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    WASAN: The development of a facilitated methodology for structuring a waste minimisation problem

    Shaw, Duncan; Blundell, Neil

    European Journal of Operational Research. 2010;207(1):350-362.

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    This paper contributes a new methodology called Waste And Source-matter ANalyses (WASAN) which supports a group in building agreeable actions for safely minimising avoidable waste. WASAN integrates influences from the Operational Research (OR) methodologies/philosophies of Problem Structuring Methods, Systems Thinking, simulation modelling and sensitivity analysis as well as industry approaches of Waste Management Hierarchy, Hazard Operability (HAZOP) Studies and As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP). The paper shows how these influences are compiled into facilitative structures that support managers in developing recommendations on how to reduce avoidable waste production. WASAN is being designed as Health and Safety Executive Guidance on what constitutes good decision making practice for the companies that manage nuclear sites. In this paper we report and reflect on its use in two soft OR/problem structuring workshops conducted on radioactive waste in the nuclear industry.

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    Manchester eScholar ID:
    uk-ac-man-scw:252274
    Created by:
    Shaw, Duncan
    Created:
    25th January, 2015, 20:44:51
    Last modified by:
    Shaw, Duncan
    Last modified:
    15th June, 2015, 18:35:04

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