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CRITICAL FACTORS AFFECTING SAFETY IN THE SINGAPORE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

  • Sze Ming Woo;Charles Y.J. Cheah;Wai Fan Wong
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2007.03a
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    • pp.759-768
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    • 2007
  • Construction is one of the most hazardous industries due to its unique nature. Recent occurrences of highly publicised and criticized construction site accidents have highlighted the immediate need for the construction industry to address safety hazards. Safety used to be addressed as an isolated issue in the past, but the problem of safety is an emergent property of a system. In general, it seems that both industrial practitioners and government officials have tended to address safety by focusing on technical aspects and looking for immediate causes of accidents after they have taken place. The objective of this paper is to examine issues and critical factors that affect the safety standards from a holistic point of view. The job of making worksites safe should not just fall squarely on the contractors but should be shared by all parties in the value chain of construction activities.

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A Study on the Development of Index for Food Safety Status based on the Statistical Data (식품안전수준에 대한 지수 개발 연구)

  • Yang, Sung-Bum
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.21-35
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    • 2022
  • Measuring the food safety has been focused only on the psychological consumers' recognition of food safety. The actual measurement tool should consist of the evidence-based statistical data to assess the level of national food safety in scientific perspectives. This paper described the development of a concept to measure the food safety of the food chain based on OECD PSR framework. This paper discusses the elaboration of a set of 8 food safety related data issued as statistical data, and which were same weighted. These food safety statistical data (FSDs) were derived as the basis of measuring the variation of food safety during 2013-2019. The values of the primary production indicator (PPI), the processing and manufacturing indicator (PMI), and the distribution and consumption indicator (DCI) are 0.558-0.859, 0.533-0.691, and 0.979-0.982, respectively. The food safety status (FSS) derived from the safety indicator values of each of the three stages is 0.700-0.810. In order to increase the level of food safety, it is necessary to pay attention to PMI and PPI management. In the future, continuously calculating the level of food safety, managing it like the level of psychological safety, and further expanding it to the level of food safety between countries will help establish policies to improve the level of food safety in Korea.

A Long-term Replenishment Contract for the ARIMA Demand Process (ARIMA 수요자정을 고려한 장기보충계약)

  • Kim Jong Soo;Jung Bong Ryong
    • Proceedings of the Society of Korea Industrial and System Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.343-348
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    • 2002
  • We are concerned with a long-term replenishment contract for the ARIMA demand process in a supply chain. The chain is composed of one supplier, one buyer and consumers for a product. The replenishment contract is based upon the well-known (s, Q) policy but allows us to contract future replenishments at a time with a price discount. Due to the larger forecast error of future demand, the buyer should keep a higher level of safety stock to provide the same level of service as the usual (s, Q) policy. However, the buyer can reduce his purchase cost by ordering a larger quantity at a discounted price. Hence, there exists a trade-off between the price discount and the inventory holding cost. For the ARIMA demand process, we present a model for the contract and an algorithm to find the number of the future replenishments. Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and accurate.

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Read Rate Analysis of RFID Gen 2 Tag in Frozen Seafood Traceability Systems (냉동수산물 이력제 식별수단으로써의 RFID Gen 2 태그의 인식률 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Baek;Lee, Dong-Ho
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.38 no.1 s.73
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    • pp.115-132
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    • 2007
  • Implementing the automatic identification in supply chain management is essential for effective and efficient process control. Though the GTIN based bar code system is generally used as an automatic identification method in most industries, it can not identify individual item, and is not appropriated for products' reliability and safety management. So the RFID system with EPC is considered as a better solution for resolving those problems. This study reviewed automatic identification code systems and the attributes and characteristics of RFID Gen 2 which became a global standard recently for supply chain management. Particularly, this study analyzed RFID Gen 2 systems' read rates on various conditions including distances between tags and readers and between antennas, condensation, and several packing materials in practical supply chain environment. The results of this study showed that the RFID Gen 2 had high read ratio in practical application and would be adopted as a new automatic identification means for traceability systems.

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An Analysis of Financial Ration for the Profitability in the Hotel Industry (호텔기업의 재무비율과 수익성간의 관계)

  • Park Tae Su;Lee Sang Geon
    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.81-97
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest management information through the analysis of relationships between financial characteristics and financial performance to the owners and managers of super deluxe hotels in Korea. The data of super deluxe hotels were collected by the electronic F/S announcement system. Forty-two hotels, which have financial statements for the previous three consecutive years were chosen as the sample of analysis. Return on total assets and times interest earned, asset turnover, current ratio of the super deluxe hotels are correlated. Return on total assets and asset turnover, sales growth rate, times interest earned are also correlated. And productivity and asset turnover of chain hotels are correlated. Based on this study, it can be concluded that chain hotels are maily correlated with growth ratio and activity ratio. Otherwise non-chain hotels are mainly correlated with current ratio and safety ratio.

