Effect of pre-treatments on hydrolysis and methane production potentials of by-products from meat-processing industry |
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Authors: | Luste Sami Luostarinen Sari Sillanpää Mika |
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Affiliation: | aMinistry of Social Affairs and Employment, AI-MHC, Anna van Hannoverstraat 4, P.O. Box 90801, 2509 LV The Hague, The Netherlands;bDelft University of Technology, TBM-Safety Science Group, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Language issues are problems with communication via speech, signs, gestures or their written equivalents. They may result from poor reading and writing skills, a mix of foreign languages and other circumstances. Language issues are not picked up as a safety risk on the shop floor by current safety management systems. These safety risks need to be identified, acknowledged, quantified and prioritised in order to allow risk reducing measures to be taken. This study investigates the nature of language issues related danger in literature, by experiment and by a survey among the Seveso II companies in the Netherlands. Based on human error frequencies, and on the contents of accident investigation reports, the risks associated with language issues were ranked. Accident investigation method causal factor categories were found not to be sufficiently representative for the type and magnitude of these risks. Readability of safety related documents used by the companies was investigated and found to be poor in many cases. Interviews among regulators and a survey among Seveso II companies were used to identify the gap between the language issue related dangers found in literature and current best practices. This study demonstrates by means of triangulation with different investigative methods that language issue related risks are indeed underestimated. A recommended coarse of action in order to arrive at appropriate measures is presented. |
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Keywords: | Language issues Illiteracy Multi-language shop floor Industrial accident Major hazard Diversity SEVESO-II BRZO 1999 |
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