Safety improvement objective

Ensure that there is ongoing prioritization and achievement of safety improvement objectives. 

While the ultimate safety improvement objective is to discharge patients who have experienced no preventable adverse events, the proximate objective is to create a strong, consistent safety climate and a culture in which safety (and the avoidance of exposure to... 

A successful project is defined as one that meets its stated objectives (safety, improved reliability, increased liquid yield, reduced maintenance costs, etc.) on or under-budget and is completed on or ahead of schedule. Some of the helpful criteria that ensure a successful project are as follows ... 

The primary interest of corporate and business leadership is in meeting broad-based process safety goals as described in Chapter 5. They need to understand if the operations within their areas of responsibility are meeting expectations and agreed-upon improvement objectives. Corporate and business leaders not only track aggregated performance that transcends individual sites, but also use selected metrics to make performance comparisons among sites under their oversight. 

Field Safety. The objective of well stimulation is to use highly pressurized fluids to improve the productivity of petroleum reservoirs. This objective will not be achieved if the productivity is improved at the expense of the workers or equipment safety. The well stimulation sector of the petroleum industry is a hazardous sector that not only involves the use of highly pressurized fluids, but also includes fluids that may be flammable or corrosive or contain radioactive tracers. Foams that use compressed gas may be hazardous if the gas is allowed to expand quickly. Reservoir fluids also pose a danger to field personnel and equipment, because the fluids are generally flammable, combustible, or extremely poisonous, as is the case with H2S. 

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is committed to performing work safely and ensuring the protection of the workforce, the public, and the environment. Sandia is also committed to performing work effectively and efficiently, ensuring that its customers receive the best possible value for each dollar spent. Through implementation of ISMS, Sandia expects to achieve improved safety performance and a consistent set of safety policies, objectives, principles, and management fimctions. 

Objectivity and trustworthiness are key words when one is to form a considered opinion about safety. The results from the project have been presented for Safety Forum, where the trade unions and the employers federations are represented. The comments thus far have been positive and constructive with expectations that this will contribute to a common platform for safety improvement. 

All of these examples support the fact that lean implementations drive safety improvement even when safety is not the primary objective. And, as described earlier in this chapter, safety improvement efforts that are undertaken using lean tools, like the kaizen blitz, drive lean or cycle time gains. 

Heavy objects-. If an individual has to move or lift a heavy object, or get help from someone to do the same, it is an opportunity for a safety improvement. 

Safety promotion subteam This subteam s objective is the raising of safety awareness. They would audit and approve safety improvements and track and support the JSA (job safety analysis) efforts. They could also collect the safety observation forms and hold a drawing to select a few winners at all company meetings. Rewards earned through these... 

The main objectives of the meeting were to exchange information on the studies performed and countermeasures taken for coping with accidents during low power and shutdown conditions, and to define the necessity and directions of further activities which may promote safety improvements for NPPs. Participants from east European Member States were requested to present their activities and results on this topic and to participate in the discussions. Experts from selected western countries were requested to summarize the most important results achieved in LPS work in their countries. 

Based in the literature a framework is proposed to structure decision problems in amulti dimensional risk evaluation context, which includes decision problems regarding risk reduction and safety improvements in an oil and gas structure. These kinds of decision problems can refer to a choice, ranking, sorting or a portfo-ho decision problem and depending on the type of problematic (ROY, 1996) a specific methodology shall be used to aggregate the decision maker preferences amongst its objectives. 

Value The first objective to be considered by a decision maker would be the number of persons that could be saved by simply choosing each safety improvement project. Another concernment of a decision maker would be a environmental dimension, which would be affected if any accidental scenario occurs. There is also many monetary or financial aspects to be evaluated, such as property... 

Objective and Criteria Consolidation In this phase the objectives assessed will be consoUdatedto build a consistent family of criteria. In this sense, some objectives should be aggregated or even removed if it represents the same thing, so it would not be considered twice in the model. This is an important step because it removes redundancies along the evaluation. Thus all objectives assessed previously have been analyzed and the outcome is a consistent family of criteria, composed by a human objective, which implies in minimize human losses an environmental objective, which implies in minimize environmental losses and a last objective which is a financial objective, to minimize any expected financial loss and also the cost to implement a safety improvement (action) considering that this cost will occur if this action is chosen. 

The exploratory study was based on workplace visits and semi-structured interviews with managers of 7 SMEs enterprises. Interviews focusednpon managers attitudes, knowledge and perceptions regarding the OH S, their commitment to safety, cooperation with occupational physicians (OPs), and worker s involvement in safety. The objective was to bnilt np a picture which took into account not only how OH S organized and implemented in the enterprise, but also how managers valued it and how they viewed the role of OPs in improvement of safety culture at the enterprise. 

Continual improvement Continual improvement is a type of change that is focused on increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of an organization to fulfill its safety policy objectives. Put simply, it means getting better all the time. There are ten steps to understanding the concept of continual improvement. They are ... 

Fundamental operational objectives. These objectives are concerned with increasing safety, improving system performance, and reducing human errors. 

The objective of a PSR is to determine by means of a comprehensive assessment of an existing nuclear power plant the extent to which the plant conforms to current international safety standards and practices the extent to which the licensing basis remains valid the adequacy of the arrangements that are in place to maintain plant safety until the next PSR or the end of plant lifetime and the safety improvements to be implemented to resolve the safety issues that have been identified. (An assessment against current safety standards does not imply that all current safety standards have to be met see para. 7.1.)... 

The objective of the global assessment is to present an assessment of plant safety that takes into account all unresolved shortcomings, all corrective actions and/or safety improvements and the plant strengths identified in the review of all PSR safety factors. 

The reports on the review of each of the safety factors that are submitted to the regulatory body should include proposals of objectives and/or concepts of corrective actions and/or safety improvements. 

On completion of the assessment, the technical experts should prepare assessment reports that clearly identify all significant issues which, in their opinion, need to be resolved. The assessment reports should also give an initial indication of the acceptability of the objectives/concepts of corrective actions and/or safety improvements proposed by the plant operating organization. 

From a study of literature, it has been found that scientists from Okayama University, Japan developed a dynamic model to utilize FTA for batch process. According to the paper [6], batch processes are divided into several safety objects linked to operation level. Dynamic simulation and fault propagation models are generated to evaluate safety objects. With the help of this model, FTA method using house event-time, an event expected to happen, can be developed for calculating the probability of failures. The time-dependent failures can be considered as unavailability of safety objects that can lead to accidents in plants. The rank of safety object performance index (PI) can be estimated using importance measures. PI shows the prioritization of safety objects that should be investigated for safety improvement in the plants. 

It is possible to derive direct and objective definitions of the other success indices in Figure 7.3 and to use these to estimate overall achievement. Involvement, for example, can be defined by recording participation in voluntary programs, and incidents of corrective action can be counted in a number of situations. You can chart the number of safety work orders turned in and completed, the number of safety audits conducted and safety suggestions given, and the number of safety improvements occurring as a result of near-hit reports. 

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