Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios
A Belgian manufacturing company uses pallet movers for internal transport. Despite the company’s efforts to improve occupational safety, accidents with pallet movers remain noteworthy. In order to control occupational accidents, it is crucial to have a clear view of the potential accident scenarios...
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| author | Karolien van Nunen Paul Swuste Genserik Reniers Nicola Paltrinieri Olga Aneziris Koen Ponnet |
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| description | A Belgian manufacturing company uses pallet movers for internal transport. Despite the company’s efforts to improve occupational safety, accidents with pallet movers remain noteworthy. In order to control occupational accidents, it is crucial to have a clear view of the potential accident scenarios that are present in a company. The bow-tie method is a way to capture and visualize these accident processes in an integrative way. Included in the bow-tie are safety barriers (both technical as organizational and human) and management delivery systems that can intervene in these accident processes. Once bow-ties are composed, they are an excellent point of departure to assign indicators to the safety barriers and management delivery systems in order to control (i.e., prevent or mitigate) accident scenarios. Two types of indicators can be distinguished. Firstly, there are general indicators that are assigned to management delivery systems interrupting multiple accident scenarios, which can yield a higher safety gain (as they intervene in multiple accident scenarios). Secondly, there are scenario-specific indicators targeting one specific accident scenario, which can be valuable as they target a specific problem in the company. For the development of the bow-ties, a multi-method design with the inclusion of different data sources was used, leading to a comprehensive overview. This makes the bow-tie analysis of internal transport with pallet movers transferable to other settings where pallet movers are used for internal transport. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1496b81e01d41efafa498be9213cd5b2022-12-22T03:19:45ZengMDPI AGMaterials1996-19442018-10-011110195510.3390/ma11101955ma11101955Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident ScenariosKarolien van Nunen0Paul Swuste1Genserik Reniers2Nicola Paltrinieri3Olga Aneziris4Koen Ponnet5Research Chair Vandeputte, Law Enforcement, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumAntwerp Research Group on Safety and Security (ARGoSS), Engineering Management, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumAntwerp Research Group on Safety and Security (ARGoSS), Engineering Management, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology—NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, NorwayNational Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, GreeceMedia, ICT & Interpersonal Relations in Organisations & Society (MIOS), Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumA Belgian manufacturing company uses pallet movers for internal transport. Despite the company’s efforts to improve occupational safety, accidents with pallet movers remain noteworthy. In order to control occupational accidents, it is crucial to have a clear view of the potential accident scenarios that are present in a company. The bow-tie method is a way to capture and visualize these accident processes in an integrative way. Included in the bow-tie are safety barriers (both technical as organizational and human) and management delivery systems that can intervene in these accident processes. Once bow-ties are composed, they are an excellent point of departure to assign indicators to the safety barriers and management delivery systems in order to control (i.e., prevent or mitigate) accident scenarios. Two types of indicators can be distinguished. Firstly, there are general indicators that are assigned to management delivery systems interrupting multiple accident scenarios, which can yield a higher safety gain (as they intervene in multiple accident scenarios). Secondly, there are scenario-specific indicators targeting one specific accident scenario, which can be valuable as they target a specific problem in the company. For the development of the bow-ties, a multi-method design with the inclusion of different data sources was used, leading to a comprehensive overview. This makes the bow-tie analysis of internal transport with pallet movers transferable to other settings where pallet movers are used for internal transport.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/10/1955manufacturing industrybow-tie analysispallet mover accidentsaccident analysissafety barriers |
| spellingShingle | Karolien van Nunen Paul Swuste Genserik Reniers Nicola Paltrinieri Olga Aneziris Koen Ponnet Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios Materials manufacturing industry bow-tie analysis pallet mover accidents accident analysis safety barriers |
| title | Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios |
| title_full | Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios |
| title_fullStr | Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios |
| title_short | Improving Pallet Mover Safety in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bow-Tie Analysis of Accident Scenarios |
| title_sort | improving pallet mover safety in the manufacturing industry a bow tie analysis of accident scenarios |
| topic | manufacturing industry bow-tie analysis pallet mover accidents accident analysis safety barriers |
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