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On the user-based assessments of virtual reality for public safety training in urban open spaces depending on immersion levels

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106803

Mariella De Fino , Federica Cassano , Gabriele Bernardini , Enrico Quagliarini , Fabio Fatiguso

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Does legislating safety duties across the labour supply chain ensure contingent workers have equitable access to safety training?

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106805

Sharron O’Neill , Louise Thornthwaite

{"title":"Does legislating safety duties across the labour supply chain ensure contingent workers have equitable access to safety training?","authors":"Sharron O’Neill , Louise Thornthwaite","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106805","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing demand for labour flexibility and the rise of the gig-economy has led increasingly to fractured labour supply chains. Recent legislative reforms in Australia and New Zealand place obligations on employers to ensure the health and safety of all workers whose work they control or direct, including, but not limited to employees. These reforms recognise the crucial role of OHS training. However, they expose an important gap in our understanding as to whether workers engaged in high-risk work across corporate boundaries now have equitable access to training.</div><div>This exploratory study surveyed 543 Australian permanent, causal and contract heavy vehicle drivers, comparing their access to various forms of OHS training and their experience and perceptions of hazardous events most commonly associated with fatal and high consequence injury in their industry. The reforms appear to improve access to external safety training courses, although significant differences in training participation mix and risk perceptions remain across employment types and some workers report multiple, often conflicting safety training messages.</div><div>The findings offer a novel and important contribution to the extensive literature on OHS training. Despite significant employer investment in training, efforts to absorb a cohort of (non-employee) workers into existing, corporate training systems appear largely unsuccessful and demonstrates a structural misalignment between (organisational) training models and (individuals’) training needs. However, resolving this mismatch will require a re-imagining of OHS training delivery to a more integrated model that can better identify and address gaps in the OHS knowledge and experience of an increasingly disparate group of workers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106805"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143208632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Neural correlates of augmented reality safety warnings: EEG analysis of situational awareness and cognitive performance in roadway work zones

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106802

Fatemeh Banani Ardecani, Amit Kumar, Sepehr Sabeti, Omidreza Shoghli

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Just Enough for Resilience? Creating Capacity in a High-Security Prison

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106801

Grethe Midtlyng

{"title":"Just Enough for Resilience? Creating Capacity in a High-Security Prison","authors":"Grethe Midtlyng","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106801","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106801","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims to investigate how human resources on the organisational front line can both challenge and support resilience in a prison system. Based on an ethnography of safety and security work in a Norwegian high-security prison, how operational senior officers manage resources on the spot to maintain safety and security is explored. The results show that senior officers created capacity as and for situated resilience through small acts of saving, stretching, and strengthening human resources. Due to their twofold position in both operations and management, senior officers seemed to hold a potential key function for counterbalancing organisational vulnerabilities through their embodied competencies. However, due to the limited available resources in the prison organisation, their management of resources often took the form of “firefighting”. Although sufficient in keeping specific parts of the prison safe and secure in specific situations, the achieved situated resilience did not necessarily contribute to avoiding or handling future disturbances. Moreover, because of the socially determined risk, the reallocation of resources could influence the existence and dimension of risk, due to reduced resources to prevent and mitigate beginning disturbances on the prison wings. These findings indicate that situated resilience, when not met with corresponding structural or systemic adjustments, can fuel organisational brittleness to future events. This research contributes to a bottom-up understanding of how situated resilience unfolds through the situated and embodied competency of operational managers, making the hidden but essential processes that constitute the order of a system more visible.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106801"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143208634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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XR and Workers’ safety in High-Risk Industries: A comprehensive review

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106804

Joana Eva Dodoo , Hosam Al-Samarraie , Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani , Tang Tang

{"title":"XR and Workers’ safety in High-Risk Industries: A comprehensive review","authors":"Joana Eva Dodoo , Hosam Al-Samarraie , Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani , Tang Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The wider application of extended reality (XR) in various industrial settings has created numerous opportunities for enhancing worker safety. Several XR solutions have been applied to address specific safety challenges faced by workers. This study reviewed the current literature (2017–2024) on how XR technologies can potentially enhance worker safety. The PRISMA protocol was used to highlight how XR technologies are utilized in safety training for high-risk industries, their limitations, and recommendations for future improvements. Findings from a review of 41 studies indicate diverse opportunities (e.g., improved knowledge and productivity, delivery of interactive and sequential instructions) for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) in industries such as mining, construction, manufacturing, healthcare, power distribution/thermal plants, aviation, and firefighting. Several challenges (e.g., limited viewing fields, motion sickness, and control issues) were identified in the use of VR, AR, and MR, stemming from both human and socio-technical factors. The overall sentiment towards the use of XR in safety training was predominantly positive (550 instances), reflecting confidence in these technologies to enhance safety training outcomes. Findings from this study offer new insights into the capabilities of XR technologies in improving worker safety in high-risk industries and outline key considerations for policymakers and technology providers when integrating XR technologies to promote worker safety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106804"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ergonomics and design for safety: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis in the industrial engineering literature

