“In the context of work safety, a barrier is any action or system used to prevent, control or mitigate a risk. However, in practice, the use of barriers can also trigger emerging risks. Until now, this phenomenon has not been conceptualized, so it is not properly covered in international standards on risk management, such as ISO 31000,” said Rusbani Kurniawan in a doctoral promotion session for the Doctoral Study Program in Public Health, Faculty of Public Health (FPH) Universitas Indonesia (UI) Thursday, July 6, 2023.
Rusbani further said, “Emerging risks due to barriers can also occur in the coal mining industry which is a complex socio-technological system that is vulnerable from a safety point of view. In fact, according to the ILO, globally the mining industry absorbs 1% of the workforce, but contributes 8% to the number of work accidents.” This prompted Rusbani to study the phenomenon of emerging risks due to these barriers in the coal mining industry sector in Indonesia. His dissertation entitled “Emerging Risk Due to Barriers in the Coal Mining Industry”, is a qualitative and quantitative study. The data source used is secondary data in the form of Incident Investigation Reports of PT. X in 2020, a total of 822 incidents. PT. X itself is one of the largest mining contractor companies in Indonesia with mine locations on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan. So that the research results are expected to represent emerging risk conditions due to barriers to the coal mining industry in Indonesia.
This research proves that barriers that were previously intended to prevent, control, or mitigate risks can in fact cause new risks (emerging risks). Therefore, national, and international standards regarding risk management such as ISO 31000 need to be updated by considering the barrier phenomenon due to these emerging risks. So that in the future, emerging risk variables due to barriers will become a standard in risk management practice since the preparation stage of IBPR (Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment). Apart from showing that the barriers applied at PT. X has a very significant relationship to the emergence of emerging risks, this study also shows that the basic causal variables related to job factors such as month, location, hour, and type of unit significantly trigger the occurrence of unsafe actions and unsafe conditions. While variables related to personal factors such as age, experience, contract status, department and position are not significant. “By knowing the basic causal factors that can trigger the emergence of direct causes of accidents, safety programs and intervention actions in the coal mining industry can be carried out in a more directed, effective and efficient manner,” concluded Rusbani.
At the Rusbani Kurniawan Doctoral Promotion open session which was held in the FPH UI Doctoral Promotion Room, Prof. dr. Fatma Lestari, M.Si, Ph.D .; with the Promoter, Dr. dr. Zulkifli Djunaidi, M.Sc.App .; Co-Promoter, Doni Hikmat Ramdhan, S.K.M., M.K.K.K., Ph.D. Acting as a team of examiners in the trial, Prof. Dr. Djarot Sulistio Wisnubroto; Mila Tejamaya, S.Si., M.O.H.S., Ph.D .; Dr. Lana Saria, S.Si., M.Sc.; Dr. Widura Imam Mustopo, M.Sc., and Dr. Heru Prasetio, M.Sc.
For the dissertation he defended in front of the team of examiners, Rusbani Kurniawan got a Doctorate degree in Public Health Sciences (IKM) and made him the 10th doctoral graduate of Doctorate degree in Public Health Sciences FPH UI in 2023, 285th graduate of Doctorate degree in Public Health Sciences FPH UI, and 369th graduate of doctoral degree of FPH UI.
