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Engineering Safety Prevention and Sustainable Risk Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 February 2025 | Viewed by 1647

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Murat Gunduz

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Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar
Interests: safety management; risk management; construction project management; performance measurement

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

For many reasons, risk management and safety prevention are essential in engineering. Having poor safety and risk management systems can have negative effects on a company’s reputation, finances, and legal status. There may be large financial consequences, including cost overruns, project delays and quality issues. Fundamental to engineering practice, safety prevention and risk management guarantee not only life safety but also legal compliance, financial stability, a sustained reputation, higher productivity levels, project success, and environmental conservation.

Effective safety and risk management can also boost staff motivation and operational effectiveness. Industry professionals may optimize project workflows and reduce interruptions by detecting and addressing possible risks and hazards early on, which will eventually save time and money.  Furthermore, the effects of safety accidents can reach well beyond the immediate stakeholders in today’s linked world, where news spreads quickly through social media and internet platforms.

Furthermore, stakeholders anticipate that engineering firms will successfully manage risks in their operations given the growing emphasis on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Through the incorporation of risk management into their operations, businesses can exhibit their dedication to sustainable development.

The aim of this Special Issue is to advance risk management and safety precautions for a sustainable environment. The foundations of engineering practice that support legal compliance, financial stability, reputation management, operational efficiency, worker well-being, environmental preservation, and social responsibility are safety prevention and risk management. Engineering companies may reduce risks, safeguard assets, and guarantee long-term success in a constantly changing global environment by giving priority to these factors.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • safety management;
  • risk management and decision making;
  • occupational health and safety;
  • sustainable risk management;
  • sustainable technologies for risk and safety management.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Murat Gunduz
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • safety management
  • risk management
  • occupational health and safety
  • sustainability
  • hazards
  • risks

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Investigating the Interrelationships between Advanced Technologies and Safety Performance Factors: The Case of Higher Education Construction Projects
by Yasir Alhammadi, Mohammad S. Al-Mohammad and Rahimi A. Rahman
Sustainability 2024, 16(19), 8585; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16198585 - 3 Oct 2024
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The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry faces ongoing challenges in enhancing safety performance. Despite the availability of advanced technologies for enhancing safety, there is limited understanding of the inter-relationships among safety factors and advanced technologies for enhancing safety performance. This study aims [...] Read more.
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry faces ongoing challenges in enhancing safety performance. Despite the availability of advanced technologies for enhancing safety, there is limited understanding of the inter-relationships among safety factors and advanced technologies for enhancing safety performance. This study aims to investigate the inter-relationships among factors affecting safety performance and advanced technologies. A questionnaire survey was disseminated to construction professionals to assess the criticality of factors and strategies. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The findings indicate that 16 factors and eight advanced technologies are critical for enhancing safety. The EFA grouped 11 critical factors into four underlying groupings: safety planning and hazard prevention, workplace environment and supervision, employee safety support, and medical readiness and site protection. Moreover, the EFA grouped the eight critical advanced technologies into two underlying groupings: advanced digital technologies and personal and site monitoring technologies. The correlation analysis demonstrates measurable but weak associations between the factors and advanced technologies, indicating the need for future research to explore additional variables that may impact these relationships. The findings help construction professionals prioritize resources to address the specific groupings of critical factors and advanced technologies. Full article
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Research on the Prediction of Sustainable Safety Production in Building Construction Based on Text Data
by Jifei Fan, Daopeng Wang, Ping Liu and Jiaming Xu
Sustainability 2024, 16(12), 5081; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125081 - 14 Jun 2024
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Given the complexity and variability of modern construction projects, safety risk management has become increasingly challenging, while traditional methods exhibit deficiencies in handling complex dynamic environments, particularly those involving unstructured text data. Consequently, this study proposes a text data-based risk prediction method for [...] Read more.
Given the complexity and variability of modern construction projects, safety risk management has become increasingly challenging, while traditional methods exhibit deficiencies in handling complex dynamic environments, particularly those involving unstructured text data. Consequently, this study proposes a text data-based risk prediction method for building construction safety. Initially, heuristic Chinese automatic word segmentation, which incorporates mutual information, information entropy statistics, and the TF-IDF algorithm, preprocesses text data to extract risk factor keywords and construct accident attribute variables. At the same time, the Spearman correlation coefficient is utilized to eliminate the multicollinearity between feature variables. Next, the XGBoost algorithm is employed to develop a model for predicting the risks associated with safe production. Its performance is optimized through three experimental scenarios. The results indicate that the model achieves satisfactory overall performance after hyperparameter tuning, with the prediction accuracy and F1 score reaching approximately 86%. Finally, the SHAP model interpretation technique identifies critical factors influencing the safety production risk in building construction, highlighting project managers’ attention to safety, government regulation, safety design, and emergency response as critical determinants of accident severity. The main objective of this study is to minimize human intervention in risk assessment and to construct a text data-based risk prediction model for building construction safety production using the rich empirical knowledge embedded in unstructured accident text, with the aim of reducing safety production accidents and promoting the sustainable development of construction safety in the industry. This model not only enables a paradigm shift toward intelligent risk control in safety production but also provides theoretical and practical insights into decision-making and technical support in safety production. Full article
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