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Analysing coronial inquests into mining fatalities: A systems thinking approach 对煤矿死亡事故的死因调查分析：一种系统思维方法

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107023

Sharon Newnam, Abigail Dee

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The impact of work intensity on scaffolding workers’ safety 作业强度对脚手架作业人员安全的影响

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107013

Iwona Szer , Tomasz Lipecki , Jacek Szer

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Actors, roles and responsibilities for speed management: A systems-based analysis of key stakeholders in Sweden and Queensland, Australia 速度管理的参与者、角色和责任：瑞典和澳大利亚昆士兰关键利益相关者的系统分析

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107012

Maria Eugenia Keller, Barry Watson, Sherrie-Anne Kaye, Mark King, Ioni Lewis

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Enhancing pedestrian navigation safety under strong wind environments: Experimental insights on assistive handrails and obstacle impacts 增强强风环境下行人导航安全：辅助扶手和障碍物撞击的实验见解

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107015

Lin Luo , Hongchen Liu , Tianyu Qin , Zhijian Fu , Yuanyi Xie

{"title":"Enhancing pedestrian navigation safety under strong wind environments: Experimental insights on assistive handrails and obstacle impacts","authors":"Lin Luo , Hongchen Liu , Tianyu Qin , Zhijian Fu , Yuanyi Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Strong winds pose significant risks to navigation safety and evacuation efficiency, yet pedestrian behavior under such conditions remains understudied. This study presents controlled experiments investigating pedestrian dynamics under four wind scenarios: tailwind, headwind, crosswind, and gusty wind. It evaluates the effects of assistive handrails and crossable obstacles on movement efficiency, perceived safety, and biomechanical stability. Results show that wind conditions disrupt walking trajectories, reduce speed, increase lateral deviation, and elevate instability, particularly under crosswind and gusty wind. Assistive handrails improved both perceived safety and effort-efficiency. Under longitudinal winds (tailwind and headwind), handrail increased passing efficiency by 12.7 % and 8.0 %, respectively, primarily through increased step frequency and length. Under side winds (crosswind and gusty wind), efficiency was improved by 18.4 % and 11.3 %, respectively, mainly due to increased step frequency and improved space utilization. While the handrail had limited benefit under gusty wind when crossing obstacles, it consistently enhanced flow rate under other wind conditions, yielding a 7.9–10.3 % improvement. Additionally, the handrail significantly improved pedestrian stability and navigation safety by reducing lateral deviations from the intended path and center-of-mass fluctuations under wind conditions. These findings provide valuable guidance for designing public infrastructure and evacuation strategies in strong-wind environments, highlighting the role in supportive management measures in reducing wind-induced pedestrian risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 107015"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270526","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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Role overload and safety incidents: An examination of the individual- and team-level buffering effects of psychological safety 角色超载与安全事件：心理安全对个体与团队缓冲效应的检验

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107008

Ross Donohue, Brian Cooper, Helen De Cieri, Cathy Sheehan, Tracy Shea

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Exploring the role of pilot attributes and skills in response to in-flight emergencies 探索飞行员的属性和技能的作用，以应对飞行中的紧急情况

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107010

Louella Bagley, Christine Boag-Hodgson, Matthew Stainer, Darren Wishart, Jamie Cross

{"title":"Exploring the role of pilot attributes and skills in response to in-flight emergencies","authors":"Louella Bagley, Christine Boag-Hodgson, Matthew Stainer, Darren Wishart, Jamie Cross","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite constant advancements in technology, humans remain a central component of many systems. While they are more prone to error than computers, humans possess remarkable adaptability in responding to emergencies – this can sometimes even outperform pre-set systems in critical situations. However, less is understood about the specific factors that contribute to this ability to recover from an emergency.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study aimed to corroborate the currently proposed factors that support successfully overcoming an emergency situation that is already unfolding, and to identify additional themes that naturally emerge from interviews with pilots who have successfully navigated an emergency or incident.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A qualitative approach was used for this study to understand what sort of emergencies the pilot had faced and which individual factors had helped resolve the situation. Eighteen pilots from different domains of aviation were recruited. Participant ages ranged from 33 to 65 years, with a gender split of 14 males and 4 females. <em>NVivo</em> software was used for coding and thematic analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>This study found support for previously proposed factors, including training, skill, experience, emotional stability, decision-making, confidence, improvisation, leadership, professionalism, situation awareness, reaction time, and creative thinking being important for successfully navigating an emergency. This study also found three additional factors: mental preparedness, system knowledge, and resilience. The findings also supported several interrelationships between different factors.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>These findings provide experiences that underscore the multifaceted nature of pilot emergency response and the need for a comprehensive understanding of the factors at play to improve recruitment and training for pilots.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 107010"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145227701","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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Itaewon crowd crush from the perspective of the disaster victims: topic modeling based on news articles 灾民视角下梨泰院人群拥挤：基于新闻文章的话题建模

