A fuzzy risk assessment approach for occupational hazards in the construction industry

Liu, Hao-Tien; Tsai, Yieh-lin

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2011.11.021

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“…A fuzzy risk assessment was used to perform core hazard causes and types in the construction industry (Liu and Tsai, 2012). However, there is scant research in the existing literature investigating navigational safety in ports from a captain's perspective.…”

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Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Pak

Gi-Tae

et al. 2015

Safety Science

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There are many factors affecting navigational safety in ports, including weather, the characteristics of the channels and vessel types, etc. This paper aims to identify the factors influencing navigational safety in ports and to analyze the extent to which such factors affect the safety of ports from the perspective of ship captains through a real case study. A quantitative analysis is carried out using the data collected from 21 captains who have over 10 years experience in operating ships individually. The identified factors indicate risk implications in ports. A fuzzy analytical hierarchy process is used to evaluate the importance of the factors and to rank the safety levels of the targeted ports in Korea from a captain's perspective. Consequently, among Busan, Ulsan, Gwangyang, Incheon, and Mokpo, Busan is evaluated by captains as the safest port, while Mokpo is the most risky. The research also reveals that it is applicable to use domain expert knowledge when historical failure data is unavailable or difficult to access to evaluate port safety. The result shows great research significance in terms of providing relevant stakeholders, such as port authorities and shipping companies, with an insight into port safety performance and thus facilitating the development of the associated risk control measures.

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Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Pak

Gi-Tae

et al. 2015

Safety Science

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“…[12][13][14][15][16]. Also the involvement of both users and equipment providers of agriculture machinery is important to properly analyse risk factors and the effectiveness on preventive and protective measures adopted, since it is recognized that most of occupational accidents are caused by unsafe conditions and unsafe behaviours [14,[17][18][19][20][21]. Therefore, performing risk assessment in a sequential manner (i.e.…”

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Prioritization of hazards by means of a QFD- based procedure

Lombardi¹,

Fargnoli²

2018

Int. J. SAFE

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Despite the evolution of regulations in the field of occupational health and safety promoted in EU countries, the number of accidents and victims has not significantly decreased in recent years, especially in constructions and agriculture sectors, as underlined by official reports of the Italian Workers' Compensation Authority. Main reasons of such a situation are due to the characteristics of working activities in these sectors. The variety of operations, the frequent exchange of tasks among workers within the same company, the continuous change of workplaces, the frequent exchange of workers for the same activity (e.g. seasonal workers), and the workers' stress caused by seasonal jobs. For these reasons both risk assessment and safety management activities result in being more difficult than in other working sectors. Thus, it is important to provide methodologies and tools that allow companies to carry out these tasks more effectively. In such a context, the study proposed by Esra Bas in 2014 certainly represents an attempt to provide a supporting methodology for engineers engaged in risk assessment activities. This approach consists in the use of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method, and it is aimed at evaluating how specific tasks can be in relationship with specific hazards, which in turn are related to specific events, and finally at defining what preventive/protective measures can be introduced against those events. Based on this, we tried to further investigate such an approach, with the goal of providing an easier-to-use tool, which can be used in risk assessment activities of critical contexts as the agriculture one. With this aim in mind, a case study concerning the risk assessment of an agricultural machinery was carried out. Keywords: agricultural equipment, house of quality, machinery safety, occupational safety, quality function deployment, risk assessment 1 INTRODUCTION In last decades, regulations concerning occupational health and safety, as well as machinery safety have become more and more severe. Despite this, in most of EU countries the number of accidents and victims has not significantly decreased [1,2]. Similarly, also in other developed countries such a phenomenon is perceived [3][4][5][6]. In particular, considering the Italian context, the occurrence of serious injuries and fatalities is very critical in the agriculture activities, where the compliance with new safety requirements results in being more difficult, due to the specific characteristics of the sector [7]. Actually, it has to be underlined that difficulties related with the implementation of safety measures are numerous, in particular for small and medium sized companies (SMEs), which can hardly afford additional costs for the compliance with safety requirements. SMEs represent more than the 80% of enterprises operating in the agricultural sector in Italy, and most of them are family-owned companies. Moreover, the number of part-time workers is also consistent.Most of serious accidents in this sector occur w...

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“…Then, it was adopted and implemented by Ford Motor [3] in 1977. Since then, it has become a powerful tool for risk and reliability analysis of systems in a wide range of industries including automotive [4], foundry [5], nuclear [6], construction [7], etc.…”

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An FMEA-Based Risk Assessment Approach for Wind Turbine Systems: A Comparative Study of Onshore and Offshore

2014

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Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been extensively used by wind turbine assembly manufacturers for analyzing, evaluating and prioritizing potential/known failure modes. However, several limitations are associated with its practical implementation in wind farms. First, the Risk-Priority-Number (RPN) of a wind turbine system is not informative enough for wind farm managers from the perspective of criticality; second, there are variety of wind turbines with different structures and hence, it is not correct to compare the RPN values of different wind turbines with each other for prioritization purposes; and lastly, some important economical aspects such as power production losses, and the costs of logistics and transportation are not taken into account in the RPN value. In order to overcome these drawbacks, we develop a mathematical tool for risk and failure mode analysis of wind turbine systems (both onshore and offshore) by integrating the aspects of traditional FMEA and some economic considerations. Then, a quantitative comparative study is carried out using the traditional and the proposed FMEA methodologies on two same type of onshore and offshore wind turbine systems. The results show that the both systems face many of the same risks, however there are some main differences worth considering.

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A fuzzy risk assessment approach for occupational hazards in the construction industry

Cited by 185 publications

References 44 publications

Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Port safety evaluation from a captain’s perspective: The Korean experience

Prioritization of hazards by means of a QFD- based procedure

An FMEA-Based Risk Assessment Approach for Wind Turbine Systems: A Comparative Study of Onshore and Offshore

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