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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…
Haiwang Ye, Wen Li
Malugou Dump is close to Jinduicheng Molybdenum surfaces mine and affected by blasting vibration all its lifetime, it is meaningful to monitor the blasting vibration and analyze the stability of dump under blasting vibration so as to ensure the safety of the…
Harisha Kinilakodi, Robert Larry Grayson, Samuel Adekunle Oyewole
Following up on a recommendation by the Mine Safety Technology and Training Commission relative to the modification of the Australian risk assessment approach for application to U.S. mines, the authors had previously developed the Safe Performance Index (SPI)…
Tamás János Katona
Assessment of seismic safety of the nuclear power plants requires knowledge of plant fragilities. In the paper, preliminary analysis is made on use of the cumulative absolute velocity in modelling of fatiguetype seismic damage. The dependence of the cumulativ…
King-Fai Cheng, Ping-Chung Leung
Safety of drugs is a common concern, regardless of traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine. Historical experiences tell us that ignored drug safety evaluation would lead to serious consequences. Although Chinese medicine has been used for thousands o…
Janne Sinisammal, Pekka Belt, Janne Härkönen, Matti Möttönen, Seppo Väyrynen
Current working life is turbulent making maintaining well-being at work challenging. This turbulence necessitates working organisations and their managers to be more sensitive and agile. Managers must understand the human role in technical and organisational…
Yuichi Otsuka, Hiroshi Noguchi
We aim at a management framework of an organization in order to achieve its safety in a limited case for a system in-volving the organization for the service, its users and the surrounding society. The proposed framework is possible to allow safety managers t…
Ren G. Dong, Christopher S. Pan, Jared J. Hartsell, Daniel E. Welcome, Tim Lutz, Anne Brumfield, James R. Harris, John Z. Wu, Bryan Wimer, Victor Mucino, Kenneth Means
The tip-over of scissor lifts in operation has frequently resulted in the death and/or severe injuries of workers. The objective of this study is to enhance the understanding of its major mechanisms and factors influencing scissor lift stability. Both experim…
Yuichi Otsuka, Hamirdin Bin Baron, Yoshiharu Mutoh
A stress relief groove is introduced in the R area and the stress is analyzed using a finite element method (FEM). Then the relief of the stress concentration in the vicinity of the pressure vessel is measured based on these results. When designing a stress r…
Ikechukwu A. Diugwu
Poor health and safety record impact on the image/reputation and operational capabilities of businesses, especially those within the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector. Given the role of SMEs in the economy, this paper attempts to highlight the issue of…
Hafida Bouloiz, Emmanuel Garbolino, Mohamed Tkiouat
The purpose of this paper is to propose a model of risk analysis which combines two tools belonging to a different context. These both tools are MADS (Model of Analysis of Dysfunctional Systems) and UML (Unified Model Language). The proposed method aims to in…
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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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