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Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a respiratory illness called the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Bow tie analysis (BTA) was applied to analyze the hazard of SARS-CoV-2 for three receptor groups: patient or fam...
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Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36284611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2022.10.009 |
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author | Turner, Lauren Rayner Brown, Kayleigh Vanberkel, Peter Khan, Faisal Comeau, Jeannette Palmer, Jane Koko, Ibimina Amyotte, Paul |
author_facet | Turner, Lauren Rayner Brown, Kayleigh Vanberkel, Peter Khan, Faisal Comeau, Jeannette Palmer, Jane Koko, Ibimina Amyotte, Paul |
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description | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a respiratory illness called the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Bow tie analysis (BTA) was applied to analyze the hazard of SARS-CoV-2 for three receptor groups: patient or family member at the IWK Health Centre in acute care, staff member at a British Columbia Forest Safety Council (BCFSC) wood pellet facility, and staff member at the Suncor refinery in Sarnia, Ontario. An inherently safer design (ISD) protocol for BTA was used as a guide for evaluating COVID-19 barriers, and additional COVID-19 controls were recommended. Two communication tools were developed from the IWK bow tie diagram to disseminate the research findings. This research provides lessons learned about the barriers implemented to protect people from contracting COVID-19, and about the use of bow tie diagrams as communication tools. This research has also developed additional example-based guidance that can be used for the COVID-19 pandemic or future respiratory illness pandemics. Recommended future work is the application of BTA to additional industries, the consideration of ISD principles in other control types in the hierarchy of controls (HOC), and further consideration of human and organizational factors (HOF) in BTA. |
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spelling | pubmed-95817192022-10-20 Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques Turner, Lauren Rayner Brown, Kayleigh Vanberkel, Peter Khan, Faisal Comeau, Jeannette Palmer, Jane Koko, Ibimina Amyotte, Paul Process Saf Environ Prot Article Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a respiratory illness called the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Bow tie analysis (BTA) was applied to analyze the hazard of SARS-CoV-2 for three receptor groups: patient or family member at the IWK Health Centre in acute care, staff member at a British Columbia Forest Safety Council (BCFSC) wood pellet facility, and staff member at the Suncor refinery in Sarnia, Ontario. An inherently safer design (ISD) protocol for BTA was used as a guide for evaluating COVID-19 barriers, and additional COVID-19 controls were recommended. Two communication tools were developed from the IWK bow tie diagram to disseminate the research findings. This research provides lessons learned about the barriers implemented to protect people from contracting COVID-19, and about the use of bow tie diagrams as communication tools. This research has also developed additional example-based guidance that can be used for the COVID-19 pandemic or future respiratory illness pandemics. Recommended future work is the application of BTA to additional industries, the consideration of ISD principles in other control types in the hierarchy of controls (HOC), and further consideration of human and organizational factors (HOF) in BTA. Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-12 2022-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9581719/ /pubmed/36284611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2022.10.009 Text en © 2022 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Turner, Lauren Rayner Brown, Kayleigh Vanberkel, Peter Khan, Faisal Comeau, Jeannette Palmer, Jane Koko, Ibimina Amyotte, Paul Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
title | Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
title_full | Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
title_fullStr | Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
title_short | Assessment of COVID-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
title_sort | assessment of covid-19 barrier effectiveness using process safety techniques |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36284611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2022.10.009 |
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