The results showed that the need to save time, tight schedules, and a lack of caution had a greater influence on accidents than did the foremen, co-workers, customers, professional pride, curiosity, or the wage system. Big companies had the lowest risk of serious occupational accidents.
Big companies had the lowest risk of serious occupational accidents. Accident risk was significantly greater for subcontractors than for main contractors. Accidents, Occupational / prevention & control
A workplace analysis and an accident analysis were done at accident sites. In connection with this investigation, 73 victims, 91 foremen, and 83 co-workers were interviewed with a structured questionnaire.
Potential high casualty tolls, environmental damage, financial costs and other adverse impacts are strong incentives for industry to focus on preventing accidents.
an acute accident, such as a major discharge/emission or a fire/explosion, which immediately or subsequently causes several serious injuries and/or loss of human life, serious harm to the environment and/or loss of substantial material assets
Figure 1.1, the report contains two chapters in addition to this introduction: • Chapter 2 provides an overview of the academic landscape in relation to HOF in the context of MAP. • Chapter 3 presents conclusions and selected high-level recommendations for TOTAL that arise from the study findings. In the wider study, the analysis presented in Chapter 2 was used as
HOF is increasingly recognised as an important issue by HROs, particularly in relation to preventing explosions, fires, structural failures or other operational accidents.
The term ‘human factors’ is subject to a range of interpretations. Gordon (1998) defines human factors as the study of the interactionbetween human and machine. However, this definition has s more recently been expanded to include the effect of individual, group and organisational factors on overall safety. According to the UK Health and Safety Executive, tudy of the shuman factors should include a focus on environmental, organisational and job factors which influence work behaviour in a way that can affect health and safety.
First introduced in 1962, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is one of the most widely methods in system applied reliability, maintainability and safety analysis. 13. Mainly used in safety and reliability engineering, FTA is a top-down, deductive failure analysis toolthat views accident causation as a linear process .
2 Lekka (2011) defines a ‘high reliability organisation’ or ‘HRO’ as an organisation that is able to manage and sustain almost error-free performance despite operating in hazardous conditions where the consequences of errors could be catastrophic.