Accident management is examined from several different perspectives. The emphasis is on the role of the operating crew and the technical support provided to them before, during, and after an accident. The relationship among accident management, risk management, and ...

The management of severe accidents in light water reactors is receiving much attention in several countries. The reduction of risk by measures and/or actions that would affect the behavior of a severe accident is discussed. The research program that is being conducted by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission focuses on both in-vessel ...

Feb 18, 2003 ... Columbia Accident Investigation Board Press Briefing ... management issues, the work force issues, safety and mission insurance, ...

The 1999 accident at the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant near Tokyo is the context for a student discussion on nuclear power and the consequences of a nuclear accident. The case covers issues ranging from chemical process safety to risk management

The 1999 accident at the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant near Tokyo is the context for a student discussion on nuclear power and the consequences of a nuclear accident. The case covers issues ranging from chemical process safety to risk management of chemical industries to the ethical responsibilities of ...

... Sound familiar? Good! That's basic risk management. And basic good sense. ... IN THIS ISSUE FY99 Aviation Accidents Recipe for disaster ..... ...

... ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS, SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS, PREVENTION, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, RISK MANAGEMENT. ...

"Accident Prevention. "Accident Mitigation. "Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling. Accident Prevention is attacking the issue of airplane accidents from ...

...39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.4-Accidents...Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS...furnished to the manager of the GSA IFMS fleet management center which issued...after the actual time of...

... Descriptors : *DECISION MAKING, *SAFETY FACTOR, *ACCIDENTS, *MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, MILITARY PERSONNEL, MANAGEMENT ...

ADDRESS ISSUES, E.G., ABSENTEEISM, LATENESS, PRODUCTIVITY, ACCIDENTS ON JOB, MEMORY LAPSES,. MARKED PERSONALITY CHANGES, ODOR OF ALCOHOL ON BREATH, ...

Administration & Resources Management Office (603) � CISTO (606) ... 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been ...

... In this issue; Learn from the dinosaurs I've had an accident - What can they do to me? German hotdogs get a taste of Goering? ...

Government travelers automatically receive $200000 of life insurance coverage .... 21 Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents, ...

The definition and the multidimensionality aspects of accident management have been reviewed. The suggested elements in the development of a programme for severe accident management have been identified and discussed. The strategies concentrate on the two tiered approaches. Operative management ...

To enhance the capability of reactor operators to cope with the hypothetical severe accident its the key issue for utilities. Taiwan Power Company has started the enhancement programs on extension of emergency operating procedures (EOPs). It includes the review of existing LOPs based on the conclusions and recommendations of probabilistic risk assessment ...

Due to the government requirements severe accident mitigating measures were implemented at Barseback nuclear power plant in 1985 and at the other Swedish nuclear power plants in 1988. For the latter plants these measures included protection against early containment impairment, highly redundant containment spray and filtered venting of the containment. ...

This book contains the proceedings on medical management of radiation accidents. Topics covered include: Fundamentals of radiation accidents, Emergency room management of radiation accidents, and Special aspects of nuclear power.

This subgroup examined the transportation system issues which must be considered in the development and implementation of a National nuclear waste management policy. Five basic issues were discussed: standards for packagings and containment systems for normal and accident conditions, institutional controls, ...

This overview paper draws together findings from previous focus group research and studies of 100 individual construction accidents. Pursuing issues raised by the focus groups, the accident studies collected qualitative information on the circumstances of each incident and the causal influences involved. Site based data collection ...

about homeland security research. Browse these EPA Emergency Response subtopics Accidents Accident Preparedness, Accident Prevention, Chemical Accidents, Radiation Accidents...

Waste management, like many other issues, has experienced major milestones. In 1971, the Calvert Cliff's decision resulted in an entirely different approach to the consideration of environmental impact analysis in reactor siting. The accidents at Three Mi...

The project investigates the impacts of access management treatments on pedestrians and bicyclists, primarily on arterial streets. The project identifies conflicts, accident and safety issues involving pedestrians and bicycles, associated with access mana...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAB) determined that organizational and management issues were significant contributors to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia. In addition, the CAIB observed similarities between the organizational and management...

The fundamental objective of the accident management program is to assure, in the event of a severe accident at a nuclear plant, that the effectiveness of personnel and equipment is maximized in preventing or mitigating the consequences of the accident. T...

This subscription offers publications presenting highway accident reports issued in calendar year 1983.

