Learning from incidents at a Norwegian and a Polish refinery

Abstract

Today companies are expected to learn from incidents in the form of accidents and near misses to improve safety at their facilities. In this article, we examine how two refineries located in Poland and Norway work to learn from incidents. We address the nature of their classification systems and how they select incidents for particularly thorough analysis or investigation, methods for analysis of less severe and severe incidents as well as participation in activities, the nature of follow up activities at the refineries and who these are directed at, as well as learning among contractors who carry out maintenance and projects at the refineries. For each of the stages of incident treatment, we consider the similarities and differences between the refineries and how the practices that are used may affect learning. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 36: 102–108, 2017

Safety Preparedness in the Textile Sector of Pakistan

“…It has pronounced explicitly by Pirzadeh et al, (2015) that the presence of harm highlights the absence of OHS practices and procedures. One of the famous measures of OHS is "near-misses" that have been categorized as lagging indicator (Gnoni & Saleh, 2017;Pirzadeh et al, 2015;Vastveit, Orszak, Njå & Kraslawski, 2017), whereas, Mutwale-Ziko, Lushinga, and Akakandelwa (2017) suggested "near-misses" as a proactive measure for OHS effectiveness. Despite this difference in opinion, Hale (2009) emphasized categorically that validity, reliability, and sensitivity should have importance for indicator definitions.…”