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Optimization of emergency shelter layout with consideration of toxic gas leakage based on a cell transmission model

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Safety Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106810

Jinghong Wang , Yuqing Liu , Qingzhao Li , Jialin Wu , Yan Wang , Juncheng Jiang

The layout and site selection of emergency shelters have a significant impact on the efficiency of large-scale crowd evacuation. However, during the actual evacuation process, there may be factors that affect the capacity of evacuation routes. This paper considers the problem of decreased road capacity due to toxic gas effects. By extending the Cell Transmission Model (CTM) and incorporating additional constraints, a linear programming model for emergency evacuation traffic was developed. Based on an improved CTM, this study examines the impact of different emergency shelter layouts in the Tianjin Port area. The results indicate that under the actual conditions at Tianjin Port, the evacuation efficiency differs by 22.43% between scenarios with and without the presence of toxic gases. A reasonable layout of additional shelters can improve evacuation efficiency by up to 45.33%. However, if the number of shelters is excessively increased, it could exacerbate congestion and reduce evacuation efficiency by up to 59.81% under the influence of toxic gases. The value of this study lies in its establishment of a model that can more accurately assess evacuation risks under the influence of toxic gases and inform the strategic placement of emergency shelters.

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The influence of individual characteristics and working environment on driving performance of truck drivers

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Safety Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106809

Jianhua Zhang , Xiaohua Zhao , Ying Yao , Jushang Ou , Yujia Xiang

Road freight transportation is a cornerstone of China’s economy, enabling efficient commodity circulation and network consumption. However, the high rate of truck-related accidents and fatalities is largely influenced by individual characteristics and company management practices. This study investigates the impact of these factors on driving safety using social cognitive theory as the framework. A questionnaire was designed to gather empirical data on truck drivers’ individual traits, work environments, and driving behaviors. Exploratory factor analysis confirmed the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. The association rule algorithm was then used to uncover correlations among drivers’ risk behaviors, personal attributes, and work environments. A structural equation model (SEM) was constructed, integrating findings from the association rule analysis and social cognitive theory to explore causal relationships and influence paths. This approach effectively addressed challenges in constructing optimal path models with multivariable relationships. The SEM results revealed that insomnia, negative affect, burnout, and safety climate significantly influence driving behavior. Mediation analysis further showed that well-being, weekly working days, and salary levels indirectly affect driving behavior through burnout and negative affect. These findings highlight critical targets for individual and organizational interventions. Freight companies can implement targeted education and training programs addressing risk factors and enhance safety management. This research offers practical insights for improving truck drivers’ behavior and promoting road freight safety.

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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

The increasing use of VR (Virtual Reality) training tools in safety-related fields has prompted the scientific community to explore methods for assessing their effectiveness across different levels of immersion. While numerous studies have been conducted in sectors such as healthcare, transportation, agriculture, aviation, mining, firefighting, and construction, one area that remains underexplored is risk training for general public against natural and man-made disasters in both indoor and outdoor built environments. In this context, the paper aims at validating a prototype for VR multi-risk (heat wave and earthquake) training in urban open spaces that was developed according to a Serious Game (SG) approach. To address insights on its extensive adoption, the VR-SG was tested for comparison of three modes: traditional by video recording, non-immersive by desktop, immersive by headset. Outputs from feedback questionnaires on knowledge gain and transfer to expansive contexts, as well as on user experience, suggest that the effectiveness of knowledge acquisition differs significantly between headset and video, as well as between desktop and video, but shows no significant difference between headset and desktop. Additionally, while headset outperforms desktop in terms of engagement, perceived usefulness, and realism, it falls behind in ease of use. Finally, further analyses on training outcome by age, contents of open-ended answers, in-game errors and administration procedures supported the discussion of key aspects in targeting VR for public safety communication.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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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

Work zone crashes and fatalities persist at alarming rates, highlighting the need for innovative safety solutions. Augmented Reality (AR) safety warnings have shown promise, yet their impact on situational awareness, attention, and cognitive workload remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, this study investigates the neurophysiological responses to AR-assisted warnings in roadway work zones under varying workload conditions. Leveraging electroencephalogram (EEG) technology within a virtual reality simulation of work zones, we objectively evaluated post-warning situational awareness, attention, and cognitive load during low-intensity (LA) and moderate-intensity (MA) activities. Key EEG indicators, including beta, gamma, alpha, and theta waves, as well as combined wave ratios, were used to measure these responses. Results revealed that AR warnings effectively triggered neurological responses associated with increased situational awareness and attention across both workload conditions. However, significant differences were observed in the timing and intensity of these responses. In the LA condition, peak responses occurred earlier (within 125 ms post-warning) and were more pronounced, suggesting a more robust cognitive response when physical demands were lower. Conversely, the MA condition showed delayed peak responses (125–250 ms post-warning) and more gradual changes, indicating a potential impact of increased physical activity on cognitive processing speed. These findings underscore the importance of considering physical workload when designing AR-based safety systems for roadway work zones. The research contributes to the understanding of how AR can enhance worker safety and provides insights for developing more effective, context-aware safety interventions in high-risk work environments.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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

1 / 3

power of the tunnel height difference (

Δ h

) 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.

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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

Human error, as a major accident causal factor, can trigger an storage tank fire accident and delay the activation of active protection. In this work, a domino-human intervention model was proposed to assess the effect of human reliability on domino fire accidents. The optimized cognitive reliability and error analysis method (CREAM) was constructed to calculate the human error probability (HEP). The dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) of the domino-human intervention model was constructed by the probability of fire escalation and HEP. Among them, the analyzed network includes an initial accident scenario and a safety barrier protection scenario. Lastly, the domino-human intervention model was applied in a case study. The application of the model is validated in the case study, which confirms that HEP can reduce storage tank safety, as well as have a delayed effect on active protection. The proposed model will serve as an assessment tool for the effect of human reliability on domino accidents.

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