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On current crowd management practices and the need for increased situation awareness, prediction, and intervention

C. Martella, J. Li, C. Conrado, A. Vermeeren

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 381-393

Recent accidents (News, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2015) show that crowded events can quickly turn into tragedies. The goal of crowd management is to avoid such accidents through careful planning and implementation. Crowd management practices are collaborative efforts between the different actors of the crowd management team and the crowd that depend on effective handling, sharing, and communication of information...

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A Monte Carlo evolution of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) to assess performance variability in complex systems

Riccardo Patriarca, Giulio Di Gravio, Francesco Costantino

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 49-60

Modern trends of socio-technical systems analysis suggest the development of an integrated view on technological, human and organizational system components. The Air Traffic Management (ATM) system can be taken as an example of one of the most critical socio-technical system, deserving particular attention in managing operational risks and safety. In the ATM system environment, the traditional techniques...

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Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility

Izaskun Larrieta-Rubín de Celis, Sara Fernández de Bobadilla-Güémez, María del Mar Alonso-Almeida, Eva Velasco-Balmaseda

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 61-70

This study measures the extent to which the gender perspective is taken into account in Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) management and proposes an innovative approach for managing it. This work is an exploratory study of the relations between women’s OHS and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through the examination of the main management practices that literature supports in a survey conducted...

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Beyond procedures: Team reflection in a rail control centre to enhance resilience

A.W. Siegel, J.M.C. Schraagen

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 181-191

Resilience engineering concepts can complement proceduralization of complex sociotechnical systems (STS). Proceduralization aims at defining precise and quantified system objectives, and at defining a process that describes and prescribes how to achieve those objectives. Although proceduralization has been successfully implemented to capture knowledge and experience, it is limited when the unexpected...

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Using catastrophe theory to describe railway system safety and discuss system risk concept

Yangpeng Wang, Ulrich Alois Weidmann, Huashen Wang

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 269-285

Catastrophe theory can describe a continuous process that is undergoing abrupt changes. A dynamic process can be considered a cusp catastrophe if it has the following five qualities: bimodality, sudden transitions, hysteresis, inaccessibility, and divergence. In this paper, the cusp catastrophe model is applied to describe the dynamic changing process of railway system safety. This dynamic process...

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Study on earthquake risk reduction from the perspectives of the elderly

Xiaoxin Zhu, Baiqing Sun

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 326-334

In many areas, disasters are a paramount risk to the lives and livelihoods of people and to their social-economic development. Earthquakes are among the most dangerous geologic phenomena on our planet. The elderly are particularly exposed to disaster risk and are likely to suffer from higher rates of mortality, morbidity and economic damage to their livelihoods. However, they are seldom given due...

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Development of a monograph for human error likelihood assessment in marine operations

Rabiul Islam, Hongyang Yu, Rouzbeh Abbassi, Vikram Garaniya, more

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 33-39

Human error is a dominant factor in marine operations, on a daily basis many accidents occur due to human error during maintenance activities of ships. Assessment of the likelihood of human error is essential to minimize accidents and incidents during maintenance operations of marine engines. Most of the current techniques to estimate Human Error Probability (HEP) require significant technical and...

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Leading or lagging? Temporal analysis of safety indicators on a large infrastructure construction project

Helen Lingard, Matthew Hallowell, Rico Salas, Payam Pirzadeh

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 206-220

Safety performance data collected over a five year period, at a large Australian infrastructure project was analysed. The analysis examined the temporal relationships between the safety performance indicators measured at the project, including traditional lagging indicators, as well as expected leading indicators. The purpose of the research was to uncover time dependent relationships and explore...

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Driver behavior with a smartphone collision warning application – A field study

Assaf Botzer, Oren Musicant, Amir Perry

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 361-372

The potential of collision warning systems (CWS) to prevent or mitigate rear end collisions has been repeatedly demonstrated in both simulator and on-road studies. Still, their market penetration rate has remained slow. Collision warning smartphone applications (CWSA) may assist in stimulating wider adoption of collision warning technology, as they are considerably less expensive and are immediately...

