SAFETY AS A NEED/ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AS A DEED

摘要

The paper presents the experience of a national (process industry) research institute in checking and balancing the safety needs and also the environmental needs into the design activity. This experience is interesting especially considering the transition towards a market economy and also the various research profiles (including military ones). The problem was that, taking into account the four main components of the Man-Machine system, the human operator, the task that is done, the machine and the work environment, to fine-tune them so as to obtain maximum safety and a reasonable degree of environmental protection. In this spirit, a crosscheck assessment system was designed. This system assesses in a first step, the safety at the workplace, and in a second step the environment protection. Using this system, can be defined some specific crises, crises that can further be used at the development of various scenarios and mainly at the development of counter-strike measures. Such crises can be: human- environment crisis, task-environment crisis, machine-environment crisis and work environment-environment crisis. Training can diffuse the human-environment crisis, the task-environment by redesigning the task, the work environment-environment and machine, -environment crisis can be diffused by technical means. Using statistic casualty and environment data, the paper shows that the work environment-environment crisis and the machine- environment crisis are the most serious and are determinant, if preventive actions are not quickly taken, to major accidents, with human losses and environment irreversible damage. The developed assessment system is a quick, efficient and objective way to follow safety and environment together.