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{"title":"Hospital ward incidents through the eyes of nurses – A thick description on the appeal and deadlock of incident reporting systems","authors":"Jaco Tresfon ,&nbsp;Roel van Winsen ,&nbsp;Anja H Brunsveld-Reinders ,&nbsp;Jaap Hamming ,&nbsp;Kirsten Langeveld","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Incident reporting systems (IRSs) are considered a valuable method to improve patient safety in hospitals. Although many barriers to incident reporting have been identified, little attention is paid to the socio-cultural context of hospital care and the use of IRS over time. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a neurology/neurosurgery ward of a tertiary referral center in the Netherlands, this article presents a thick description on the perception of nurses and physicians toward incidents, their reporting practices and the general utilization of IRS for improving patient safety. Results suggest that nurses demonstrate a form of structural vigilance in achieving safe health outcomes as part of normal work. Consequently, nurses find it difficult to specify what events can be considered a report-worthy event. Analysis of the use of IRS through four perspectives toward culture (integration, differentiation, fragmentation and bounded ambiguity) showed that the IRS took different forms over time, depending on the legitimacy the reported topics received in the social group dynamics between physicians and nurses. For nurses, it remained often unclear if the actions surrounding the IRS and the invented improvements indeed contributed to patient safety. The results indicate that “incidents” as a concept may have little value for the work on hospital wards and illustrate that IRS has no ‘objective’ purpose in its own right, rather is shaped by the social-cultural context its employed in.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106728"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093773","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}

{"title":"To what extent has a systems thinking approach been applied to understand motor vehicle crashes involving ambulances? A systematic review of risk factors and characteristics","authors":"Christine Mulvihill ,&nbsp;Carlyn Muir ,&nbsp;Stuart Newstead ,&nbsp;Robert Jaske ,&nbsp;Paul Salmon","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106754","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106754","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motor vehicle crashes account for the largest proportion of workplace fatalities among paramedics in developed countries. Systems thinking is one approach that is popular when seeking to understand and manage complex road safety issues; however, it has not been applied to ambulance crashes. A systematic literature review was conducted to examine factors associated with motor vehicle crashes involving ambulances, and the extent to which systems thinking has been applied in this area. Crash factors were categorised using the Accident Mapping technique (AcciMap) (based on six hierarchical levels ranging from government to the road environment) and then synthesised according to whether they were crash/injury crash risk factors or characteristics. Of the 24 included studies, most only reported factors associated with the driver and their immediate environment (n = 23). The most commonly identified factors were intersection location, emergency use of the ambulance (lights and sirens operational) and non-use of restraints (all associated with increased risk of crash or injury crash). Two-thirds of studies were at risk of bias. Given the prominence of lower-level factors associated with road users, vehicles, and the road environment, it is concluded that systems thinking approaches would be beneficial to understand ambulance crashes, particularly for higher level system factors. Further research is recommended to i) examine the potential contribution of factors and their interactions that go beyond the driver and their immediate environment and ii) validate the current findings based on the low number of studies and their lack of methodological rigour in examining driver, vehicle and environmental factors. The development of a crash data collection and reporting system in line with system thinking principles is recommended as a first step to support the identification and systemic analysis of contributory factors across the entire sociotechnical system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106754"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093764","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}

{"title":"Occupational health and safety performance in a changing mining environment: Identification of critical factors","authors":"Isidora Milošević ,&nbsp;Anđelka Stojanović ,&nbsp;Đorđe Nikolić ,&nbsp;Ivan Mihajlović ,&nbsp;Aleksandar Brkić ,&nbsp;Martina Perišić ,&nbsp;Vesna Spasojević-Brkić","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106745","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106745","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the mining industry plays a pivotal role in driving economic growth, it is also known for being one of the most dangerous work environments due to the high rates of injuries. Companies in the mining industry are faced with the challenge of applying occupational health and safety (OHS) measures in a manner to advance worker safety, health, and overall welfare, but also to improve productivity, enhance product and/or service quality, foster work motivation, and elevate employee satisfaction, and finally to enhance the quality of life for individuals and society. There is a noticeable research gap in the literature that simultaneously addresses multiple safety and health factors and their combined influence on employee safety satisfaction and performance. Hence, this paper seeks to address the gap in the existing literature by conducting a comprehensive analysis of how work equipment and environmental factors, human behaviour factors related to OHSs, and organizational climate factors influence operators’ safety satisfaction and how these, in turn, affects overall performance stemming from occupational health and safety initiatives. After developing a measurement and structural model, based on the data collected from the mining machinery operators, adequate statistical tests were used for evaluation and the hypotheses testing. The results of this study provide insight into the relationship between mining machine operators’ opinions on examined safety factors and employees’ safety satisfaction, where the organizational climate factors and safety satisfaction demonstrated a positive impact on safety performance, consequently resulting in their improvement. The theoretical implications of this study lie in establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework integrating safety factors, such as work equipment and environmental factors, human behaviour, and organizational climate, and their influence on the safety satisfaction of mining machinery operators. The practical implication of this research contributes to determining the critical safety factors (organizational support, co-worker support, supervisor support, worker engagement, the training related to OHS, and management commitment) that exert the most significant impact on the satisfaction of mining machinery operators and safety performance. These findings serve as a roadmap for decision-makers within mining companies, facilitating the identification of priority areas for enhancing both worker satisfaction and safety performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106745"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093774","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}

