Question

Instructions Answer questions on blank papers then scan or take dear photos of your answer sheets and upload them into your account in BlackBoard. Do not forget to number each answer according to the question it belongs to Name: No: Q1) From the shown photo, state the following (4 marks): a) What are the safety issues in this industrial plant layout? b) What are symptoms that lead to the safety issues you mentioned in this industrial plant layout? c) What are the factors affecting this plant layouts? 1 of 3 Q2) Read each statement below. Place T in front of the statement if you think it is TRUE or place F if you think it is FALSE. Also state your corrections (8 marks).

Answer 1

a Ans.

Dealing with industrial risks is a major issue in the design, management and control of production systems. However, the analysis of why and how risks should be taken into account does not seem to be considered as a global question by researchers, who have mostly focused on specific problems, such as stochasticity or uncertainty. The aim of this article is to point out the importance of risk management and control at a more global level during the design of production systems. More particularly, we discuss opportunities to design facility layout solutions that contribute to avoid, prevent, or reduce certain types of industrial risks taken in the broad sense (flow risks, reliability risks, quality risks, safety risks, environment risks, etc.). We discuss the kinds of risks that such facility layout solutions would allow considering. We address the issue of how to represent risks so that they could be taken into account, and we review existing academic and industrial approaches that are close to this topic. We show that approaching risks with facility layout solutions is a promising research direction that is worth more investigation.

b Ans.

1. Unsafe Conditions 2. Unsafe Acts 3. Machine Factors 4. Non-Machine Factors 5. Inherent Hazards or Nature of Job 6. Slipping, Tripping or Falling on the Floor 7. Collision and Obstruction 8. Equipments and Machines 9. Fire Hazards10. Physical Causation Factors 11. Underlying Causation Factors 12. Poor Physical Conditions 13. Psychological Climate at the Workplace 14. Work Schedules 15. Technical Causes 16. Human Causes 17. Environmental Causes 18. Miscellaneous Causes.

c Ans.

Some of the major factors which affect plant layout are: (1) Policies of management (2) Plant location (3) Nature of the product (4) Volume of production (5) Availability of floor space (6) Nature of manufacturing process and (7) Repairs and maintenance of equipment and machines.