Safety potential

An inherently safer process offers greater safety potential, often at a lower cost. However, selection of an inherently safer technology does not guarantee that the actual implementation of that technology will result in a safer operation than an alternate process which is inherently safer. The traditional strategy of providing layers of protection for an inherently more hazardous process can be quite effective, although the expenditure of resources to install and maintain the layers of protection... 

Aquapel Glass Treatment News Research Highlights Improved Safety Potential of Hydrophobic Windshield Coatings. PPG Industries, Inc., http //www.aquapel.com/... 

The risk of an incident is based on potential severity (or consequence) and probability of occurrence. Both aspects should be thoroughly considered in design and operation for inherent safety. Potential severity can be reduced by ... 

Chikazawa et al.86,87 evaluated the feasibility of small sodium-cooled reactor as a diversified power source in terms of economical and safety potential and reviewed... 

Povey, M. J. W. and Mason, T. J. (1998). Ultrasound in Food Processing. Blackie, London. Powell, M. and Colin, M. (2008). Nanotechnology and food safety potential benefits, possible risks CAB Rev. Perspect. Agric., Vet. Sci., Nutr. Nat. Resour. 38(3), 16pp.. 

Low Safety Potential minor injuries Environmental Large spill response Property X- Y (units of currency)... 

Low Safety Potential multiple minor injuries or iimited serious injuries Environmental Spill response required Property US 500,000 -US 1 million... 

High Safety Potential multiple serious injuries or limited fatalities Environmental Remediation for non-sensitive reoeptor Property US 1 million-US 10 million... 

Construction as a relatively heavily legislated industry has also regained some of the earlier manifestations in practice around safety, potentially enhancing understandings of safety within the legislative context ... 

Extremely high safety potential peculiar to this type of die RI is characterized by the fact that even when such initial events as containment destruction and primary circuit loss of tightness coincide, neither reactor runaway, nor explosion and fire occur, and the radioactivity yield is lower than that one which requires the population evacuation. 

RI SVBR-75/100 meets these requirements the most completely. It has extremely high safety potential, lifetime duration needed, ensures the regime of non-proliferation due to the following ... 

At an overall level, 10 may be seen as primarily a label or banner signifying an ensemble of more or less related, nevertheless intensified efforts to explore the remaining (business, safety) potentials of ICT at a specific point of time. As this is done, it accumulates a multitude of agendas, and reveals new possibilities and challenges. 

LWRs (with a thermal neutron spectrum) have a safety potential that should not be underestimated and which can be further exploited. This could allow them to fulfil all expected safety requirements in the foreseeable future. Exhausting this potential by innovative means (e.g. in PIUS) Is, however, coupled to considerable economic penalties, as t implies smaller plants, eventually with lower power densities. In order to further improve the use of resources and to reduce the amount of radioactive waste, the fuel cycle should be further closed, which is only partially possible with a pure LWR-strategy. 

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. 

Table 9.5 depicts possible outcome indicators. These indicators can be seen as the result of the oiganisation s safety culture and the effects of situational and environmental variability, such as the nature of the patient s illness or injury or the fatigue of the clinician. The aggre tion of these outputs into an outcome indicator can provide the organisation with clues about possible changes to their safety potential. 

Reiman, T. and Pietikainen, E. 2012. Leading indicators of system safety -Monitoring and driving the organizational safety potential. Safety Science, 50, 1993-2000. 

Lin, L., Vicente, K. J., Doyle, D. Patient Safety, Potential Adverse Drug Events, and Medical Device Design A Human Factors Engineering Approach, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol. 34, No. 4,2001, pp. 274-284. 

Z-PINC personal safety potential incident of noncompliance... 

But, despite all this, compensation pressures can generate real health and safety improvements. This chapter has laid the foundation for a discussion of how compensation costs can be used to focus management attention on safety. This discussion will be undertaken in Chapters 11 and 12 where the particular task will be to identify ways in which governments, health and safety officers and others can best harness whatever safety potential there may be in the workers compensation system. 

The analyses performed show a high safety potential of the reactor installations of the considered type. For example, even in the event of a postulated combination of such initiating events as the containment destruction, the damage of the reactor installation box-confinement connections and a serious tightness failure of the primary circuit gas system with direct contact of the lead-bismuth coolant surfaces with the atmospheric air, neither a prompt criticality nor the explosion or fire would occur due to the internal causes, and the radioactive release would be lower than that requiring the evacuation of population from the neighbouring territory. 

In order to determine the safety potential of a road, it will therefore be necessary to select the most relevant factors according to the local context. This is because different factors are relevant for different road types (as indicated above for raral and urban areas) and also for different regions and countries. For example, in Sweden the risk of snow and ice makes certain roads dangerous. Good road lighting is also important because of short days in winter. On the other hand, on many country roads in Italy the presence of roadside barriers is a critical safety factor where there are steep drops, as well as a central barrier when the roads are narrow. 

These characteristics result in a reactor with a high safety potential due to... 

IRSN 2014 Report Review of Generation-IV Nuclear Energy Systems http //www.iisiL f/EN/newsrooiii/ News/Pages/20150427 Generation-IV-nuclear-eneigy-systems-safety-potential-overview.aspx. 

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