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Sustainable Safety Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 6266

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Dong Ho Rie

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Department of Safety Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea
Interests: fire risk assessment; fire safety material; fire safety performance-based design; evacuation performance evaluation
Prof. Dr. In-Ju Kim

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
Interests: pedestrian safety; floor and walkway safety; sustainability and designs; footwear safety and designs; nanotechnology applications to safety and health areas; injury analysis and prevention; industry and occupational safety and consultation
Prof. Dr. Chang Geun Song

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Department of Safety Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea
Interests: disaster management; safety system; risk analysis; flood and inundation; fluid dynamics
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Prof. Dr. Min Chul Lee

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Department of Safety Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea
Interests: fire safety; combustion instability; combustion diagnostics of a gas turbine; safety issues related to energy and the environment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues

“Sustainable Safety Development” is a Special Issue of Sustainability aimed at dealing with imperative issues of safety management and risk reduction. This issue will cover extensive topics on safety developments such as risk assessment, occupational and environmental hazards, emergency response, complex disaster cases, and their risk reductions, chemical hazards, and vulnerability analysis. This collection also welcomes papers on all other areas of safety topics, including traffic, workplace, home, and community.

With unprecedented rates of urban growth, people in city areas are more vulnerable to a wide range of hazards than ever before. In this context, this Special Issue on “Sustainable Safety Development” will cover diverse themes on safety and disaster management. This issue will constitute a collection of the current advances in risk explorations and cutting-edge technologies to mitigate hazards and prevent them. Achieved works from this Special Issue will provide great relevance to international and multidisciplinary readerships in order to promote scientific predictions and impact assessments of global safety issues.

Prof. Dr. Dong Ho Rie
Prof. Dr. In-Ju Kim
Prof. Dr. Chang Geun Song
Prof. Dr. Min Chul Lee
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Risk assessment
  • Occupational and environmental hazards
  • Emergency response
  • Complex disasters
  • Chemical hazards
  • Disaster risk reduction
  • Vulnerability analysis
  • All areas of safety, including traffic, workplace, home, and community

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A Study on the Application of the Safety Practice Index to Reduce Safety Accidents in the Manufacturing Industry
by Heonseok Kim, Jongin Kim and Dongho Rie
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 10990; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910990 - 3 Oct 2021
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Human casualties caused by industrial accidents pose a serious threat to corporate management due to the continual strengthening of safety laws as well as changes in the public’s awareness of corporate social responsibility. Accordingly, companies are raising safety awareness among employees by regularly [...] Read more.
Human casualties caused by industrial accidents pose a serious threat to corporate management due to the continual strengthening of safety laws as well as changes in the public’s awareness of corporate social responsibility. Accordingly, companies are raising safety awareness among employees by regularly conducting on-site safety activities and training to prevent industrial accidents. However, the safety activities, education, and training of many companies are not carried out voluntarily or in practice by their employees, but mostly through formal implementation. To break away from these customary and passive behaviors and establish a mature safety culture, it is crucial to strengthen the execution capacity of safety management in the field; to this end, we plan to utilize the safety practice index (SPI). The safety practice index (SPI), which quantitatively represents the degree of safety practice, is necessary to increase the effectiveness of safety management for the purpose of preventing accidents. In this study, the correlation was verified by comparing the SPI calculated based on the 2018 and 2019 risk management and the safety activity results of manufacturer A with the reported safety accidents. It was also effective in improving the SPI and reducing safety accidents in 2020 by supplementing the weaknesses of the SPI in 2018 and 2019. According to the results of this study, SPI can be used as an effective indicator for safety accident prevention activities by supplementing weaknesses with strengths through strengthening leadership and safety policies, such as classifying and managing the safety management level of a specific period or department. Full article
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A Novel Multicriteria Decision Making Model for Sustainable Stormwater Management
by Khaled Alkhaledi, Allison Arnold, Kenneth Means, In-Ju Kim and Salaheddine Bendak
Sustainability 2020, 12(22), 9508; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229508 - 15 Nov 2020
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Precipitation not absorbed by the soil or local vegetation and remain on the surface leading to stormwater can cause soil erosion, flooding, property damage, and overflow to wastewater treatment facilities. This paper introduces a novel multicriteria decision-making model to choose among various sustainable [...] Read more.
Precipitation not absorbed by the soil or local vegetation and remain on the surface leading to stormwater can cause soil erosion, flooding, property damage, and overflow to wastewater treatment facilities. This paper introduces a novel multicriteria decision-making model to choose among various sustainable solutions that can help in managing stormwater. This model is intended to help decision-makers in handling stormwater through proper utilization of precipitation while ensuring public safety and adhering to runoff regulations. The model also aims to present sustainable technologies that can help in reducing harmful stormwater overflows. As a way of constructing and validating the model, precipitation and other relevant data from the North-Eastern region of the United States were used. The model can be altered though to suit other regions in the world. The model was further validated by seeking the opinion of a group of experts on its constructs. Statistical analysis identified high item-to-total correlations for model constructs and a model Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.84 leading to conclude that the model is valid. Yet, green solutions presented in this study and the developed model should be considered as a first step in determining sustainable stormwater solutions and further research in this area is needed. Full article
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