High-risk industry

Condition monitoring is an established technique which has been used by capital-intensive or high-risk industries to protect their investment. The concept has developed radically in recent years largely due to advances in computerization, which offer greater scope for sophisticated techniques. These fall into three types of monitoring vibration, performance and wear debris. The last monitors particulate debris in a fluid such as lubricating oil, caused by the deterioration of a component. 

Always a high risk industry, hydrogen companies have become even harder to keep afloat since a U.S. recession beginning in 2000 seriously limited access to venture capital and other sources of investment capital. Two chapters discuss hydrogen entrepreneurship in hard times, one by a leader of a company in the field and one from an academic specializing in industrial innovation. 

Marx, D. Managing Human Error in High-Risk Industries Seminar. Houston, Texas December 1999. 

Techniques such as video and tape recording, equipment mock-ups, and eye tracking can be used to collect data regarding observable aspects of human performance. To explore what internal or cognitive processes underlie observable actions, however, we need to consider other techniques, such as thinking aloud while doing the job (i.e., verbal protocols) and retrospective verbalizations. For high-risk industries, event scenarios and simulation methods may be used when on-site observations are difficult or impossible. 

There have been significant reductions in the numbers and rates of injury over the last 20 years or more. Nevertheless, construction remains a high risk industry. 

Cherishing life, preventing disaster, protecting the physical and mental health and safety of people is the key to promote economic development, social security and national stability. The core and the basic requirements of scientific development concept determine that the people-oriented takes human life first. In coal mine, as a high-risk industry, it is required to use more safe development to build consensus, strengthen the construction of safety culture, and enhance initiative and effectiveness. 

Safety feeds benefits Coalmine production is a high risk industry, which bears especially high safety pressure. Once accidents happen, both units and individuals would suffer direct or indirect economic losses. 

The targeted recruitment policies for related higher education institutions in high-risk industries are to be gone on and reinforced, so that there... 

Using a wider range of industrial models for safety and quality, particularly from high risk industries ... 

Human factors experts working in high-risk industries often have to estimate the likelihood of accidents occurring when preparing a safety case ... 

Serva, L. (2001) Siting of high risk industrial fadlities the role of natural phenomena such as earthquakes , ESREL, Torino. 

So, the item s maintainability depends on all criteria that may affect the main maintenance steps with different actions to he carried out just to bring the product hack to its functional status (Coulihaly et al. 2008). Some items may have a rapid repair (lamp, fuse, among others), but others need some time to perform it. When dealing with high risk industrial equipments the time spent to repair and restore the normal operation plays an important role on the equipments availability (Endrenyi et dl. 2001) (Eisinger 2008). 

The previously referred criteria is considered in high risk industrial equipments concerns and summarize the main worries of maintenance managers and plant directors. That criterion refers to ... 

In availabihty analysis the main contributing factor is usually considered to be reliability. The effect of maintainability on availability is not so well studied although in some real cases it can have a significant weight. In this paper it was shown that mamtainability can be a very important issue, especially in high risk industrial equipments where high restore time values are registered. 

As it was also shown for a practical application, those mamtainability improvements can have a high effect in system maintainability, and subsequent avail-abUity. These kinds of studies may be very useful when dealing with high risk industrial equipments, where huge economical losses are possible due to their unavailabihty. 

Hudson, P. 2003. Applying the lessons of high risk industries to health care. 

The relevance of safety culture to safe operation in high-risk industries is not disputed (Cox and Flin 1998). However, the last three decades have seen extensive debates on the concepts behind, and the distinction between, the terms safety culture and safety climate (Alhemood et al. 2004 Choudhry et al. 2007 Flin et al. 2006 Guldenmund 2000 Hale 2000 StricoflF 2005). 

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