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Open Journal of Safety Science and Technology (OJSST) is an openly accessible journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of safety science and tec…
Mohd Saidin Misnan, Wan Faida Wan Azmi, Sarajul Fikri Mohamed, Zuhaili Mohamad Ramly, Zakaria Mohd Yusof, Norazam Othman
The current and growing construction industry in the country has led to increasing of accidents related to construction workers. In an attempt to decrease accidents on site, the design safety concept is the most suitable measures to date. Though the impact is…
Ryo Takahashi, Hiroyuki Torikai, Akihiko Ito
The height of the pool fire depends on the amount of heat feedback from the flame to the fuel. In order to predict flame height in a partial gravity environment, we investigated the heat feedback amount of a small pool flame experimentally under normal to par…
Yasushi Iwatani, Hiroyuki Torikai
One of the central problems in fire safety science and technology is to reduce damage caused by both fires and fire-fighting processes. This paper provides a potential solution to the problem, and it derives from decentralization of fire-fighting agents. In p…
Bing Wu, Luyao Kou, Qi Ma
Accident analysis contributes much to improve the safety management of enterprises. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) is an accident analysis method popularly used overseas. Based on HFACS analysis method, this paper presents a new…
Falah H. Hussein, Wedad H. Al-Dahhan, Ali Jassim Al-Zuhairi, Kabrena E. Rodda, Emad Yousif
Scientists at universities across Iraq are actively working to report actual incidents and accidents occurring in their laboratories, as well as structural improvements made to improve safety and security, to raise awareness and encourage openness, leading to…
Dietmar Otte, Thorsten Facius
In the scope of COST Action TU1101 a field study of the use of bicycle helmets was carried out and different seating positions of the human body on the cycle were analyzed from photos to identify the vertical vision limit due to the helmet geometry of the cyc…
Daoliang Zhao, Batyr Yegenmammedov, Peichen Liu, Meiting Zhang
Building EXODUS software is used to calculate the evacuation times and simulate the evacuation behavior. The results and laws are compared with those from a 2D Cellular Automaton (CA) random evacuation model developed by our group. EXODUS simulation is more r…
Takanori Ayabe, Genji Shinpuku, Masaki Tomita, Sayoko Nakamura, Etsuko Yokoyama, Shigeko Shimizu, Manabu Okumura, Koichiro Itai, Isao Tsuneyoshi, Hideo Takeshima, Kunihide Nakamura
Background: We investigated the changes in consciousness of operating team staffs and the influences on the operating time after the implementation of the surgical safety checklist (SSC) using a questionnaire survey. Materials and Methods: 206 operating team…
Shingo Kuwana, Hidekazu Tamizu, Akihiko Ito, Hiroyuki Torikai
The purpose of this study is to reveal the flame spreading mechanism of tsunami fire. But the mechanism of tsunami fire is so complex that we couldn’t assess qualitatively. So the basic research on tsunami fire is needed. As a first step, we did flame spread…
Kyu Jin Han, Se Jin In
The flash point of flammable liquid mixture is very important parameter to characterize the ignition and explosion hazards. Flash points at 101.3 kPa were measured for several binary systems containing p -xylene, including {methanol + p -xylene}, {ethanol + p…
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