comprehensive gui...

Identifying potential social and ethical risks in emerging machine learning (ML) models and their applications remains challenging. In this work, we applied two well-established safety engineering frameworks (FMEA, STPA) to a case study involving text-to-image models at three stages of the ML product development pipeline: data processing, integrati...

Investigating the impact of demographic factors and working with computers on the hand grip and pinch strength of office workers Hosseini MH1[1], Sharifzadeh GH R2, Akbari A3 1 Department of Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, School of Health, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand,...

This method statement explains the site installation & Laying of Low Voltage Cables & Wires associated materials and the requirements of the checks to be carried out. The purpose of this method is to describe the ways of proper installation of Low Voltage Cables and Wires in this project. Works shall be carried out in compliance with the drawings,...

This method statement is applicable for Installation and Pressure Testing of chilled water piping and its accessories where applicable for the project. Supply, installation & Testing of the chilled water piping and its accessories for all applications in line with project requirments. • Latest Approved shop drawings for the required and applicable...

Potential authors, researchers, and practitioners in surface mining are invited to submit book chapters for the CSIRO Surface Mining Handbook focusing on Surface Mining Systems Design and Engineering. CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) is an Australian Government Agency responsible for scientific research. The book...

Tonex Safety Engineering Training Bootcamp provides comprehensive training that covers all the machinery safety regulations, training requirements, and risk assessment. The benefits of having good safety engineering in place are many-layered: workers are protected from injury and illness, costs associated with injury or illness can be lowered, abse...

Dynamic technological, social and economic changes are forcing managers of mining enterprises to make decisions aimed at creating conditions for innovative transformation and development of these entities. Companies are beginning to use modern technologies that allow them to increase productivity and reduce production costs, and these activities ar...

Safety engineering is a contemporary approach to understand and analyze complex systems. FRAM could be applied to define all process of healthcare facilities to cure healthcare professionals and patient safety. The aim of this article is to describe an approach to explore the all process of C-19 management in healthcare facilities from Safety-I-II-...

Model-based safety assessment has been one of the leading research thrusts of the System Safety Engineering community for over two decades. However, there is still a lack of consensus on what MBSA is. The ambiguity in the identity of MBSA impedes the advancement of MBSA as an active research area. For this reason, this paper aims to investigate the...

El presente artículo se basa en la investigación de Bejarano V. y Neira F. (2020), el cual se basa en aspectos de la Teoría de Registros de Representación Semiótica para analizar la articulación de las aprehensiones perceptiva, discursiva y operatoria que desarrollan los estudiantes, cuando resuelven una tarea propuesta sobre el límite en un punto...

The 7th International Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering (ICRSE 2023) will be held in May 2023 by the Aerospace Research Institute (Ministry of Science, Research and Technology) in Tehran. ICRSE 2023 is the most important conference in the field of reliability engineering in the Middle East, which aims to hold an international scienti...

Following other contributions about the MAX accidents to this journal, this paper explores the role of betrayal and moral injury in safety engineering related to the U.S. federal regulator’s role in approving the Boeing 737MAX—a plane involved in two crashes that together killed 346 people. It discusses the tension between humility and hubris when...

After ten years working with conventional hazard analysis processes, an explosion occurred on our plant, and I began to realise that QRA had been a root cause of this accident. It was a big shock, but it turned out to be the catharsis that made me a more sceptical, curious, and open-minded engineer. It also raised three fundamental questions: i) ‘D...

The performance of job tasks is increasingly being viewed through the prism of time constraints. Stress, as a consequence of these constraints, can play a dual role: motivating or destructive. This paper addresses the role of time pressure during the implementation of psychotechnical tests. Based on the example of a pilot group, which consisted of...

Governments, industry, and academia have undertaken efforts to identify and mitigate harms in ML-driven systems, with a particular focus on social and ethical risks of ML components in complex sociotechnical systems. However, existing approaches are largely disjointed, ad-hoc and of unknown effectiveness. Systems safety engineering is a well establ...

Für den flexiblen Einsatz von fahrerlosen Transport-fahrzeugen (FTF) bietet sich die Nutzung in unterschiedlichen Sicherheitsbereichen mit entsprechend aktivierter Sicherheitstechnik an. Aktuell operieren FTF nur in einem Bereich für den sie entsprechend ausgerüstet sind. Für die Umschaltung der Sicherheitstechnik zwischen unterschiedlichen Sicherh...

