Organizational safety

A technical safety barrier represents technical equipment, whose function it is to arrest the accident/incident evolution so that the next event in the chain will not be realised. The human safety barrier is the suitable people, whose function it is to intervene and arrest the accident/incident evolution so that the next event in the chain will not be realised. The organizational safety barrier is the procedures, rules, guidelines, etc. present, which function to arrest the accident/incident evolution so that the next event in the chain will not be realised. In this thesis the latent conditions and precursors in an unfolding situation are considered to have three possible effects on the safety barriers negative, positive or none at all. 

Once both latent conditions and precursors are identified in the company s control process and operational process, the effects on the company s safety barriers can be retrieved. Therefore, the safety barriers present around the transformation process will be identified, i.e. technical, human, and organizational safety barriers. Subsequently, the identified types of latent conditions are used to check if they affect the identified safety barriers either positively, negatively, or not at all (as discussed in the previous Chapter). How safety barriers are affected is illustrated by the example of the re-... 

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An emergency escape hood is a pull-over respirator with an elastic neck seal that provides protection for only a short time. It should only be used when issued as part of a workplace or other organizational safety program and after proper training. 

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Besides setting the culture through their own behavior, managers need to establish the organizational safety policy and create a safety control structure with appropriate responsibilities, accountability and authority, safety controls, and feedback channels. Management must also establish a safety management plan and ensure that a safety information system and continual learning and improvement processes are in place and effective. 

Because changes in the physical components, human behavior, and the organizational safety control structure are almost guaranteed to occur over the life of the system, operations must manage change in order to ensure that the safety constraints are not violated. The requirements for safe operations are discussed in chapter 12. 

Create a corporate or organizational safety policy. Establish criteria for evaluating safety-critical decisions and implementing safety controls. Estabhsh distribution channels for the policy. Estabhsh feedback channels to determine whether employees understand it, are following it, and whether it is effective. Update the policy as needed. 

Estabhsh corporate or organizational safety standards and then implement, update, and enforce them. Set minimum requirements for safety engineering in development and operations and oversee the implementation of those requirements. Set minimum physical and operational standards for hazardous operations. 

Create and monitor the organizational safety control structure. Assign responsibility, authority, and accountability for safety. 

Create and update the organizational safety information system. 

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Assists departments, individual laboratories with their chemical hygiene plans Other OSHA, EPA, NRC required training Organizational safety policies and training programs... 

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Which - technical and organizational safety measures are available for improving self-rescue... 

What characterizes the organizational/safety culture in the virtual collaborative relationships we study We found that the subculture studied is characterized by openness, mutual trust and respect, and a high degree of confidence in each other s technical and special expertise. The integration through lO, with regular contact between the onshore and offshore organizations, both virtual and face-to-face, has been beneficial for the development of a collaborative relationship. 

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