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Advances in Industrial Safety

A special issue of Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 31358

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kovshov

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Department of Safety, Faculty of Mining Engineering, Saint Petersburg Mining University, St Petersburg 199106, Russia
Interests: industrial safety; occupational health; dust problem; organic waste
Prof. Dr. Stefan Vöth

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Department of Mechanical and Material Engineering, Centre for Drive and Lifting Systems, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, 44787 Bochum, Germany
Interests: lifting equipment; machinery elements for lifting equipment; planning, design and calculation of equipment; EN standards; safety of machinery
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Prof. Dr. Alexandr Nikolaev

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Department of Mining Electromechanics, Faculty of Mining and Oil, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 29, Komsomolsky prospekt, Perm 614990, Russia
Interests: industrial safety; fire safety; fire fighting; energy-saving technologies when ventilating mines
Dr. Eva Mračková

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Department of Fire Protection, Technical University in Zvolen, Masaryka 24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: wood processing; explosion protection; fire protection; occupational health and safety
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Prof. Dr. Andrei Nikulin

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Department of industrial Safety, Faculty of Mining Engineering, Saint Petersburg Mining University, 2, 21 line, Saint Petersburg 199106, Russia
Interests: industrial safety; occupational safety and health; safety culture; occupational noise exposure; noise-induced hearing loss

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Safety on the subject area of “Industrial Safety”. Qualitative (QRA, HAZAN, etc.) and quantitative (HAZOP, HAZID, WHAT IF, MEC, FMEA, BOW-TIE, etc.) risk assessment models and methods for hazard reduction are under the close attention of industrial safety engineers. Articles addressed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets related to achieving industrial safety and security can also be considered.

The organization of occupation and industrial safety management system on enterprises, and health administration problems, might be suitable themes for the Special Issue.

Articles dealing with the technologies emerging from the new industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), and its connection with Industrial Safety, are welcomed. The use of advanced digital tools for collecting, storing and processing information (sensors, drones, intelligent cameras, etc.), assisting in accidents prevention to ensure high level of industrial safety, are also interesting topics for this Special Issue. Cybersecurity issues are also of interest.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Risk assessment;
  • Practices in managing new and emerging risks;
  • Safety management;
  • Safety technologies, products and services;
  • Safety solutions for new products and processes;
  • New technologies in improving safety;
  • Digital solutions to ensure industrial safety;
  • Sustainable development and industrial safety;
  • Approaches to establishing a safety culture;
  • Monitoring industrial safety and security.

Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kovshov
Prof. Dr. Stefan Vöth
Prof. Dr. Alexandr Nikolaev
Dr. Eva Mračková
Prof. Dr. Andrei Nikulin
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Safety is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • safety management
  • risk assessment
  • digital safety
  • safety technologies
  • occupational health administration
  • risk assessment
  • practices in managing new and emerging risks
  • safety management
  • safety technologies, products and services
  • safety solutions for new products and processes
  • new technologies in improving safety
  • digital solutions to ensure industrial safety
  • sustainable development and industrial safety
  • monitoring industrial safety and security
  • OSH management system
  • occupational risk assessment
  • personal protective equipment
  • safety technologies
  • organization factors
  • workplace/occupational health management
  • effects of noise on health
  • hearing protection

