...System Safety Mechanics Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Safety 440 System Safety Management This country is experiencing the safest three-year period in the history of commercial aviation and that has a lot to do with the top-down commitment to safety across the aviation industry (rita.dot.gov, 2005). Safety professionals across the country are excited to continue this trend by implementing a new concept known as System Safety Mechanics. System Safety Mechanics is a comprehensive overview of the entire life cycle of a part, component, or assembly. Utilizing the tools discussed in this paper, the mechanics of this program will not only create a safer aviation industry but provide a highly cost effective operation as well. In addition to discussing techniques on how to approach an aviation operation and transform it into a safe and self-sufficient system, this paper will also discuss the most important ingredient, training. System Safety has been defined by the United States Naval Safety Center as the accepted methodology for identifying potential hazards during the design process and preventing hazards by addressing their root causes. This methodology proactively identifies risks inherent in a process, reviews operational systems for possible failure modes and provides a systems engineering practice principles approach to tracking and resolution of potential hazards (safetycenter.navy.mil, 2008). The Department of the Army has taken this concept very seriously...
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...approach was made unacceptable because there was a lot of cost involved in actually developing and launching such programs and the advancement of technology such as a wind tunnel for instance which could actually test the aerodynamic capability of a wing without the need for a trial and error type of approach. The first types of programs that were used to seek something better than the fly-fix-fly approach were known as the MIL-STD-882 which stood for the System Safety Program for Systems and Associated Subsystems and Equipment and the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program which was one of the first major formal systems safety efforts. Q4) How did the MORT approach to system safety develop? Who developed it and who uses it? The Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT) approach to system safety developed after the establishment of several safety programs which had many differences and no form of standardization across the board which affected the effectiveness of monitoring, evaluation and control of safety efforts. The MORT was then developed to adopt the best features from...
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...What is the difference between a safety program and a safety system? Why is this important? The language we choose to describes what we do has a major impact on the success of our efforts. There is a big difference between a safety program and a safety system. A safety program is a component of a larger system referred to as a safety system. Safety Program: A safety program is a set of polices and work practices specifically designed by a company. It addresses OSHA regulations and ways to reduce the exposure to hazards in a work area and is a performance driven plan that focuses on the improvement of safety. Examples include: lock out/tag out, fire safety, safe lifting and safety protective gear. Safety System: A safety system is a risk management strategy that includes an analysis of all hazards and controls to limit exposes using a systematic approach. Everyone is held accountable for their individual management system responsibilities – including those related to health and safety (oshasas.com). As indicated in our text, a safety system concept deals with the before-the-fact identification of hazards as opposed to the after-the-fact approach used for years (Friend & Kohn, 2010). It is often that people use the term safety system and safety program interchangeably; both are important to the safety culture of an organization but both functions perform two different purposes. The importance of distinguishing between the two functions is perception; managers...
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...Corporate Governance –What it means for OSH Identify some common Safety Management Systems (SMS) Essential Elements required for managing occupational safety and health in organisations What is Health & Safety Management? Practices that contribute to the effective control and sustained reduction in incidents, which have the potential to result in acute and chronic deleterious effects to employees and other exposed persons. Is it all about reducing incidents? What is Governance? ‘ The system by which organisations are directed and controlled by their board of directors’ (Jacqui Boardman, Acona Ltd.) Role of the Board Setting overall direction for the business or organisation Establish boundaries within which the organisation operates Monitoring the organisations performance Key Elements of Governance Lead & establish overall strategic direction Set standards & values for business Set clear objectives & responsibilities for management Hold management to account for their performance in running the business Uphold obligation to the shareholder & other interested parties Overseeing internal controls Key Drivers in OHS Governance Moral Responsibility - duty of care, societal concerns, personal drive Legal Responsibility - legal compliance, prosecution, penalties, licensing requirements Financial Responsibility “ It has to be said that a concern for safety which is sincerely held and repeatedly expressed but nevertheless...
