Several changes in the macro environment of the companies over the last two decades have meant that the competition is no longer constrained to the product itself, but the overall concept of supply chain. Under these circumstances, the supply chain management stands as a major concern for companies nowadays. One of the prime goals to be achieved is the reduction of the Bullwhip Effect, related ...

Tianjun Zhang 1,2,3, Lei Zhang 2,3,* ID , Shugang Li 2,3, Jialei Liu 4, Hongyu Pan 2,3 and Shuang Song 2,3 1 College of Science, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China; [email protected] 2 School of Safety Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China; [email protected] (S.L.); [email protected] (H.P.); [email protected] (S...

Medical errors continue to be a major public health issue. This paper attempts to bridge a possible disconnect between behavioral science and the management of medical care. Epidemiologic data on patient safety and a sampling of current efforts aimed at patient safety improvement are provided to inform relevant applications of organizational behavior management (OBM). The basic principles of OB...

Background: The effectiveness and adequacy of occupational health and safety management system should be monitored and evaluated at organization level on a regular basis. Safety audit has a clear role in the development of organizations safety management systems. Internal safety audit is a method to appraise to the management the current status of occupational health and safety at workplace. Se...

Background:  Scene management in accidents reduces losses, speeds treatment, and facilitates immediate victim transfer. Learning the related skills through theory-based educational intervention makes this task possible. This study aimed to determine the effect of theory-based educational intervention on emergency medical personnel skills to manage the scene in chemical accidents. Materials and...

[Context and motivation] Safety evidence plays an important role in gaining confidence in the safe operation of a system in a given context. For a large system, it is necessary to provide information about thousands of artefacts that might be used as evidence and about the relationships among themselves and also with other safety assurance assets. [Question/problem] Past research has only addre...

Safety climate and safety behavior have been proven to be critical for construction safety. However, few studies systematically tested the influences of demographic characteristics on worker safety, especially in background China’s industry. There is still a gap demographics–safety relationship, which may reduce relevance effectiveness measures. This study explored effects five factors (gender,...

To control coal miner’s unsafe behavior, miner and manager behaviors were analyzed, and a behavior control system model was constructed. The necessity conditions of optimal management behavior of coalmine manager in both complete information and incomplete information condition were studied. The result established that, only if the estimated value of unsafe behavior by manager was the same as t...

for the purpose of assessing zargandeh waste water treatment risks, preliminary risk assessment and evaluation of safety were conducted. for this purpose air pollution and visual impact were assessed and scored after identifying the activities and various water treatment processes, equipment, and staff positions and the amount of pollution due to wastewater treatment plant. values were measured...