This paper, Personal safety when working with weather encapsulation constructions, is focused on weather encapsulation constructions and how the absence of Swedish standards and regulations is affecting the safety for the workers. The usage of weather encapsulation construction is increasing in Sweden therefore the needs for standards and regulations are becoming more and more urgent. The risks involving the rising and the demolition of the weather encapsulation construction and when the construction is transported along its rails are treated in the paper. Since there are no regulations companies have had to solve the safety issues without instructions, the paper regards how the companies have solved this problem without the support of formal institutions.

Inom de närmsta åren står ABB:s högeffektlaboratorium i Västerås inför omfattande reinvesteringar. För att underlätta vid beslutsarbetet, samt lägga grunden till optimala underhållsprogram vid nyanskaffning, är det viktigt med en tydlig underhållsstrategi samt metoder för att bedöma de risker som kan knytas till olika anläggningsdelar. Rapporten syftar till att lyfta fram sådana strategier och metoder för riskbedömning.Arbetet bedrivs i form av en litteraturstudie inom ämnesområdena riskhantering och underhållsteknik, följt av en kvalitativ studie av de förhållanden som råder i anläggningen. Resultatet är en underhållsstrategi, med utgångspunkt i ABB Corporate Researchs övergripande affärsstrategier, där kvalitativa riskbedömningar används som beslutsunderlag för underhållschemat. Genom att dela in anläggningens olika enheter i riskklasser kan underhållsinsatserna anpassas utefter de ekonomiska och arbetsmiljömässiga risker som dessa medför. Det datoriserade underhållssystemet står för den sammanhållande strukturen, därför är det av stor vikt att systemets information är korrekt, komplett och sökbar.Vid högeffektlaboratoriet används ofta riskbedömningar som ett verktyg i det löpande arbetsmiljöarbetet, dessutom är tillgången på teknisk kompetens inom ABB Corporate Researchs egen personal god. Mot bakgrund av detta ser förutsättningarna goda ut för en implementering av kvalitativa riskbedömningar i underhållsarbetet. / In the upcoming years, ABB's high power laboratory in Västerås is facing a period of reinvestments. In order to facilitate the decision-making, and to lay the foundation to effective maintenance programs for new equipment, it is important to have a clearly defined maintenance strategy, including methods to adequately assess the plant and its risk factors. The aim of this report is to suggest such strategies and risk assessments methods.A literature study of maintenance engineering, followed by a qualitative study of the high power laboratory's prerequisites, leads up to a maintenance strategy based on the primary business strategies of ABB Corporate Research. Assigning a risk class to different components enables a risk-adapted maintenance schedule to be deployed. These risk classes are the weighted result of qualitative risk assessments that includes both economic and human consequences. The cohesive structure in this strategy is the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), hence the importance of its data being thorough, complete and searchable.At the high power laboratory, risk assessments in areas related to personal safety is commonly used, and the technical skills within ABB Corporate Research's own personnel is high. Thus, the step of implementing a qualitative risk assessment approach to maintenance management should be fairly straight forward.

Learning from traumatic events: a comparative case study of governmental close protection policies in the aftermath of the murder of Olof Palme and Anna LindhViolent and threatful crimes against politicians are as despicable as any other crime acts against citizen. However, if politicians are targeted solely due to their position – the act can seriously damage the state and central government. This paper compares reports of government commissions and investigations which were initiated after the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 and secretary of state Anna Lindh in 2003. The purpose is to analyse and compare the conclusions and distinguish the main arguments that led to those conclusions and decipher similarities and differences through the lens of Tom Christensen’s instrumental perspective as well as Peter May’s social policy learning theory. The methodological approach of a qualitative method for this study fosters a deeper understanding of the ideological stances. Furthermore, the qualitative approach of conducting interviews with officials in various government positions has allowed for a more nuanced and thoughtful analysis. Together with the commissions and report, the interviews provide a holistic perspective of the two timeframes. The research question has been posed as follows: When comparing government commissions regarding the close protection of the central government, which essential similarities and differences can be distinguished? The result suggests that, an ideological change regarding main threats against the central government has taken place. The main policy discussions in the aftermath of the murder of prime minister Olof Palme was terrorism and if it could have been prevented at the time being. One major policy change was the build-up of the Swedish counter-terrorist unit. The main policy discussions in the aftermath of the murder of Anna Lindh was the issue of citizens with severe mental illnesses and how to detect those that pose serious threats to the central government at an earlier stage. Furthermore, given the conclusions of the commissions and reports, it is possible to determine that ”social policy learning” has occurred as according to Peter May’s theory. However, the study also notes an crucial exception; government officials in need of close protection can henceforth conform the structure of it and determine whether they want it or not.