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AIRCRAFT CONTINUING AIRWORTHINESS METHODOLOGY BASED ON THE CONTROL OF THE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS. The article outlines some theoretical and methodological aspects of an interface between the continuing airworthiness and... more
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      Reliability EngineeringSafety and reliability and risk managementMaintenance Engineering and ManagementAircraft Maintenance
Nuclear power accidents repeatedly reveal that the industry has an incomplete understanding of the complex risks involved in its operation. Through analyzing the investigation of a nuclear power incident in Sweden in 2006, I show how the... more
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      Policy Analysis/Policy StudiesOrganizational LearningPolicy Analysis and Decision MakingNormalization Process Theory
Standards concerned with the development of safety-critical systems, and the software in such systems in particular, abound today as the software crisis increasingly affects the world of embedded computer-based systems. The use of formal... more
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      Safety EngineeringComputer ScienceSoftware EngineeringFormal Methods (Formal Verification)
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      Human FactorsOccupational Health & SafetyRisk ManagementSafety and reliability and risk management
The adoption of systems-focused risk assessment techniques has not led to measurable improvement in the rate of patient harm. Why? In part, because these tools focus solely on understanding problems, and provide no direct support for... more
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      ManagementRisk Management and InsuranceSafety EngineeringOrganizational Change
Construction has been plagued with serious injuries and deaths for years. Unfortunately incidents have contributed to excessive loss of lives and damage to property, casting a pall over the construction industry. Past efforts in... more
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      Civil EngineeringSafety EngineeringStructural EngineeringProject Management
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      ManagementOccupational Health & SafetySafety and reliability and risk managementHealth, Safety and Environmental Management
There are three distinct phases of monitoring in the lifetime of an earth and rockfill dam. viz. construction, first reservoir filling and operation stage. During construction stage, rate of construction of earth and rockfill dam may... more
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      Structural Health MonitoringBig DamsInstrumentationHydro Power
SUMMARY Most serious accidents at sea are caused by minor incidents that escalated into an uncontrolled situation. This study is aiming to develop a model to investigate the likelihood of fatal accidents, given that a critical incident... more
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      Maritime Human FactorsSafety and reliability and risk managementMaritime SafetyNaval Architecture and Marine Engineering
This work is an elementary but comprehensive textbook which provides the latest updates in the fields of Earthquake Engineering, Dynamics of Structures, Seismology and Seismic Design, introducing relevant new topics to the fields such as... more
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      Earthquake EngineeringSeismic RetrofitSafety and reliability and risk managementGround Motion Selection and Modification
Small and medium scale industries (SMIs) are often the main pillar of an economy. In India the plastic processing industries are highly fragmented which about 75% are consist of micro, small and medium scale industries in plastic sector,... more
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      ProductivitySafety and reliability and risk managementEngineering in Industrial Hygiene and Safety
The safety aspects of computer-based systems as increasingly important as the use of software escalates because of its convenience and flexibility. However the complexity of even modestly sized programs is such that the elimination of... more
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      Information SystemsControl Systems EngineeringSafety EngineeringComputer Science
Due to the growing demand for hydrocarbons, explorations at sea have increased with particular challenges such as exploitation in ultra-deep waters and frozen seas, which has led to the development of new technologies. Offshore activities... more
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      ColombiaSecurityPetroleumCaribbean Studies
Book review
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      Aviation SafetyHuman Factors in AviationSafety and reliability and risk managementOpen Systems
Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) has a key role in the quality system of thermal power plants. Electricity production is definitely not only production of a product, but also becomes a customer service. Reliability is the top... more
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      Materials EngineeringMaterials ScienceQuality ManagementMaterials Chemistry
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      Safety EngineeringEnvironmental LawEnvironmental StudiesEnvironmental Management
This monograph covers issues related to the assessment of the reliability of complex electronic and electrical systems, as well as the reliability of software, which is an integral part of modern software and hardware systems. The main... more
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      Safety EngineeringComputer Security And ReliabilityStructural ReliabilityReliability (Measurement and Evaluation)
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      Safety EngineeringOrganizational ChangeQuality ManagementQuality
Risk assessment, by itself, does nothing to reduce risk or improve safety. It can only change outcomes by informing the design and management of effective risk control interventions. But current practice in healthcare risk management... more
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      ManagementRisk Management and InsuranceBusiness AdministrationSafety Engineering
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      ManagementSafety EngineeringEmergency MedicinePublic Administration
This chapter is about managing sociotechnological risks. It is in the 70s that the notion of ‘high-risk’ (or ‘safety critical’) systems started to be distinguished and grouped into an independent category including industries such as the... more
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      Chemical EngineeringNuclear EngineeringSafety EngineeringSociology
Wie lässt sich das Phänomen der „Sicherheitskultur“ in seinen Zusammenhängen und Wechselwirkungen mit dem „professionellen Handeln“ bestimmen, und zwar so, dass es anhand dieser Bestimmung möglich wird, die Güte von Sicherheitskulturen zu... more
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      Organizational BehaviorOrganizational CultureOccupational Health & SafetyRisk
This report will investigate the accident that has occurred at Imperial Sugar production Company. As a consequence of the sugar dust explosion that took place at isolated conveyor belt which was located below bunker that stored the... more
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      Safety EngineeringOccupational Health & SafetyRisk ManagementIndustrial Engineering
The roles of standby man in confined space job cannot be overemphasized. For a person to qualified to work as a standby man, there are many qualities he must possess and responsibilities he must be ready to undertake. Beside these,... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringSafety EngineeringProject ManagementSafety and reliability and risk management
