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Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering

Assessing and Ranking Health, Safety and Environmental Risks Through Analytical Network Process (ANP) Method in Cement Plant in 2020

  1. Hossein Armin
  2. Reza Gholamnia
  3. Shokoohsadat Khaloo

Abstract

In today's competitive world, decision-making and management are based on risk assessment.Accordingly, the present study deals with assessing and managing the risks of Health, Safetyand Environment (HSE) aspects in cement factory through combining three widely usedmethods including FMEA, William and Fine, and EFMEA to determine and estimate the levelof risk, and to control and mitigate this risk using analytical network process (ANP) method.In this research, three ANP models were used for risk assessment methods of William & Fine,FMEA, and EFMEA. Then, paired comparisons of risks were performed through (ANP) ineach set and provided to experts. In this study, overall for five general departments (materialsmilling, cement mill, stone crusher, baking, and loading house departments) 1184 risks wereidentified. Regarding assessment of health risks, 352 risks were identified; the maximum levelof risk was associated with Noise from the cement mill department. Considering assessment ofsafety risks, 529 risks were identified which the maximum risk was related to: falling fromcement mill department (0.0601). Finally, with regards to the environmental risk assessment,303 risks were detected, where the maximum risk was related to Reduction of resources andenergy in the cement mill (0.064).b The combination of the risk assessment methods includingWilliam & Fine, FMEA, and EFMEA as well as simultaneous application of multi-criteriondecision-making methods (MCDM) in particular ANP, is an efficient model in real assessmentof levels of HSE risks, So that they perfectly complement each other.

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