The integration of occupational risk in health and safety with operational risks: an overview on cells manufacturing
Profound changes have occurred within modern industry owing to technological advances. Also, that environment is, today, very competitive and requires shorter manufacturing deadlines, lower costs, and higher quality products. A few years ago, the cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) have emerged as the best alternative in manufacturing environments, representing a compromise between the efficiency of serial and the flexibility of batch production systems. That these cells are automatic, semi-automatic or manual, the CMS design is widespread in the literature. For more information on cell formation problems, we recommend the bibliographical review suggested by Offodile et al 1. In this new century, new ways of management activities are planned and designed for firms wanting to constantly improve their flexibility, their productivity, and their efficiency 2. However, management of preventive activities in occupational health and safety (H&S) has gone largely unacknowledged, forgotten or ignored. This can lead to real losses in efficiency when inadequate preventive measures leave workers exposed to serious risks. Also, it has been shown by Neumann et al. 3 how strategic elements, chosen early in the design phase of a manufacturing system, can have major consequences on flexibility, productivity, and economic factors in the resulting system. Human error is an inappropriate or undesirable human decision or behaviour that reduces, or has the potential for reducing, effectiveness, flexibility, productivity or system performance 4. Several studies have found that human error is a major contributing factor in accident causation in the manufacturing industry 5. Many works on the organisational dimensions in H&S are now available, especially in European Union (UE), and some recent researches have attempted to model a number of variables in accordance with the needs and concerns of management systems that are increasingly complex and dynamic 6. Also, Ethics, regulations (government, municipal and industrial) and the appearance of new industrial risks enhances these needs where a number of research avenues have been explored recently to find solutions that integrate H&S. Although it is difficult to conceive industrial cells (CMS) taking into account the operational aspects (quantitative) and the most H&S risks (often qualitative), the purpose of our paper is to identify these risks so as to integrate them into the CMS design. This study is the premise of a research program that focuses on developing a mathematical model incorporating both operational risks and occupational Health and safety (H&S) risks early at the CMS design phase.
occupational health safety risks operational risks integration cellular manufacturing systems
Barthélemy Ateme-Nguema Sylvie Nadeau
Management Sciences Department, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda (Canada Mechanical Engineering Department, (é)cole de Technologie Supérieure, University of Quebec, Montreal
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-2
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）