Although it is probably the best-known Prospective Hazard Analysis (PHA) tool, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is far from the only option available. This paper introduces one of the alternatives: The Structured What-If Technique... more
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      Organizational BehaviorManagementRisk Management and InsuranceBusiness Administration
Safety Culture Mapping(Safety Culture Assessment) in High Risk Entities
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      ManagementHuman Resource ManagementHuman ResourcesSafety and reliability and risk management
Budaya Keselamatan perlu dilakukan agar setiap individu menyadari bahwa keselamatan itu dimulai dari diri sendiri
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      Safety CultureSafety and reliability and risk managementTransportation ManagementKeselamatan Transportasi
How to implement an intelligent railway system in Hungary. According to Bjorn Hesskan (Railway industry consultant): „The rise of data systems within the industry has been gathering pace over the last decade. These days, IT is about as... more
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      Computer ScienceComputer Security And ReliabilityCommunicationWireless Communications
Author of the monograph, Juraj Králik, has been working at the Department of Structural Mechanics as assistant since September 1, 1976 and as associate professor since January 18, 1988. During the years 2000 - 2006 he was the head of... more
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      Safety and reliability and risk managementStochastic finite elementsApplied Probability and Statistics
BACKGROUND: Fishbone diagrams have been widely promoted as a systems-focused hazard analysis tool for use in root cause analysis, but they suffer from a number of structural weaknesses, including a unidirectional structure that only takes... more
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      ManagementSafety EngineeringKnowledge ManagementOrganizational Change
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      Reliability EngineeringSafety and reliability and risk managementReliability
Although it is probably the best-known prospective hazard analysis (PHA) tool, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is far from the only option available. This article introduces one of the alternatives: The structured what-if... more
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      Organizational BehaviorManagementRisk Management and InsuranceBusiness Administration
How do we learn from failures? and Why do we need to learn from failures? These seemingly simple questions are yet quite profound and we need to dig deeper to explore suitable answers. In this paper an empirical study based on the... more
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      Safety EngineeringQuality, Reliability & MaintenanceSafety and reliability and risk management
PHE-ONWJ platform personnel found 93 leaking tubes locations in the fin fan coolers/ gas-cooling heat exchanger. After analysis had been performed, the crack in the tube strongly indicate that stress corrosion cracking was occurred by... more
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      Marine EngineeringSafety and reliability and risk management
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      SociologyDisaster StudiesMindfulnessOccupational Health & Safety
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      Bridge EngineeringSafety and reliability and risk managementVisual Inspections
Recently we have witnessed the worldwide adoption of many different types of innovative technologies, such as crowdsourcing, ridesharing, open and big data, aiming at delivering public services more efficiently and effectively. Among... more
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      ManagementRisk Management and InsuranceInformation TechnologyPolicy Analysis/Policy Studies
There is great interest in ensuring correctness of safety-critical embedded systems since on the one hand the use of software gives greatly increased functionality and flexibility and on the other hand it provides unprecedented... more
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      Safety EngineeringComputer ScienceSoftware EngineeringFormal Methods (Formal Verification)
During construction and initial reservoir impounding, performance of an earth and rock-fill dam is required to be closely and frequently monitored for safety of the dam. During construction stage, rate of construction of earth and... more
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      Structural Health MonitoringBig DamsInstrumentationHydro Power
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      Materials EngineeringMaterials ScienceQuality ManagementMaterials Chemistry
The reliability methods allows the evaluation of the limit states violation probability, which are relevant to the structural design. This paper presents an accurate and efficient numerical procedure for evaluating the reliability of... more
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      Structural ReliabilityReliability (Measurement and Evaluation)Structural AnalysisSafety and reliability and risk management
Industrial corporations around the world can be found who are proud of their safety records, safety achievements, and published their results on the Internet. Here are 34 companies who we found in 2015 searches that had important safety... more
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      Safety EngineeringOccupational Health & SafetyProject Risk ManagementRisk Management
A methodology is developed in this paper to estimate the time-dependent reliability of a pipeline in Algeria, which is in exploitation from 1981 and with internal and external localized corrosion defects detected in 2009. A probabilistic... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringStructural ReliabilityCorrosion ScienceFinite Element Analysis (Engineering)
The study was conducted in Abia State, Nigeria. A sample size of 240 respondents generated through purposive and multi–stage sampling procedures. Data were realized using structured questionnaire and they were analyzed using descriptive... more
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      Children and FamiliesChild DevelopmentOccupational Health & SafetyNigeria
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      Knowledge ManagementOrganizational CultureInfrastructure PlanningSingapore
MEMS reliability analysis is a challenging area of research which comprises various physics of failure and diverse failure mechanisms. Reliability issues are critical in both design and fabrication phases of MEMS devices as their... more
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      Reliability EngineeringSafety and reliability and risk managementProbabilistic risk modeling
Berbagai studi terkait dengan pengendalian infeksi maupun faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kepatuhan petugas kesehatan dalam melakukan kebersihan tangan belum sepenuhnya berjalan dengan baik
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      Safety and reliability and risk managementOccupational health and safetyInfection prevention and control
Ship grounding accidents, being one of the major types of maritime accidents, are significant failures putting in danger maritime transportation systems. Moreover, the risks associated with those failures can be catastrophic for the... more
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      Risk ManagementSafety and reliability and risk managementMaritime Transportation
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The challenge of the economic performance is becoming more and more heavy on the companies in a context of diversified constraints imposed by their macro-system, indeed, by their environment. It is obvious that the performance of... more
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      Operations ResearchLean ThinkingProcess OptimizationSystems Thinking