Arezes Pedro M. - Ergonomics and human factors in safety management

ERGONOMICS AND
HUMAN FACTORS
IN SAFETY MANAGEMENT

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Waldemar Karwowski

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Ergonomics and Human Factors in Safety Management

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EDITED BY

Pedro M. Arezes
Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho

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Library of Congress Cataloging.in.Publication Data

Names: Arezes, Pedro M., editor. | Carvalho, Paulo Victor Rodrigues de,
editor.
Title: Ergonomics and human factors in safety management / [edited by] Pedro
Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes and Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho.
Description: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2016. | Series: Industrial and systems
engineering series | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016010604 | ISBN 9781498727563 (hard cover)
Subjects: LCSH: Industrial safety. | Human engineering. | Manufacturing
processes--Human factors.
Classification: LCC T55 .E69 2016 | DDC 658.4/08--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016010604

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This book is a compilation of contributions from invited authors organized in 18 chapters and grouped by three main topics. All of the authors were invited after their participation in the 2nd and 3rd International Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, which are affiliated with the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics.

This book has contributions from 60 authors from 11 countries, and it intends to cover specific aspects of safety and human factors management, ranging from case studies to the development of theoretical models.

The chapters are organized into three different topics, which will allow readers to clearly identify the main focus of each chapter.

The first section, comprised of the first seven chapters, is dedicated to occupational safety.

, from Carvalho and Melo describes the matrix-based technique used to perform occupational risk assessment. They claim that this approach has advantages in occupational risk assessments, namely, because it allies the advantages of both the quantitative and qualitative approaches and overcomes some of their limitations. In this chapter, Carvalho and Melo present a study to evaluate the reliability of the matrix-based approach.

, from Debnath et al., discusses regulatory, organizational, and operational issues in road construction safety in Australia. In their study, from the state of Queensland, Australia, they examine how well the tripartite (regulatory, organization, and operational) framework functions. The study identifies several factors influencing the translation of safety policies into practice, including the cost of safety measures in the context of competitive tendering, the lack of firm evidence of the effectiveness of safety measures, and pressures to minimize disruption to the traveling public.

The contribution of Gutirrez and Snchez, in , describes the development of an occupational health and safety management system for manufacturing companies in Mexico using factorial analysis. Their research, based on a survey conducted among 32 Mexican manufacturing companies, attempts to give clarity to Mexican manufacturing companies in the creation of a unique management system that covers occupational safety aspects and allows them to accomplish government as well as global clients requirements.

In , from Rodrigues et al., the authors present a study developed within the Portuguese furniture industrial sector, in which they characterize the safety performance of the sector, namely, by analyzing the corresponding occupational accidents and identifying the key unsafe conditions that can originate these accidents. Using a sample of 14 Portuguese companies of this sector, they also analyzed the applicability of the Safety Climate in Wood Industries as a tool to monitor companies safety performance and assess the safety climate within those companies. Among other results, they found a strong positive linear correlation between safety climate scores and the companies safety performance.

Vyrynen et al. present a review about health, safety, environment, and quality (HSEQ) management in . They describe a model used for HSEQ assessment that has been developed and applied within many Finnish company networks. They also focus on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their work systems with outcomes, their HSEQ assessment results, and the concepts of sustainability and safety culture. The authors suggest that such a model can promote productivity and conformity within a work system with more desired outcomes.