{"title":"Organising AI for safety: Identifying structural vulnerabilities to guide the design of AI-enhanced socio-technical systems","authors":"Alexandros Gazos ,&nbsp;James Kahn ,&nbsp;Isabel Kusche ,&nbsp;Christian Büscher ,&nbsp;Markus Götz","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into socio-technical systems. Existing design principles for ethical, safe and trustworthy AI tend to be highly abstract and focus on AI systems in isolation. They have rarely considered the adverse effects on safety that may emerge from interactions between AI and other technical components. Organisational theories of safety take such emergent outcomes of interactions between entities in socio-technical systems into account. They offer guidance on how to identify structural vulnerabilities in socio-technical systems enhanced by AI, and how to organise the design and operation of such systems for safety. In this paper, which is the result of a collaboration between sociologists and computer scientists (AI consultants), we conduct an analysis that can support the process of designing AI-enhanced autonomous systems in order to avoid structural vulnerabilities. It builds on organisational theories of safety and derives five key descriptors from them, the examination of which can guide the design of AI-enhanced systems. We demonstrate the utility of the descriptors by applying them to proposals for AI-enhanced critical functions in advanced microgrids. We discuss these proposals from the research literature on microgrids and review their effects on structural vulnerabilities. We then explore the implications that go beyond the example of advanced microgrids and propose steps for reviewing and reflecting on structural vulnerabilities that AI controllers may introduce into socio-technical systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106731"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093718","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}

{"title":"Workplace health and safety performance at the client-contractor interface: Measurement, management and behaviour","authors":"Helen Lingard,&nbsp;Payam Pirzadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106753","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106753","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the initiators of construction projects, clients have the ability to influence work health and safety (WHS) in the projects they procure. One of the ways they seek to do this is through the implementation of measurement regimes to collect data that they then utilise to manage the WHS performance of the contractors they engage to deliver projects. However, the validity of widely utilised WHS performance indicators has been questioned and the effectiveness of measurement and management regimes in influencing WHS performance across the client-contractor boundary is not well understood. There is therefore a need to better understand the characteristics of effective measurement and management activities as implemented by construction clients to influence contractors’ WHS performance. Qualitative interviews were conducted with client and contractor representatives engaged in the delivery of large-scale infrastructure construction projects. It was observed that clients implement performance measurement and management (PMM) approaches in relation to WHS. These were grouped into ideal types, i.e. regimes reliant on autocratic, bureaucratic or collaborative forms of control. It was observed that autocratic and bureaucratic PMM regimes produced counterproductive behaviours, including manipulation of information, the promulgation of safety ‘clutter,’ poor quality client-contractor relationships and low levels of trust. In contrast, collaborative regimes produced higher levels of trust, open and honest reporting and collaborative problem-solving in relation to WHS. The findings suggest that PMM regimes should be carefully designed and implemented to ensure that they are effective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106753"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093775","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}

{"title":"Video see-through augmented reality fire safety training: A comparison with virtual reality and video training","authors":"Lorraine I. Domgue K ,&nbsp;Daniel Paes ,&nbsp;Zhenan Feng ,&nbsp;Susan Mander ,&nbsp;Selim Datoussaid ,&nbsp;Thierry Descamps ,&nbsp;Anass Rahouti ,&nbsp;Ruggiero Lovreglio","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106714","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Safety training is crucial to mitigate the risk of damage when a disaster occurs and can play a vital role in enhancing community response. Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology for safety training that holds great pedagogical potential. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of AR training in terms of knowledge acquisition and retention, as well as self-efficacy enhancement. We developed a new video see-through AR training tool on a tablet to teach users about operating a fire extinguisher to put out a fire following the PASS procedure: Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep (PASS). The AR training tool was tested with 60 participants. Test results were systematically compared with findings from the literature investigating Virtual Reality (VR) and video-based safety training. The findings indicate that, directly after the training, AR outperformed traditional video training in terms of knowledge retention, long-term self-efficacy, and quality of instructions. However, the AR experience was not as effective as the VR experience in all these areas, but the AR group had a smaller decrease in knowledge over time. These findings suggest that the AR-based training approach offers benefits in long-term memory recall.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106714"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093771","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}