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...Health and Safety Management Systems - An Analysis of System Types and Effectiveness EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION 2. HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 3. TYPES OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PART ONE: LITERATURE AND FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT 3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 LITERATURE ON TYPES OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PART TWO: CASE EVIDENCE 3.3 SYSTEM TYPES - CASE STUDY FINDINGS 3.4 SUMMARY 4. ASSESSING HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS PART ONE: LITERATURE AND FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT 4.1 INTRODUCTION 4.2 LITERATURE ON EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PART TWO: CASE EVIDENCE 4.3 THE TWENTY CASES: CONTENT AND LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 4.4 THE TWENTY CASES: OUTCOME DATA 4.5 SUMMARY 5. FACTORS SHAPING PERFORMANCE AND THE ROLE OF SYSTEM TYPE 5.1 INTRODUCTION 5.2 BASICS AND EXTRAS 5.3 SYSTEM-RELATED CHARACTERISTICS 5.4 THE ROLES OF THE KEY WORKPLACE PLAYERS 5.5 THE LINKAGES BETWEEN HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE AND SYSTEM TYPE 5.6 SUMMARY 6. CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES APPENDIX ONE: CASE STUDY PROTOCOL APPENDIX TWO: ASSESSMENT CRITERIA APPENDIX THREE: CASE SUMMARIES AND SYSTEM TYPES Executive Summary This report examines planned approaches to health and safety management in the workplace. It is the result of a two-year study of enterprise-level health and safety management systems, funded by Worksafe Australia, and conducted from late 1994 to late 1996. The need...
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...Patient safety is the prevention of serious health care failures and limiting the consequences. Errors are going to be common in the healthcare system because some practitioners could lack following the clinical procedure but it’s important to limit them. Safety comes from the interactions between the different parts of the healthcare system. As we use more advanced technology in the healthcare system, it’s increasingly become more complex, yet the treatment is effective and efficient. It’s also important to maximize patient safety because it will help prevent many medical errors associated with health care. For example, there’s still a certain degree of insecurity among patients. This is because the risks of having medical errors present could...
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...The existing arrangement of the U.S. health care system leaves large numbers of the American population without access to adequate health care. Currently, about 45 million Americans do not have any health insurance, resulting in inability to receive the necessary care required for a healthy and productive life (NCHC). Further, government run programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, are not sufficient and effective means of providing care for those eligible for them. Poor Families in America’s Health Care Crisis by Ronald J. Angel, Laura Lein, and Jane Henrici illustrates how the safety net for health care through current government programs does not work and how access to health care cannot be considered universal. The Three City Study, a large, multidisciplinary examination of the consequences of welfare reform for children and families in poor neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, gives a personalized look into the flaws of the United States’ welfare and health care systems (Angel 7). Through these ethnographic studies, it can be determined that the current safety net for poor Americans is made ineffective because of discontinuity of care and the employer-based nature of health care. Poverty can be defined as the “lack of social capital or power to control one’s life or that of one’s children in important ways” (Angel 30). With this being said, it can easily be seen why poor Americans live very chaotic and unstable...
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...Curtin University of Technology Department of Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering Management 690 Assignment 2 Management of Health and Safety at Work in the Chemical Industry Prepared for: Professor Geoff Taylor By: Mohammed Alshiha Student ID: 13884145 Date: Jan 1st 2010 1.0 Introduction 1 Declaration (i) I have read and understood Curtin University’s policy on plagiarism and I confirm that the work submitted on the 1st of January by me is my own work, and that the work of any other person contained therein is clearly acknowledged. (ii) The work has been written since the 8th of December 2009. (iii) The references in the work do directly relate to the material appearing immediately before them in the text. (iv) All word-for-word quotes from another author are in quotation marks. Mohammed Alshiha ID#13884145 1.0 Introduction 2 Contents 1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 2.0 Safety Management System ........................................................................................................ 5 3.0 Risk Analysis ................................................................................................................................ 7 3.1 Search for hazards ................................................................................................................... 7 3.1.1 Systematic...