This subscription offers publications presenting highway accident reports issued in calendar year 1982.

The Severe Accident Analysis Program (SAAP) is a program of experimental and analytical studies aimed at characterizing severe accidents that might occur in the Savannah River Site Production Reactors. The goals of the Severe Accident Analysis Program are: To develop an understanding of severe accidents in SRS ...

This review presents a selection of sources from the UK and around the world that have reported on both incidents and accidents in the mountains. Common themes are extracted to illustrate the circumstances under which accidents, injuries and fatalities occur and the underlying factors that have contributed to incidents in the first place. There is an ...

Accident management is examined from several related perspectives. The emphasis is on the role of the operating crew and the technical support provided to them before, during, and after an accident. The relationship among accident management, risk managem...

... Descriptors : *ARMY PERSONNEL, *MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, COST ANALYSIS, MILITARY VEHICLES, SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS ...

... Accession Number : ADA412381. Title : Modelling Issues of Wireless LANs for Accident and Emergency Departments. Descriptive ...

The recognition of the social and ethical aspects of radiation risk management has been an important part of international projects following the Chernobyl accident of 1986. This study comments on the science and policy issues in environmental risk assessment, including the social and ethical dimensions of emergency preparedness and ...

Severe accident management can be defined as the use of existing and/or alternative resources, systems and actors to prevent or mitigate a core-melt accident. For each accident sequence and each combination of severe accident management strategies, there ...

One method used by the Department of Energy (DOE) to promote worker safety is through the Department`s accident investigation program. The objectives of the program are, among other things, to enhance safety and health of employees, to prevent the recurrence of accidents, and to reduce accident fatality rates and promote a downward ...

... Radiation on Behavior and the Brain; Nuclear Weapons Accident Response Procedure; Management of Radiation Accidents; Medical Operations ...

Risk analysis is a mathematical field based in gambling, investments and certain types of insurance (life, health and accident). Attempts to adapt analogous rationales and analytic methods to public and environmental safety issues with risky technological...

These guidelines focus on the environment impact of industrial and technological processes of the chemical industry. They identify the major issues which need consideration when formulating strategies and policies and therefore endeavor to act as a cataly...

As part of the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, an Accident Planning Base Review Group (APBRG) was convened in December 1992. The APBRG`s mission was to update the accident basis for protective action strategy planning in the vicinity of eight US chemical agent stockpile sites. The results of the APBRG`s work are being ...

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ORNL's Advanced Neutron Source (ANS) will be a new user facility for all kinds of neutron research, centered around a research reactor of unprecedented neutron beam flux. A defense-in-depth philosophy has been adopted. In response to this commitment, ANS Project management has initiated severe accident analysis and related technology development ...

ORNL`s Advanced Neutron Source (ANS) will be a new user facility for all kinds of neutron research, centered around a research reactor of unprecedented neutron beam flux. A defense-in-depth philosophy has been adopted. In response to this commitment, ANS Project management has initiated severe accident analysis and related technology development efforts ...

The experience on accident management on French PWRs is described. Figs and tabs. (Atomindex citation 24:067281)

... The chief executive is responsible to ensure that each manager is provided with a periodic summary of his unit's safety performance. The Accident ...

... Accession Number : ADA143667. Title : Accident Management Orientation Guide. Descriptive Note : Final rept.,. Corporate ...

... Accession Number : ADP004472. Title : Accident Management Orientation Guide,. Corporate Author : SCS ENGINEERS RESTON VA. ...

Devices (IND) Categories of Medical Effects More... Nuclear Reactor Accidents About Nuclear Reactor Accidents Initiate Radiation Medical Management Transportation Accidents...

Effective planning for the management of severe accidents at nuclear power plants can produce both a reduction in the frequency of such accidents as well as the ability to mitigate their consequences if and when they should occur. This report provides an ...

A strategy has been developed for systematically addressing and handling the hazards posed by a transportation accident involving hazardous materials. The Accident Management Orientation Guide presents this system as a logic sequence of events in a color-...

High power-distance has been implicated in many aircraft accidents involving Southeast Asian carriers where crew resource management (CRM) has been identified as a root cause. However, this commentary argues that the design of modern flight decks and their standard operating procedures have an inherent Western (low power-distance) bias within them which ...

This paper addresses the need for a management program for nuclear power accidents. According to the author, the tools and technology for severe accident management exist. The need for a clear, realistic definition of nuclear accident program requirements is discussed.

