...Abroon Qazi; M.K.S. Al-Mhdawi Purpose This study aims to explore the interrelationships among quality and safety metrics within the Global Food Security Index (GFSI). Its primary objective is to identify key indicators and their respective influences on food security outcomes, thereby enriching...

... The correct development of Maintenance 4.0 relates to the correct implementation of Industry 4.0. Practical implications Maintenance 4.0 will greatly improve the main operating indicators: safety, reliability, availability and cost. Social implications Maintenance 4.0 will contribute to a circular...

..., production, field application and end-of-life disposal stages of the product (Vachon and Klassen, 2006 ; Madlool et al., 2012b) (Figure 1). Safety Cement industry GM process Resource usage reduction Cement industries have always played a crucial role in the socio-economic...

...Alex J. Ruiz‐Torres; Jianmei Zhang; Edgar Zapata; Arunkumar Pennathur; Russell Rhodes; Carey McCleskey; Marcella Cowen Purpose The focus of this paper is on reliability and availability design goals. It aims to provide top‐level estimates of the safety and maintainability of future spacecraft...

... systems, for example, the ones for occupational health and safety, dependability, social accountability or complaints handling, be included? What would such an integration mean for the existing organizational structures and how could be it be accomplished? When we attempt to address IMS issues, do we...

...How Sing Sii; Jin Wang; Tom Ruxton Following a brief review of the current status of offshore safety regulations in the UK, several issues pertaining to the problems encountered in applying the existing reliability and safety analysis methods in quantitative safety appraisal studies, especially...

...S.J. Westerman; N.M. Shryane; C.M. Crawshaw; G.R.J. Hockey; C.W. Wyatt‐Millington A work sample was used as part of a human factors investigation into the reliability of a safety‐critical programming task. The use of this technique provided important insight into three areas. First, a number...

...V.M. Rao Tummala; Y.H. Leung Evaluating project proposals with respect to safety and reliability objectives is extremely complex. Several tangible as well as intangible factors need to be considered. Also, most often these factors are difficult to measure objectively because of their nature...

...Sally Taylor‐Adams; Barry Kirwan For many years there has been increasing concern about the effects of human error in complex system safety and reliability. This concern has been increased owing to accidents such as Chernobyl, Bhopal, Herald of Free Enterprise, Three Mile Island...

... of the safety assessment, in particular of the incident analysis, are used. The waste package QC, i.e. the fulfillment of waste acceptance requirements, is either to be performed by checking the waste producer’s documentation and carrying out random tests or by qualifying and subsequently inspecting the waste...

...Zoe Nivolianitou There is a growing need for safety analysis of chemical processes. Risk analysis techniques capable of evaluating dangerous transient conditions together with the reliability of the protective systems need to be devised. Analyses a flash separator used for the raw separation...

.... A mathematical hazard model of risk analysis is presented. © MCB UP Limited 1991 AUSTRALIA ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES RISK ANALYSIS SAFETY Risk, Hazard and Negligence Risk, Hazard and Negligence in an Electricity Distribution System R.H. Stillman, M. Darveniza and G. Shannon...

... There is broad agreement within the process industries, and amongst the public and the authorities, that processes must be operated in a way which reduces the effects on the environment to a practicable minimum. At the same time safety performance must be maintained and improved. This is reflected in the new...

...R.H. Stillman; M. Darveniza Decision making in respect of hazard and safety analysis in the face of uncertain data in the management of widespread distribution systems is focused on. The narrow interpretation by Courts of the “foreseeable event” has become the benchmark of liability where power...

...A. Amendola; N.A. Labath; Z. Nivolianitou; G. Reina Safety analysis of hazardous processes requires the use of models to simulate dangerous transient conditions and to assess the availability of the relevant mitigating and protective systems. As this article shows, these two needs can be fairly...

... in some detail. © MCB UP Limited 1987 EEC Professional Organisations Safety Reliability Training 10 History of ESRA (European Safety and Reliability Association)* b y W. V i n c k Commission of the European Communities Introduction I wish to discuss: (1) how we came to the concept...