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{"title":"Consequences of facilities, vehicle, and equipment failures in United States federal wildland firefighter retention and morale","authors":"Grace DeBusschere ,&nbsp;Heather Byrne ,&nbsp;Victoria Augustino ,&nbsp;Rachel Granberg ,&nbsp;Seth Pearson ,&nbsp;Robin Verble","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Equipment malfunctions and failures are a common cause of workplace injury. Here, we examined experiences with equipment, vehicles, and infrastructure malfunctions and failures, associated injuries, illnesses and casualties, and confidence in repair and reporting mechanisms in United States federal wildland firefighters. Respondents reported that equipment, facilities, and vehicles malfunction and failures often resulted in impaired work performance, and over 25% of respondents reported at least one injury, illness, or death associated with these malfunctions and failures. Over 75% of respondents lacked confidence that repairs would occur, and that reporting would positively impact outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 142-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mitigating road risks in the oil & gas industry: A comprehensive approach through journey risk management plans","authors":"Ajith Subbiah ,&nbsp;Sudha Subburaj ,&nbsp;Sivaprakash Muthukrishnan ,&nbsp;Shatrudhan Pandey ,&nbsp;Pradyut Anand","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Road accidents of hazardous chemical vehicles correlate with environmental impact and human loss. Precisely predicting accidental chemical leaks during transportation is crucial in improving accident management. It helps augment the safety of roadways, infrastructures, and human life. This study focuses on identifying the best route for the transportation of ammonia and liquefied natural gas (LNG), identifying possible hazards in the route, quantifying the risk, and providing controls to reduce the risk to as low as possible. The quantification of risk is estimated through dispersion modeling of accidental scenarios. Based on the risk assessment results and the consequence evaluations, controls are recommended to reduce the number of accidents and their impacts on people, property, and the environment. The result shows that driving through major roads, narrow bridges, and accident zones contributes to high risk. The controls include a vehicle monitoring and tracking system, maintaining the competency of drivers, and emergency response planning in the form of a journey management system. This journey management system focuses on four aspects: people, processes, equipment, and technology. After implementing this journey management system, accidents dropped from 48 to 3 in 3 years, demonstrating its potential for significant risk reduction. With every successful trip, the number of accidents reduced along with their severity, and the industry’s reputation has increased significantly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 127-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human thermal comfort indicator in high-temperature environments in deep mining","authors":"Naiping Li ,&nbsp;Hongmei Shu ,&nbsp;Daoyuan Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the continuous advancement of deep mining, high-temperature environments pose severe challenges to miners' thermal comfort and occupational health. This study systematically summarizes the primary analytical indicators for studying human thermal comfort in deep mining high-temperature environments, compares the advantages and limitations of existing models, and addresses the difficulty in dynamically measuring thermal comfort parameters. A novel wearable pulse monitoring device is proposed, utilizing easily trackable pulse parameters as a critical indicator of thermal comfort. The dynamic quantitative relationships between environmental temperature and physiological responses are analyzed, establishing a dynamic thermal comfort prediction framework based on pulse parameters. This method offers real-time feedback and enhanced accuracy in reflecting miners’ heat stress states. Results demonstrate that the proposed framework significantly outperforms traditional approaches in high-temperature conditions, providing theoretical and technical foundations for optimizing thermal environments, enhancing heat stress protection, and enabling intelligent mine safety management. Future research will integrate multi-source data fusion and multi-field coupling analysis to advance precision and intelligence in deep mining thermal comfort studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 134-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drying characteristics of green pellets based on the Weibull and Dincer models","authors":"Xiaoping Zhang ,&nbsp;Zihao Fan ,&nbsp;Hongliang Wu ,&nbsp;Junqiang Cong ,&nbsp;Jialong Yang ,&nbsp;Baoliang Wen","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The drying of green pellets is a critical step in the pellet production process. To optimize and control the drying process of green pellets, it is essential to understand the green pellets moisture variation over time under different drying conditions. This study investigates the impact of various drying conditions on the drying characteristic of green pellets and evaluates the applicability of the Weibull and Dincer models in describing the drying process of green pellets. The results show that the drying process of green pellets can be divided into acceleration and deceleration periods, with no constant-rate period. Increasing the drying air temperature and air velocity, decreasing the drying layer weight, and reducing the green pellets diameter help shorten the drying completion time of green pellets. The Weibull and Dincer models can accurately describe the drying behavior of green pellets, providing a simple yet reliable method for determining the moisture diffusivity and mass transfer coefficient values during the drying process of green pellets. The calculations of <em>β</em> and <em>Bi</em> values suggest that the drying process of green pellets is limited by both internal and external moisture transfer resistances. The activation energy <em>E</em>_<em>a</em> value for the drying process of green pellets is calculated to be 13.56 ​kJ ​mol⁻¹.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 104-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk factors contributing to inland water transport passenger ferry accidents in Bangladesh","authors":"Sahed Hossen Sajib","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bangladesh possesses the geographical traits to make a model inland water transport (IWT) system globally, unfortunately, it is prone to accidents and casualties. This study presents an outline of risk factors liable for the IWT passenger ferry accident in the southern route of Bangladesh that was not examined by the existing studies. The factors were grouped into five broad categories and independently assessed their risk level based on their risk score. Findings indicate that the heat-sensitive products and raw materials category contains the highest number of critical risk factors where warning facilities and safety exits concurrently scored the maximum risk value. Other critical risk factors include evacuation routes, siren systems, gas cylinders, kitchen rooms, fire detection systems, hospital facilities, berthing competition, critical bottleneck, political intervention, high crowds on the quay and unpublished accident reports. In the high-risk level, the passenger boarding competition scored the highest risk value. The spaces and stairs of the first-class area, the absence of first aid facilities, unnecessary horns at the quay, investigation committee members, no safety instructions by the crew and the fueling process are also at high-risk levels. The major medium-risk level factors were air conditioners, burnable lading, risky owner groups and loading/unloading checks by traffic officers. Factors such as ship documentation, river crossing spots, searchlight coverage and uncertain water level conditions were underscored in low-risk levels. Furthermore, an accident hotspot was identified in the Meghna River near Horina (Chandpur district) where the traffic is high and many rivers intersect. The rescue/reconstruction event of the IWT accident in Bangladesh was also scrutinized. The accident of the IWT passenger ferry is a complex interactivity among these natural and human factors. Reducing or eliminating these factors in IWT can contribute to a more sustainable transport system for Bangladesh.