Mapping the influences of resilience engineering on health, safety, and environment and ergonomics management system by using Z‐number cognitive map

Abstract

This study evaluates and analyzes the impacts of resilience engineering (RE) principles on integrated health, safety, environment, and ergonomics (HSEE) management system. In decision sciences, information should be reliable due to uncertainty and vagueness existing in information. To this end, in this study, the concept of Z‐numbers with fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) approach is integrated and a novel approach named Z‐number cognitive map is proposed. The main advantages of the proposed approach are determination of the weighted causality relations (for employing FCM) as well as handling uncertainty (for considering Z‐numbers concept). This approach is used to show the effects of RE indicators on HSEE management system. The required data for the proposed approach is collected from a large petrochemical plant by distributing questionnaires. According to the results, the RE principles have significant impact on HSEE management system. Top management commitment, learning, preparedness and awareness have the most impacts on environment, health, ergonomics and safety factors, respectively. This is the first study that employs Z‐number cognitive map for evaluating and improving the impacts of RE on HSEE factors in a large petrochemical plant. The proposed approach in this study, can help managers of various safety‐critical systems to improve their performance in terms of HSEE factors using RE concept.

Evaluation of resilience engineering using super decisions software

“…The results showed that senior management commitment (0.827) had the highest effect on the environment, learning (0.792) had the highest effect on health, readiness (0.786) had the highest effect on ergonomics, and awareness (0.776) had the highest effect on safety. 42…”

Measuring Resilience Engineering: An Integrative Review and Framework for Bench-Marking Organisational Safety

“…[54] "a paradigm for safety management that concentrates on how to help people deal with complexity under stress to achieve success" (p. 336) [56] "an organizational culture that fosters safe practices for improved safety in an ultra-safe organization striving for cost-effective safety management" (p. 297) [58] "capability to sustain or rapidly return to a steady state that allows the organization to continue operation during or after a major event or in the presence of continuous stresses" (p. 191) [59] "ability of an organization to regulate its function before, during, and after perturbations and fluctuations, so that it can continue the operations required under both predicted and unpredicted situations" (p. 142)…”

“…Instruments 2 [29] and 15 [57] measured characteristics that were different to those suggested by Wreathall in [27] or [19], while instrument 9 [51] was the only one to explicitly measure the four capabilities of a resilient organisation [19]. The instruments developed by teams led by Shirali and Azadeh appear to be central, illustrated in studies 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 16 [48,49,52,53,56,59]. Two instruments measured Resilience Safety Culture (RSC) [56,57], while one measured Resilience Safety Climate [55].…”

“…This should include, as a minimum, six of the seven most common themes identified by Wreathall [27]. These include top management commitment, just culture, learning culture, reporting culture, flexibility and awareness [30,[45][46][47][48][49][50]52,54,55,58,59]. In addition, other characteristics can be incorporated; however, this needs to be supported with adequate theory.…”

Dominance Degree Multiple Attribute Decision Making Based on Z‐Number Cognitive Information

“…e concepts of Z-valuation [3], Z + -number [4] and Zinformation [5] are closely related to the concept of Znumbers. e proposed four concepts are shown in Table 1, where u A is the membership function of A and p X is the probability distribution of X. e second aspect is languagetype Z-number calculation and related extension [6,7], for example, Zarrin and Azadeh [8] combined Z-number with fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) and proposed a novel approach named Z-number cognitive map. ey evaluated and analyzed the impacts of resilience engineering (RE) principles on integrated health, safety, environment, and ergonomics (HSEE) management system.…”