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Critical Controls / CCM / ICMM

Critical Control Management in Indonesian Mining Industry

Implementing Critical Control Management in a Mature Processing Plant.

Addressing tyre risks with critical control management-a collaborative industry project.

Construction safety case (MAP)–a strategy for successful implementation

Application of critical controls for fatality prevention in mining operations

Can Construction Fatalities Be Prevented by Focusing Management on Critical Risk Controls?

ANALYSIS OF EFEECTIVENESS OF CRITICAL CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION USING PLANNED JOB OBSERVATION IN DIVISION X PT. A

Determining the reliability of critical controls in construction projects

Geotechnical risk in mining methods and practice: critical issues and pitfalls of risk management

Risk-based access control at Mount Isa Copper Operations

Proposal for and validation of novel risk-based process to reduce the risk of construction site fatalities (Major Accident Prevention (MAP) program)

Case Study: The Ground Control Plan Applied to Linear Infrastructures

Process Safety Approach for Reviewing Critical Controls on Tailings Storage Facilities

Critical control management-the latest on leading practice and lessons learned

What are the real risks for tailings facilities?

Why do haul truck fatal accidents keep occurring?

A step change in safety performance through critical control management

Application of critical controls for fatality prevention in mining operations: Case study in an AngloGold Ashanti gold mine

Critical Control Implementation Program

Barriers, controls, safeguards

Safety barrier management: risk-based approach for the oil and gas sector

Analysis of the safety barrier function: Accidents caused by the failure of safety barriers and quantitative evaluation of their performance

Barriers involved in the safety management systems: a systematic review of literature

Safety barriers in the chemical process industries: A state-of-the-art review on their classification, assessment, and management

Safety barriers: Definition, classification, and performance

Risk+ barriers= safety?

Analysis of barriers in operational risk assessment—a case study

Preventing fatal accidents in construction through the management of barriers

Modeling of Safety Barriers in Risk Analyses

Performance of barrier systems and functions in the construction industry

Accidents and barriers

Analysis of safety functions and barriers in accidents

Assessment of the adequacy of safety barriers to hazards

 Safety barriers: Research advances and new thoughts on theory, engineering and management

Barrier-Based Approach in Monitoring Risk Reduction Measures Associated with Major Accident Scenarios

Risk management based on the assessment of safety barriers

The barrier-based system for major accident prevention: a system dynamics analysis

Occupational Safety in the Construction Industry. Identifying Important Accident Types, Barrier Failures, Causal Factors and Safety Management Factors

Predicting major accidents in the process industry based on the barrier status at scenario level: A practical approach

Participatory safety barrier analysis: a case from the offshore maritime industry

Review and discussion of current approaches on safety barriers for the Norwegian petroleum activities

 FRAM Approach for Barrier Management in Offshore Drilling

An extended FRAM method to check the adequacy of safety barriers and to assess the safety of a socio-technical system

Barrier Management in Operation for the Rig Industry – A Joint Industry Project

Delivery systems: A systematic approach for barrier management

Technologies for safety and health management in construction: Current use, implementation benefits
and limitations, and adoption barriers

Preventing fatalities in the construction industry — a review of critical risk management strategies

Suicide prevention in railway systems: application of a barrier approach

Implementing a barrier management system

Barrier Management Digitalization in the Oil and Gas Industry-Status and Challenges

Barrier Integrity Management: An Innovative Approach for Managing Process Safety Risks in Oil and Gas Assets

Towards a holistic approach for barrier management in the petroleum industry

Safety-barrier diagrams as a safety management tool

Applying an operational safety barrier framework in a major oil and gas field development project

Safety barriers for preventing leaks due to failure of maintenance operations on-board LNG floaters

Operational Safety:” The Platform Manager’s Risk Control Tool”

 Barrier management within the oil and gas industry-a comparison study of the implementation and interpretation of Norway’s and EU’s regulations with focus on

Concepts for dynamic barrier management

Functional Barrier Model-A Structured Approach to Barrier Analysis

Assessment of safety barrier performance in Natech scenarios

Barrier management and the interaction between technical, operational and organisational barrier elements

Control of safety barriers through maintenance system

Barrier analysis as a design tool in complex safety critical systems

Defining and operationalizing the barrier concept

Assessment of safety barriers for the prevention of cascading events in oil and gas offshore installations operating in harsh environment

Functional Barrier Model-A Structured Approach to Barrier Analysis

Safety Barrier Management and Risk Assessment: integration for safer operations in the Oil&Gas industry

Theory of safety-related violations of system barriers

Guidelines etc

Critical Control Management: Good Practice Guide and Implementation Guide

HEALTH AND SAFETY CRITICAL CONTROL MANAGEMENT: GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE

Principles for barrier management in the petroleum industry

Advanced Safety Barrier Management with Inclusion of Human and Organizational Aspects

Investigations

Advanced process safety barrier management by applying proactive incident investigation to failed or impaired barriers

Practitioners’ perspectives on incident investigations

Human factors and human performance

When the Human Factor is at the Core of the Safety Barrier

Human Factors in Barrier Management

Human factors: Integrating human factors into bowtie analyses of major accident events

Human factors in barrier management: Hard truths and challenges

Improving barrier effectiveness using human factors methods

Monitoring of human and organizational factors influencing the risk of major accidents

Methodology for incorporating human and organizational factors in risk analysis for offshore installations

Classifying and Defining Operational and Organizational Aspects of Barriers for the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

The effect of human factors on safety related to barrier management

Enhancing Safety Through strengthening Human Barrier

Designing for human reliability: human factors engineering in the oil, gas and process industries

