Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106687
Duy Quy Nguyen-Phuoc , Thi Minh Truong , Nhi Thao Ho-Mai , Nhat Xuan Mai , Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios
In the expanding food delivery sector, particularly in Asia, where motorcycles are preferred for their efficiency, there has been an alarming rise in traffic safety incidents involving delivery riders. This increase highlights the need for a comprehensive understanding of safety outcomes within the industry, encompassing both organizational and personal factors. Our study, using data from 401 motorcycle delivery riders in Vietnam, addresses this gap with a conceptual model based on the Safety Climate Model. This model assesses the impact of safety climate, knowledge, and motivation on rider safety performance. Our findings reveal that factors like management values, effective safety communication, and quality safety equipment are crucial in creating a positive safety climate. This climate significantly boosts safety participation and compliance among riders. Furthermore, the study confirms that safety climate indirectly influences safety outcomes through safety knowledge and motivation. These results illustrate the dynamic between organizational practices and individual behaviors in determining safety in the food delivery industry. The study underscores the need for a holistic approach to safety, extending beyond equipment provision to include management commitment, communication, and motivational incentives. Implementing such comprehensive strategies is vital for enhancing rider safety, contributing to a safer work environment, and reducing safety–critical incidents among food delivery riders.
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The use of hearing protection devices (HPDs), such as earplugs, is essential for mitigating occupational noise-induced hearing loss. However, earplug discomfort often hinders consistent and proper usage. This international and multidisciplinary study is based on a comfort model of HPD use, and considers four comfort dimensions (physical, functional, acoustical, psychological) and the influence of the triad environment/person/earplugs” components on overall comfort. Addressing shortcomings in defining and measuring comfort, the study aims to enrich understanding of the multifaceted aspects of earplug (dis)comfort and the role played by the triad. Specific objectives include developing and validating the “North American COmfort of Hearing PROtection Device Questionnaire (COPROD-NAQ),” proposing a latent overall comfort (LOC) model and comparing earplug families regarding (dis)comfort dimensions. Longitudinal data were collected over a 7-week from 173 workers testing 998 pairs of earplugs in three Canadian manufacturing companies. Factor analyses identified 51 items across 11 conceptual sub-dimensions with satisfactory reliability coefficients. Statistical analyses confirmed the COPROD-NAQ’s validity as well. All its sub-dimensions significantly contributed to the LOC, with psychological and functional comfort exerting greater influence. Certain triad component characteristics (e.g., working during weekdays with a day shift, being right-handed, Custom 1 earplug model) enhanced the LOC. Finally, custom earplugs were perceived as most comfortable. The COPROD-NAQ emerges as a powerful tool for assessing earplug comfort and its interaction with triad characteristics, beneficial for occupational health and safety stakeholders. It will aid in prevention programs and help manufacturers design more comfortable earplugs to prevent hearing impairment.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106685
André Cardoso , Ana Colim , Estela Bicho , Ana Cristina Braga , Pedro Arezes
The Industry 5.0 paradigm places workers’ well-being and safety at the core of the production processes. Despite its objectives, the current industry still faces several challenges. Examples of these challenges include global market pressures for customized products, along with the significant occurrence of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and the ageing workforce. These challenges underscore the persistent need for human-centered solutions, allowing adaptations that align with humans’ physical and cognitive constraints. Collaborative robots offer a promising solution, with the potential to enhance workers’ well-being, while maintaining safety, productivity, and production process flexibility. This study introduces a novel methodology designed to assess the feasibility of converting manual tasks into collaborative ones. During the development of the methodology, a focus group approach was used, comprising 6 experts in the field of Ergonomics & Human Factors and Robotics. The proposed methodology is suitable for the identification of tasks appropriate for joint execution by humans and robots, thereby augmenting the effectiveness of the robotic solution. This methodology incorporates a set of indicators (physical and cognitive ergonomics, health and safety, and operational efficiency) and technical requirements. The results of the focus group allowed the improvement of the suggested methodology. For its testing, we applied across 13 manual workstations in 5 companies from different manufacturing sectors (civil construction, cutlery, furniture, and automotive fabric manufacturing). Results show that it is possible to comprehensively identify manual workstations/tasks with good and high potential to convert into collaborative systems. This methodology seems to constitute a relevant approach to support the conceptualization of collaborative workstations.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106683
Guan Ren, Ting Zhang, Huan Zhang
