This paper describes safety management systems (SMSs) on five core aspects: definition,
evolution, models, purpose and common elements of SMSs. A safety management system …

The concept of near miss is quickly wide spreading from pioneer sectors-such as the
aviation and the chemical industries-to other ones, like construction and manufacturing. A …

Effective interventions are a priority in continuously changing occupational environments,
particularly in companies struggling to manage health and safety in the workplace …

Although theoretical analysis to near-miss accidents in construction industry has been
frequently advocated, the dynamic and temporal characters of time series of near-miss …

Many large construction organisations use safety observation reporting (SOR) as part of
their safety management system on sites, although research around their effectiveness in …

The Canadian railway industry has improved safety performance in the last decade as
measured by freight loss incidents per billion gross ton-miles. Further improvements in …

The operational performance of a chemical process plant highly depends on the assets'
condition and maintenance practices. As chemical processes are highly complex systems …

One in every five occupational deaths occurs in the construction sector. A proactive
approach for improving on-site safety is identifying and analyzing accident precursors, such …

Accident causation models can provide a framework of reference to help understand and
explain how an accident occurs. The role of information flow (IF) in accident causation is …

With the acceleration of urban development, the urban underground space (UUS) begins to
show the characteristics of a complex giant system. In most of the traditional risk assessment …