Industrial Safety Management

Elaborates on technologies and practices for managing industrial safety from Asian perspectives

Includes research on hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety data analytics tools and techniques

Deals with complex human systems and environment interfaces for development of sustainable safety management systems from design, operations, and maintenance

Autorentext

Dr. J Maiti, PhD, Professor & Head, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India has more than fifteen years of teaching, research and consulting experience on safety analytics, quality analytics, engineering ergonomics, and engineering systems safety design and management. He excels in teaching multivariate statistical modeling, engineering systems safety design and control, safety analytics, work system design, quality engineering and design of experiments.

Pradip Kumar Ray is presently a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He has published one text book titled 'Product and Process Design for Quality Economy and Reliability', nine book chapters, six lecture packages, and around 140 papers in international and national journals of repute and conferences in the areas of healthcare management, productivity measurement and evaluation, quality design and control, TQM, process optimization, ergonomics/human factors engineering, safety engineering and management and other related topics. His areas of interest and research include productivity modeling, quality engineering, ergonomics, safety engineering, engineering asset management and JIT-based/lean engineering operations management.

Inhalt

Part A: Safety by Design.- Chapter 1: Prevention through design: A concept note for preventing accidents/injuries to construction workers.- Chapter 2: Virtual prototype simulator for EOT crane.- Chapter 3: Reduction of coal dust exposure using water mist system.- Chapter 4: A study on performance parameters associated with the effectiveness of antilock braking system on rough roads.- Part B: Safety Analytics.- Chapter 5: Data driven mapping between proactive and reactive measures of occupational safety performance.- Chapter 6: Prediction of occupational incidents using proactive and reactive data: A data mining approach.- Chapter 7: Determinants of risk indices in hard rock mine using log linear model.- Chapter 8: Mathematical modelling of human energy consumption during hand arm vibration in drilling operation for female operator.- Chapter 9: Modelling the perception towards in-vehicle distracted driving among four-wheeler drivers in Kerala.- Part C: Safety Management.- Chapter 10:Assessment of significance of safety life cycle management (SLCM) approach using IEC 61508 safety standard towards its implementation in the foundry shop: Case study of a pump manufacturing industry.- Chapter 11: Understanding the human computer interaction behaviour in electrical and power systems.