Efficiency of safety barriers facing human errors

Bowties

Standardisation of Bow Tie Methodology and Terminology via a CCPS/EI
Book

Bowtie Analysis as a prospective risk assessment technique in primary healthcare

Guidance on customising bowtie analysis for use in healthcare

Bowtie Analysis of Pilot Depression and Barrier-Based Risk Management

Self-Verification Program in bp: Success Story of Major Accident Risk Management via Bowtie Barrier Model

Mechanical integrity of process installations: Barrier alarm management based on bowties

Preliminary case report study of training and support needed to conduct bowtie analysis in healthcare

Human error Bowtie analysis to enhance patient safety in radiation oncology

Bowtie Barriers-Adding Offense to Defensive Risk Reduction Models

Integrating organisational culture into incident analyses: extending the bow tie model

A comparison of the Bow‐Tie and STAMP approaches to reduce the risk of surgical instrument retention

STPA and Bowtie risk analysis study for centralized and hierarchical control architectures comparison

Effective Barrier Risk Management in Process Safety Utilizing the Bow Tie Methodology

Field verifications, observations

The validity of the TR safety observation method on building construction

Leadership, management, supervision training etc.

The Role of Leadership Acts in Preventing Material Unwanted Events

The effectiveness and impact of risk management training on supervisory level within a mining organisation

Indicators, measurements

Lonmin’s innovative approach to safety:’safety focus on leading indicators’

Guide to the implementation and use of the barrier indicator

Linking barrier indicators to major accident scenarios, a first step to predict major accident scenarios

Preventing major hazard accidents through barrier performance monitoring

Indicator on the performance of barriers against fatal accidents in construction

Effectiveness of risk controls as indicator of safety performance

Developing safety indicators for preventing offshore oil and gas deepwater drilling blowouts

Control failure, major accidents, research

Pathways to single fatality and serious injury incidents in coal and metalliferous mining in NSW, Australia: Can we learn from multiple fatality incidents to prevent serious injury?

Analysis of the safety barrier function: Accidents caused by the failure of safety barriers and quantitative evaluation of their performance

Accident types and barrier failures in the construction industry

Case study of the Tianjin accident: Application of barrier and systems analysis to understand challenges to industry loss prevention in emerging economies

Predicting major hazard accidents by monitoring their barrier systems: a validation in retrospective

Analysis of safety functions and barriers in accidents

Texas City refinery accident: Case study in breakdown of defense-in-depth and violation of the safety–diagnosability principle in design

Resilience etc.

Resilience-based approach to safety barrier performance assessment in process facilities

Developing a barrier management framework for dealing with Natech domino effects and increasing chemical cluster resilience

Getting resilience into safety programs using simple tools-a research background and practical implementation

Decision making, cognition etc.

Use of safety barriers in operational safety decision making

Safety barriers: Organizational potential and forces of psychology

Presentations, videos other

Critical Control Management – Good Practice Films

FSF – BARS Critical Control Video

Energy, Haddon etc.

Energy-based safety risk assessment: Does magnitude and intensity of energy predict injury severity?

The Energy Wheel: The Art & Science of Energy-Based Hazard Recognition

Applying the Haddon matrix conceptual model to guide motor vehicle crash injury research and prevention in Botswana

Moving beyond TRIR: Measuring & monitoring safety performance with high-energy control assessments

Energy-based safety risk management: Using hazard energy to predict injury severity

Advances in the epidemiology of injuries as a basis for public policy.

The Haddon matrix: applying an epidemiologic research tool as a framework for death investigation

Energy damage and the 10 countermeasure strategies. 1973.

The 2005 London bombings and the Haddon matrix

Applying the Haddon Matrix in the context of work-related road safety

Analysis of the Tragedy of Vila Socó in Cubatão (São Paulo, Brazil) Using the Haddon Matrix: A Comprehensive Examination of Socio-Environmental Factors …

Links between Minor and Major events, SIFs

Exploring the relationship between major hazard, fatal and non-fatal accidents through outcomes and causes

Things That Hurt People Are Not the Same as the Things That Kill People: Key Differences in the Proximal Causes of Low-and High-Severity Construction Injuries

Developing the understanding of underlying causes of construction fatal accidents

Examining factors that influence the existence of Heinrich’s safety triangle using site‐specific H&S data from more than 25,000 establishments

Heinrich Revisited: a New Data-Driven Examination of the Safety Pyramid

Risk horoscopes: Predicting the number and type of serious occupational accidents in The Netherlands for sectors and jobs

Preventing serious injuries and fatalities: Study reveals precursors and paradigms

Serious Injuries and Fatalities–A Study of Data and Prevention Strategies

What is a serious injury? A model for defining serious injuries & fatalities

The efficacy of industrial safety science constructs for addressing serious injuries & fatalities (SIFs)

Practical assessment of potential predictors of serious injuries and fatalities in construction

New Insights into the Prevention of Serious Injuries and Fatalities

On the prevention of serious injuries and fatalities

What Causes Accidents at Work? Workplace Serious Incident & Fatality Investigations: A Study of Precursors

Exploring the Hypothesized Mechanisms by Which Serious Injuries and Fatalities Impact Business Performance

Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention (SIFP): a structured program designed to prevent serious injuries and fatalities in the workplace

Healthcare

Detecting breaches in defensive barriers using in situ simulation for obstetric emergencies

Other

What Makes a Task Safety Critical?: A Barrier-Based and Easy-to-Use Roadmap for Determining Task Criticality