The NARSIS project aimed at improving assessment methodologies to be integrated into “extended Probabilistic Safety Assessment” (PSA) procedures for nuclear plants in case of single, cascade and combined external natural events. An open-access framework tool has been released to build multi-hazard scenarios, and various risk integration approaches...

Special issue: Plant responses to emerging contaminants Edited by Fayuan Wang, Weitao Liu In recent years, environmental and health risks of emerging contaminants have attracted increasing attention worldwide. Numerous emerging contaminants occur in various environments, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, endocrine-disrupting comp...

The Construction industry is the most Hazardous industry in Pakistan. It has a large number of last-time injury (LTI) and property Loss. It has implied many dangers. Construction is a risky office and it needs exceptional consideration in the plan, development, establishment, and upkeep of its parts with the goal that they stay free from any and al...

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the spike protein, the gain of function, the gene editing and the mRNA technologies lost their public trust in developed and well educated countries is a clear sign of warning for the bio-genetic professionals and pharmaceutical industries. It’s time for bio-genetic professionals to update their professionalism, join wi...

IEEE Press has published “Electrical Safety Engineering of Renewable Energy Systems,” by Rodolfo Araneo and Massimo Mitolo. This 288-page book provides a study of safety issues with renewable energy, covering systems including photovoltaics (PVs) and wind turbines and guiding the reader with a safety-by-design methodology. DC system concerns, groun...

"IEMS'22" The IEMS is the first international symposium on industrial engineering maintenance and safety “IEMS’22” for all researchers and industrial pioneers. Organized by the Institute of Maintenance and Industrial Safety and the Industrial Safety Engineering and Sustainable Development laboratory, University of Oran 2 Moahemed Ben Ahmed. The aim...

Introduction: Infectious diseases are a frequent object of study and interest for science. Thus, great advances have been obtained in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of such diseases. The current theme of biosafety - actions designed to prevent, control, reduce or eliminate risks inherent in activities that can compromise human, animal and...

Operational Hazard Analysis (OHA) is a deployment-context guided system safety engineering method that tailors and extends the guidelines of Def (Aust) 5679, an Australian standard for Safety Engineering for Defence Systems. OHA is applied to the abstract, implementation-agnostic, operational model of a capability architecture to enable a systemati...

During the COVID-19 epidemic, many countries faced a critical situation in terms of the global economy and human social activities, including education. In China, the coronavirus is better controlled. Chinese university students have returned to school to study. Despite previous research on online education and learning, the readiness of students f...

A reference to designing and developing electrical systems connected to renewable energies Electrical Safety Engineering of Renewable Energy Systems is an authoritative text that offers an in-depth exploration to the safety challenges of renewable systems. The authors-noted experts on the topic-cover a wide-range of renewable systems including phot...

Zusammenfassung Die Metallurgie ist wie viele andere Industriezweige seit einigen Jahren geprägt von Bemühungen, den CO 2 -Footprint entscheidend zu senken. Im Vordergrund stehen Technologien auf Basis von Wasserstoff, welche allerdings aus unterschiedlichsten Gründen wie beispielsweise hohen Kosten, notwendiger Umstellung von Verfahren oder erhöht...

The industrial sectors of Bangladesh mostly depend on the petroleum industry. Historically, risk and hazards are the common scenario in the petroleum industry occurring due to lack of efficient risk assessment, resulting in financial loss, injury, or harm for people, and the environment. To prevent these losses, it is essential to implement the bes...

A diario los Cuerpos de Bomberos acuden al llamado de emergencias por diversos tipos de incendios, entre ellos los incendios en edificaciones, que representan situaciones de riesgo para sus ocupantes y también para los bomberos. Los incendios se pueden producir en cualquier clase de edificación, indistintamente del tipo de ocupación que albergue, y...

The write-up contents and studies were composed and developed the AIU Core Major Subject for the Doctorate (Ph.D.) Thesis Course Study Program based on the approved curriculum. More on researches studies, experiments, and engineering experiences gathered throughout the years of the topic about environmental, building and infrastructure services eng...

The article analysed the long-term data from 2001-2015, presented by the hydraulic structures’ observation post, and the Belogorsk Reservoir and the 2016-2017 study conducted by the Hydraulic Structures Safety Engineering Consulting Center on multi-factor surveys and in-kind data analysis with their reliability assessment. As a hydraulic structures...

