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Reliability Evaluation of Resilient Safety Culture Using Fault Tree Analysis

  • Garg, Arun;Tonmoy, Fahim;Mohamed, Sherif
    • 국제학술발표논문집
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    • The 8th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • pp.303-312
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    • 2020
  • Safety culture is a collection of the beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to risks within an organisation. On the other hand, a resilient safety culture (RSC) means a culture with readiness of the organisation to respond effectively under stress, bounce back from shocks and continuously learn from them. RSC helps organisations to protect their interest which can be attributed to behavioural, psychological and managerial capabilities of the organization. Quantification of the degree of resilience in an organisation's safety culture can provide insights about the strong and weak links of the organisation's overall health and safety situation by identifying potential causes of system or sub-system failure. One of the major challenges of quantification of RSC is that the attributes that determine RSC need to be measured through constructs and indicators which are complex and often interrelated. In this paper, we address this challenge by applying a fault tree analysis (FTA) technique which can help analyse complex and interrelated constructs and indicators. The fault tree model of RSC is used to evaluate resilience levels of two organisations with remote and urban locations in order to demonstrate the failure path of the weak links in the RSC model.

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Assessing Reliability and Validity of an Instrument for Measuring Resilience Safety Culture in Sociotechnical Systems

  • Shirali, Gholamabbas;Shekari, Mohammad;Angali, Kambiz Ahmadi
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제9권3호
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    • pp.296-307
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    • 2018
  • Background: Safety culture, acting as the oil necessary in an efficient safety management system, has its own weaknesses in the current conceptualization and utilization in practice. As a new approach, resilience safety culture (RSC) has been proposed to reduce these weaknesses and improve safety culture; however, it requires a valid and reliable instrument to be measured. This study aimed at evaluating the reliability and validity of such an instrument in measuring the RSC in sociotechnical systems. Methods: The researchers designed an instrument based on resilience engineering principles and safety culture as the first instrument to measure the RSC. The RSC instrument was distributed among 354 staff members from 12 units of an anonymous petrochemical plant through hand delivery. Content validity, confirmatory, and exploratory factor analysis were used to examine the construct validity, and Cronbach alpha and test-retest were employed to examine the reliability of the instrument. Results: The results of the content validity index and content validity ratio were calculated as 0.97 and 0.83, respectively. The explanatory factor analysis showed 14 factors with 68.29% total variance and 0.88 Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin index. The results were also confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis (relative Chi-square = 2453.49, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.04). The reliability of the RSC instrument, as measured by internal consistency, was found to be satisfactory (Cronbach ${\alpha}=0.94$). The results of test-retest reliability was r = 0.85, p < 0.001. Conclusion: The results of the study suggest that the measure shows acceptable validity and reliability.

해안재해 대응 그린 인프라스트럭쳐의 국제 연구동향 분석 (An Analysis of International Research Trends in Green Infrastructure for Coastal Disaster)

  • 송기환;송지훈;석영선;김호준;이정아
    • 한국환경복원기술학회지
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.17-33
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    • 2023
  • Disasters in coastal regions are a constant source of damage due to their uncertainty and complexity, leading to the proposal of green infrastructure as a nature-based solution that incorporates the concept of resilience to address the limitations of traditional grey infrastructure. This study analyzed trends in research related to coastal disasters and green infrastructure by conducting a co-occurrence keyword analysis of 2,183 articles collected from the Web of Science (WoS). The analysis resulted in the classification of the literature into four clusters. Cluster 1 is related to coastal disasters and tsunamis, as well as predictive simulation techniques, and includes keywords such as surge, wave, tide, and modeling. Cluster 2 focuses on the social system damage caused by coastal disasters and theoretical concepts, with keywords such as population, community, and green infrastructure elements like habitat, wetland, salt marsh, coral reef, and mangrove. Cluster 3 deals with coastal disaster-related sea level rise and international issues, and includes keywords such as sea level rise (or change), floodplain, and DEM. Finally, cluster 4 covers coastal erosion and vulnerability, and GIS, with the theme of 'coastal vulnerability and spatial technique'. Keywords related to green infrastructure in cluster 2 have been continuously appearing since 2016, but their focus has been on the function and effect of each element. Based on this analysis, implications for planning and management processes using green infrastructure in response to coastal disasters have been derived. This study can serve as a valuable resource for future research and policy in responding to and managing various disasters in coastal regions.

