Proposal of a quali-quantitative assessment model for health and safety in small and medium enterprises

Fera, Marcello; Macchiaroli, R.

doi:10.2495/safe090121

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“…Some OHS risk management tools do allow users to carry out exhaustive identification of hazards and realistic analysis of risks and thus to minimize incoherence [19,22,23]. Their usefulness in a wide variety of settings has been demonstrated in several published studies [5,24,25]. However, they have several limitations in terms of the range of applicability, difficulty of implementation and the quality (reliability) of the results [22,[25][26][27].…”

Section: Ohs Risk Management Methods and Techniquesmentioning

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Survey of the Risk Management Methods, Techniques and Software Used Most Frequently in Occupational Health and Safety

Mouras¹,

Badri²

2020

IJSSE

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Throughout modernity, increasing emphasis on knowledge, digitization and information technology has fueled the emergence of new methods of organizational management. In several fields, digital technologies have proven indispensable for facilitating and improving operations as well as business development. Companies that recognize this are now acquiring software even for risk management, notably for work-related injuries and illnesses, a persistent and particularly complicated problem because of its multidisciplinary nature and entanglement with human behavior. Despite their undeniable contribution to the progress made so far, conventional methods are not entirely adequate for managing the unpredictability characterizing occupational health and safety (OHS) risks. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the current use of software in OHS risk management, based on a survey of the advantages and limitations of the most widely used tools. Our findings reveal that such tools are intended primarily for use in construction and chemical processing, the industries in which OHS is taken most seriously. They are found nevertheless to hold promise as solutions to OHS risk management problems encountered in a wide variety of small and medium-sized businesses.

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Section: Ohs Risk Management Methods and Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey of the Risk Management Methods, Techniques and Software Used Most Frequently in Occupational Health and Safety

Mouras¹,

Badri²

2020

IJSSE

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“…Recent literature [46, 47, 48, 49] has suggested various comparison methods for understanding the complex problems as described in the Section 1. When it comes to analysing hierarchical and complex problems, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) developed by Saaty [53, 54] is an approach that is often applied in different practical and theoretical contexts [50, 51, 52].…”

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Exploration of Factors Influencing the Customers' Motivation in Buyer-Supplier Relationships on Industrial Markets

Zunk

2015

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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To gain a competitive advantage on industrial markets, suppliers need to understand what motivates their customers to collaborate in long-term buyer-supplier relationships. Therefore, this paper presents (i) a literature-based model of a 12-part industrial customers' motivation profile, and (ii) empirical findings from an explorative survey of 118 decision makers in the purchasing departments of firms in the technology sector. The results indicate that, “the optimum value for money”, “the holistic problem-solving capability of the suppliers and their high degree of performance” and “the good assistance in economically hard times in the past, which has led to a feeling of gratefulness” are all of great importance to industrial customers for building and maintaining relationships.

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“…In the early stage of construction, the experts set the weights of indicators based on the AHP, which can reduce inconsistencies in expert judgement (Fera and Macchiaroli, 2009). The relative importance of each indicator in the hierarchy is determined by comparing the two factors, and a judgement matrix is constructed, in which A mn represents the importance of factor m and factor n relative to the goal.…”

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Dynamic safety prewarning mechanism of human–machine–environment using computer vision

Xu¹,

Wang

2020

ECAM

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PurposeThis study provides a safety prewarning mechanism, which includes a comprehensive risk assessment model and a safety prewarning system. The comprehensive risk assessment model is capable of assessing nine safety indicators, which can be categorised into workers’ behaviour, environment and machine-related safety indicators, and the model is embedded in the safety prewarning system. The safety prewarning system can automatically extract safety information from surveillance cameras based on computer vision, assess risks based on the embedded comprehensive risk assessment model, categorise risks into five levels and provide timely suggestions.Design/methodology/approachFirstly, the comprehensive risk assessment model is constructed by adopting grey multihierarchical analysis method. The method combines the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the grey clustering evaluation in the grey theory. Expert knowledge, obtained through the questionnaire approach, contributes to set weights of risk indicators and evaluate risks. Secondly, a safety prewarning system is developed, including data acquisition layer, data processing layer and prewarning layer. Computer vision is applied in the system to automatically extract real-time safety information from the surveillance cameras. The safety information is then processed through the comprehensive risk assessment model and categorized into five risk levels. A case study is presented to verify the proposed mechanism.FindingsThrough a case study, the result shows that the proposed mechanism is capable of analyzing integrated human-machine-environment risk, timely categorising risks into five risk levels and providing potential suggestions.Originality/valueThe comprehensive risk assessment model is capable of assessing nine risk indicators, identifying three types of entities, workers, environment and machine on the construction site, presenting the integrated risk based on nine indicators. The proposed mechanism, which adopts expert knowledge through Building Information Modeling (BIM) safety simulation and extracts safety information based on computer vision, can perform a dynamic real-time risk analysis, categorize risks into five risk levels and provide potential suggestions to corresponding risk owners. The proposed mechanism can allow the project manager to take timely actions.

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Proposal of a quali-quantitative assessment model for health and safety in small and medium enterprises

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

Survey of the Risk Management Methods, Techniques and Software Used Most Frequently in Occupational Health and Safety

Survey of the Risk Management Methods, Techniques and Software Used Most Frequently in Occupational Health and Safety

Exploration of Factors Influencing the Customers' Motivation in Buyer-Supplier Relationships on Industrial Markets

Dynamic safety prewarning mechanism of human–machine–environment using computer vision

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