Presented at Symposium of Safety Engineering 2021

Zielstellung der Arbeit ist die Weiterentwicklung urbaner Räume mittels intelligenter Informationstechnologien, um das Leben in der Stadt zu verbessern. Hierbei gilt ein besonderes Interesse der Inklusion von Menschen mit körperlichen Beeinträchtigungen. Eine bedeutende Gruppe ist dabei die Menge hochbetagter Bürger. Die angestrebte Weiterentwicklu...

Nowadays, numerical methods and IT tools are more and more commonly used for analysing increasingly complex phenomena and/or physical objects. This also concerns environment and safety engineering. Both of these research areas encompass issues that are very important from scientific and practical perspectives. The application of numerical methods a...

To improve the effectiveness of the international course for safety engineering at China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) (CUMTB), we explored sustainable development methods, co-occurrence analysis, statistical analysis, and questionnaire survey methods in a discussion of the international course’s current state and problems. First, the...

Kratak sadržaj: Radi isticanja prednosti upotrebe MS Teams platforme za učenje stranog jezika, u radu se naročito analiziraju Power Point prezentacije-koje su studenti FTN-a postavili putem funkcije Chat pod opcijom File-kako bi se utvrdilo da li vladaju uzročno-posledičnim izrazima kao i signalnim rečima koje ukazuju na svrhu ili funkciju nekog pr...

Industry and related work and workplaces are constantly changing as a result of the implementation of new technologies, substances and work processes, changes in the composition of the workforce and the labor market, and new forms of employment and work organization. The implementation of new technologies represents certain ambivalence. Next to the...

One factor driving accident that Human error. To minimize the occurrence of traffic accidents on the toll Suramadu necessary to analyze the driving safety engineering. There are nine drive-based HTA activities include Deselerate, Adding Speed, Stable, check behind the vehicle, check the vehicle in front, view mirrors, Lit beacon lights, Precede, ye...

Construction objects are anthropogenic objects that meet human needs in the area of housing. They should be designed, made and used in a way ensuring the safety of people and property at every stage of its life cycle. To achieve this effect, the cooperation of designers, contractors and users of the facility is required. It is especially important...

Workplace safety practices are vital for the well-being of both employees and employers, particularly in hazardous industries. The present study aims to design and validate a scale to assess the Safety Engineering Systems (SES) practices in Major Hazardous Industries (MHI). Based on the primary components identified through an empirical literature...

Workers’ health and safety are some of the basic parts of construction industries and vital issues in the construction project. It affects the productivity, efficiency, quality of industries. Workplace hazard is common for construction sites but systemic study about risk and incident happened in site help to reduce the hazard. Identification of...

Car monitoring is a used way of saving company funds intended for the operation of the company's vehicle fleet, as it is possible to monitor the speed and driving position of a company car through it. There are several companies on the market providing vehicle monitoring for a flat fee. In this case, the device is still the property of a third part...

The development of safety-critical systems requires the control of hazards that can potentially cause harm. To this end, safety engineers rely during the development phase on architectural solutions, called safety patterns, such as safety monitors, voters, and watchdogs. The goal of these patterns is to control (identified) faults that can trigger...

Creating and maintaining a safety case with all its supporting modeling artifacts such as architecture, failure logic or safety requirements is a tedious task, particularly when multi-tier supply chains must be bridged, and different safety engineering tools are used. Digital Dependability Identities (DDI) are model-based abstractions of the safety...

Creating a sound argumentation of why a system is sufficiently safe is a major part of the assurance process. Today, compiling a safety case and maintaining its validity after changes are time-consuming manual work. By using the concept provided by Digital Dependability Identities (DDI), we present a systematic approach for creating a model-connect...

“Transformation from Archipelagic into Maritime States for Prosperous Indonesia”, including, but not limited to: Naval Architecture, Ship Production and Material Technology, Marine Robotics and Digital Ship Technology, Marine and Safety Engineering, Marine Renewable Energy, Offshore and Coastal Engineering, Shipping, Port and Maritime Logistic, als...

Ensuring the compliance of the finished product with the project during the manufacturing of cutting heads/drums of the mining machines, largely determines the efficiency of rock mining, especially hard-to-cut rocks. The manufacturing process of these crucial elements of cutting machines is being robotized in order to ensure high accuracy and repea...