{"title":"Hierarchical safety analysis and formal verification for safety-critical systems using STAMP and Event-B","authors":"Zuxi Chen ,&nbsp;Chuanjun Niu ,&nbsp;Meng Mei ,&nbsp;Hongyang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106744","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106744","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As safety-critical systems become increasingly complex, ensuring the safety of systems that govern critical functions affecting human activities and the environment is paramount. The inherent complexities of developing such systems necessitate a rigorous approach, as demanded by industrial standards, yet the process for ensuring safety remains inadequately defined. This paper presents a novel integration of System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) with Event-B, employing a hierarchical and “middle-out” systems engineering strategy to manage complexity and improve safety verification. By applying STPA to derive and allocate safety requirements throughout a hierarchical Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) model, and synchronizing these requirements with the formal verification steps of Event-B, our method effectively closes the gap between system development and safety engineering. The effectiveness of this approach is showcased through its application to the safety-critical Automatic Train Protection (ATP) subsystem in the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106744"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093772","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}

{"title":"Determination of wearable technological devices according to their use in improvement of health and safety in the mining sector","authors":"Güler Aksüt ,&nbsp;Tamer Eren","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106746","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106746","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Miners may be exposed to injuries or even death due to safety and lack of communication problems. It is essential for those working in mining, an important economic sector, to take the necessary safety precautions. The advanced technology used by turning it into wearable technological devices will be healthier, safer, and beneficial in improving the professionalism of the personnel in the mining industry. In this study, the importance of wearable devices was rated according to their usage areas in the mining industry to contribute to improving occupational health and safety. Situations where precautions must be taken as a priority to protect miners’ lives have been selected as alternatives. The ranking of alternatives was carried out by integrating the Analytical Network Process (ANP) and Preference Ranking Organization for Enrichment of Evaluations (PROMETHEE) methods from the Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods (MCDM). The alternatives are listed as environmental, vital signs, and location information. The study will contribute to the literature by focusing on employee health and safety beyond the acceptance and use of wearable technologies and ensuring the widespread use of MCDM methods in health and safety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106746"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093770","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}

{"title":"158 Deaths at Halloween Night: An AcciMap analysis of 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in South Korea","authors":"Changwon Son ,&nbsp;Dong-Han Ham ,&nbsp;Sangeun Jin ,&nbsp;Taezoon Park","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A crowd crush that occurred in Itaewon, South Korea during Halloween in 2022 resulted in 158 people. Much attention was paid to finding culprits rather than identifying underlying factors and their complex relationships. Hence, this study aims to analyze systemic causes of Itaewon crowd crush. AcciMap was conducted to understand what caused the crush and resultant deaths using two information sources: South Korean National Assembly Report and online news articles. Findings suggest that lifted COVID-19 restrictions, increased popularity of Halloween, and political and social factors related to a new government significantly increased the crowd size. Despite anticipated risks of crowd crush, including direct calls from citizens, little was done before and after the crush. Pre-planning was not conducted, and on-site controls were insufficient. After the crush, unified incident communication was non-existent and inter-agency collaboration was poorly coordinated, leading to severe delay in site access, triage, medical treatment, and hospitalization. Until Itaewon disaster, a crowd crush was not covered by overarching disaster management law of South Korea. To prevent similar crowd crushes, recommendations include <em>trans</em>-governmental efforts to identify emergent impacts of policy, cultural, and administrative changes, all-hazards management approach, improving national safety leadership and risk governance, safety culture sensitive to failure, and nationwide crowd management system. As the first and early systemic analysis of Itaewon crowd crush, our findings highlighted the need to understand influences from various sociotechnical factors. We hope our study to inform future investigations of Itaewon crowd crush and induce more rigorous efforts to prevent similar incidents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 106741"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093419","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}

{"title":"Retraction Notice to “Automation of emergency response for petroleum oil storage terminals” [Safety Sci. 72 (2015) 2932]","authors":"Ravi K. Sharma ,&nbsp;Bhola R. Gurjar ,&nbsp;Akshay V. Singhal ,&nbsp;Satish R. Wate ,&nbsp;Santosh P. Ghuge ,&nbsp;Rajat Agrawal","doi":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21375,"journal":{"name":"Safety Science","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 106726"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143096957","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}