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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…
Samuel A. Lawoyin, Ding-Yu Fei, Ou Bai
Introduction: Vehicular technologies intended for the improvement of driver safety are especially critical today in the view of the thousands of deaths that occur annually due to drowsy driving. Current technologies include physiological methods like electroe…
Christopher Allen Janicak
Background: Exposure to asbestos continues to be a concern for workers in the construction industry. Asbestos can still be found in many construction products and in hundreds of thousands of buildings in the United States. Methods: Data from OSHA’s Integrated…
Akihiko Hidaka, Yuichiro Izato, Atsumi Miyake
Japanese chemical companies should extensively study the accidental fires and explosions that occurred in the industrial complexes of Japan in 2011 and 2012. We picked two major accidents and distributed questionnaires to large chemical companies in the Keihi…
Yukinobu Yoshida, Akihiko Ito, Hiroyuki Torikai
Flame spread in urban fire depends on quantity of combustible materials and their placement. The purpose of this study is to predict the flame-spread route by the rate of combustible area. In this experiment, we used combustible cube made from filter paper as…
Mehrzad Ebrahemzadih, G. H. Halvani, Behzad Shahmoradi, Omid Giahi
Background: Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a widely used quality improvement and risk assessment tool in manufacturing. The aim of this study is to assess potential hazards by failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) method in Yazd Steel Complex.…
Corneliu Bob
This paper has been prepared from basic works published, mainly, after 2008 when the collapse investigation was made available. The main contributions of the paper are: a proper model for the deflections at mid-span of the bridge, the state of stress in elast…
Damien Burlet-Vienney, Yuvin Chinniah, Ary Pizarro-Chong
Workers performing maintenance, repair and un-jamming operations on industrial machines and processes are required to follow lockout procedures in accordance with occupational health and safety regulations. However, industries seem to have difficulties in the…
Alireza Noorpoor, Ali Ahmadi Orkomi
A study has been conducted at the Tehran cement factory to recognize and analyze the major noise emission source machineries. Cement industry has many process units. Basically all of these units or stages can be considered as a source of noise. Since noise po…
Jan K. Wachter, Patrick L. Yorio
Based on survey results from over fifty groups of workers and their employees, it has been determined that worker perceptions related to safety climate, interactional justice, and task and team safety proficiency behaviors act as mediators between a system of…
Yuji Ohue, Keita Miyoshi
In order to investigate the influence factors on HIC (Head Injury Criterion) score of shock attenuation materials employed around playground, impact tests were carried out in accordance with ASTM standard. Four kinds of the commercial shock attenuation materi…
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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… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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