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Food safety performance indicators to benchmark food safety output of food safety management systems Ghent University
An adaptive safety layer with hard constraints for safe reinforcement learning in multi-energy management systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Safe reinforcement learning (RL) with hard constraint guarantees is a promising optimal control direction for multi-energy management systems. It only requires the environment-specific constraint functions itself a priori and not a complete model (i.e., plant, disturbance and noise models, and prediction models for states not included in the plant model — e.g. demand forecasts, weather forecasts, price forecasts). The project-specific upfront ...
Interplay between food safety climate, food safety management system and microbiological output in farm butcheries and affiliated butcher shops Ghent University
Interplay between food safety climate, food safety management system and microbiological hygiene in farm butcheries and affiliated butcher shops Ghent University
A quantitative study to the microbial safety performance of implemented food safety management systems in Europe Ghent University
Introduction: Driven by various food safety crises and the high pressure from government and food authorities, European food processing companies have spent much efforts in their food safety management systems (FSMS) to control and assure microbial food safety of their products. However, have these efforts resulted in adequate functioning FSMS? Methods: A FSMS-Diagnostic Instrument (58 indicators/questions with grids including detailed level ...
Does lean management improve patient safety culture? An extensive evaluation of safety culture in a radiotherapy institute. Hasselt University
PURPOSE: The importance of a safety culture to maximize safety is no longer questioned. However, achieving sustainable culture improvements are less evident. Evidence is growing for a multifaceted approach, where multiple safety interventions are combined. Lean management is such an integral approach to improve safety, quality and efficiency and therefore, could be expected to improve the safety culture. This paper presents the effects of lean ...
A concurrent diagnosis of microbiological food safety output and food safety management system performance: cases from meat processing industries Ghent University
Introducing the extended safety fractal: reusing the concept of safety management systems to organize resilient organizations University of Antwerp
Although mandatory in most high-risk industries, the safety management system (SMS) is often criticized as burdensome and complex. Through its requirement to formalize all main activities, the SMS is perceived as bureaucratic and a vehicle for pure compliance and Safety I (one). Furthermore, the SMS is often detached from an organization’s core activities, goes against local practice and does not deliver the safe performance that was hoped for. ...
Safety and performance; Total Respect Management. A Novel Approach to Achieve Safety and Performance Proactively in Any Organisation KU Leuven
© 2017 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. This book is not about performance. It is also not about safety. It is about both performance and safety, and how these two are unavoidably linked, in all circumstances whether they like it or not. It is the combination of tireless attention for and performance and safety that delivers sustainable profits in any organisational context. To this end, the authors elaborate and describe an ...