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106799

Lucia Vigoroso , Federica Caffaro , Massimo Tronci , Mario Fargnoli

{"title":"Ergonomics and design for safety: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis in the industrial engineering literature","authors":"Lucia Vigoroso , Federica Caffaro , Massimo Tronci , Mario Fargnoli","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106799","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106799","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rate of accidents in the manufacturing context is not decreasing significantly, despite the continuous effort of providing stricter safety requisites at the regulatory level. In particular, recent statistics show that most accidents are related to the interaction between humans and technical systems, primarily due to inadequate consideration of human factors. Based on this, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the recent research addressing design for safety (DfS) in the manufacturing context, focusing on those research approaches aimed at integrating human factors and ergonomics (HFE) within DfS activities. A scoping review and bibliometric analysis were performed considering engineering journal articles that appeared in the literature in the period 2006–2023. The analysis pointed out four main themes addressed in the literature (namely, assistive/smart interfaces, frameworks and methods, safety ergonomics knowledge, and workplace design), with an increasing focus on the human side of the human–machine interaction and a growing interest in 4.0 or 5.0 solutions. The need for clearer definitions and standardized methodologies within the HFE field also emerged. This will facilitate a better integration of safety and ergonomic principles in industrial practices, aligning with the new paradigms of resilience engineering and Industry 4.0/5.0.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106799"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Study on the longitudinal airflow velocity and maximum temperature of the smoke layer under the ceiling in naturally ventilated inclined tunnels

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106795

Jiayun Sun , Wenyu Liu , Junheng Wang , Zhi Tang

{"title":"Study on the longitudinal airflow velocity and maximum temperature of the smoke layer under the ceiling in naturally ventilated inclined tunnels","authors":"Jiayun Sun , Wenyu Liu , Junheng Wang , Zhi Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106795","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the inlet airflow velocity and the maximum temperature of the smoke layer underneath the ceiling in naturally ventilated inclined tunnels by means of CFD simulations and theoretical analysis. The findings of this research indicate that the chimney-effect induced inlet airflow velocity is proportional to the <span><math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></math></span> power of the tunnel height difference (<span><math><mrow><mi>Δ</mi><mi>h</mi></mrow></math></span>) and fire heat release rate (HRR). However, the smoke stratification occurring downstream of the fire source exerts a significant influence on the inlet airflow velocity. It is also illustrated that the maximum temperature of the smoke layer underneath the tunnel ceiling highly depends on the HRR and tunnel height difference, rather than being solely determined by the tunnel slope. The position of the maximum temperature is found to be closely related to the tunnel height difference, but independent of HRR. A predictive model has been devised to estimate the maximum smoke temperature underneath the tunnel ceiling. Comparative study of the smoke maximum temperature between naturally ventilated inclined tunnels and longitudinal ventilated horizontal tunnels shows that the influence of fire heat release rate on the smoke maximum temperature of inclined tunnels is less pronounced than that of horizontal tunnels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106795"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A risk assessment method to quantify the effect of human reliability on storage tank safety combining optimized CREAM and dynamic Bayesian network

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106796

Xin Li , Fanliang Ge , Weidong Lin , Fuqiang Yang

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Crime prevention through environmental design in public school career and technical education facilities: Principals’ perceptions of security enhancement

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106781

Elizabeth Ekren , Rachel E. Hall , Eryn Pierdolla , Valerie Barnes , Alison Jarzombek-Torralva , Douglas Morrish , Kathy Martinez-Prather

{"title":"Crime prevention through environmental design in public school career and technical education facilities: Principals’ perceptions of security enhancement","authors":"Elizabeth Ekren , Rachel E. Hall , Eryn Pierdolla , Valerie Barnes , Alison Jarzombek-Torralva , Douglas Morrish , Kathy Martinez-Prather","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106781","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106781","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Career and technical education (CTE) facilities on school campuses present unique security challenges due to their distinct layouts, structures, and equipment, which require tailored security considerations given expanding CTE student populations and increasing concerns of school violence. Drawing on principles of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) with Texas as a case application, this study developed a novel survey instrument to evaluate the influence of CTE facility design features and security activities on principals’ perceptions of facility security. One hundred and eighty-three public middle and high school principals in Texas participated in the survey. A series of four hierarchical multiple regressions found that principals perceived CTE facilities as more secure the more they aligned with CPTED-oriented qualities. Security approaches more conventionally used in school settings, such as the use of security equipment and organized security activities, were not significantly associated with higher perceptions of facility security when design features were considered. The results suggest that integrating CPTED features into CTE classroom spaces can foster security perceptions similar to those in broader school design contexts, highlighting the importance of security approaches that include more than conventional classrooms and go beyond mechanical or organizational activities. District and school administrators, emergency management coordinators, and CTE program personnel can apply these results to improve the design of CTE facilities and non-traditional classrooms, as well as the content of comprehensive facility plans, to enhance holistic approaches to school safety and security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106781"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What is safety? contemporary definitions and interpretations across North America

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106798

Yaqoob Raheemy, Fred Sherratt, Matthew R. Hallowell

{"title":"What is safety? contemporary definitions and interpretations across North America","authors":"Yaqoob Raheemy, Fred Sherratt, Matthew R. Hallowell","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106798","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106798","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Definitions form the foundation of every scientific discipline. Lack of precise definition hinders the scientific community, preventing the testing of hypotheses, replication of protocols, and debate on conclusions. The term ‘Safety’ is widely used in myriad different contexts, creating the impression that there is agreement about its meaning. This belief is reinforced by its frequent use, leading to a reasonable assumption that it is universally comprehended. However, there is very limited research on how safety is defined. Drawing on 518 qualitative responses from safety professionals across North America to the question ‘what is safety?’, thematic analysis reveals that we are still far from consensus. No single precise definition of safety emerged from within the community, and thus a shared definition remains elusive. A temporal lens could be applied to the various definitions shared, with safety considered in past, present and future terms, each with their own associated constructs. Whilst a single definition of safety appears improbable to attain, common definitions are needed to advance collaboration among stakeholders across various sectors. Further work is needed to drive consensus towards such definitions to better underpin comparable and consistent safety research, able to advance safety practices and enable practitioners, researchers, and organizations to collectively work together towards safer environments that benefit all.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 106798"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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