Showing papers in "Safety Science in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the degree to which construction superintendents are aware of hazards and how well they perceive the associated risks, 61 subjects were asked to identify the hazards in a typical construction project, to assess their risk level, and to estimate the probability and the severity of possible accidents.

TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian Network (BN) of human fatigue in the bridge management team and the risk of ship grounding is proposed, and the qualitative part of the BN has been structured based on modifying the Human Factor Analysis and Classification System (HFACS).

TL;DR: In this article, a study focused on developing crash injury severity analysis models for a mountainous freeway section in addition to the data obtained from crash reports, real-time traffic and weather data were utilized.

TL;DR: The present document refers to Part 1 and reviews the major lines of research and main contributions in the field of occupational safety and health in the construction industry and proposes and details the Occupational Safety and Health Potential Risk Model (OSH-PRM) that was designed to allow estimating the statistical cost of occupationalsafety and health risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the author examines the bureaucratization of safety, and the increase in safety as measurable bureaucratic accountability, and concludes with possible ideas for addressing such problems, including a reduced marginal yield of safety initiatives, bureaucratic entrepreneurism and pettiness, an inability to predict unexpected events, structural secrecy, "numbers games," the creation of new safety problems, and constraints on organization members' personal freedom, diversity and creativity, as well as a hampering of innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 1167 pipefitters and plumbers found that idealized attributes and behaviors accounted for the most variance in each of the safety outcomes, whereas individualized consideration and active management-by-exception frequently resulted in the least amount of variance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of coal mine ownership, gas content in coal and coal and regions of coal mines on safety is determined quantitatively, and the accidents are grouped by cause.

TL;DR: In this article, the focus is on whether the notion of safety itself is a proper subject for scientific investigation or indeed whether safety as such is an appropriate topic or subject for a scientific discipline.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reliability and validity of QRA through a case study of ship-ship collision risk is investigated. But, the reliability of the proposed encounter detection mechanisms is questionable and significant uncertainty is found regarding this encounter definition in the selected methods.

TL;DR: In this article, a behavioural model based on discrete choice models (DCMs) is presented to simulate decision maker behavior during an emergency situation. But the authors focus on the importance of the influence of other decision makers on the decision-making process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the issue of how to understand safety science as a concept, including the interpretations that safety is the absence of undesirable events and accidents, and safety is antonym of risk.

TL;DR: An agent based model to describe phases and rules of motion for pedestrians, based on the analysis of videotapes concerning real events is presented, showing a scheme of chronological organisation of experimentally noticed behaviours activated during an earthquake evacuation.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of pilots' perceptions of safety management system (SMS) practices, fleet managers' morality leadership and pilots' self-efficacy on flight crews' safety behaviors through the mediation of safety motivation were examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the literature concerning safety management interventions, that have been effective in reducing injury outcomes in occupational health and safety (OHS) and road safety, and assesses their applicability to reducing crash and injury outcome in heavy vehicle transport.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper determined the relationship between safety climate and safety performance of repair, maintenance, minor alteration, and addition (RMAA) works, thereby offering recommendations on improving RMAA safety.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the construction safety literature in order to explore the extent to which the knowledge generated by research considers the situated nature of safety learning and, therefore, addresses the needs of industry practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the factors affecting the resilient level of a petrochemical plant and being able to get expanded to other industries through a fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) method that considers interactions between factors due to their final calculated weights.

TL;DR: In this article, a fuzzy risk assessment approach is proposed to facilitate the treatment of uncertainties in seaport operations and to optimise its performance effectiveness in a systematic manner, which consists of a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process, an evidential reasoning (ER) approach, fuzzy set theory and expected utility.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an enhanced social force model to describe the pedestrian's movement and evacuation dynamics on stairs, which can obtain individual velocity under different staircase geometries and the flow characteristics of the evacuation dynamics.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of age, time gap, time of day, and speed of approaching vehicle on the decision of pedestrians to cross a road were investigated, and a logistic regression model was constructed to analyse the risk of above mentioned variables yielding the odds that the road would be crossed safely.

TL;DR: Violating behaviour of pedestrians is studied and a relationship is established with dependent variables such as waiting time, the number of conflicting traffic lanes, conflicting vehicular traffic volume and personal characteristics of the pedestrian.

TL;DR: The new developed fuzzy QRAM model is presented, which intends to support construction companies in carrying out their responsibilities to reduce occupational safety risks, and the specific checklists for knowledge elicitation are a good aid and enhance the process objectivity.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed a number of theoretical frameworks that describe how the public responds to warnings and identified the components of effective warnings and evaluative techniques that can be used to judge successful implementation of warning systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a unique look at safety culture across the United States nuclear power industry and take a critical step toward establishing that safety culture is empirically related to safety performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used association rule mining approach to discover cause-and-affect patterns (rules) using 843 incidents in a steel plant in India and extracted 35 meaningful association rules using three criteria, support (S), confidence (C) and lift (L).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a framework to conduct the business impact analysis in organizations in a more systematic and comprehensive way mostly by relying on some effective multi attribute decision making (MADM) techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical driving performance assessment method is presented to investigate the effects of foggy conditions on drivers' speed control behaviors, and the results indicated that drivers intended to reduce their speeds in order to lower the driving risk in foggy situations at all three risk levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the antecedents and effects of knowledge sharing behavior in a high risk, inter-organizational setting and found that work experience, training, intrinsic motivation, job autonomy, location, and management support influence the level of knowledge-sharing behavior.

TL;DR: F fuzzy linguistic theory is applied to convert the subjective cognition of experts into an information entity to obtain the numerical values of risk factors in failure modes and effects analysis.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors applied spatial analysis to assess shipping safety along shipping routes, and found that the majority of the shipping routes run from southwest to northeast, reflecting a linear-direction trend, and the risk of navigation environment in the South China Sea gradually decreases from the north to the south with a V-shape spatial distribution.