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107009

Eunhye Shin, Yire Kim

{"title":"Itaewon crowd crush from the perspective of the disaster victims: topic modeling based on news articles","authors":"Eunhye Shin, Yire Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>On October 29, 2022, the crowd crush incident in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, was an unprecedented disaster that occurred on Halloween—the first celebration after the lifting of COVID-19 quarantine—when large crowds gathered spontaneously in urban spaces without official organizers. The tragedy, which resulted in 158 deaths and 195 injuries on the scene, is distinctive both domestically and internationally due to the informal nature of crowd formation and the absence of safety management. This study aimed to analyze the problems revealed during the response and recovery phases of disaster management following the Itaewon crowd crush from the perspective of the victims and bereaved families. Specifically, it applied a topic modeling technique to analyze news articles. Consequently, four categories were identified: victim support, secondary stressors, conflict between the government and bereaved families, and demand for truth ascertainment. A total of twelve main topics were confirmed. These findings indicated ongoing institutional deficiencies in ensuring victim participation, protecting human rights, and facilitating communication with the government during disaster response. This study highlights the need for a transition to a “victim-centered” disaster management paradigm in the aftermath of the Itaewon crowd crush and provides empirical evidence to support the establishment of a rights-based disaster response system in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 107009"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145227735","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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Shifting responsibility to the workers –interpretations of work environment regulation in Greenlandic companies 向工人转移责任——对格陵兰公司工作环境法规的解读

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107007

Anne Lise Kappel , Peter Hasle , Søren Voxted

{"title":"Shifting responsibility to the workers –interpretations of work environment regulation in Greenlandic companies","authors":"Anne Lise Kappel , Peter Hasle , Søren Voxted","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How do managers and workers make sense of reflexive work environment regulation with relatively abstract formulation of duties for risk assessment and division of responsibility? This question is little studied in research and we contribute to the answer by examining responses to work environment regulation in Greenland. The country is undergoing rapid modernization with a transition from a culture rooted in hunting and fishing to one based on salaried employment. A key milestone in this process is the establishment of Greenlandic Self-Government but work environment regulation remains under Danish jurisdiction. Consequently, companies in Greenland face the challenge of implementing legislation developed for the Danish labour market. We have through in depth case studies investigated how Greenlandic managers and workers interpret the reflexive regulatory requirements for risk assessment and employer responsibility. The results show that they tend to minimize risk and consider the responsibility rather opaque. Managers shift responsibility to workers when they delegate work tasks, and the workers accept this responsibility. Subsequently, if an accidents do occur, workers attribute the accidents to their own failed behaviour. In an era of increasing globalization and growing political pressure for regulation, the implications of this study extend beyond Greenland by showing the constraints for implementation of requirements from the reflexive regulation dominating Europe. We expect similar sensemaking challenges to be present in other resource constrained contexts. For practice the study indicates the need for regulators and employers to tailor work environment regulation and management to the specific labour market and cultural context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 107007"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195888","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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Digital twin in construction safety management: Recent advances, challenges, and future directions from 4M1E perspective 建筑安全管理中的数字孪生：从4M1E的角度看最新进展、挑战和未来方向

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107006

Yanhu Han , Mengqing Chen , Na Li , Man Ji , Xiaojian Wang

{"title":"Digital twin in construction safety management: Recent advances, challenges, and future directions from 4M1E perspective","authors":"Yanhu Han , Mengqing Chen , Na Li , Man Ji , Xiaojian Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.107006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Construction safety is vital for the success of a project but the traditional safety management methods reflect the limitation of ex-post facto—fragmented data, static standards, and delayed response and mainly rely on the form of rules and regulations or existing experience. Digital Twin (DT) technology can promote construction safety management by enabling bidirectional interaction and feedback between the virtual and the real. Even though existing literature reviews tend to describe the specific DT application scenarios in construction safety management, there is still a lack of systematic review research focusing on integrating diverse DT application scenarios in construction safety management. To address the gap, this study proposes a framework for DT-construction safety management from the 4M1E perspective—man, machine, material, method and environment. Furthermore, the research advances are summarized by bibliometric analysis of 113 screened documents; the latest research progress and research gaps are explored by theme analysis of the screened documents; outstanding challenges are concluded and future research directions are presented for digital layer, model layer and application layer according to current research gaps. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of DT application in construction safety management that could assist industry practitioners in making decisions and developing effective strategies to advance the intelligent upgrading of construction safety management practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 107006"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145227145","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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Collapse and imposition in the regulation of fire safety 消防安全监管的崩溃和强制

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Safety Science Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106981

Ayyappa Thejus Mohan , Benjamin Seligmann , Ruben Van Coile , David Lange

{"title":"Collapse and imposition in the regulation of fire safety","authors":"Ayyappa Thejus Mohan , Benjamin Seligmann , Ruben Van Coile , David Lange","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Evolution of the built environment presents numerous unknowns and a shifting context for the implementation of fire safety. Yet, prescriptive solutions are frequently applied fully or in part based only on building use and height without critical evaluation, assuming satisfactory performance of the resulting fire safety design. If this assumption held true, fires with unacceptable consequences would not occur. Unfortunately, catastrophic fires do still occur. There are, however, few attempts to make sense of the potential limitations of prescriptive solutions in modern building applications. This paper questions existing assumptions and highlights potential limitations of prescriptive solutions tracing their evolutionary patterns for the city of London. Specifically, an emphasis is placed on the shifting context of fire safety in the built environment. A sense-making device called the Cynefin framework is employed to conceptualize the changing context. Through the Cynefin lens, it becomes evident that imposition of new rules following a catastrophic fire often fails to account for shifting contexts, especially when non-linear cause-and-effect relationships are present. This, along with a culture that focuses on regulatory compliance as opposed to delivering fire-safe buildings, heightens the risk of complacency and potentially leads to catastrophic fires. These findings suggest that a deliberative and critical approach to any potential adoption of prescriptive solutions is essential to develop fire-safe buildings. Fire safety must therefore be implemented in a way that acknowledges the changing context of the built environment through adopting a systemic rather than a reductionist approach, focusing on mindful compliance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 106981"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118401","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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