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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"hazard identification"”.
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Quarry Workers' Hazard Identification, Severity Interpretation, and Prevention Strategies
… quarry workers' safety behaviors regarding work hazards by adapting findings from construction safety research because construction and mining industries have similarities in work hazards and environment. Despite their similarities, the work fatality rate in the mining industry is greater than in …
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Environmental hazard identification, assessment and control for a sustainable maritime transportation system
<p>"A demand exists to contribute towards the widening awareness of the need for sustainable maritime development and for coordinated maritime policies worldwide. Maritime shipping is considered the most eco-efficient mean of transportation and yet, is responsible for negative environmental …
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Hazard Identification and Coastal Stratigraphy in Crescent Harbor, Northeast Whidbey Island, Washington
… in northern Puget Sound and poses a seismic hazard to northern Whidbey Island. In addition to the paleo-seismic interpretation, stratigraphy also indicates that tidal exchange in the marsh was restricted or non-existent for the last ~1,000 years BP, up until AD 2009 when the barrier was …
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Systems Theoretic Process Analysis as a Practical Tool for Comprehensive Flight Test Hazard Identification
… risk. In order to conduct flight testing safely, hazards of consequence must be identified and mitigated in advance of testing. While adequate practices are widely in place for the mitigation of hazards that have been identified, the practices generally used to reveal and identify hazards in the …
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Using a Nearest Neighbor Algorithm and Logistic Regression to Assess Hazard Identification in the U.S. Army Risk Management Process
… in how they perceive the presence or absence of hazards in a given situation. The goal of the research is to show that participants with enlisted military experience, prior to being commissioned as a junior officer, would be more successful at identifying the hazards presented in military …
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Connections among communities: preventing radicalization and violent extremism through social network analysis in the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) framework
… (SNA) as a tool in the nation's Threat and Hazard Identification Risk Assessment (THIRA) framework to determine whether factors (such as relationships and motivations) can be used to reduce the vulnerability of a community at risk of radicalization and violent extremism and to build …
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Identifying vaping hazards through the evaluation of exposure methods and cell culture models for e-liquid mixtures.
… to implement interdisciplinary approaches for hazard identification of vaping toxicity, namely the evaluation of exposure methods and in vitro model systems. This dissertation introduces a combination of exposure techniques for hazard identification of e-liquid binary mixtures using lung cell …
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Tuning Up BIM for Safety Analysis
The construction industry is on the top list of hazardous industries. This justifies the importance of safety research in this industry. Review of the literature identified "falls" as the top mortality source in the construction industry. Therefore, this research focuses on falls from heights. …
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Implementing best practice protocols for occupational hygiene monitoring
… this research it was hypothesised that chemical hazards had not been adequately identified, that existing occupational hygiene monitoring programs did not adequately quantify employee exposures to these hazards, and that the implementation of a comprehensive hazard identification and monitoring …
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Development of a hazard monitoring system for aquaculture: case of study - catfish farming
This thesis aims to develop a hazard monitoring system based on identifying potential food hazard sources in the catfish farming process. In this case study, the artificial propagation of Heteroclarias catfish hybrids is considered the final product. Considering a fictive small-scale hatching unit, …
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A novel safety analysis method for marine cyber-physical systems
… for CPSs are identified. Then, the different hazard identification methods are analysed on their effectiveness to identify scenarios linked to the CPSs safety related properties.;As the existing literature demonstrates, the existing hazard identification methods such as Fault Tree Analysis …
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A systemic study of mining accident causality: an analysis of 100 accidents from a copper mining company in Zambia
… problems seen in housekeeping (systemic factor), hazard identification (systemic factor), risk management (systemic factor), and designs (systemic factor), these were also the causes of poor physical environment. In the unsafe work practices (workplace factor), hazard identification was the most …
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Analysis of Health and Safety Risk Assessment in Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of Tanzania Breweries Limited
… using different methods. These methods include hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA), Workplace risk assessment (WORAC), planned job observation (PJO) and hazard operability (HAZOP). Based on the findings it is recommended that health and safety risk assessment should be entrenched at …
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Assessing understanding of occupational health and safety in an Australian hospitality organisation
… of risk management (the combined process of risk/hazard identification, assessment and control) and occupational health and safety consultation. The project seeks to assess any underlying relationship between employee understanding and awareness of these safety related concepts with safety …
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Operational risk management of bulk carriers
… step for setting the problem's boundary limits, hazard identification for the prioritization of causes and effects, risk analysis for the quantification of risks and risk evaluation for assessing the significance and the acceptability of the estimated risk. The relevant aspects that are taken …
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Assessing the Impact of Marker-Based Augmented Reality Technology on Improvement of Quality and Safety of Construction
… perform construction tasks and identify safety hazards. In this research, the author proposed an augmented reality application that uses handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablets to deliver a life-size BIM model to construction workers. The author investigated how interactive and …
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Development and Application of a Risk-Based Online Body-of-Knowledge for the U.S. Underground Coal Mining Industry: RISKGATE-US COAL
… the need for improved methods of major safety hazard identification and control. While many solutions to reducing the risk of mine disasters have been proposed, including stricter regulation and improved technology, a comprehensive risk management approach has yet to be fully integrated in the …
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Simulation-based fault propagation analysis of process industry using process variable interaction analysis
… Industries involve complex processes and handle hazardous materials that may potentially cause catastrophic consequences in terms of human losses, injuries, asset lost and environmental stresses. One main reason of such catastrophic events is the lack of effective control and monitoring …
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APPLICATION OF FORMAL SAFETY ASSESSMENT FOR DRY DOCKING EVOLUTION
… high levels of uncertainty exist. Following the identification of research needs, this work has developed several analytical models for the application of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA). Such models are subsequently demonstrated by their corresponding case studies with regards to application of …
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Enhancing existing health and safety processes in public sector construction projects within Saudi Arabia using building information modelling approaches
… which incorporates BIM to include automated hazard identification and correction during design and during construction, has been developed. The framework is initially devised based on a synthesis of the literature and further refined based on findings from questionnaires. The result of this …
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