{"title":"Development of an Internal Safety Evaluation Program for Ready Mixed Concrete Producers","authors":"Özge A. Kale","doi":"10.18400/tekderg.699837","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to assist the safety specialists and departments in ready mixed concrete (RMC) industry by preparing an internal safety evaluation program (ISEP). To constitute an ISEP the 287-item control list was created and grouped as negligible, moderate, and critical. The control list was applied to thirteen RMC plants which belongs to one RMC company. It is found that even the same company cannot ensure stability in terms of OHS between its plants, none of the plants had an approved OHS policy, emergency action plan and a plant entrance OHS warning sign. OHS training was mostly missing in plants.","PeriodicalId":49442,"journal":{"name":"Teknik Dergi","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teknik Dergi","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18400/tekderg.699837","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, CIVIL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to assist the safety specialists and departments in ready mixed concrete (RMC) industry by preparing an internal safety evaluation program (ISEP). To constitute an ISEP the 287-item control list was created and grouped as negligible, moderate, and critical. The control list was applied to thirteen RMC plants which belongs to one RMC company. It is found that even the same company cannot ensure stability in terms of OHS between its plants, none of the plants had an approved OHS policy, emergency action plan and a plant entrance OHS warning sign. OHS training was mostly missing in plants.
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The scope of Teknik Dergi is naturally confined with the subjects falling in the area of civil engineering. However, the area of civil engineering has recently been significantly enlarged, even the definition of civil engineering has somewhat changed.
Half a century ago, engineering was simply defined as “the art of using and converting the natural resources for the benefit of the mankind”. Today, the same objective is expected to be realised (i) by complying with the desire and expectations of the people concerned and (ii) without wasting the resources and within the sustainability principles. This change has required an interaction between engineering and social and administrative sciences. Some subjects at the borderline between civil engineering and social and administrative sciences have consequently been included in the area of civil engineering.
Teknik Dergi defines its scope in line with this understanding. However, it requires the papers falling in the borderline to have a significant component of civil engineering.