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On an Approach to Developing the Operational Architecture for a Railway Safety Information System (철도안전 정보시스템의 운영아키텍처 개발 방법론)

  • Kim, Tae-Hyun;Lee, Jae-Chon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2007
  • This article addresses the question of how the operational architecture for a railway safety information system should be developed. A successful railway safety information system can be developed by fully reflecting the business process and needs at the enterprise level. To date, there has been minimal research effort towards the development of the operational architecture for a railway safety information system. To this end, a variety of enterprise architectures have been studied so far. In this paper, as an important guideline, DoDAF (Architecture Framework) is selected to be used in developing a railway safety information system. In particular, we propose a method to implement the operational architecture based on DoDAF.

A Study On Operational Architecture Development Method for Railway System Safety Assessment (철도 안전성 평가를 위한 운용 아키텍처 개발 방안 연구)

  • Jang, Jae-Deuck;Park, Young-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2008
  • Recently, Architecture Frameworks are used to develop Information Management System (IMS). This paper describes an operational architecture development method for railway system safety assessment. using DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture framework). The need of IMS is increasing to perform safety assessment task effectively and efficiently as safety-critical system like railway System. It is necessary that operational architecture based IMS requirements generated fir safety assessment. ARP(Aerospace Recommended Practice)4761 are referred to develop safety assessment operational architecture applicable to railway system. Firstly, schema and template was developed to perform the operational architecture development process using a commercial CASysE(Computer-Aided Systems engineering) tool, CORE. Not only the operational architecture allows building flexible IMS, but also helps business process solving.

A Method for Operational Safety Assessment of a Deep Geological Repository for Spent Fuels

  • Jeong, Jongtae;Cho, Dong-Keun
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.18 no.spc
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2020
  • The operational safety assessment is an important part of a safety case for the deep geological repository of spent fuels. It consists of different stages such as the identification of initiating events, event tree analysis, fault tree analysis, and evaluation of exposure doses to the public and radiation workers. This study develops a probabilistic safety assessment method for the operational safety assessment and establishes an assessment framework. For the event and fault tree analyses, we propose the advanced information management system for probabilistic safety assessment (AIMS-PSA Manager). In addition, we propose the Radiological Safety Analysis Computer (RSAC) program to evaluate exposure doses to the public and radiation workers. Furthermore, we check the applicability of the assessment framework with respect to drop accidents of a spent fuel assembly arising out of crane failure, at the surface facility of the KRS+ (KAERI Reference disposal System for SNFs). The methods and tools established through this study can be used for the development of a safety case for the KRS+ system as well as for the design modification and the operational safety assessment of the KRS+ system.

Safety Management in Norwegian Fish Farming: Current Status, Challenges, and Further Improvements

  • Thorvaldsen, Trine;Storkersen, Kristine;Kongsvik, Trond;Holmen, Ingunn Marie
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 2021
  • Background: Safety management is required to ensure health and safety of personnel in Norwegian fish farming. However, few studies have addressed the status and practical relevance of this risk-reducing measure. Methods: This article provides new knowledge through interviews with 35 employees at different company levels, addressing perceptions of various safety management activities according to managers and operational personnel. Results: The interviews show that managers and operational personnel at fish farms agree that the quantity of measures aimed to improve safety has increased in recent years. However, some activities are perceived to have higher practical relevance than others. In general, measures that fit well with the practical reality are well received by the employees at the fish farms. Conclusion: Suggested improvements include involving operational personnel in the design of procedures, considering all risk dimensions that may affect occupational health and safety, and challenging the value of specific safety activities based on a detailed knowledge of the distinctive characteristics of work practice in fish farming.

A Study on the Development of Tram Operational Safety System (트램 도입을 위한 안전체계 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Min-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2017
  • The first tram in korea was commended the operation from 1899 to 1968 as a core role of public transportation. However, tram recently is being recognized as an alternative against a traffic congestion, a super-aged society and an environmental pollution problem. Because of these advantages, we are trying to introduce tram in korea. The efforts to introduce trams have focused on the economic analysis for tram construction. But we must be interested in tram operational safety. Early opening tram accidents could affect a negative impact on the additional tram introduction. We are trying to introduce trams in Daejeon, Wi-Rye and Su-won. In this paper, I want to check the safety issues in tram operation phase.

