Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management for Sustainable Engineering Projects
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 32787
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Interests: safety and reliability; occupational safety and health; risk management; risk assessment; risk analysis and engineering on constructions and industries; electrodynamics; data analysis; time series analysis
Interests: risk assessment; safety management in micro firms; societal safety
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Dear Colleagues,
Taking into consideration that one of the intentions of “sustainable engineering” is to create structures that validate evolution without jeopardizing the natural environment’s quality, and coming generations’ capability to meet their own necessities, modern engineering tactics concentrate (among other options) on the system design/operation in a manner that allows sustainable usage of resources. Thus, decision-making processes must be enhanced by techniques and methods which allow decision-makers to use a broad variety of sustainable alternatives.
Protection of employees’ health and safety in the workplace is a universally vital aspect, in parallel with the effort of enhancing the productivity and upgrading the sustainable development of a firm. Moreover, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines sustainable development as a policy “to meet the needs of today’s global population without adversely affecting its health and the environment and without destroying (or endangering) the global resource base, and thus without jeopardizing the ability of the coming generations to meet their needs”. Occupational accidents, on one hand, have a significant impact upon human body integrity and affect employees, business operation, and the overall sustainability performance of firms and, on the other hand, generate high expenses for the social health and insurance system of any country and demote society’s sustainability. Each corporation is progressively more concerned with the improvement of sustainability and occupational safety and health (ΟSΗ) performance, and this is attained by controlling ΟSΗ risks, in accordance with their ΟSΗ policy, and in the context of applying risk assessment and analysis (RAA) techniques and the state’s legislation. Additionally, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recognizes that actions to ensure occupational safety and health can be incorporated into sustainability efforts and take advantage of the dynamics of sustainability to make companies’ workplaces safer and healthier. In this respect, the conception of sustainability is used as a frame to categorize existing and/or develop new OSH standards (e.g., ISO 45001, OSHAS 18001, etc.), and also to generate multitudinous, efficacious and modern RAA techniques.
The way that a technical project attains its sustainability goal is implemented by emphasizing, among other aspects, sustainable living, for instance, the actualization of health, which includes, among other things, building and infrastructure technology. What is more, the OSHA accepts that actions to guarantee OSH can be involved in sustainability efforts and take advantage of the dynamics of sustainability to make each workplace safer and healthier. Moreover, the notion of sustainability is utilized as a frame to sort subsistent (or to grow new) OSH standards and to develop novel and innovative OSH-RAA assessment techniques (Marhavilas et al.; Sustainability 2020, 12(10), 4280; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104280).
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome on theory/methods/applications, and case studies coming from cross-discipline aspects of sustainable engineering, energy, production, economics, and the environment.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Panagiotis K. Marhavilas
Prof. George Boustras
Prof. Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- risk management
- individual and societal risk
- risk assessment techniques
- risk analysis and engineering on constructions and industries
- risk acceptance criteria
- occupational safety and health
- energy engineering and management
- engineering and project management
- industrial ecology
- operations research methods and applications
- project economics and risk management
- sustainable engineering innovation and entrepreneurship
- safety and reliability
- intelligent methods
- decision support systems
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