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...studies into the accident to try to understand what happened, the goal of the enquiries was to establish where the fault and therefore guilt lay in order to ascertain compensation. This report attempts to apply key concepts from behavioural finance with a view to understanding the thought processes behind the decisions that were made. In the last decades there have been a lot of studies documenting the impact of psychological traits on the decisions made by managers. This report while touching on them, will not go into detail regarding the various technical difficulties encountered on the Deepwater Horizon and will instead focus on understanding the thought process of the various players involved. We will also briefly cover BP’s historical safety record as this will help us understand some of the behavioural factors in play within the organization. While BP was the principal on the Deepwater Horizon rig there were also other parties like Transocean , the rig operator, Halliburton, who operated in a consultancy position, Anadarko and Schlumberger. These companies played a part in the crisis and their performance and relationship to BP will be explored as well. BP’S ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE AND CULTURE BP under Lord Browne was a very silo based organization. Business units were under direct control of asset managers and they and their teams were incentivized by their assets performance. I worked at BP between 2007 and 2008 and it was very clear to me that the various assets were in...
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...Professor: Bill Teeple 5 December 2014 Abstract This research is in the Oculus system; a roll-on/roll-off Command and Control unit that attaches to a standard military 463L pallet design that is accommodated by the C-130 Hercules. There are two modules that are mounted to a pallet system that roll on and off just like any other cargo load. The design requirements for this payload are that it will be able to be loaded on any model of C-130 without permanent modifications to any of the airframes. The system safety aspect of Oculus and the way it is designed is well defined without specific hazards outside the parameters of normal operations with any other payload, other than the lift arm mechanism for the sensor pod attached to the aft door, and the operational parameters while it is in use. It is because of the design requirements for not modifying the airframe that has created a safety issue with the way the sensor pod is set in operation. Oculus Sensor Platform System The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft has been around a long time. It has been a proven airframe, has been the work horse for the U.S. military services through the decades, has seen many conflicts, and has provided air and ground support for numerous missions worldwide. With its longevity it has seen numerous problems, has had many up-grades and modifications that each have their own safety issues. The ground support systems themselves have undergone up-grades that have interacting issues themselves with...
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...paper will allow the reader to obtain information about one of the major errors in Information Security. Error: Believe it or not, people are still the biggest threat to information security. Most companies report that 78 percent of their errors are because of a breach created by malicious acts or negligence of either past or present employees. But, not everyone has to be within a company to end up with a system that has been breached. Systems can have breaches because of several risks that were taken by people in general. According to a blog [ (Dell - Andrea B, 2012) ], there are at least “10 risky practices employees routinely engage in that are directly related to information security”. The practices are as following: 1) Linking systems to an Internet with an unprotected wireless net. 2) Not getting ride of data on their system when it is no further needed. 3) Giving out security codes. 4) Reusing the identical security codes and screen names on various sites. 5) Using common USB devices not protected or encrypted. 6) Leaving systems logged on while not being in the office. 7) Misplacing a USB device that perhaps contains classified information and not right away tell the company that they work for. 8) Operating a laptop while in public without a security panel. 9) Having private data on a mobile computer while traveling. 10) Using individually owned portable devices that get linked to the company network. Comments: In order...
