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Title
444 Nature of past remedial measures: the case of Ghanaian mining industry
Creator
Theophilus Joe-Asare, Eric Stemn, Newton Amegbey
Description
Background
Two processes are required to prevent similar/same events from occurring again whenever an accident occurs; causal factors identification and planning and implementation of remedial measures. Without proper planning and implementation, latent conditions with the system will remain unfixed, and accidents will continue to occur. A preliminary analysis of investigations reports within the Ghanaian Mines reveals that the cases are similar, which raises the question, What is the nature of the remedial measures proposed to address the causes identified?
Methods
The study adopts SMARTER from the business studies with the addition of HMW (H-Hierarchical, M-Mapping and W-Weighting of causal factors) to analyse the recommendations from 500 cases obtained from seven gold mines in Ghana.
Results
The results showed that most of the recommendations are administrative, focusing on fixing the …
Two processes are required to prevent similar/same events from occurring again whenever an accident occurs; causal factors identification and planning and implementation of remedial measures. Without proper planning and implementation, latent conditions with the system will remain unfixed, and accidents will continue to occur. A preliminary analysis of investigations reports within the Ghanaian Mines reveals that the cases are similar, which raises the question, What is the nature of the remedial measures proposed to address the causes identified?
Methods
The study adopts SMARTER from the business studies with the addition of HMW (H-Hierarchical, M-Mapping and W-Weighting of causal factors) to analyse the recommendations from 500 cases obtained from seven gold mines in Ghana.
Results
The results showed that most of the recommendations are administrative, focusing on fixing the …
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Date
2022
Source
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=4--inMwAAAAJ&citation_for_view=4--inMwAAAAJ:W7OEmFMy1HYC
Language
English