This study aimed to undertake a time-series, multi-level investigation involving construction project managers and workers to assess the influence of ethical or abusive leadership on safety behavior, considering workers’ alcohol use and moderated by the alcohol climate in construction projects. The study sample consisted of 266 project managers and 1,596 workers from 266 construction projects across China. Data was collected through a three-wave time-series survey in a mutual-evaluation format, depending on the causal inference between each variable. The direct effects, mediation, and moderation effects were assessed using the Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling (MSEM). The results show that ethical leadership has a positive impact on safety behavior, while abusive leadership has a negative impact. Alcohol use plays a full mediating role in these relationships. Additionally, there is clear evidence to support that the alcohol climate plays a moderating role, weakening the influence of ethical or abusive leadership on safety behavior. This study suggests that project managers should be encouraged to practice ethical leadership rather than abusive leadership, as this can improve workers’ safety behavior through reducing workers’ alcohol use. At the same time, attention should be paid to controlling the alcohol climate in construction projects, as it can undermine project managers’ efforts to improve workers’ safety behavior.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106684
Syeda H. Fatima , Lynne C. Giles , Paul Rothmore , Blesson M. Varghese , Peng Bi
Heatwaves (HWs) pose significant risks to occupational safety in Australia, particularly for workers in roles requiring prolonged heat exposure. This study, for the first time, addresses critical gaps in the existing literature by examining the impact of HWs on occupational injuries and illnesses (OI) at a fine spatial scale and projecting future OI burdens under climate change scenarios. Using time series study design and distributed lag nonlinear models we establish the association between HWs, assessed via the Excess Heat Factor (EHF), and OI in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney at the Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3). The study reveals a substantial cumulative OI risk ranging between 5.1 and 29.0 % during heatwaves, with outer peripheries and rapidly urbanizing peri-urban areas showing heightened vulnerability. Younger workers, males, injury-related claims, and workers in areas with higher temperatures and less vegetation were identified as particularly susceptible to HWs. By utilising high-resolution geospatial data and future projections, our study provides new insights into the spatial heterogeneity of HW impacts on OI within cities, a previously underexplored area of research. Projected HW impacts indicate a potential increase in HW-related attributable fractions (AF) of OI, for example, in Greater Sydney, where the overall OI AF is projected to rise from 0.89 % to 1.64 % under high-emission climate scenarios. These findings emphasise the importance of developing localized, climate-related adaptation and intervention strategies to safeguard workers and reduce both the disease burden and associated economic costs and productivity loss.
热浪(HWs)对澳大利亚的职业安全构成了重大风险,尤其是对需要长时间暴露在高温下的工人而言。本研究首次在精细的空间尺度上考察了热浪对职业伤病(OI)的影响,并预测了气候变化情景下未来的职业伤病负担,从而填补了现有文献的重要空白。利用时间序列研究设计和分布式滞后非线性模型,我们在阿德莱德、布里斯班、墨尔本和悉尼的第三级统计区(SA3)建立了通过过热因子(EHF)评估的热量与职业伤病之间的联系。研究显示,在热浪期间,累积 OI 风险介于 5.1% 和 29.0% 之间,外围地区和快速城市化的城郊地区更容易受到影响。年轻工人、男性、与伤害相关的索赔以及温度较高和植被较少地区的工人尤其容易受到热浪的影响。通过利用高分辨率地理空间数据和未来预测,我们的研究为城市内有害气体对职业伤害影响的空间异质性提供了新的视角,而这是一个以前未被充分探索的研究领域。预测的有害气体影响表明,与有害气体相关的 OI 可归因分数(AF)可能会增加,例如在大悉尼地区,在高排放气候情景下,该地区的总体 OI 可归因分数预计将从 0.89% 上升至 1.64%。这些发现强调了制定本地化、与气候相关的适应和干预策略的重要性,以保护工人,减少疾病负担及相关经济成本和生产力损失。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-29DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106677
Yang Li , Lluis Sanmiquel , Zhengxin Zhang , Guoyan Zhao , Marc Bascompta
The safety of underground coal mining has always been a global concern, involving the stable supply of energy and stakes in miners’ lives. Lessons learned from historical accidents and transforming into practical experience help reduce the quantity and severity of accidents. In this study, six ensemble learning techniques, including AdaBoost, Extra Trees, GBDT, LightGBM, Random Forest, and XGBoost, were used to investigate the correlation between accident-causing factors and severity. Firstly, 39 487 underground coal mine accidents data was obtained from Spain, variables were categorized and coded. To address the extreme class imbalance, a new dataset (2468 cases) was obtained by data sampling from the original database. Subsequently, the new dataset was randomly divided into training sets (75% of the data) and test sets (25% of the data), then the hyperparameters of each model were optimized and configured. Thirdly, the models’ performance was evaluated on the test data by five metrics (accuracy, Cohen’s Kappa, precision, recall, and ). Finally, accident patterns were derived from the identified variables along with preventive strategies. Results show that tree-based ensemble learning model performs better compared to the boosting model, and the relative importance of seven variables were determined, where previous cause (PC) and material agent (MA) are the most important factors, followed by the miner’s physical activity (PA), age (A), and experience (E), scale (S) and preventive organization (PO) are in the third tier. Furthermore, the type of accident and injury caused by PC were confirmed. Working with hand tools, younger age, lack of experience, small-scale coal mines, and unfit preventive organization increased the risk of accidents. This study not only facilitates the prediction of accident severity but also provides strategies for preventing and mitigating accidents.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106681
Xinmiao Liang , Peng Wang , Xi Cao , Xinming Wan , Peipei Chao , Xing Zhao , Andong Yu , Chuan Liu , Jiale Li