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The Job Performance of Fly-In-Fly-Out Workers in Industrial Enterprises (on the Example of Oil and Gas Production, Diamond Mining Production, and Construction)
by Yana Korneeva
Safety 2022, 8(4), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety8040076 - 16 Nov 2022
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With high health requirements for FIFO work at industry, workers may experience adverse changes in psychological well-being and health status. This makes it relevant when developing the job performance model to rely on considering not only the effectiveness by employees but also their [...] Read more.
With high health requirements for FIFO work at industry, workers may experience adverse changes in psychological well-being and health status. This makes it relevant when developing the job performance model to rely on considering not only the effectiveness by employees but also their psychophysiological “cost of activity”, which is not reflected in modern scientific research. This article theoretically substantiates and empirically develops a job performance typology of fly-in-fly-out workers at industrial enterprises by correlating three components: effectiveness, psychophysiological resources, and the way of accomplishing tasks. The study involved 359 fly-in-fly-out workers in oil and gas, diamond mining and construction industries with different duration of the fly-in period, operating in the South and the North of the Russian Federation. The research methods included questioning, psychophysiological instrumental testing, and psychological testing. Statistical processing was carried out using the methods of descriptive statistics, two-stage cluster analysis, and multivariate analysis of variance. As a result of the study, six types of job performance of fly-in-fly-out personnel of industrial enterprises were identified. The employees at industrial enterprises of all six types of job performance correspond to their position and perform the assigned tasks, the difference in them lies in the desire to show an average or the highest possible result, as well as how much internal resources the employee spends to achieve this result and how quickly he restores them, which is expressed in terms of his state and well-being. Based on the results of these connections, measures for personnel management for industrial enterprises were proposed. Full article
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A Qualitative and Quantitative Occupational Exposure Risk Assessment to Hazardous Substances during Powder-Bed Fusion Processes in Metal-Additive Manufacturing
by Stefano Dugheri, Giovanni Cappelli, Lucia Trevisani, Simon Kemble, Fabrizio Paone, Massimiliano Rigacci, Elisabetta Bucaletti, Donato Squillaci, Nicola Mucci and Giulio Arcangeli
Safety 2022, 8(2), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety8020032 - 20 Apr 2022
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Metal-additive manufacturing (AM), particularly the powder-bed fusion (PBF) technique, is undergoing a transition from the short-run production of components to higher-volume manufacturing. The industry’s increased production efficiency is paired with a growing awareness of the risks related to the inhalation of very fine [...] Read more.
Metal-additive manufacturing (AM), particularly the powder-bed fusion (PBF) technique, is undergoing a transition from the short-run production of components to higher-volume manufacturing. The industry’s increased production efficiency is paired with a growing awareness of the risks related to the inhalation of very fine metal powders during PBF and AM processes, and there is a pressing need for a ready-to-use approach to assess the risks and the occupational exposure to these very final metal powders. This article presents a study conducted in an AM facility, which was conducted with the aim to propose a solution to monitor incidental airborne particle emissions during metal AM by setting up an analytical network for a tailored approach to risk assessment. Quantitative data about the respirable and inhalable particle and metal content were obtained by gravimetric and ICP-MS analyses. In addition, the concentrations of airborne particles (10–300 nm) were investigated using a direct reading instrument. A qualitative approach for risk assessment was fulfilled using control banding Nanotool v2.0. The results show that the operations in the AM facility are in line with exposure limit levels for both micron-sized and nano-sized particles. The particulate observed in the working area contains metals, such as chromium, cobalt, and nickel; thus, biological monitoring is recommended. To manage the risk level observed for all of the tasks during the AM process, containment and the supervision of an occupational safety expert are recommended to manage the risk. This study represents a useful tool that can be used to carry out a static evaluation of the risk and exposure to potentially harmful very fine metal powders in AM; however, due to the continuous innovations in this field, a dynamic approach could represent an interesting future perspective for occupational safety. Full article
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Risk-Acceptance Criteria in Occupational Health and Safety Risk-Assessment—The State-of-the-Art through a Systematic Literature Review
by Panagiotis K. Marhavilas and Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis
Safety 2021, 7(4), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7040077 - 3 Nov 2021
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The utilization of risk acceptance criteria (RAC) can help a business to judge whether the risk level concerning any process involved in its working environment is acceptable or not, especially when the risk has a significant societal impact. Thus, the main intention of [...] Read more.
The utilization of risk acceptance criteria (RAC) can help a business to judge whether the risk level concerning any process involved in its working environment is acceptable or not, especially when the risk has a significant societal impact. Thus, the main intention of this study is to make known the current state-of-the-art concerning RACs and to propose new interpretations of it by surveying, for first time, the scientific literature about the RACs associated with the occupational health and safety (OHS) risk-assessment methodologies (RAA). A second objective of this work is the attainment of a prediction for the evolution of the quantity of the publications concerning OHS-RACs, and a third one is the derivation of an algorithm (via a flow-chart) in order to illustrate the process of the formation of new OHS-RACs. The work consists of two parts, (a) exploring and presenting methods of developing RACs in OHS; (b) classifying, analyzing, and benchmarking relevant published scientific articles by surveying the Scopus data base with proper search-hints, through a time interval of 20 years (January2000–December 2019). The review has defined a plethora of RAC-papers with reference to OHS, which is a remarkable percentage in comparison with the other fields aggregated, and this outcome proves that the issue of utilizing RACs is fundamental for the field of OHS. Additionally, it has been deduced that, day after day, there is an increasing tendency for the scientific community to develop and use RACs in the field of occupational safety, as this is evident by their frequent reference to the risk analysis and assessment (RAA) process. Our specific research methodology has been compatible with the PRISMA protocol. A prediction for the evolution of the quantity of the OHS-RAC publications is also given by confirming the Poisson stochastic process. Finally, we propose a generic guideline framework that can contribute to the establishment of new empirically-generated OHS-RACs. Full article
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