Safety Behaviors Assessment in Process Industry: A Case Study in Gas Refinery

Fam, Iraj Mohammad; Azadeh, A.; Faridan, Mohammad; Mahjub, Hossein

doi:10.1080/10170660809509093

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“…Duijm et al (2008) showed that HSE management would benefit greatly from existing management systems and also from the further development of meaningful safety performance indicators that identify the conditions prior to accidents and incidents. Mohammad Fam, Azadeh, Faridan, and Mahjoub (2008) used behavior sampling technique to evaluate the workers safety behavior in a gas treatment company (Mohammad Fam et al, 2008). Azadeh, Mohammad, and Azadeh (2009) implemented a study in a gas treatment company to show the superiority of HSEE over conventional HSE.…”

Section: Hse-ergonomicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An adaptive neural network algorithm for assessment and improvement of job satisfaction with respect to HSE and ergonomics program: The case of a gas refinery

Azadeh

Rouzbahman

Saberi

et al. 2011

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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An adaptive neural network algorithm for assessment and improvement of job satisfaction with respect to HSE and ergonomics program: The case of a gas refinery

Azadeh

Rouzbahman

Saberi

et al. 2011

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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“…Thus, improving safety behavior has become one of the challenges in the workplace. [2] Focus on human behavior rather than on procedures is not a new feature of risk management. Heinrich in 1959 introduced two views of risk management and control; the engineering view and the human-relations view.…”

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Improving Safety Behavior Using Adkar Model

Al-Qahtani

2010

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Although the development of science and technologies has already decreased the number of employees in industries, there has been a developing trend in terms of employee's importance in workplaces. Controlling a large number of different and critical operations is the duty of human beings in the oil & gas industries. It is usually supposed that making human errors is one of the main contributors to catastrophic disasters likelihood. Thus, improving safety behavior has become one of the challenges in the workplace.Several safety management programs have been developed to eliminate the unsafe behavior and promote the safety performance in the organization. Unfortunately, most of these programs and systems, if not all, have failed to achieve their goals; basically, because they are lack of proper behavior change process or methodology.

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“…Moreover, manual lifting components as closing load to body, correct weight for lifting and schedule of lifting and appropriate grip were considered as behavior (Attwood et al, 2004;McSween, 2003). Posture of workers is one of the most important factors at the workplaces that are known as behavior (Attwood et al, 2004;Khandan et al, 2012;Mohammad Fam et al, 2008;Lueder, 2005;Chung, 2006) and the elements of posture such as elbow bending and trunk twisting are also posed as behavior (McSween, 2003;Bridger & Pisula, 2014;Habibi et al, 2012).…”

Section: Ergonomic Behaviormentioning

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“…First, we showed that our objective behaviors are accepted as behavior in the literature. Manual handling (Attwood et al, 2004;Poornajaf A et al, 2016) and manual lifting (Attwood et al, 2004;Nouri et al, 2008;Geller, 2016;Mohammad Fam et al, 2008) are recognized as behavior. Moreover, manual lifting components as closing load to body, correct weight for lifting and schedule of lifting and appropriate grip were considered as behavior (Attwood et al, 2004;McSween, 2003).…”

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“…Thus, the proportion of unsafe behavior is (McSween, 2003;Perdue, 1999;Mohammad Fam et al, 2008): (1) Let e be the desired accuracy, N be the total number of observations required, Z0.95 be the value obtained from standardized normal tables for a given level of confidence, then the total number of required ergonomic behavior observations is derived as follows,…”

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Decision making models and human factors: TOPSIS and Ergonomic Behaviors (TOPSIS-EB)

Khandan¹,

Vosoughi²,

Azrah³

et al. 2017

10.5267/j.msl

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An effective safety management requires attention to human factors as well as system components which make risky or safe situations at technical components. This study evaluates and analyze ergonomic behaviors in order to select the best work shift group in an Iranian process industry, in 2010.The methodology was based on the Ergonomic Behavior Sampling (EBS), and TOPSIS method. After specifying the unergonomic behaviors and with reference to the results of a pilot study, a sample of 1755 was determined, with a sampling accuracy of 5% and confidence level of 95%. However, in order to gain more confidence, 2631 observations were collected. The results indicate that 43.6% of workers' behaviors were unergonomic. The most frequent unergonomic behavior was amusing of legs while load lifting with 83.01% of total unergonomic behaviors observations. Using TOPSIS method, the most effective shift group and the least attractive alternatives for intervention were selected in this company. Findings declare high number of unergonomic behaviors. Catastrophic consequences of accidents in petrochemical industry necessitate attention to workers' ergonomic behaviors in the workplace and promotion of them.

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Safety Behaviors Assessment in Process Industry: A Case Study in Gas Refinery

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

An adaptive neural network algorithm for assessment and improvement of job satisfaction with respect to HSE and ergonomics program: The case of a gas refinery

An adaptive neural network algorithm for assessment and improvement of job satisfaction with respect to HSE and ergonomics program: The case of a gas refinery

Improving Safety Behavior Using Adkar Model

Decision making models and human factors: TOPSIS and Ergonomic Behaviors (TOPSIS-EB)

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