Analysis of health, safety and environmental risks in Tehran Police Park

Subject Areas : Environmental impact assessment

Zahra  Golchinshad ¹ (Department of Environmental Management, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Rokhshad  Hejazi ² (Department of Environment, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2023-07-09 Accepted : 2024-01-09 Published : 2024-02-20

Keywords: risk assessment, urban parks, FMEA methodology, Tehran Police Park,

Abstract :

This study was conducted to evaluate the health, safety, and the environmental conditions in urban parks, carried out. It have been completed by the FMEA method. After gathering the data from the library and field studies, also as well as reviewing of reports, documents and Journals, the hazards and potential damaging factors and their consequences have were identified. Then, RPN related to each factor was calculated and categorized according to the severity, the degree of probability of detection and occurrence probability. Results of the evaluation showed the largest number of RPN related to equipment in playgrounds as well as the switch structure, switchgear and cable power lines of lighting sources which can lead to many adverse consequences. So these are the priorities that should be omitted or mitigated or controlled by appropriate management strategies. In the end, the results of using the FMEA methodology were compared with the results of periodic evaluation of the health center of Tehran municipality. the results show that the FMEA method can be used as an efficient and modern method to identify and prevention of the occurrence of future events by urban experts, in order to create the ideal urban spaces.

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