Identifying patterns of safety related incidents in a steel plant using association rule mining of incident investigation reports

Safety Science

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-98

  Verma, Abhishek ^a   Khan, Sudha Das ^a   Maiti, J ^a   Krishna, O B ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b TATA STEEL LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Association rules; Incident investigation; Incident patterns; Steel plant

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ASSOCIATION RULES; IRON AND STEEL PLANTS; STEELMAKING;

FALL PREVENTION; INCIDENT INVESTIGATION; INCIDENT PATTERNS; NEAR-MISSES; NON-COMPLIANCE; PROPERTY DAMAGE; SAFETY-RELATED; STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; ASSOCIATION RULES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; INCIDENCE; INCIDENT REPORT; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLICY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN; INDIA; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARD; TRAINING;

EID: 84902000131     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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