Safety and quality issues as part of a holistic (i.e., sociotechnological) approach.

نویسنده

  • K J Zink
چکیده

In the past, many so-called management concepts were not very successful because of their fragmented approach. This is also true for topics like safety and quality. Here, technical aspects often predominated while disregarding the equally important need for a change of attitude. On the other hand, awareness was created by timely limited programmes. The paper deals with integrating quality and safety in holistic (management) concepts, which are described first before being discussed in detail.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Safety I to Safety II: A Paradigm Shift or More Work as Imagined?; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

In their editorial, Mannion and Braithwaite contend that the approach to solving the problem of unsafe care, Safety I, is flawed and requires a shift in thinking to what they are calling Safety II. We have reservations as to whether by itself the shift from Safety I to Safety II is sufficient. Perhaps our failure to improve outcomes in the field of patient safety and quality lies less in our ap...

متن کامل

An Overview on Edible Oils with Integrity Approach

The issue of the integrity of edible oils and fats can be considered in three main areas of safety, authenticity and quality in accordance with the standardization approach. Safety is the most essential part of the food, including edible oils, due to effects on health of consumers. Authenticity equivalent to purity is also an important aspect of this approach. The nature and prevention of fraud...

متن کامل

معماری طبایع: تبیین رویکردی دربارۀ نسبت انسان و محیط مصنوع بر مبنای چهارگانه‌ها

This paper provides a new system of understanding the relationship of man and the built environment. This new system is adopted from Iranian traditional medicine, which is based on philosophy of physics and traditional wisdom. In wisdom and medicine alike, anything manifested in the material world—such as humans, artifacts, and everything in their surrounding environment—has qualiti...

متن کامل

Evaluation of context organization plans in the central part of Qazvin city with a sustainable urban regeneration approach

the eroded fabric is the area of city or region due to the aging or lack of building strength , lack of proper infrastructure , physical limitations such as narrow pathways , social issues and high crime and environmental pollution , with no - stability and degradation of environmental quality .in our country , as in other countries , aging tissues in cities face multi - dimensional and highly ...

متن کامل

Cognitive Development of the Web

The sociotechnological system is a system constituted of human individuals and their artifacts: technological artifacts, institutions, conceptual and representational systems, worldviews, knowledge systems, culture and the whole biosphere as an evolutionary niche. In our view the sociotechnological system as a super-organism is shaped and determined both by the characteristics of the agents inv...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE

دوره 5 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999