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Multiple Replenishment Contract with Purchase Price Discount (구매비용할인을 고려한 다회보충계약)

  • Jung, Bong-Ryong;Kim, Jong-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.345-351
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    • 2001
  • We are concerned with a multiple replenishment contract with a purchase price discount in a supply chain. The chain is composed of one supplier, one buyer and consumers for a product. The replenishment contract is based upon the well-known (s, Q) policy but allows contracting several firmed orders at a time with a price discount. Due to a larger forecast error of the future demand, the buyer should keep a higher level of safety stock to provide the same level of service of the usual (s, Q) policy but can reduce his purchase cost by placing larger quantity. Thus there exists a trade-off between the price discount and inventory holding cost. We present a model for the contract and an algorithm to find the optimum number of the firmed orders. Computer experiments show that the algorithm finds the global optimum solution very fast.

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Inventory Management Practices Approach to Reverse Logistics

  • Wang, Dja-Shin;Koo, Tong-Yuan
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.303-311
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    • 2010
  • In the last few years growing interest has been dedicated to supply chain management. Modeling complexity is added to supply chain coordination problem by accounting for reverse logistics activities. The objective of this paper is to extend inventory model of manufacturing factory with respect to the production of raw material of forward logistics and recycling material of reverse logistics. The proposed model is applied to a plastic recycling process plant located in Taiwan. The case study improvement scheme shows when the recycling rate of recycling material increases from 15% to 50%, the total inventory cost of manufacturing factory decreases by 12.82%, safety stock volume decreases by 41.19% and the reorder quantity is down by 50.96%. This paper finds whether the results of the model can reach the economic profit through quantitative analysis and encourages companies integrate reverse logistics into the supply chain system.

Analysis of Vendor Managed Inventory System for Safety Appropriate Stock - Based on case study of 'D' Business - (안전 적정 재고를 위한 VMI 시스템 분석 - D사를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee Myong-Bok;Yang Kwang-Mo;Kang Kyong-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.179-191
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    • 2005
  • Recently, Vendor Managed Inventory(VMI) has been commonly recognized as one of the supply chain application that delivers clear value to the sectors of electic & electronic components. VMI is a process in which a supplier generates orders for its distributor based on demand information sent by the distributor. VMI is providing the benefits of smoother demand, lower inventories(work in process, safety stock) and reduced costs. This study focused on improvement of safety level inventory efficiency by VMI. The results indicated that VMI allowed the company to serve its customers more surely and efficiently.

Design of safety critical and control systems of Nuclear Power Plants using Petri nets

  • Singh, Pooja;Singh, Lalit Kumar
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.5
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    • pp.1289-1296
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    • 2019
  • Non-functional requirements plays a critical role in designing variety of applications domain ranges from safety-critical systems to simple gaming applications. Performance is one of the crucial non-functional requirement, especially in control and safety systems, that validates the design. System risk can be quantified as a product of probability of system failure and severity of its impact. In this paper, we devise a technique to do the performance analysis of safety critical and control systems and to estimate performance based risk factor. The technique elaborates Petri nets to estimate performability to ensure system dependability requirements. We illustrate the technique on a case study of Nuclear Power Plant system. The technique has been validated on 17 safety critical and control systems of Nuclear Power Plant.

The Chain Hotel Chef's Pygmalion Leadership for Effective Teamwork of Cooks (효과적인 팀워크를 위한 프랜차이즈 호텔 조리장의 피그말리온 리더십)

  • Koo, Dong-Woo;Lee, Sae-Mi;Jang, Hae-Jin
    • The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2016
  • Purpose - In the past, the chain hotel chefs only serve food to their customers. However recently, the hotel chefs play a pivotal role in hotel including considering various customer preferences, safety and nutrition of food, and increasing profits through effective human resource management and inventory control. With the change of the chain hotel chef's' roles, pygmalion leadership, one of new leadership styles, focuses on the effect that leader's positive expectation let subordinates have motivation and more engage in work. This study investigates the effect of chain hotel chef's pygmalion leadership on leader trust and organizational trust. Research design, data, and methodology - This study was to investigate the structural relationships among chain hotel restaurant chefs' pygmalion leadership, hotel restaurant cooks' leader trust, organizational trust, and teamwork, and how leader trust and organizational trust play mediating roles in the relationship between pygmalion leadership and teamwork. In this model, pygmalion leadership includes 4 dimensions: Climate, Feedback, Input, and Output. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaire survey on cooks of Deluxe hotel restaurants located in Seoul and Gyonggi-Do. The samples for data analyses were 243 excepting unusable responses. Result - The findings can be summarized as follows: First, climate and feedback had a positive effect on leader trust, respectively. Second, feedback and output had a statistically positive effect on organizational trust, respectively. Third, leader trust had positive effects on organizational trust and teamwork. Fourth, organizational trust had a significant effect on teamwork. Conclusions - As a chain hotel chef treats his/her staffs sincerely, they will be more engaged in work by establishing trust in their leader. Ultimately, it leads to higher sales profit and customer satisfaction. In addition, a hotel can encourage chefs and other staffs to treat each other as if the student-instructor relations, not just commanding staffs. Then, cooks build up their trust to their leader and organization for its sustained growth and development, and the internal bond in organization including teamwork is strengthened. Therefore, to strengthen teamwork and organizational trust, there should be active communication, knowledge sharing, goal sharing, and cooperation between chefs and cooks.