How safety-investments increase performance: a practical case

Sonnemans, P.J.M.; Körvers, P.M.W.; Brombacher, Aarnout

doi:10.1109/rams.2002.981629

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“…The motivations for integrating OHS risk management into engineering have been discussed recently. These include legislation (Gambatese, 2000b;Zachariassen and Knudsen, 2002), awareness of the importance of protecting workers (Gambatese, 2000a) and in some cases perceived potential to increase profitability and remain competitive (Sonnemans et al, 2002).…”

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Proposal of a risk-factor-based analytical approach for integrating occupational health and safety into project risk evaluation

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2012

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Proposal of a risk-factor-based analytical approach for integrating occupational health and safety into project risk evaluation

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Nadeau

Gbodossou

2012

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Bellamy et al 16 . Sonnemans et al 17 give a first idea on how to map an organization and its exception-handling process, to identify weaknesses with respect to controlling disruptions.…”

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Accidents, often the result of an ‘uncontrolled business process’—a study in the (Dutch) chemical industry

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Often companies in the (petro-) chemical industry claim that all possible countermeasures against potential accidents have been taken and therefore accidents are unforeseeable. In this paper we question this statement by analysing the pre-warning signals (precursors) preceding a number of industrial accidents. 17 accidents that occurred in the (petro-) chemical industry have been investigated by exploring FACTS, an accident database containing information about industrial accidents worldwide. This paper will demonstrate that the existence of precursor information could have been used to foresee and even prevent these accidents if a proper control action had been initiated. The accidents are analysed further, according to a control model, which was adapted from that of C. Argyris. It demonstrates the ineffectiveness of several elements of business process control loops and that the so-called 'double-loop learning' cycle is more important than the 'single-loop learning' cycle if one considers safety improvement.

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How safety-investments increase performance: a practical case

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Proposal of a risk-factor-based analytical approach for integrating occupational health and safety into project risk evaluation

Proposal of a risk-factor-based analytical approach for integrating occupational health and safety into project risk evaluation

Accidents, often the result of an ‘uncontrolled business process’—a study in the (Dutch) chemical industry

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