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MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS

Injury free work environment is an essential element for any successful project. Better safety performances can be achieved only if safety matters priority at all stages of project addressed adequately. Concrete efforts of owners, contractors, sub contractors and designers are equally important at...

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Main Authors: Mirza, Munir, Kutty, S.R.M., Khamidi, M. Faris, Azmi , Mohd Shariff
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2010
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8175/1/Mitigation_Strategies_khamidi.pdf
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8175/
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spelling my.utp.eprints.81752017-01-19T08:23:43Z MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS Mirza, Munir Kutty, S.R.M. Khamidi, M. Faris Azmi , Mohd Shariff TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Injury free work environment is an essential element for any successful project. Better safety performances can be achieved only if safety matters priority at all stages of project addressed adequately. Concrete efforts of owners, contractors, sub contractors and designers are equally important at different levels of project. To control accidents and injuries on every project requires different methods and practices. Although same strategies can be applied, it requires modifications as per objectives & targets and organizational needs. It is necessary to develop such strategies that can help to increase safety considerations at project site. Past safety studies investigated various methods to improve safety statistics but it still contain more room for improvement. Fuel stations are considered to be the high risk hazardous places within the city environment. Fire, falls, vehicle accidents, electrocutions, robbery and snakebites are most commonly occurring hazardous conditions at fuel stations. This paper will present the application of Mitigation Strategies to reduce near misses occurrences at fuel stations. Near misses data collected in different trades such as maintenance, carelessness, housekeeping, mechanical fault and electrical fault. Mitigation strategies prepared based upon safety statistics. Data collected with these application and mentionable improvement noticed. With application of mitigation strategies available resources can be ut 2010-11-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8175/1/Mitigation_Strategies_khamidi.pdf Mirza, Munir and Kutty, S.R.M. and Khamidi, M. Faris and Azmi , Mohd Shariff (2010) MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS. In: International Conference on The Roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Engineering, ICoHSE , 12-14 Nov 2010, Penang, MALAYSIA. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8175/
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Mirza, Munir
Kutty, S.R.M.
Khamidi, M. Faris
Azmi , Mohd Shariff
MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS
description Injury free work environment is an essential element for any successful project. Better safety performances can be achieved only if safety matters priority at all stages of project addressed adequately. Concrete efforts of owners, contractors, sub contractors and designers are equally important at different levels of project. To control accidents and injuries on every project requires different methods and practices. Although same strategies can be applied, it requires modifications as per objectives & targets and organizational needs. It is necessary to develop such strategies that can help to increase safety considerations at project site. Past safety studies investigated various methods to improve safety statistics but it still contain more room for improvement. Fuel stations are considered to be the high risk hazardous places within the city environment. Fire, falls, vehicle accidents, electrocutions, robbery and snakebites are most commonly occurring hazardous conditions at fuel stations. This paper will present the application of Mitigation Strategies to reduce near misses occurrences at fuel stations. Near misses data collected in different trades such as maintenance, carelessness, housekeeping, mechanical fault and electrical fault. Mitigation strategies prepared based upon safety statistics. Data collected with these application and mentionable improvement noticed. With application of mitigation strategies available resources can be ut
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mirza, Munir
Kutty, S.R.M.
Khamidi, M. Faris
Azmi , Mohd Shariff
author_facet Mirza, Munir
Kutty, S.R.M.
Khamidi, M. Faris
Azmi , Mohd Shariff
author_sort Mirza, Munir
title MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS
title_short MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS
title_full MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS
title_fullStr MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS
title_full_unstemmed MITIGATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS AT FUEL STATIONS
title_sort mitigation strategies to improve safety conditions at fuel stations
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8175/1/Mitigation_Strategies_khamidi.pdf
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