Product safety – Principles and practices in a life cycle perspective

Rausand, Marvin; Utne, Ingrid Bouwer

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2008.10.004

Cited by 47 publications

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“…Regarding the effects of CE on product safety, scholars and practitioners alike suggest that safety engineers should be involved in product design as early as possible and recommend using CE (Dowlatshahi, 2001;Wang & Ruxton, 1997;Rausand & Utne, 2008). However, the analytical and empirical evidence for this claim is still weak primarily because product safety has never been examined as a standalone variable.…”

Section: Concurrent Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…DFS studies have increased given a large percentage of accidents and incidents are rooted in design . Although there is substantial support for methodologies integrating safety into the design process (Drogoul et al, 2007;Fadier and De la Garza, 2006;Hasan et al, 2003;Rausand & Utne, 2008;Schulte et al, 2008), the challenge is to identify all the relevant hazards given the increasing complexity of technology, products, and systems and to meet the safety objective under the trade-off decision between cost, schedule, and performance (Rausand & Utne, 2008). Page 10 The effective use of safety management tools, such as Faulty Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) is important in managing integration in the NPD process (Abbott & Tyler, 1997;Nelson & Eubanks, 2005).…”

Section: Design-for-safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…DFS and CE strengthen operational product innovation efficiency, but they also create well-tested and safe products (Dowlatshahi, 2001;Rausand & Utne, 2008;Wang & Ruxton, 1997). DFS's specific focus on safety and CE's shared intra-functional design practices should encourage management to commit resources and implement well-defined NPD techniques with more predictable outcomes.…”

Section: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

Zhu

Zedtwitz

Assimakopoulos

et al. 2016

International Journal of Production Economics

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Design-for-Safety (DFS), and product safety performance. We propose that the underlying assumption of safety first affects the espoused values (group level product safety culture at NPD) and artefacts of organizational culture (Concurrent Engineering and Design-for-Safety); espoused value influences artefacts; and artefacts impact product safety performance. These hypotheses are tested by structural analyses of 255 survey responses collected from 126 firms in the juvenile product sector. While management commitment to safety, product safety culture, andDesign-for-Safety are significant product safety predictors, as expected, Concurrent Engineering has no significant direct effect on product safety. We discuss the implications of these findings for the field of product safety.

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Section: Concurrent Engineeringmentioning

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Section: Design-for-safetymentioning

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Section: Hypothesesmentioning

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The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

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Zedtwitz

Assimakopoulos

et al. 2016

International Journal of Production Economics

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“…Rausand and Utne 2009;Hale, Kirwan, and Kjell en 2007;Karwowski 2005) are available on how to integrate the design of safe and ergonomic products into engineering design process. Furthermore, the concepts of supply chain management and mass customisation of products and services are quite widely publicised (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A qualitative examination of safety-related compliance challenges for global manufacturing

Vasara

Kivistö-Rahnasto

2015

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

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Globally operating machine manufacturing companies need practices for recognising local safety requirements, as well as for designing the products for, and delivering them to, wider markets. This study aimed to determine (1) companies' product delivery strategies for managing product safety compliance and conformity in their supply chains, (2) the problems that arise in managing the product safety-related requirements and (3) how companies tackle these problems. The study comprised interviews with 25 representatives of 2 large internationally operating European companies manufacturing machines for use at work. The companies' strategies for decoupling the local safety requirements from their standard products covered maketo-stock, assemble-to-order, make-to-order and engineering-to-order. The problems were experienced mostly in systematic discovering and processing of the requirements, responsibility issues and unequal practices within global organisation. To tackle these problems, a company must have tools and practices to manage the information needs and understand the concepts of product delivery strategies.Relevance to human factors/ergonomics theory Companies must have tools to integrate the design of safe and ergonomic products into engineering design process. This article discusses the safety design of machines intended for use at work from the compliance management and supply chain management perspectives. The topics are not new per se, but they can create a novel combination in the safety research for the scientific community. This article provides novel information for the safety researchers regarding safety-related challenges within global business as well as the applicability of adapted theories in safety research. As a conclusion, the authors give recommendations to better tackle the issue of manufacturing-compliant products cost-effectively for differing customers and markets.

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“…Damage to the plant was minor. Held (2012) reported that the investigation of this accident showed that the sensitivity of intermediate products was underestimated and that a HazOp (Boonthum et al, 2014;Dunjó et al, 2010;Rausand and Hoyland, 2011;Rausand and Utne, 2009) should be used to assess risk prior to the start-up of the unit.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Assessment for Hexamine Nitration into RDX

Galante

Costa

Haddad

et al. 2014

J.Aerosp. Technol. Manag.

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Explosives are widely used in extraction of ores, melts and fuels and in the safe and economical demolition of structures. These applications demonstrate the value of explosives to society and the reason why they are manufactured worldwide despite the hazard of their preparation. Hence, this paper focuses on the manufactory of the military explosive Hexogen (also known as RDX). The characteristics of the process are described by the analysis of a specify manufactory plant. The chosen analysis tool is the Hazard and Operability Study -HazOp. Historically, this methodology has been applied at chemical industries and is used in industrial process operability analysis. This study analyses seven critical nodes in the RDX manufacturing process, identifies several deviations, and causes and consequences. From these results, improvements in the units are suggested and actual conditions discussed. It is important to remark that this work is an initial approach to analysis of the manufacturing process of RDX using the HazOp methodology.

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Product safety – Principles and practices in a life cycle perspective

Cited by 47 publications

References 17 publications

The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

A qualitative examination of safety-related compliance challenges for global manufacturing

Risk Assessment for Hexamine Nitration into RDX

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