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Analysis of the ‘News Divine’ stampede disaster

Jaime Santos-Reyes, Samuel Olmos-Peña

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 11-23

The paper presents the results of an analysis of the ‘News Divine’ human stampede which occurred on 20th June 2008 in Mexico City. As a consequence of the disaster, twelve people were killed and dozens were left injured. The approach has been the application of the Management Oversight Risk Tree (MORT) technique and the FIST (Force, Information, Space, Time) model. The MORT is intended to look at...

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Near-miss management systems and observability-in-depth: Handling safety incidents and accident precursors in light of safety principles

Maria Grazia Gnoni, Joseph Homer Saleh

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 154-167

Accident precursors and near-miss management systems (NMS) are important safety tools in industries with major accident hazards, such as the airline industry, the nuclear industry, and the chemical industry, and they are increasingly adopted in other sectors such as manufacturing, construction, and health care. The aim of a NMS is to “harvest value” from near-miss data by assessing and prioritizing...

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Likely behaviours of passengers under emergency evacuation in train station

Nirajan Shiwakoti, Richard Tay, Peter Stasinopoulos, Peter Jarrod Woolley

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 40-48

This paper explores the likely behaviours of train passengers in an emergency evacuation and examines four crucial theoretical issues on the passengers’ evacuation, including reactive vs. proactive behaviours, cooperative vs. competitive behaviours, symmetry breaking, and route/exit choice.A survey of 1134 train passengers shows that respondents are not homogeneous in their likely behaviours. Overall,...

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Managing major accident risk: Concerns about complacency and complexity in practice

Ingrid Årstad, Terje Aven

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 114-121

In this paper, we are concerned with understanding safety issues presented as complacency issues in relation to major accidents. Using insights gained through accident reports as well as theoretical analysis, we seek to understand why current practices often induce a misleading overconfidence in risk management. We argue that the main challenge lies with our ability to acknowledge complexity in practice...

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A novel train control approach to avoid rear-end collision based on geese migration principle

Junfeng Wang, Jungang Wang, Clive Roberts, Lei Chen, more

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 373-380

For current train interval control based on Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, when the ATP outputs erroneous commands or is unable to realize fail-safety in the case of ATP equipment failure, train rear-end collision will be likely to happen. The “7.23” train accident happened in 2011 in China is a typical example. A method of parallel control of train interval by using both Centralized Traffic...

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Personal factors and consequences of electrical occupational accidents in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors

Juan Castillo-Rosa, Manuel Suárez-Cebador, Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero, Jose Antonio Aguado

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 286-297

Electrical accidents at work are characterised by the severity of the damage caused. Since the circumstances surrounding this type of accidents can have an impact on their outcome, this study identifies significant relationships between personal factors and the consequences of these accidents for various sectors of activity. This study is based on an analysis of dependence relationships in 55 categories...

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The effect of traffic intensity and animal activity on probability of ungulate-vehicle collisions in the Czech Republic

Tomáš Kušta, Zdeněk Keken, Miloš Ježek, Michaela Holá, more

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 105-113

Traffic infrastructure and its traffic flows has rapidly developed in recent decades. This development brings benefits to society, but on the other hand has many negative impacts on the environment. Among the most significant impacts of road traffic is direct mortality of free-ranging animals due to vehicle collisions.The main aim of this study was to compare the significance of traffic intensity...

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D-DEMATEL: A new method to identify critical success factors in emergency management

Xinyi Zhou, Yangqiuyan Shi, Xinyang Deng, Yong Deng

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 93-104

Due to the variety and destructiveness of disasters, emergency management has emerged as a world theme and attracted more and more public attention. A large quantity of research on optimizing the emergency management has been done while still has improvement space. In this paper, a new method called D-DEMATEL which combines D number theory and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL)...

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Studying critical pedestrian behavioral changes for the safety assessment at signalized crosswalks

Wael K.M. Alhajyaseen, Miho Iryo-Asano

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 351-360

Pedestrian-vehicle conflicts are one of the most important safety concerns at signalized intersections especially in urban areas. Conflicting vehicles and pedestrians select their maneuvers by predicting the other user behavior. Sudden behavioral changes of pedestrians such as sudden speed change (acceleration or deceleration) cannot be predicted by drivers, which can lead to safety hazards especially...

