Safety Strategy Allocation Simulator for Accident Reduction and Cost Savings in Safety Management System

Abstract

Accidents happen and they upset the normal functioning of any organization causing real damage to persons, equipment, and loss of revenue. To mitigate these problems, safety performance metrics, and system dynamics have been implemented widely to solve the challenges of delays, feedback, and nonlinearity. A mathematical description of the relationships among the identified variables coupled with computer modeling was used to develop the Computer Programme Simulator (CPS) using MATLAB to code the dynamic relationship of the manufacturing safety system to determine accident prevention strategies. The safety dynamic equations were subsequently computed and this was followed by the processes of model application and experimentation. The results of the study showed that parameters such as “the constants”, “initial state variables”, “graphs to plot”, “export graph” and “export table” allows the user to plug the desired variables into the CPS and provide data on the number of accidents to be reduced after the selection of the appropriate strategy. The first successful simulation of the CPS also produced a P = 60% and T = 10% reduction in the number of factory accidents. This study concluded that the CPS interactive interface which was developed serves as a useful tool for predicting, preventing, and even reducing factory accidents and makes safety management systems easy. The outputs of all the simulations also revealed that the reduction of accidents and the cost of accidents in all the values of the proportion of available budget and desired accident reduction target computed are practicable.

Keywords: Computer programme, Cost, Safety Management, Safety Strategies, Simulator

DOI: 10.7176/ISDE/12-2-05

Publication date: June 30^th 2021