... 17 Energy Minister Interviewed on Nuclear Accident at Tomsk [Tokyo NHK 7 Apr] .... ... Otherwise fication in Case of Nuclear Accidents. ...

... Program has two different focus areas: accident prevention and accident mitigation. Accident prevention research concentrates on the following issues: ...

The term 'ultimate risk' is used here to describe the probabilities and radiological consequences that should be incorporated in siting, containment design and accident management of nuclear power plants for hypothetical accidents. It is closely related with the source terms specified in siting criteria which assures ...

The use of NUREG-1150 and similar Probabilistic Risk Assessments in NRC and industry risk management programs is discussed. ''Risk management'' is more comprehensive than the commonly used term ''accident management.'' Accident management includes strateg...

The publication contains brief reports issued in May 1986. The brief reports present the accident description and probable cause for the following accidents: Grounding and sinking of Fish Tender ALASKA ROUGHNECK; Fire onboard and sinking of Fishing Vessel...

This paper presents findings from an extensive study into factors that impact upon the high rate of injuries due to mechanical equipment, especially in small manufacturing firms. Issues relating to knowledge of health and safety issues and to management practices have been shown to be extremely important with regards to safety in small ...

In support of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program, the availability of instruments to supply accident management information during a broad range of severe accidents is evaluated for a Boiling Water Reactor with a M...

The management of severe accidents in light water reactors is receiving much attention in several countries. The reduction of risk by measures and/or actions that would affect the behavior of a severe accident is discussed. The research program that is be...

Results accomplished by safety work at one mine where management decided that avoidable accidents must be prevented and that essentially all accidents are avoidable are shown.

Chapter 5 -THE CONTRIBUTING CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT The decision to launch the ... of the engineers at Thiokol after the management reversed its position. ...

Aug 30, 2005 ... NASA Official Fleet Management Handbook. Driver's Handbook. Summary of Accident Procedures. The following process will be followed for ...

of organizational accidents and to illustrate both effective and ineffective application of safety ..... Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents, by ...

... and their employees from accidents have two options: (1) insurance, and (2) accident prevention programs (Pate-Cornell, 1996). ...

... Radiation Accidents and the Radiology Department. ... Local -ROSENBERG RD, UNM Radiation Accidents Management Course Lecture, and Workshops 1986, 87, 88, 89 ...

Two regulatory programs--The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) process safety management standard and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed risk management program--were developed to prevent and minimize the consequences of such catastrophic accidents as the toxic gas release in ...

The paper describes the implementation of the data-sensor fusion and sensor management technology for accident management through simulated severe accident (SA) scenarios subjected to study. By means of accident management the appropriate prompt actions t...

Guidance for Radiation Accident Management Introduction Basics of Radiation Detection Measurement Safety Around Radiation Sources Types of Radiation Exposure Managing Radiation...

This paper discusses the evolution and reevolution in transient analysis that has been and is occurring. From strictly design basis transients and the determination of margins and setpoints, emphasis continues to shift to risk-dominant sequences and the importance of equipment reliability and operator actions. The importance of simulation in training, procedure development and ...

Steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) incidents, such as those, which occurred in various operating pressurized, water reactors in the past, are serious operational concerns and remain among the most risk-dominant events. Although considerable efforts have been spent to understand tube degradation processes, develop improved modes of operation, and take preventative and corrective measures, SGTR ...

Management of risk in complex domains such as aviation relies heavily on post-event investigations, requiring complex approaches to fully understand the integration of multi-causal, multi-agent and multi-linear accident sequences. The Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork methodology (EAST; Stanton et al. 2008) offers such an approach based on network ...

This publication contains summary reports of major marine accidents, adopted from August 1979 through June 1982. The summary reports present the probable cause and accident descriptions for the following accidents: Oceanographic Research Vessel PROFILER, ...

This publication contains summary reports of major marine accidents, occurring from January through June 1979. The summary reports present the probable cause and accident descriptions for the following accidents: Fishing vessel OCEAN CAPE lost on January ...

A NASA Ames Research Center analysis of rotorcraft accident data identified safety issues that could lead to a reduction in accidents. The primary source of data was summaries of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports. Lower cost hel...

This paper describes techniques for controlling and documenting inputs and assumptions used in accident analyses supporting Authorization Basis (AB) documents to ensure facility ownership of those AB documents at Savannah River Site (SRS). This ownership is crucial because of the relationship between the inputs and assumptions and Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs). ...