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Optimal number and location planning of evacuation signage in public space

Zhe Zhang, Limin Jia, Yong Qin

Safety Science > 2017 > 91 > C > 132-147

The smooth and fast evacuation of a pedestrian group is dependent on guidance services provided by signage systems. This paper investigates the location method of an evacuation signage system in a public space. We proposed a calculation method to determine the guidance efficiency of signage and further present a piece-wise probability function to explain interactions between pedestrians and signage...

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CONSTRUCTION (3)
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NEAR MISSES (2)
RESILIENCE ENGINEERING (2)
RISK (2)
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TOWER CRANES (2)
ACCIDENT PRECURSORS (1)
ACCIDENTAL HAZARDS (1)
AHP (1)
ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (1)
ANP (1)
BRIDGES (1)
CASE STUDIES (1)
CLEANING WORK (1)
CLUSTER ANALYSIS (1)
COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM (1)
COLLISION AVOIDANCE TECHNOLOGY (1)
COLLISION WARNING (1)
COMPLACENCY (1)
COMPLEXITY (1)
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN (1)
CONSEQUENCES (1)
COOPERATIVE (1)
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (1)
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (1)
CROSSWALK GEOMETRY (1)
CROWD DISASTER (1)
CROWD DYNAMICS (1)
CROWD MANAGEMENT (1)
CROWD MONITORING (1)
CTC&ATP (1)
CUSP CATASTROPHE (1)
D NUMBERS (1)
D-DEMATEL (1)
DANGEROUS GOODS (1)
DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA) (1)
DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEMS (1)
DEMATEL (1)
DEMPSTER-SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY (1)
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) (1)
DRIVER ASSISTANCE TECHNOLOGY (1)
EARTHQUAKE (1)
ECONOMIC CRISIS (1)
ECONOMIC RESILIENCE (1)
ELECTRICAL ACCIDENTS (1)
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (1)
EMPIRICAL DATA (1)
EVACUATION (1)
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FAIL-SAFE (1)
FATALITIES (1)
FINE KINNEY METHOD (1)
FIST MODEL (1)
FRAM (1)
FREQUENCY (1)
FUZZY DEMATEL (1)
GENDER DIFFERENCES (1)
GENDER EQUALITY (1)
GPS TELEMETRY (1)
HEALTH AND SAFETY PRACTITIONER (1)
HEALTH PROMOTION (1)
HFACS-RAS (1)
HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY (1)
HOLISTIC APPROACHES (1)
HUMAN ERROR (1)
HUMAN FACTOR (1)
HUMAN STAMPEDE (1)
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INJURIES (1)
INTEGRATED RESILIENCE ENGINEERING (IRE) (1)
INTERACTION (1)
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MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES (1)
MAJOR ACCIDENTS (1)
MARINE OPERATIONS (1)
MOBILE SENSING (1)
MONOGRAPHS (1)
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MORT (1)
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On current crowd management practices and the need for increased situation awareness, prediction, and intervention

A Monte Carlo evolution of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) to assess performance variability in complex systems

Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility

Beyond procedures: Team reflection in a rail control centre to enhance resilience

Using catastrophe theory to describe railway system safety and discuss system risk concept

Study on earthquake risk reduction from the perspectives of the elderly

Development of a monograph for human error likelihood assessment in marine operations

Leading or lagging? Temporal analysis of safety indicators on a large infrastructure construction project

Driver behavior with a smartphone collision warning application – A field study

Analysis of the ‘News Divine’ stampede disaster

Near-miss management systems and observability-in-depth: Handling safety incidents and accident precursors in light of safety principles

Likely behaviours of passengers under emergency evacuation in train station

Managing major accident risk: Concerns about complacency and complexity in practice

A novel train control approach to avoid rear-end collision based on geese migration principle

Personal factors and consequences of electrical occupational accidents in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors

The effect of traffic intensity and animal activity on probability of ungulate-vehicle collisions in the Czech Republic

D-DEMATEL: A new method to identify critical success factors in emergency management

Studying critical pedestrian behavioral changes for the safety assessment at signalized crosswalks

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Optimal number and location planning of evacuation signage in public space

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