A Novel Approach for Finding and Selecting Safety Strategies Using SWOT Analysis

Author

Rezaie, K. ; Ansarinejad, A. ; Nazari-Shirkouhi, S. ; Karimi, M. ; Miri-Nargesi, SS

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

fYear

2010

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

394

Lastpage

397

Abstract

In this paper, a novel systematic method to obtain the most proper organizational safety strategies in a textile company in Iran by utilizing SWOT concept is presented. After finding the SWOT factors DEMATEL method is applied to find inter relations and casual diagram of factors for each four clusters separately. By considering the factor relationship structures, “SO, WO, ST and WT” strategies are obtained. In next step by group fuzzy AHP several criteria to find most proper strategies are weighted. Finally ELECTRE is utilized to find efficient group of strategies. One of the contributions of this research is to use DEMATEL to obtain importance of each factor in SWOT matrix and considering this importance to determine strategies.

Keywords

decision making; occupational safety; organisational aspects; textile industry; DEMATEL method; ELECTRE method; SWOT analysis; analytic hierarchy processing; group fuzzy AHP; organizational safety strategy; strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats analysis; textile company; ELECTRE; SWOT; Safety management Strategy; fuzzy DEMATEL;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (CIMSiM), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8652-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4262-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMSiM.2010.85

Filename

5701879