도시방재디자인의 유형과 리질리언스 특성 (Types and Resilience Characteristics of Urban Disaster Prevention Design)

  • Pyo, Heejin;Kwack, Dongwha
    • 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.59-72
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    • 2017
  • 최근 기후변화, 도시화 등으로 도시의 환경이 변화함에 따라 재난이 빈번하게 일어나고 있다. 이와 같은 상황을 해결하기 위해 건축가 및 도시계획가에 의해 다양한 도시방재디자인이 실험되고 있고, 새로운 방재기법인 리질리언스 개념이 적용되고 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구는 건축가 및 도시계획가에 의해 제시된 도시방재디자인 사례를 연구대상으로 하여 도시방재디자인의 유형과 리질리언스 특성을 분석하였고, 더 나아가 지속가능한 도시방재디자인을 위한 방향을 제안하였다.

Development of a Leading Performance Indicator from Operational Experience and Resilience in a Nuclear Power Plant

  • Nelson, Pamela F.;Martin-Del-Campo, Cecilia;Hallbert, Bruce;Mosleh, Ali
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제48권1호
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    • pp.114-128
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    • 2016
  • The development of operational performance indicators is of utmost importance for nuclear power plants, since they measure, track, and trend plant operation. Leading indicators are ideal for reducing the likelihood of consequential events. This paper describes the operational data analysis of the information contained in the Corrective Action Program. The methodology considers human error and organizational factors because of their large contribution to consequential events. The results include a tool developed from the data to be used for the identification, prediction, and reduction of the likelihood of significant consequential events. This tool is based on the resilience curve that was built from the plant's operational data. The stress is described by the number of unresolved condition reports. The strain is represented by the number of preventive maintenance tasks and other periodic work activities (i.e., baseline activities), as well as, closing open corrective actions assigned to different departments to resolve the condition reports (i.e., corrective action workload). Beyond the identified resilience threshold, the stress exceeds the station's ability to operate successfully and there is an increased likelihood that a consequential event will occur. A performance indicator is proposed to reduce the likelihood of consequential events at nuclear power plants.

모바일산업 지속가능 시스템 평가모델 설계를 위한 인간시스템통합 (HSI) 방법론 연구 (A Study of Human System Integration Methodology For the Mobile Industry Sustainability System Evaluation Model Design)

  • 김상진;차우창
    • 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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    • 제17권1호
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2021
  • The aim of this study is to propose the design suitable for sustainability evaluation model of the mobile industry considering system process (SEP). Although a quantitative evaluation was conducted on the link between the national sustainability report and the mobile industry, it was confirmed that it was difficult to identify stakeholders. So it is necessary to develop the design process suitable for the more operator-specific interfaces. The Human System Integration (HSI) methodology was proposed through linkage with work domain analysis. Agile methodology and Resilience engineering methodology were added for sustainable model design. The proposed sustainability system evaluation model is applied so that it can be easily used in all industries.

Investigation of random fatigue life prediction based on artificial neural network

  • Jie Xu;Chongyang Liu;Xingzhi Huang;Yaolei Zhang;Haibo Zhou;Hehuan Lian
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • 제46권3호
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    • pp.435-449
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    • 2023
  • Time domain method and frequency domain method are commonly used in the current fatigue life calculation theory. The time domain method has complicated procedures and needs a large amount of calculation, while the frequency domain method has poor applicability to different materials and different spectrum, and improper selection of spectrum model will lead to large errors. Considering that artificial neural network has strong ability of nonlinear mapping and generalization, this paper applied this technique to random fatigue life prediction, and the effect of average stress was taken into account, thereby achieving more accurate prediction result of random fatigue life.