A Study on the Application of Operational Experience in the Stage of Aircraft System Design and Safety Assessment (항공기 시스템 설계와 안전성평가에 운영경험 반영 사례 연구)

  • Koo, Min-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.34-39
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    • 2014
  • Airworthiness authorities specify the technical standards of airworthiness that propose minimum requirement of the commercial transport category and apply the rules in the certification process to ensure the safety of the aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration and other national airworthiness authorities define the fatal accident risk levels for the safety assessment of the aircraft system and establish standard procedures to apply both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. However, an accident or incident may occur by the combination of various factors, although the aircraft is designed in accordance with the strict standards and approval by the Airworthiness Authorities. There are some key factors, such as human error, unpredictable complex system failures, degradation of the components reliability, improper maintenance task and intervals. Risk can be reduced by reflecting aircraft operational experience with similar types of aircraft in the process of aircraft development and safety assessment. Result of the root cause analysis for the Airbus A300-600 incident in which the aircraft engine reverser was deployed in the air have been introduced to reflect the design of system and related components. Also, this paper suggests to create a big-database in order to provide a feed-back to the FAR Part 25 transport category design and safety assessment of the operational experience.

Prediction of Safety Critical Software Operational Reliability from Test Reliability Using Testing Environment Factors

  • Jung, Hoan-Sung;Seong, Poong-Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 1999
  • It has been a critical issue to predict the safety critical software reliability in nuclear engineering area. For many years, many researches have focused on the quantification of software reliability and there have been many models developed to quantify software reliability. Most software reliability models estimate the reliability with the failure data collected during the test assuming that the test environments well represent the operation profile. User's interest is however on the operational reliability rather than on the test reliability. The experiences show that the operational reliability is higher than the test reliability. With the assumption that the difference in reliability results from the change of environment, from testing to operation, testing environment factors comprising the aging factor and the coverage factor are developed in this paper and used to predict the ultimate operational reliability with the failure data in testing phase. It is by incorporating test environments applied beyond the operational profile into testing environment factors. The application results show that the proposed method can estimate the operational reliability accurately.

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Evaluation of Left-Turn Passages for Bicycle Traffic in Mixed Traffic Stream at Signalized Intersections (혼합교통류 신호교차로에서 자전거교통 좌회전 통행방식 평가연구)

  • Joo, Shin-Hye;Oh, Cheol;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.145-155
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    • 2012
  • PURPOSES: This study proposes a novel method based on microscopic simulation models to evaluate bicycle passing ways in mixed traffic flow conditions at signalized intersections. METHODS: Both operational efficiency and safety are taken into consideration in the evaluation. A widely used performance measure, delay, is used for evaluating the operational efficiency. Regarding the safety evaluation, surrogate safety measures (SSM) to represent traffic conflicts and the level of crash severity, DeltaS and Max.DeltaV, are applied in the proposed method. RESULTS: Extensive simulations and statistical tests show that an integrated bike-box way is identified as the best in terms of operational efficiency and safety. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed method and outcomes of this study will be valuable for bicycle traffic operations and facility design.

A Study on the Development of Hoisting Rope Automatic Vertical Controller for the Hoist Crane (호이스트 크레인의 권상로프 자동수직 조정장치 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 구건호;이충렬;이근오
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 1995
  • We got operational safety limit angle being able to affect operators or materials surrounding the center of vertical line of the hoist on working from the theoretical review and experimental result. Then we inferred the distance to about 1.2m-1.4m from the center which materials hanged on the hook were able to effect to the surround. Therefore, we got about $7^{\circ}$ to the inclined or crossed operational safety limit angle of the crane with 6m lift. Also, we developed heisting rope automatic vertical controller which could control this kind of dangerous operation. And we did experiments again after establishing the inclined or crossed operational safety limit to $7^{\circ}$. The result is satisfied.

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Improvement of Safety Approach for Accidents During Operation of LILW Disposal Facility : Application for Operational Safety Assessment of the Near-surface LILW Disposal Facility in Korea (중·저준위 방사성폐기물 처분시설의 운영 중 사고에 대한 평가체계 개선 : 한국의 중·저준위 방사성폐기물 표층처분시설의 운영 중 안전성평가 적용사례)

  • Kim, Hyun-Joo;Kim, Minseong;Park, Jin Beak
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.161-172
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    • 2017
  • To evaluate radiological impact from the operation of a low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste disposal facility, a logical presentation and explanation of expected accidental scenarios is essential to the stakeholders of the disposal facility. The logical assessment platform and procedure, including analysis of the safety function of disposal components, operational hazard analysis, operational risk analysis, and preparedness of remedial measures for operational safety, are improved in this study. In the operational risk analysis, both design measures and management measures are suggested to make it possible to connect among design, operation, and safety assessment within the same assessment platform. For the preparedness of logical assessment procedure, classification logic of an operational accident is suggested based on the probability of occurrence and consequences of assessment results. The improved assessment platform and procedure are applied to an operational accident analysis of the Korean low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste disposal facility and partly presented in this paper.