Analysis of industrial situations on a day-to-day basis shows deviations between that which
is foreseen (at the design stage), that which is integrated into and installed on the production …

The paper describes the theoretical advances made in the project PROSPER, a
collaboration between research groups and an industrial printing machinery manufacturer. It …

Thinking on safety integration right from design stage is of some interest in research terms.
How can we increase the overall efficiency of a working system, whilst reducing risks at …

Recent attempts to capture system safety have focused on the term'safety culture', indicating
a shift in emphasis from individual and directly accident–related factors to organisational …

Safety efforts are traditionally determined by the results of accident and incident analysis.
Such analyses point to certain human errors as the dominant source of accidents. Support …

By introducing Kuhn's historical concept of the paradigm, an attempt is made to define the
present state of knowledge in the field of safety. In other words, what is called the safety …

The purpose of this study is to optimize understanding of how safety and, more generally,
human factors are considered at design stage in an industrial context. The practical aim is to …

A significant amount of time and effort in manufacturing operations in directed toward the
development of procedures intended to ensure that work activities are carried out in a safe …

BP released findings from its own internal investigation of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,
revealed inefficient Organization interfaces among BP management, the rig crew and well …

In France studies on technological risks began to question errors, failures and vulnerabilities
at the end of the 1970s, focusing mostly on analyzing major accidents as consequences of …