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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…
Sandra Mónica da Silva Santos
Goals : Over time, t attooing has been better accepted and is now more prevalent. Consequently, the number of establishments and professionals increased. Methodology : This is an Exploratory/Observational/Analytical/ Cross-sectional s tudy. An online voluntar…
Owino A. Otieno, Paul M. Njogu, Dennis Magu
Recent epidemiological evidence demonstrates a consistent association of severe health effects with ambient particulate matter. Reduced life expectancy, as well as hospitalization for cardiorespiratory effects, and exacerbation of diseases such as asthma and…
Peace O. Ali, Maureen E. Wyse, Kayode O. Odeniyi, Olusanya E. Oludele, Erhuen Ejomafuvwe, Andrew John, Oluwaseun B. Faremi
This study was aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of safety management system (SMS) in a liquefied natural gas company. A 5-point Likert questionnaire ranging from “strongly disagree to strongly agree” questions was used to evaluate workers’ perception of…
Godwin J. Birma, Silas A. Agaja, Joyce C. Ndu
This study was aimed at evaluating safety culture in 20 chemical analytical laboratories in Oghara and Warri, Delta state. This was achieved through a determination of the safety performance between tertiary education chemical laboratories and industrial labo…
Abdoul Fayçal Baguian, Salifou Koucka Ouiminga, Sampawinde Augustin Zongo, Ibrahim Harouna Gado
The fire behaviour of five types of wood was studied on a microscale. Some thermophysical parameters such as thermal conductivity, effusivity and diffusivity were also evaluated. The microscale analysis is based on the analysis of several parameters such as t…
Nigussie Hailemariam Gebremeskel, Henok Fikre Gebregziabher
This paper is concerned with the current tunnel practices in Ethiopia, the main challenges and risks which were associated with tunneling, risk assessment and controlling measures. In this paper the qualitative risk analysis is performed based on the surveyed…
Donatus Eberechukwu Onwuegbuchunam, Kenneth Okechukwu Okeke, Moses Olatunde Aponjolosun, Chinemerem Igboanusi, Azuwueze Chikadibia Nwosu
Cargo handling operations are critical to port efficiency. Optimal utilization of cargo handling capacity is a challenge facing most ports in Nigeria and this has had an adverse effect on port operation ( i.e. ship and cargo operation). This paper assessed th…
Desalegn Yeshitila, Daniel Kitaw, Kassu Jilcha
The oil and gas industry with its stringent safety policies, standards, rules and procedures still experience minor-to-major operational accidents/incidents in petroleum exploration and production processes. The root causes of incidents in upstream and downst…
Kasra Karimi, Ardeshir Faghri, Michael Vaughan
The increasing number of traffic conflicts between farm vehicles (FVs) and other motorists on public roads has raised safety concerns for Delaware trans portation authorities. Farm Vehicle Crashes (FVCs) are less frequent than passenger car, truck, and motorc…
Changwen Li, Huabin Gao, Zhaoming Xu, Yan Huang
The dam break pattern of rock-fill dams is normally gradual failure. This kind of dam failure is caused by seepage piping or overtopping, in which dam crest overflow is more common. The dam breach expansion process shall depend comprehensively on the structur…
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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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