This report examines five topical areas of concern to severe accident management. These areas are as follows: Human Factors, Accident Management During Shutdown, Information Needs, Long-term Implications, and Uncertainties. The objective of this report is to assist the NRC in performing its research function and to ...

The paper will discuss work being conducted during this human factors review including: (1) support of the Severe Accident Sequence Analysis (SASA) Program based on an assessment of operator actions, and (2) development of a descriptive model of operator severe accident management. Research by SASA analysts on the Browns Ferry Unit One ...

Research Summary The management of roe deer in peri-urban Scotland The expansion of peri, including wild deer. Impacts include road-traffic accidents, garden damage and the potential transmission that the deer�people issues arising in peri-urban Scotland are not caused only by the increasing presence

In the wake of the Bhopal accident, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Bank have each issued guidelines for identification, assessment, and management of risks from major hazards at industrial facilities. These different approaches are compared in both theoretical and practical ...

In the wake of the Bhopal accident, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Bank have each issued guidelines for identification, assessment, and management of risks from major hazards at industrial faci...

It has become increasingly clear in recent years that the risk associated with nuclear power is driven by human performance. Although human errors have contributed heavily to the two core-melt events that have occurred at power reactors, effective performance during an event can also prevent a degraded situation from progressing to a more serious accident, as in the ...

This document is designed to provide a means for accident/incident prevention by familiarizing managers with management-related accident/incident causal factors which have been revealed in Department of Energy (DOE) supported accident investigation research. It also helps to prepare ...

The research documented in the report involved a review of legal and insurance issues relative to off-site accident investigation locations, referred to as Accident Investigation Sites (AISs), through library searches and contact with a limited number of ...

report into the accident was issued in 2004. It provides a relatively thorough analysis of the causes of adequate risk mitigation in the events leading to the �berlingen accident. At Linate, the multi concerns between the �berlingen and Linate accidents. Staffing issues not only affected ...

The objectives of the Model Validation Committee were to collaborate with US and foreign scientists to collect, manage, and evaluate data for identifying critical research issues and data needs to support an integrated assessment of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; test environmental transport, human dosimetric, and health effects ...

The purpose of this safety manual is to provide a resource to help manage and minimize potential risks in science classrooms where students spend up to 60% of instructional time engaged in hands-on activities. This manual contains information on standards, legal aspects, and responsibilities for science safety; general laboratory safety for students; laboratory facility ...

The present study addresses the formulation of risk acceptance criteria and the management of risk by goals. Risk-reduction goals are defined as the minimization of accident probabilities, minimization of maximum accident consequences, reduction of risk to levels as low as reasonably achievable, minimization of socially perceived ...

This book presents an evaluation of the psycho-social impacts of hazardous technology. Using a multiple research strategy, the authors show the possible effects of restarting the undamaged reactor at Three Mile Island. The book includes background information concerning environmental policy, the accident and restart issues, and forecasted impacts and ...

Serious accidents and incidents occurring within the Department of Energy (DOE) will be investigated by committees including DOE trained investigators. A part of the investigation includes evaluation of management systems as they relate to the accident. T...

After a brief recall of French safety rationale, the reactor operation and severe accident management is given. The research and development aimed at developing accident management procedures and emergency organization in France for the case of a NPP acci...

The subject final report is provided to inform you of our findings and recommendations concerning our review of issues regarding the scope of the accident investigation of a March 31, 1994, fire at the Terrific Reactor Isotope Separator To Analyze Nuclides (TRISTAN) experiment at the Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, ...

The importance of accidents as a cause of death and morbidity in childhood is realized in the countries of the so-called "western" world and in developing countries. The increasing recognition of accidents as a problem has led to paediatricians playing a greater part in accident management and prevention. ...

One of the most important uses of dose assessment models in response to accidents at nuclear facilities is to help provide guidance to emergency response managers for identifying, and mitigating, the consequences of an accident once the accident has been ...

A method of caring for patients who have been exposed a peacetime nuclear accident has been described. It show be apparent that the preparation for such an accident and experience of the medical team, if such an accident should occur, would better prepare the medical profession to occur with problems resulting from a nuclear ...

A fundamental element in a comprehensive, modern safety program is the thorough investigation of accidents and incidents. This manual provides usable guidelines for investigation of all accidents or incidents, and guidance for preparing for accident manag...