The Impact of Redundancy and Teamwork on Resilience Engineering Factors by Fuzzy Mathematical Programming and Analysis of Variance in a Large Petrochemical Plant

  • Azadeh, Ali;Salehi, Vahid;Mirzayi, Mahsa
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제7권4호
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    • pp.307-316
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    • 2016
  • Background: Resilience engineering (RE) is a new paradigm that can control incidents and reduce their consequences. Integrated RE includes four new factors-self-organization, teamwork, redundancy, and fault-tolerance-in addition to conventional RE factors. This study aimed to evaluate the impacts of these four factors on RE and determine the most efficient factor in an uncertain environment. Methods: The required data were collected through a questionnaire in a petrochemical plant in June 2013. The questionnaire was completed by 115 respondents including 37 managers and 78 operators. Fuzzy data envelopment analysis was used in different ${\alpha}$-cuts in order to calculate the impact of each factor. Analysis of variance was employed to compare the efficiency score means of the four abovementioned factors. Results: The results showed that as ${\alpha}$ approached 0 and the system became fuzzier (${\alpha}=0.3$ and ${\alpha}=0.1$), teamwork played a significant role and had the highest impact on the resilient system. In contrast, as ${\alpha}$ approached 1 and the fuzzy system went toward a certain mode (${\alpha}=0.9$ and ${\alpha}=1$), redundancy had a vital role in the selected resilient system. Therefore, redundancy and teamwork were the most efficient factors. Conclusion: The approach developed in this study could be used for identifying the most important factors in such environments. The results of this study may help managers to have better understanding of weak and strong points in such industries.

폐윤활유를 이용한 아스팔트 실란트 (Asphalt Sealant Containing the Waste Lubricant Oil)

  • 김석준;고금진
    • Elastomers and Composites
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    • 제44권1호
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2009
  • 본 연구에서는 폐윤활유를 이용하여 아스팔트 포장도로의 균열 보수에 주로 사용하는 아스팔트 실란트를 제조하였다. 아스팔트(AP-5), SBS 삼블록 공중합체(triblock copolymer), 점착제(석유수지) 및 산화방지제를 폐윤활유와 혼합하여 콘 침입도, 연화점, 신도, 흐름성, 인장 접착 신율 및 원상회복률을 측정하였다. 폐윤활유 함량이 증가함에 따라 아스팔트 실란트의 콘 침입도는 증가하였고 연화점, 신도 및 원상회복률은 감소하였다. 증량제로 탈크를 첨가할 경우 함량에 비례하여 연화점 및 원상회복률은 증가하였으나 콘 침입도, 신도 및 인장 접착 신율은 감소하였다. 석유수지 함량을 크게 줄여 ASTM 규격에 적합하면서도 가장 경제적인 균열 보수용 아스팔트 실란트를 제조할 수 있었다.

Localized Algorithm to Improve Connectivity and Topological Resilience of Multi-hop Wireless Networks

  • Kim, Tae-Hoon;Tipper, David;Krishnamurthy, Prashant
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.69-81
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    • 2013
  • Maintaining connectivity is essential in multi-hop wireless networks since the network topology cannot be pre-determined due to mobility and environmental effects. To maintain the connectivity, a critical point in the network topology should be identified where the critical point is the link or node that partitions the network when it fails. In this paper, we propose a new critical point identification algorithm and also present numerical results that compare the critical points of the network and H-hop sub-network illustrating how effectively sub-network information can detect the network-wide critical points. Then, we propose two localized topological control resilient schemes that can be applied to both global and local H-hop sub-network critical points to improve the network connectivity and the network resilience. Numerical studies to evaluate the proposed schemes under node and link failure network conditions show that our proposed resilient schemes increase the probability of the network being connected in variety of link and node failure conditions.