New energy vehicles (NEV), a four-wheel vehicle that employs non-traditional fuels, develops rapidly, lacking in research and application on vehicle operating data mining to improve the safety status of NEV. In this study, the method to improve the safety of new energy vehicles through vehicle operating data was researched systematically. First, known combustion accidents of NEV were counted from multiple dimensions to present the current safety situation. Subsequently, the study delves deeper into the specific causes of combustion in battery electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries by examining parameter trends and performance discrepancies. Then, a novel approach for detecting abnormal self-discharge in power battery cells using operational data was proposed. This method aids in the early diagnosis of abnormalities and has been successfully utilized to issue advance warnings for vehicles exhibiting such issues. In conclusion, the study offers strategic recommendations for digital interventions by regulatory bodies and manufacturers. These recommendations aim to foster a robust and sustainable NEV industry, prioritizing safety and fostering innovation.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106682
Gilles Albeaino , Idris Jeelani , Masoud Gheisari , Raja R.A. Issa
Recent advancements in four-legged robots have prompted their integration into the construction industry, yet the safety implications of their deployment remain inadequately explored. As such comprehensive investigations are required to ensure the safety of robot deployment and the well-being of construction professionals who work with and alongside these robots. This study addresses this gap by conducting a user-centered experiment employing virtual reality to assess human behavior and safety impacts in varying interaction spaces with four-legged robots within a simulated construction environment. By employing objective and subjective measures, including physiological and attentional responses, emotional reactions, situational awareness, risk perceptions, and attitudes towards robots, this study analyzes the impact of proxemics on construction individuals at two distinct interaction spaces: proximal (1.5 – 4 ft) and distal (12 – 25 ft) from the four-legged robots. The study found that while participants’ physiological responses, emotional states, situational awareness, risk perceptions, and attitudes towards robots were not significantly influenced by four-legged robot interaction space, those in the distal group allocated significantly more attention to the robot, particularly in terms of fixation count, indicating a significant proxemics impact on attentional states. These findings shed light on the safety implications of human-robot collaboration on jobsites, contributing to the advancement of safe and efficient practices in construction settings.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106680
R. Bachar , A. Urlainis , K-C. Wang , I.M. Shohet
Construction is a highly vulnerable work sector to safety risks. Small and Medium construction enterprises (SMEs) are often the most vulnerable entities in this sector due to inadequate safety systems. There is an utmost need for a particular safety model adapted to this category of enterprises. This assumption stems from the fact that in SMEs, investments are not directly related to the scope of the project and refer to smaller inputs and therefore, indirect costs such as inspection and regulatory equipment account for higher ratios of the safety investment. The research hypothesized that the optimal safety investment in SMEs is higher than the normative optimum of the entire projects population and reaches the level of 3–5 % of the project scope. The research method used background and characteristics data gathering of the projects through a qualitative questionnaire. Data includes project scope and duration, employees, safety equipment, investment, training, and data regarding construction accidents and near-miss events. The research model was developed based on a sample of 30 SMEs projects. A probabilistic model of safety and accidents was developed based on the survey findings. Monte Carlo simulations are used to analyze the optimal level of safety investments. Based on the empirical variables mentioned above, considering means, standard deviations, and distributions, a series of 5 simulations were carried out. A polynomial regression equation of the five simulation experiments was used to assemble the ideal safety investment equation. The optimal Safety Investment Ratio (SIR) was set at 3.8 %, which is the investment ratio that minimizes the total safety cost, including accident costs. This study provides a novel theoretical framework by identifying an optimal SIR specifically for SMEs projects, highlighting that they require higher investments compared to larger projects to achieve comparable safety levels. Furthermore, this research offers an innovative methodology incorporating comprehensive empirical probabilistic data analysis and simulation analytics delivering insightful and practical understanding of safety investments for construction SMEs.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-20DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106678
Qipeng Liu, Rui Liu
Virtual reality plays a growing role in emergency behavior studies. This review focuses on the perspectives of research development and implementation. It synthesizes and discusses the identified studies from three interrelated fields, i.e., building and hazard simulation, game interaction, and data collection. Revealed features in existing literature help better understand the technical plans and practice. The variety of emergency types and research interests results in large-volume articles with different setups. Features simulated, data collected, and experiment processes differ across the reviewed articles. The study reveals that fire emergencies gained the most attention, while other hazards are less studied. Most research focuses on building design cues, with a growing number on social effects. Identified gaps and comments help guide future studies. Current game designs focus on cues rather than realism, and the population samples that participated in experiments are skewed. It is also vital to enhance game interaction and model reusability.
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