There is a need for a systematic approach to reduce the consequences of the coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) outbreak. The most effective way to prevent this disease is to cut off the virus transmission chain. This study aimed to propose a systematic model for the management of the Covid-19 crisis based on the bow-tie analysis model and the conc...

There is a need for a systematic approach to reduce the consequences of the coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) outbreak. The most effective way to prevent this disease is to cut off the virus transmission chain. This study aimed to propose a systematic model for the management of the Covid-19 crisis based on the bow-tie analysis model and the conc...

Exploration, drilling and production are the main activities of upstream segment and defines strategy, guidelines and budgets of many O&G companies. However, none of these can happens without an important first step, where there is a huge work from geocientists: the field geological studies, where for years geologists, geophysicists and petroleum e...

Rechnernetze sind allgegenwärtig: Jedes Smartphone ist meistens mit dem Internet verbunden. Die meisten Haushalte verfügen über ein eigenes WLAN, über das die Tablet-Computer, Fernseher und andere Unterhaltungselektronik untereinander und mit dem Internet kommunizieren. Zunehmend ist auch die Gebäudetechnik darüber erreichbar, beispielsweise die Be...

The right to education is one of the fundamental human rights. It is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1984) and several international conventions dealing with human rights, including Act No. 2 Coll., The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. The right to education should be granted to everyone, regardless of who they ar...

Materialsammlung eines fiktiven Use Cases, an dem die Veränderungen der Betriebs- und Sicherheitstechnik komplexer Maschinen und Anlagen im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 gespiegelt werden soll

Zusammenfassung Die Arbeitsgruppe Prozess- und Anlagensicherheit des Lehrstuhls für Thermoprozesstechnik an der Montanuniversität Leoben verfügt über umfangreiche Lehr- und Forschungskompetenzen. So wird beispielsweise zur Bestimmung sicherheitstechnischer Kenngrößen von Stäuben und Gasen ein eigens dafür ausgestattetes Labor betrieben. Die Forschu...

Zusammenfassung Die effiziente und vollständige Qualitätssicherung der Sicherheitstechnik von automatisierten Sondermaschinen stellt für deren Hersteller eine große Herausforderung dar. Die Erstellung konsistenter Testprozeduren erfolgt manuell oder erfordert hohen Modellierungsaufwand. Folglich untersucht dieser Beitrag ein Konzept, um notwendige...

Stress-seepage coupling test of deep sandstone was conducted by adopting GCTS servo system and Micro CT scanning machine under "three-stage" loading and unloading with high in-situ stress state reduction. Stress-strain and permeability response curves of deep sandstone during entire deformation process were obtained. The μCT pictures of typical dee...

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We are lecturers who help students studying subjects that use word-based writing, non-word based writing such as Mathematics, and non-text based language such as visual semiotics. To access examples of such language with subject lecturers we have found traditional interviews or focus groups ineffective, and realised that in these, although lecturer...

The issue of cybercrime and other antisocial activities is increasingly discussed today. The cause is an increasing number of individuals, companies or states exposed to these threats. This article deals with the issue of cyber aggression as one of the kinds of other antisocial activities. The article presents the results of researches in the Slova...

The paper analyses the imaginations, expectations and techno-scientific promises that play a crucial role in understanding the importance of artificial intelligence in contemporary security culture. It addresses a number of questions: Which imaginations of the future and which scenarios mobilize the development and use of AI-based security technolo...

This research intends to explore the human factors which lead to non-fatal accidents (i.e. first aid case, near miss, lost time injury) and assessing safety supervision factors in building construction sites. A total of hundred non – fatal accident data is collected for the analysis. Human factors such as age, experience, language, education level...

Construction is a dominant part of any country’s infrastructure and industrial development. Construction industries are being associated with it direct and indirect linkages with various other industries like cement, steel bricks etc. generate employment in the country. Construction industry contributed economic activity next to agriculture. But th...

The present survey is about the assessment of the leachates generated by the landfill site of Hassi Bounif in Oran, Algeria. A quantity of raw and untreated leachate was taken from the leachate collection main basin belonging to the landfill and transferred to IMSI laboratory (Laboratoire d'Ingénierie en Sécurité Industrielle et développement durab...

