Literature safety science

Compiled by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Contains citations to safety science and hazard control liteiamre. Covers 1982 to date. Compiled by the Health and Safety Executive, U.K. Contains citations to worldwide literature on occupational health and safety. Covers 1977 to date. 

Swuste, P., van Gulijk, C., Zwaard, W. (2010). Safety metaphors and theories, a review of the occupational safety literature of US, UK and The Netherlands, till the first part of the 20th century. Safety Science, 48, 1000-1018. 

Outcome indicators are among those typically called lag indicators in safety science literature, as the outcomes always follow something they are the consequences arising from multiple other situational and contextual factors. Outcome indicators measure the outcomes of the socioteehnical system. However, it has to be remembered that safety is not an outcome and thus cannot be measured with outcome indicators. Safety is a dynamic non-event (Weick 1987) and non-events caimot be characterised or counted. Thus, we have to look at the term dynamic and seek to identify the way the non-event is created and acknowledge that we cannot ever capture the non-event itself... 

What we call monitor and drive indicators are typically called lead indicators in the safety science literature. However, as we discussed above, the distinction between lead and lag loses some of its relevance when we aim to manage the safety potential of the nonlinearly functioning complex adaptive system and use indicators as one of the tools of safety management. 

In this glossary, we have collected terms and definitions used in the emerging field of safety science most of these terms are also used in this book. Some are technical and come from the various disciplines that comprise safety science. Many will be new to the health care professional who is learning about safety science in order to create a culture of safety. Other terms may be familiar from other contexts, but they are explained here as they relate to patient safety. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, and the definitions are not meant to be official. Rather, our intent is to provide helpful operational definitions, and we have based some of them on the use of these terms in the current literature on patient safety. When formal definitions do exist and are helpful, we have used them and provided their sources in the literature. 

To analyse the problem posed in Chapter 1 an overview of current literature on tools, methods, and standards concerning safety indicators will be presented in Chapter 3. With this overview a better understanding of the signs currently used to indicate safety will be obtained. These signs will be compared with the signs present prior to recent accidents (1995-2002). From both literature and case histories a hypothesis will be derived that will be especially tested in Chapter 6. Moreover, in Chapter 4, the conclusions will be used to develop some generic concepts and a conceptual practical approach. The approach will consist of several steps and models derived from organizational science and safety literature. 

I have attempted to redirect the present book to those whose career may be in food safety, risk assessment, or toxicology because they are often unaware of how the science of these disciplines may be misinterpreted or misdirected. These issues are not covered in academic and scholarly textbooks. Conclusions published in the scientific literature may be misdirected to support positions that the data actually counter. This may often occur simply because the normal statement of scientific uncertainty (required to be stated when any conclusion is made in a scientific publication) is hijacked as the main findings of the study. These pitfalls must be brought to the attention of working scientists so conclusions from research studies can be crafted to avoid this pitfall. 

Broad, interdisciplinary coverage of literature related to the science of safety a relatively new field devoted to identifying, evaluating, and eliminating or controlling hazards. Major subject categories are general safety, industrial and occu-... 

The design, development and safety analysis of computer-based systems is well treated within both standards and the literature within the computer science domain. Many of these standards are based upon the requirements of large customers such as military or government projects. These projects range in size from small self-contained systems to large projects including submarines or social... 

Literature review from 2010 to 2014 through keywords search was made. The main keywords BIM , occupational risk , prevention , construction , safety at work , were used in research databases (Scopus and web of science). Articles were included if they focused on the contribution of BIM for the hazards prevention during the design phase leading to a project without or with controlled hazards. Over 50 papers were collected, but only three aim the use of BIM during the design phase to achieve safety. 

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