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 113-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-powered smart fire-alarm materials: Advances and perspective","authors":"Zhilin Shen,&nbsp;Yunyirui Liu,&nbsp;Jiaojiao Xu,&nbsp;Yichen Zhou,&nbsp;Lujia Yang,&nbsp;Yingling Fang,&nbsp;Bihe Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As urbanization accelerates, the demand for modern high-rise buildings has increased significantly, along with a heightened aesthetic expectation for interior decoration. However, many interior finishing products are flammable and exhibit poor fire resistance properties, which can lead to rapid fire spread in the event of a fire. Consequently, the monitoring and early warning of fires in high-rise buildings have become essential. Traditional fire-alarm systems typically rely on external power sources. In the event of a fire accompanied by a power outage, these systems cease to function effectively, thereby limiting their applicability in complex situations. Nanogenerators (NGs), as an emerging class of self-powered materials, demonstrate the capability to convert ambient micro-energy into electrical power. Owing to their stable self-powered characteristics and structural diversity, NGs have found extensive application in fire-alarm systems. Meanwhile, scholars have proposed the concept of smart firefighting, which integrates fire sensors with Internet of Things technology into self-powered fire-alarm systems to enable intelligent fire monitoring. Self-powered fire-alarm systems are poised to overcome the limitations associated with traditional systems that depend on external power sources. This innovation has the potential to reduce reliance on conventional electricity, thereby opening up new possibilities for advancements in energy conservation, renewable energy utilization, and transformation. Furthermore, it contributes to the implementation of sustainable development strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 81-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board Member","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2949-9267(25)00024-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2949-9267(25)00024-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Page i"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of in-house safety professionals in influencing organizational safety performance across global industries","authors":"Chi-Yang Li ,&nbsp;Zhuoran Zhang ,&nbsp;Haoyu Yang ,&nbsp;Michael Larranaga ,&nbsp;Miaozong Wu ,&nbsp;James McIntosh ,&nbsp;Qingsheng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Safety professionals play a crucial role in assessing and managing organizational risks, with their contributions widely recognized for life and cost savings. Organizations employing in-house safety professionals have reported a 60% lower accident frequency rate, a key lagging indicator, compared to those relying solely on external safety consultants. However, recent recognition of the limitations of lagging indicators has shifted the focus toward leading indicators, which offer proactive insights to improve safety and reduce risk. This work evaluates the influence of in-house safety professionals on organizational safety performance, with a particular emphasis on leading indicators. Data was collected via a survey of 1447 participants across global industries, and a robust two-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was conducted to evaluate the individual and interactive effects of in-house safety professionals and other factors on organizational safety performance. The analysis also explored the interplay of organizational and personal factors. Findings reveal that the presence of in-house safety professionals generally enhances organizational safety performance. Additionally, factors such as industry type, employees' perceptions of the employer's safety commitment, and safety experience also significantly influence their safety performance. This study underscores the vital role of in-house safety professionals in advancing proactive safety strategies and provides organizations with actionable insights to strengthen their safety performance and cultivate a resilient safety culture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 95-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A brief review on the role of aseismic slip on experimental faults: Implications for fault-involved geological engineering safety","authors":"Jian Wang ,&nbsp;Weiwei Shu","doi":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsasus.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Faults exist at various depths within the upper crust at different scales, and its shear failure can occur in numerous geological engineering scenarios, posing threats to engineering safety and environmental sustainability. Aseismic slip is ubiquitous throughout the fault slip process, while its role on the fault mechanics remains to be better understood. Here we briefly present a comprehensive and critical review aiming at explaining the role of aseismic slip on the earthquake cycles reproduced on experimental faults under well-controlled laboratory environments. We first introduced the rate and state frictional law, the most widely used constitutive law derived from laboratory for modeling friction evolution and quantifying the fault slip behavior. Three typical experimental setups including the direct shear experimental setup, double direct shear setup, and triaxial shear setup are introduced. We then reviewed the role of aseismic slip on the initiation, propagation, and termination of fault ruptures. Specifically, we elucidated that the aseismic slip has close relationships with spatiotemporal stress redistribution, nucleation phase, energy dissipation, fault zone heterogeneities, fluid dynamics, and stability transitions of the macroscopic fault. This review shows that the previous experimental studies partially deciphered the physical mechanism of the whole faulting process, and recent advances provide complementary insights. However, open questions in multiple aspects mentioned above are still challenging and remain to be addressed by future experimental studies. We proposed possible perspectives to be explored in the future, such as fluid dynamics, fault zone heterogeneities, and scaling to natural faults, which could allow a better understanding of fault mechanics and earthquake source processes by advancing related laboratory experiments. Such an advanced understanding of fault aseismic slip will ultimately contribute to safely implementing numerous fault-involved geological engineering activities and guaranteeing environmental sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board Member","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2949-9267(25)00008-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2949-9267(25)00008-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Safety and Sustainability","volume":"2 1","pages":"Page i"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}