The objective of this research is to propose an interdisciplinary approach in the career of Industrial Safety, among the subjects belonging to the Social Sciences, linked to the integration of knowledge. It constitutes a documentary investigation applied from a hermeneutic approach of philosophical profile that recovers the study made and allows in...

In this article, we utilize bootstrap re-sampling simulation method to construct bootstrap confidence intervals, namely, standard bootstrap (SB), percentile bootstrap (PB), student's $t$ bootstrap (STB) and bias-corrected percentile bootstrap (BCB) of the difference between two generalized process capability indices ($\delta=C_{pTk1}-C_{pTk2}$) to...

GOMBA, P., Modelling of the Terrorism Risk. Dissertation thesis. VŠB – Technical University in Ostrava, Faculty of Safety Engineering, 2019. Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Ing. Radomír Ščurek, Ph.D. The dissertation thesis focuses on the issue of terrorism risk, with special regards to the conditions and needs of the non-state actors in the Czech Republic....

Organizations should consider process improvement for promoting their performance. The main problem is the high volume of process dataset along with the wide variety of their features that leads to increase the complexity in process improvement methods. Previous methods cannot improve processes in a high volume of process dataset. Data mining appro...

An important part of older adults' social integration is their involvement in urban life outdoors. While going outdoors contributes to participation and well-being, older adults often avoid to go outdoors because of deteriorating health and individual perceptions of threats to their safe mobility. A particular perceived threat to safety and a cruci...

Contemporary society is more sensitive to new threats than 20 years ago. More than 15 years modern democratic countries developed support for the most important objects and services as are named critical infrastructure elements. Critical Infrastructure (CI) and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) have become a phenomenon of this era. (Act no....

Objective: To analyze the health promotion actions of Specialized Services of Work Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine from companies and the health promotion actions of companies in their official websites. Method: Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study with 34 occupational health and safety professionals from seven companies in...

A conference of Safety Engineers (Ljubljana, Slovenia) in March 2017. We discussed about advantages and disadvantages of educating process for safety engineers on university level in Slovenia.

This article paper was one of the “Most Read Article with 620+ views published via LinkedIn Publishing Network page last January 20, 2018. The document has been prepared to provide a course background with the requirement of the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) which is the QCDD (Qatar Civil Defense Department) for the Fire Detection and Alarm S...

This article paper is one of the “Most Read” in the LinkedIn Publishing platform, which has been made and provides a course background based on hands-on experiences with the requirement of Fire System Design and Analysis as part of the building built design and construction involving any facilities, which is an environmental design process and mana...

Hauptziel des Projektes war zum einen die Entwicklung einer validen Testmethode auf Grundlage vorliegender Normen, welche die in der betrieblichen Praxis auftretende Degradation abreinigbarer Filtermedien (hohe Temperaturen, aggressive chemische Atmosphären) praxisnah abbilden kann. Die Methode sollte auch die mechanische Alterung der Medien durch...

This article paper has been made and published at the LinkedIn Publishing as one of the “Most Read Article” as well as in the Academia Publishing platform. However, I intend to re-publish in the ReseachGate Publishing Network that has been edited which will give and provide a course background based on hands-on experiences with the requirement of F...

Background and Objectives: Despite the quantitative growth of higher education, it had no proportional growth in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and quality. Therefore, academic centers should monitor their performance quality, and accordingly take action for the improvement of their status and standardization. The purpose of this study was to...

Introduction: Safety management is frequently treated as non-essential and incidental to core business functions. Accordingly, the importance of safety management is often underestimated. The Theory of Quality Management was investigated in this study to find the degree of linkage between the management of quality and safety. Method: Data derive...

In den Agrarwissenschaften wird ausgehend von Industrie 4.0 an der Digitalisierung der Landwirtschaft gearbeitet. Mehrere Forschungsarbeiten beschäftigen sich daher mit der Entwicklung von Robotern für eine Vielzahl von landwirtschaftlichen Arbeitsprozessen. Ein großes Problem in der Robotik ist die Sicherheit in der Mensch-Maschinen-Interaktion. H...

An Official Article Writer Contributor, entitled, "Skyscraper Fire Protection, An Asset Management Strategy;" and this article paper has been published through VIEWPOINT JOURNAL, June 2018 Edition, Official Quarterly Magazine of the CEAI Publication, Consulting Engineers Association of India in aligning with the theme as, ”Asset Management.” This p...