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Safety culture, for nuclear power facilities, 17 538 Safety data, developing, 21 844 Safety factors, See also Process safety Safety inspections, OSHA, 21 829 Safety issues/considerations for heated and cryogenic tanks, 24 303 teaching related to, 24 184 Safety issues, emulsion-related, 10 128 Safety measures, improved, 24 184 Safety performance indexes, nuclear power facility, 17 539 Safety regulation(s)... 

Module 7 (Evaluation) consists of the feedback loop indicated in figure 4.1, and of an external measure of safety performance called the Safety Compliance Index . 

Data can be converted into (htferent forms some common forms include percentages, rates, and indices. The national multidimensional index integrates and summarises much information and knowledge about road safety into measurable indicators that will be then converted into a single value. In this section, I will discuss the overall concept of criteria and macro-performance indicators. This will also be useful in designing a multidimensional index Road Safely Development Index (RSDI) (this will be discussed in Chapter five). Figure 3.2 shows hierarchical development of the data and availabihty from local to national level. I focus in this part of the study on the indicators that are used in national and international levels. 

Development of an International Index to Measure Road Safety Performance... 

While Six Sigma was originally used for developing continuous improvement programs related to production, many of its management structure components and methodologies can be applied to safety performance improvement in the workplace. One useful measure frequently used in Six Sigma is the capability index. 

This chapter explains the meaning of the above statements. It describes flammability and smoke/toxic gases evolntion at burning of wood compared to wood-plastic composite (WPC) materials and products of different compositions and profiles. It also explains flammability and fire ratings and indexes as quantitative measures for fire hazard and fire safety, and fire performance characteristics in general of wood and composites. 

Selecting macro-indicators for a multidimensional index is a complex issue, especially in which ones to choose and why The indicators should make a valuable contribution to the area of road safety development in a country, whether the indicator provides any progress or not. In the early stage of this thesis, I tried to explain the relationship between the indicators and the risk of accidents as a whole as it would be possible to identify a set of performance macro-indicators (see Table 3.2) from literature review either in how they illustrate road safety level and development in a country (direct measures) or how they offer a significant affect on accident rates (indirect measures). 

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. 

ABSTRACT Individuals spend most of their time in work environments and because of this reason their workplaces should be provided with optimal work conditions in order to increase performance and avoid work accidents. Thermal discomfort is one of the causes of work dissatisfaction which lead to individuals behavior changes as well as works accidents. This paper aims to study a manufacturing industry inner space affected by heat thermal environments in order to identify the most critical areas regarding two thermal indexes, EsConTer and THI, in which their interpretations valorize workers thermal sensation. From the color maps developed to facilitate indexes analysis the most critical areas of the space in study were easily identified as well as the most critical workstations near those areas. The health and safety department of the industry in study valorized the results in order to develop measures that may improve the occupational health of the occupants due to the approximation of the indexes results to workers thermal sensation. 

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