Showing papers in "Safety Science in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of previous studies is proposed for facilitating sharing useful research findings and accessing future trends in construction safety research, including safety competency, accident statistics, design for safety, and safety culture.

TL;DR: In this article, an automated rule-checking framework that integrates safety into BIM effectively and provides practitioners with a method for detecting and preventing fall-related hazards is presented. But only limited automation in modeling and planning safety processes has been exploited so far.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an extension of the Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) approach, proactive behavior-based safety (PBBS), to improve construction safety.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of literature on leading pro-active safety performance indicators (PPIs) provided a rationale for a concept to elaborate a relatively small number of key performance indicators for measuring OSH MS operational performance.

TL;DR: The objective of this paper is to explore weaknesses of the risk matrix, provide recommendations for the use and design of risk matrices, and propose a probability consequence diagram with continuous scales.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework for risk analysis of maritime transportation systems, where risk analysis is understood as a tool for argumentative decision support, is proposed, where uncertainty is given a more prominent role than in the current state of art in the maritime transportation application area.

TL;DR: Based on the complex network theory, Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the robustness of a subway network in face of random failures (RFs) as well as malicious attacks (MAs).

TL;DR: The results of the experiment encouraged owners of training facilities cooperating with polish mines to introduce VR training to basic training for youngest miners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the marine accidents/incidents which are recorded by Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) as occurring north of 66°33′ in the years from 1993 to 2011 to reveal their causes by using root cause analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors established relationships between individual and organizational factors that affect temporary workers' safety behaviors using structural equation modeling (SEM) to estimate simultaneously the cause-and-effect relationships between many independent variables and dependent variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the safety and operational issues of constant bottom-hole pressure drilling technique which is used in managed pressure drilling compared to conventional overbalanced drilling are investigated, and the bow-tie models are mapped into Bayesian networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to evaluate how a pedestrian's stare influenced an oncoming driver's stopping behavior at a pedestrian crossing and found that pedestrians could increase their own safety by using appropriate nonverbal signals toward drivers.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey was conducted of 275 pedestrians in a nocturnal urban environment in the city of Granada (Spain) to evaluate user perceptions of the impact of different kinds of public lighting on perceived safety from criminal actions and on general well-being (avoidance of stress, glare, headaches, etc.).

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of fatigue on workers' safety performance was investigated by using a typical manual handling task to simulate the actual construction work and a Fatigue Assessment Scale for Construction Workers (FASCW).

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for maritime risk-informed collision alert system (RICAS) is presented, including a risk-conceptual basis, a systematic description of the risk perspective and a discussion on the intended use of the model.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the relationship between four dimensions of safety climate (management commitment, safety supervision, coworker support, and safety training), three dimensions (safety compliance, personal protection equipment, and health initiatives), and occupational injuries among Chinese manufacturing workers.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model for increasing acceptable working environments for SMEs is presented, which takes its onset in a legislative standard that is built into intervention programmes and includes three instrument pillars: inspection to enhance compliance, recognition of the standard by the stakeholders in the industry sector and dissemination of information to small enterprises.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether psychological capital (PsyCap) is related to perceptions of safety climate and job satisfaction among maritime workers from three Norwegian shipping companies and found that PsyCap was positively associated with -and explained between 10% and 12% of the variance in perceptions of the safety climate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate and describe safety culture and risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company in Sweden by exploring workers' experiences and perceptions of safety and risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach is proposed to calculate Failure Probability (FP) of barriers, which is based on Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to advance the state of knowledge and practice on the topic of using leading indicators to measure occupational health and safety (OHS) performance of organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, a Poisson lognormal random effects model using hierarchal Bayesian estimation was employed to understand the relationship between built environment factors and bicycle crashes with motor vehicles involved in Seattle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between safety climate, risk perception and involvement in safety management by first-line managers (FLM) and found that a positive perception of safety climate would promote substantial involvement of safety management, and that this effect would be stronger than the perceived-risk effect.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the use of evolutionary game theory to describe the interactions between the stakeholders in China's coal mining safety inspection system, which includes the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety (SACMS), the Local Regulation Departments of Coalmine Safety (LRDCMS), and coal enterprises.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of prosocial safety behaviors and proactive safety behaviors (e.g., helping others) in predicting four safety performance outcomes: micro-accidents, property damage (accidents without injury), near miss events, and lost-time injuries.

TL;DR: In this article, a robust differential evolution (DE) is employed to calibrate and optimize the parameters of social force model to achieve a desired nonlinear evacuation speed which is consistent with real-life video data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the magnitude of workplace accident costs to building contractors and identified factors influencing workplace accident cost of building projects in Singapore and found that the average direct accident costs, indirect accident costs and total accident costs account for 0.165, 0.086, and 0.25% of contract sum, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that existing uncertainties do not only have to be acknowledged in order to improve risk management and safety, but that in certain circumstances deliberate increases in uncertainty are conducive to more safety.

TL;DR: Using a database composed of almost 70,000 occupational accidents and fatality reports corresponding to the decade 2003-2012 in the Spanish mining sector, the paper analyzes the main causes of those accidents to help develop suitable prevention policies to reduce injuries and fatalities.

TL;DR: A critical literature review examining the intersection between masculinities and men's workplace health and safety concluded that key themes from this review are presented, including how to define gender and the importance of considering how masculinity may intersect with other variables.