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van Kampen, J. (author), van der Beek, D. (author), Steijn, W. (author), Groeneweg, J. (author), Guldenmund, F. (author)Background. Organisations spend a considerable amount of time and effort on diagnosing and analysing risks within their organisation. In the area of occupational and process safety, a myriad of employee survey instruments is available. Many studies show that operational processes play an important role in an organisations overall safety. Yet, so...article 2017
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Courage, W.M.G. (author), Nicoreac, M.P. (author), Kempker, P.L. (author)For offshore wind turbines (OWT’s) environmental and accessibility conditions make inspection and maintenance costly. Hence the potential of cost reduction when the planning of these actions can be optimized. Taking uncertainties into account, a risk based concept is adopted in which probabilities of failure and its consequences are balanced...conference paper 2017
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van der Voort, M.M. (author), Holm, K.B. (author), Kummer, P.O. (author), Teland, J.A. (author), van Doormaal, J.C.A.M. (author), Dijkers, H.P.A. (author)An important blast injury mechanism is the rupture of the lungs and the gastrointestinal tract. In explosives safety studies and threat analysis the empirical model of Bowen is often used to quantify this mechanism. The original model predicts the lethality for a person in front of a reflecting surface caused by simple Friedlander blast waves....article 2016
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Asgarpour, M. (author), Serraris, J.W. (author), de Ridder, E. (author), van den Broek, J. (author), Bos, J.E. (author)Operation and maintenance (O&M) costs contribute to a significant part of Cost of Energy produced by offshore wind. In order to reduce the O&M costs and to guarantee safety and wellbeing of the maintenance technicians, for each individual wind farm an optimal set of support vessels and access systems should be selected. This selection should...conference paper 2016
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Grøtan, T.O. (author), Wærø, I. (author), van der Vorm, J.K.J. (author), van der Beek, F.A. (author), Zuiderwijk, D.C. (author)Operational resilience is critical for organizations to be successful. It allows for continued safe operations under uncertain and shifting circumstances in everyday, emergency and crisis situations. It also allows the organization to progress by learning from how it deals with unexpected situations. Enabling the organization to appreciate,...conference paper 2016
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Swuste, P. (author), van Gulijk, C. (author), Zwaard, W. (author), Lemkowitz, S. (author), Oostendorp, Y. (author), Groeneweg, J. (author)Objective: What influence has research conducted by general management schools and safety research had upon the causes of accidents and disasters in relation to the managing of safety between 1970 and 1979? Method: The study was confined to original articles and documents, written in English or Dutch from the period under consideration. For the...article 2016
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Barlow, S.M. (author), Boobis, A.R. (author), Bridges, J. (author), Cockburn, A. (author), Dekant, W. (author), Hepburn, P. (author), Houben, G.F. (author), König, J. (author), Nauta, M.J. (author), Schuermans, J. (author), Bánáti, D. (author)Background: Food legislation in the European Union and elsewhere includes both hazard- and risk-based approaches for ensuring safety. In hazard-based approaches, simply the presence of a potentially harmful agent at a detectable level in food is used as a basis for legislation and/or risk management action. Risk-based approaches allow...article 2015
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van der Beek, F.A. (author), Schraagen, J.M.C. (author)In the current study, the concept of team resilience was operationalized by developing a first version of a questionnaire (ADAPTER) driven by the four essential abilities of resilience (Hollnagel, 2011) and expanded with more relation-oriented abilities of leadership and cooperation. The development and administration of ADAPTER took place...article 2015
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van Loon, R.J. (author), Brouwer, R.F.T. (author), Martens, M.H. (author)Internationally, drowsy driving is associated with around 20% of all crashes. Despite the development of different detection methods, driver drowsiness remains a disconcerting public health issue. Detection methods can estimate drowsiness by directly measuring the physiology of the driver, or they can measure the effect that drowsiness has on...article 2015
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Ferrer, A. (author), de Hair-Buijssen, S.H.H.M. (author), Zander, O. (author), Fredriksson, R. (author), Schaub, S. (author), Nuss, F. (author), Caspar, M. (author)Pedestrians and cyclists are the most unprotected road users and their injury risk in case of accidents is significantly higher than for other road users. The understanding of the influence and sensitivity between important variables describing a pedestrian crash is key for the development of more efficient and reliable safety systems. This...article 2015