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...Safety and Security Risk Contrena Wright HR/554 May 12, 2013 Dr. Shane Howell Safety and Security Risk Safety and security risk occurs in every industry of work. In order for Wal-Mart to safeguard their business in safety and risk they have to initiate a good safety training assessments and have a good security plan in effect. Every risk cannot be avoid the goal is to have the right plans and strategies in effect to prevent injuries from happening. Such as robbery, theft, slip and falls, fire hazards, and employee sprains or strains. Wal-Mart is a global retailer that sells more than one product, which means they have more than on safety and security risk assessment. Below are a few security and safety risks plans for food, security, slip and falls, sprain or strains, and fire safety hazards. Walmart is using better suppliers when it comes the safety of their food products. Walmart requires that their food suppliers be certified by safety programs under the umbrella of the Global Food Safety Initiative. To help with its food safety and security risk Wal-Mart takes that extra mile ensuring that their food is harmonized and leading-edge food safety standards throughout the entire food production chain ("Food and Safety", 2012). Walmart has trained employees to handle cold and hot foods correctly. To ensure that all food products bought and sold by Wal-Mart is handled, stored, cooked, and properly packaged. Wal-Mart uses guidelines given from the U.S. Food and Drug...
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...Monitor Alarm Fatigue: The Effect on Nursing Care Monitor Alarm Fatigue: The Effect on Nursing Care Upon entering any busy hospital one can expect to hear an unpleasant uproar of alarm sounds. Bells, beeps, and chimes are all part of the noise-polluted environment that medical staff endures every day. A study of alarms at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, revealed a total of more than “350 alarms per patient per day” (Sendelbach & Funk, 2013, p. 378). Many medical devices have alarm systems; examples of these devices are pulse oximetry machines, bedside telemetry monitors, infusion pumps, and ventilators. These devices are essential to providing safe care to patients in many health care settings. The purpose of alarms is to increase patient safety by alerting health care providers of a deviation from a predetermined normal status. By design, alarms are highly sensitive so that they do not miss an important event; however, false alarms are very common. False alarms are generated when no valid triggering event occurs. The alarm can be caused by events such as patient movement, electrodes disconnected, poor sensor placement, or broken cables. “It is estimated that between 85 and 99 percent of alarm signals do not require attention” (The Joint Commission, 2013, para. 2). Excessive false positive alarms result in alarm fatigue. Alarm fatigue is “the lack of response due to excessive numbers of alarms resulting in sensory overload and desensitization”...
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...Loss-Prevention System As you may have heard, we received news from corporate headquarters that it would be in the best interest of the company to pay more attention in matters of preventing accidents or any safety related measures. This would include both office and field related activities. Every employee should be mindful in this regard, so that each and every one is efficient and effective in their performance of everyday tasks. With this goal in mind, I believe that we should put more emphasis on safety. Everyone should consider their training they received in the beginning and also throughout their employment at M-Global, so that we are always aware on how to operate in a safe manner. Also, the training vehicle should provide each of you with the elements of safety that relate to the specific requirements of your particular job. I’ve come to a conclusion that we need to give greater scrutiny and analysis in a way that we can prevent accidents and emphasize the concern of safety for every employee. Kendra Jones will be assembling a written training program for every employee that will take effect June of this year. When this plan has been approved and written, I will be conducting a meeting with every department to emphasize the major and minor components of the safety program. It is my great pleasure to announce that effective February; I will be giving a monthly safety award of $100 to the employee that comes up with the best suggestion related to safety. Today, I will...
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...in order to expand robotic surgery in every hospital. My second source provides information on what hospitals have to do in advance in order to have robotic surgery system installed. Robotic surgery system also needs to approve by the state and local health departs before the system can be installed. This source also provides average cost of installing a robotic surgery system. Every system costs different depending on what type of surgery the hospital wants to use the robot for My third source talks about safety measures that need to be in place in order have safe and successful surgery. All hospitals have to follow strict safety measure that is implemented by Federal and state government. Robotic surgery also has many safety futures implemented in order to protect the patient, this sources talks about what happen if the power goes out in the building or if the robot fails to operate properly for any reason. All staff that will operate the robot including the doctor has to go through training in order to prevent the patient getting hurt just in case the robot fails due to power loss or mechanical failure. The fourth source talks about maintenance that has to be done on the robotic equipment in order to be able to operate the equipment safely. Every year the state health department will perform a safety inspection on the equipment and if there is no record of maintenance being performed on the equipment the hospital will be fined. This sources also talks about the...
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