Safe by design: where are we now?

Hale, Andrew; Kirwan, Barry; Kjellén, Urban

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2006.08.007

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“…Finally, as noted by Hale et al [2], in some high-hazard industries, proof of safe design is becoming an obligation for equipment manufacturers to enter the market. Thus, safe design can be an effective process, although it is still not commonly used in domains, such as the minerals industry or highway design [4,6].…”

Section: Safe Design Legislation and Policymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…This occupational insight has been a major motiving force in the growth of safe design of equipment and environments [2,3]. Examples of such design deficiencies in workplaces include visibility restrictions for operators of large industrial equipment [4], error-inducing tasks and procedures [5], or distracting roadway environments [6].…”

Section: The Importance Of Design In Workplace Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Key aspects of safe design are the involvement of decision makers, employing a participatory design process that includes active involvement of end users and maintenance personnel, and the employment of risk management methods for the full lifecycle of the designed system, product or environment [2,3]. The safe design process produces design options to either eliminate hazards or minimise risks to those who make it, those who use or maintain it, and those in the vicinity of a workplace.…”

Section: The Importance Of Design In Workplace Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Applying a Human-Centred Process to Re-Design Equipment and Work Environments

Horberry

Burgess-Limerick

2015

Safety

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Safe design is an increasingly influential approach due to a growing recognition of the contribution of design to workplace safety. It aims to eliminate workplace hazards by systematically involving end-users in the design or redesign process. In this review paper, the explicit and novel focus is upon redesign, rather than original design. The literature in the field is appraised and a human-centred safe redesign method is presented. The safe redesign method is a task-based, risk management approach that centres on end-users. In describing the method, indicative results from two domains are outlined: mining equipment and highway environments. Focusing on end-users and their tasks by means of a structured human-centred process can be highly beneficial. Further work to expand the human-centred safe redesign method is outlined.

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Section: Safe Design Legislation and Policymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: The Importance Of Design In Workplace Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Importance Of Design In Workplace Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Applying a Human-Centred Process to Re-Design Equipment and Work Environments

Horberry

Burgess-Limerick

2015

Safety

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“…This makes sense when standards are 'experience carriers' (Hale et al 2007). Compliance with rules (of which standards are one kind) is a well-recognised strategy for both constraining and supporting decision makers (Hale and Borys 2013a, b) but in the end if standards are not applied mindfully (Weick and Sutcliffe 2001) then safe outcomes cannot be assured.…”

Section: The Role Of Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stories and Standards: The Impact of Professional Social Practices on Safety Decision Making

Hayes

2017

Beyond Safety Training

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Organisational influences on safety outcomes are the subject of much attention in both academia and industry with a focus on how workplace factors and company systems, both formal and informal, influence workers. Many individuals who make important decisions for safety are not simply employees of a particular firm, but also members of a profession. This second social identity is little studied or acknowledged and yet is it critical for safety. This chapter addresses two key social practices that influence safety outcomes. The first is professional learning for disaster prevention. Research has shown that much professional learning is profoundly social including sharing stories and using stories directly as an input to key decisions. Another critical professional activity is development of standards. Standards are seen as authoritative sources and so 'called up' in legislation and yet the processes by which they are developed are opaque to those outside the small group of professionals involved. Again, this important social practice of groups of professionals remains little studied. Professional social practices such as these are worthy of much more attention from both academia and industry.

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“…The fact that the ultimate thing is not currently physically existent and cannot be observed and manipulated makes it necessary to represent the thing conceptually. Reference [23] gives a more explicit definition of design. It defines design as a process of formulating a description for an anticipated process system and/or an object system that is intended to transform an existing situation into a future situation to satisfy needs.…”

Section: Designmentioning

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Modelling and Improving Safety in Production System Design: Overall Approach and by Features, a Case Study

Nzie¹

2017

IJIMSE

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Enhancing the safety of any production system is a very important aspect in industries nowadays since it greatly reduces losses of resources. Moreover, safety ensures the health of the workers and a risk free environment. Often, most industries integrate safety in the useful life or during maintenance of their production systems. But this approach which is costly and sometimes causes the destruction of the existing system, seems to be irrelevant. A better solution is to consider safety in the process design of production system installation. To fulfill this aim, both probabilistic modelling of technical safety and modelling by Safety Features (SaF) give a better opportunity, and a step by step methodology to design safety production systems are proposed in this work. In order to be efficient in this approach, both proactive and reactive information are needed, and Safety Features (SaF) should be tools to sustain safety actors' view in design collaborative communication. A case study has been lunched for illustration in hydroelectric power dam in Cameroon.

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Safe by design: where are we now?

Cited by 107 publications

References 1 publication

Applying a Human-Centred Process to Re-Design Equipment and Work Environments

Applying a Human-Centred Process to Re-Design Equipment and Work Environments

Stories and Standards: The Impact of Professional Social Practices on Safety Decision Making

Modelling and Improving Safety in Production System Design: Overall Approach and by Features, a Case Study

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