Safety Risk Assessment in the Tile Industry with a New Approach

Khandan, Mohammad; Jafari, Mohammad Reza; Koohpaei, Alireza; Hosseinzadeh, Zeinab; Sadeghi, Abbas

doi:10.34172/AHS.12.1.10.36

Volume 12, Issue 1 (Winter 2023) Arch Hyg Sci 2023, 12(1): 7-11 | Back to browse issues page

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Khandan M, Jafari M R, Koohpaei A, Hosseinzadeh Z, Sadeghi A. Safety Risk Assessment in the Tile Industry with a New Approach. Arch Hyg Sci 2023; 12 (1) :7-11
URL: http://jhygiene.muq.ac.ir/article-1-602-en.html

Safety Risk Assessment in the Tile Industry with a New Approach

Mohammad Khandan¹

, Mohammad Reza Jafari²

, Alireza Koohpaei³

, Zeinab Hosseinzadeh⁴

, Abbas Sadeghi ^*

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1- 1PhD Student in Ergonomics, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2- 2MSc Student in Safety and Hazard Defence, Department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, Magdeburg, Germany
3- Associate Professor, Occupational Health Department, Health Faculty, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
4- Occupational Health Department, Health Faculty, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
5- Department of Health, Safety and Environmental Management, School of Public Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran *Corresponding Author: Abbas Sadeghi, Email: sadeghi_osh@yahoo.com Abstract Background & Aims: Despite the relative comfort and welfare today’s modern technology has brought to humankind, it ha

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Background & Aims: Despite the relative comfort and welfare today’s modern technology has brought to humankind, it has also been the basis for the emergence of risks and threats. These risks and risk factors should be assessed and controlled using systematic risk assessment and management methods. Numerous techniques and methods have been developed to analyze risks, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses. One of the system risk analysis techniques, which is among qualitative techniques and identifies and analyzes system risks inductively, is the functional hazard analysis (FuHA) technique. The present study aims to identify and control risks that occur due to technical defects or system dysfunctions and can lead to an unpleasant event, as occurred in an industrial unit in 2016.
Methods: In this cross-sectional analytical study, the functional risks of an industrial unit were analyzed using the FuHA technique. By implementing the FuHA technique in the investigated industrial unit, 17 functional defects were identified.
Results: In general, according to the level of severity of different consequences caused by the identified defects, 60 functional risks were identified, of which 7 cases (11.67%) were assessed as unacceptable, 17 cases (28.33%) as unfavorable, and 36 cases (60%) as acceptable but needing revision.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the FuHA technique had a favorable ability to identify and analyze system and subsystem functional risks, especially software subsystems.

Keywords: Safety, Risk, Risk assessment, Functional hazard analysis