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Veugen, P.J.M. (author), de Haan, R. (author), Cramer, R. (author), Muller, F. (author)We provide a generic framework that, with the help of a preprocessing phase that is independent of the inputs of the users, allows an arbitrary number of users to securely outsource a computation to two non-colluding external servers. Our approach is shown to be provably secure in an adversarial model where one of the servers may arbitrarily...article 2015
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Cara, I. (author), Gelder, E.D. (author)The number of fatal car-cyclist accidents is increasing. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) can improve the safety of cyclists, but they need to be tested with realistic safety-critical car-cyclist scenarios. In order to store only relevant scenarios, an online classification algorithm is needed. We demonstrate that machine learning...conference paper 2015
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Pruksasri, P. (author), van den Berg, J. (author), Hofman, W.J. (author)Global information systems are becoming more complex and dynamic everyday: huge amounts of data and messages through those systems show dynamically changing traffic patterns. Because of this, diagnosing when sub-systems are not working properly is difficult. System failures or errors in information exchange protocols sometimes happen and...conference paper 2014
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Fouques, S. (author), Sauder, T. (author), Reinholdtsen, S.A. (author), van Dam, E. (author), Uittenbogaard, J. (author)The paper addresses the safety of occupants in free-fall lifeboats launched from turret-moored floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. It presents a methodology for assessing operational limits with respect to acceleration-induced loads experienced by the passengers during water entry. The probability of being injured is...conference paper 2014
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Terwel, K. (author), Boot, W. (author), Nelisse, M. (author)After several major structural incidents in the Netherlands, such as the collapse of five balconies in Maastricht in 2001 resulting in two fatalities, various initiatives have been started to improve structural safety. Research studies were initiated on the characteristics, causes and consequences of structural incidents. In this paper the...conference paper 2014
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Koster, S. (author), Rennen, M. (author), Leeman, W. (author), Houben, G. (author), Muilwijk, B. (author), van Acker, F. (author), Krul, L. (author)One of the main challenges in food contact materials research is to prove that the presence of non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) is not a safety issue. Migration extracts may contain many unknown substances present at low concentrations. It is difficult and time-consuming to identify all these potential NIAS and concurrently to assess...article 2014
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van Dam, E. (author), Uittenbogaard, J. (author), Reinholdtsen, S.A. (author), Fouques, S. (author), Sauder, T. (author)The evacuation of personnel from an offshore installation in severe weather conditions is generally ensured by free-fall lifeboats. During the water entry phase of the launch, the lifeboat may be subject to large acceleration loads that may cause harmful acceleration-induced loads on the occupants. The present/common methodology for assessing...conference paper 2014
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Wiezer, N.M. (author), Bakhuys Roozeboom, M.M.C. (author), Oprins, E. (author)Work-related stress is a large occupational risks in the Netherlands but interventions to reduce this risk are not implemented in organizations. The characteristics of a serious game make it a useful training tool for managers to raise awareness on their role in stimulating work engagement and managing work-related stress. In this research...conference paper 2013
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Morales-Nápoles, O. (author), Steenbergen, R.D.J.M. (author)The Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) systems are used, among other applications, in pavement and bridge engineering, in infrastructure monitoring and assessment and inspection and reinforcement strategies. In the Netherlands and some other countries, the video-WIM system was implemented for pre-selection, and for continuously monitoring overloads. The...conference paper 2012
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Steenbergen, R.D.J.M. (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author)The assessment of the structural safety of existing bridges and viaducts becomes increasingly important in many countries. Within the actions applied to the bridges, the traffic load is, in general, the most significant variable action to be considered when the ultimate limit states are under investigation. Over the last years a considerable...conference paper 2012