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Safety Role and Contribution to Industrial Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 11994

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Filippo Marciano

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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: occupational health and safety; ergonomics; social sustainability; energy and environmental management; industry 4.0; systematic review; multi-criteria decision making
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Dr. Paola Cocca

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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: sustainability; knowledge management; performance measurement; Industry 4.0
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Dr. Elena Stefana

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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: occupational safety; oxygen deficiency hazard; confined space; oxygen reduction system; mdelling; uncertainty analysis; risk assessment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few years, many leading companies have started considering sustainability as a key part of their business strategy. Although the three dimensions of sustainability—economic, environmental, and social—should be considered in an integrated way, companies tend to approach each aspect separately. The focus on a single aspect of sustainability can lead to unintended negative impacts on the other aspects or create conflicts between goals. In addition, so far, the issues included in the social sphere of sustainability, and particularly Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), have been disregarded and often left out of current sustainability discussions (OSHA, 2016). However, workers’ safety, health, and well-being are essential elements of any sustainability effort.

The objective of this Special Issue is to contribute to sustainable development by promoting research investigating the potential contribution of Occupational Safety and Health to industrial sustainability, with respect to each of its three dimensions (economic, environmental, social).

This Special Issue will invite original papers (methodological, conceptual, empirical, case studies, systematic literature reviews) dealing with but not limited to the following topics:

  • Contribution of Occupational Safety and Health to the three dimensions of sustainability;
  • Occupational Safety and Health in sustainability reporting;
  • Occupational Safety and Health in sustainability standards and certification;
  • Maturity of Occupational Safety and Health management systems;
  • Safety performance measurement, reporting, and benchmarking;
  • Occupational Safety and Health as part of business sustainability strategy;
  • Impact of Industry 4.0 on Occupational Safety and Health;
  • Impact of emerging trends (e.g., aging workforce) on workers’ safety and health;
  • Impact of workplace safety culture on companies’ sustainability;
  • Safety and sustainability goals alignment;
  • Design for OSH and sustainability;
  • Sustainable safety 4.0 and 5.0;
  • Decision-support methods and tools for safety improvement.

Dr. Filippo Marciano
Dr. Paola Cocca
Dr. Elena Stefana
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • occupational safety and health
  • OSH
  • industrial sustainability
  • industry 4.0
  • performance measurement
  • safety culture
  • sustainability strategy
  • social sustainability
  • sustainable development

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Safety Role and Contribution to Industrial Sustainability
by Filippo Marciano, Paola Cocca and Elena Stefana
Sustainability 2024, 16(2), 485; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020485 - 5 Jan 2024
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This Special Issue “Safety Role and Contribution to Industrial Sustainability” aims to stress the relevance of sustainable development by promoting research on the role of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in enhancing industrial sustainability, with respect to three integrated dimensions (i [...] Full article
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Integrating Occupational Health and Safety Risk and Production Economics for Sustainable SME Growth
by Zuzhen Ji, Dirk Pons, Zhouyang Su, Zichong Lyu and John Pearse
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14565; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114565 - 5 Nov 2022
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry normally arise as a result of product innovations. Transiting and growing into large organizations is a critical process for the sustainable growth of SMEs, and this requires developing appropriate production systems. Such development focuses [...] Read more.
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry normally arise as a result of product innovations. Transiting and growing into large organizations is a critical process for the sustainable growth of SMEs, and this requires developing appropriate production systems. Such development focuses on production economics and the optimization of facility layout, production capacity, and machine utilization. These optimizations are usually achieved using discrete event simulation (DES). However, the DES primarily focuses on production optimization and is not formulated to give concurrent attention to occupational health and safety risks, where the workers’ occupational health and safety are also important to production systems; hence, sustainability issues arise. Until now, the production economics and workers’ health and safety are usually treated separately, and the health and safety aspects are often managed after the system has been developed. This brings increasing hazards in the production environment since adding new facilities to the system may introduce new hazards and cause further safety issues. The present paper proposes a methodology to solve the above concerns. Its key features are the use of a quality-of-life metric for determining the occupational health and safety risks of a particular work activity and the embedding thereof as a routine in DES for manufacturing plant simulation. One of the contributions of the proposed integration method is that it helps to enhance the development of production systems that support financial due diligence, as well as occupational health and safety (OHS) due diligence. This is particularly important to SMEs in the manufacturing industries, where growth comes with particular sustainability challenges related to the need to develop more systematic operational and safety management systems. Full article
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A Study on the Status of Safety and Health for Golf Course Caddies and Improvement of Protective Measures in South Korea
by Ja-Young Lee and Chankyu Kang
Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 10479; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710479 - 23 Aug 2022
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Due to the rapid expansion of the leisure industry, there were about 32,000 golf caddies in South Korea in 2020, an increase of 18.5% compared to 2016. Consequently, they face an increasing industrial accident rate, which is presumed to be the result of [...] Read more.
Due to the rapid expansion of the leisure industry, there were about 32,000 golf caddies in South Korea in 2020, an increase of 18.5% compared to 2016. Consequently, they face an increasing industrial accident rate, which is presumed to be the result of exposure to various harmful factors. Through a survey and oral interview of 221 caddies across more than 20 golf courses, health protective measures, protective measures for caddies, preparation for golf cart operation, physical burden, compliance with golf cart safety during games, and golf course responses to emotional labor were investigated in this study to identify safety and health problems of caddies and suggest prevention measures. Preliminary interviews were conducted to confirm golf courses’ safety and health status and participants’ characteristics. Golf caddies’ health and safety were confirmed using frequency analysis, independent sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that caddies’ workplaces were relatively vulnerable to safety and health issues and caddies were exposed to various harmful risk factors. In addition, it was confirmed that golf caddy protective measures, golf cart safety compliance, physical burden, and health protection affect golf courses’ response level to caddies’ emotional labor. Full article
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Measuring Safety Climate in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Literature Review
by Bumjin Han, Seunghyun Son and Sunkuk Kim
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 10603; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910603 - 24 Sep 2021
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Recent studies on safety in various fields use the concept of safety climate to explain the causes of safety accidents. Many studies attempt to measure the safety climates and identify the causes for accidents in the high-risk construction industry. Studies have shown that [...] Read more.
Recent studies on safety in various fields use the concept of safety climate to explain the causes of safety accidents. Many studies attempt to measure the safety climates and identify the causes for accidents in the high-risk construction industry. Studies have shown that the higher the level of the safety climate, the lower the accident rate at construction sites. Methods of measuring safety climate, including the NOSACQ-50 survey, have been presented. Studies on the methodology of measuring safety climate should be continued to improve reliability and precision. Although many studies have been conducted to measure safety climate, such as questionnaires, regression analysis, and suggestions for safety climate measurement methods, there are few studies on a systematic literature review of them. This requires a systematic literature review (SLR) of the studies conducted so far. This study conducted an SLR on the definition and measurement methods of safety climate in the construction industry published since 2000, when safety climate’s impact on accidents began to be established. This review study utilized the PRISMA method, analyzed 735 studies, and selected 57 papers finally. SLR was carried out for selected research works, and the results were summarized. There are three methods to measure safety climate: literature survey, questionnaire, and data analysis. Factor analysis, development of measuring model, development of questionnaire, statistical analysis, and machine learning were investigated as their sub-methods. This study’s results can be used as fundamental sources for improving existing methods and developing new methods of measuring safety climate in the construction industry. Full article
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