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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,375 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2024

The construction industry faces significant challenges in ensuring worker safety, encompassing both physical hazards and mental health concerns. Drawing on Social Exchange Theory (SET), this study explores the impact of perceived leadership support (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,789 Views
22 Pages

Learning-by-Doing Safety and Maintenance Practices: A Pilot Course

  • Giovanni Mazzuto,
  • Sara Antomarioni,
  • Giulio Marcucci,
  • Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica and
  • Maurizio Bevilacqua

5 August 2022

This paper presents an educational approach for teaching Industry 4.0 concepts to maintenance and safety operators involved in industrial processes. A Learning-by-doing approach was introduced to assess the impact of learning by doing and knowledge s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,235 Views
9 Pages

25 November 2021

Nursing students require experience in patient safety management to prevent accidents that compromise patient safety. This study examined the mediating effects of informal learning on nursing students’ patient safety management activities. Resp...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,021 Views
22 Pages

5 December 2023

Having a higher educational level has been proposed to reduce workers’ unsafe behavior. It remains unclear whether the improvement in safety performance can be enhanced by workers with higher education levels, an individual’s learning abi...

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  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,804 Views
26 Pages

Improving Safety Performance of Construction Workers through Learning from Incidents

  • Albert P. C. Chan,
  • Junfeng Guan,
  • Tracy N. Y. Choi,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Guangdong Wu and
  • Edmond Lam

Learning from incidents (LFI) is a process to seek, analyse, and disseminate the severity and causes of incidents, and take corrective measures to prevent the recurrence of similar events. However, the effects of LFI on the learner’s safety per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,573 Views
29 Pages

A Review of Deep Learning Applications for Railway Safety

  • Kyuetaek Oh,
  • Mintaek Yoo,
  • Nayoung Jin,
  • Jisu Ko,
  • Jeonguk Seo,
  • Hyojin Joo and
  • Minsam Ko

19 October 2022

Railways speedily transport many people and goods nationwide, so railway accidents can pose immense damage. However, the infrastructure of railways is so complex that its maintenance is challenging and expensive. Therefore, using artificial intellige...

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  • Open Access
98 Citations
17,658 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2022

Worker safety at construction sites is a growing concern for many construction industries. Wearing safety helmets can reduce injuries to workers at construction sites, but due to various reasons, safety helmets are not always worn properly. Hence, a...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,028 Views
20 Pages

31 October 2025

Psychological safety (PS), knowledge management (KM), and organizational learning (OL) are increasingly recognized as critical foundations for resilient, adaptive, and innovative organizations. However, the connections among these constructs remain f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,539 Views
31 Pages

Application of Machine Learning in Food Safety Risk Assessment

  • Qingchuan Zhang,
  • Zhe Lu,
  • Zhenqiao Liu,
  • Jialu Li,
  • Mingchao Chang and
  • Min Zuo

22 November 2025

With the increasing globalization of supply chains, ensuring food safety has become more complex, necessitating advanced approaches for risk assessment. This study aims to review the transformative role of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)...

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  • Open Access
253 Views
17 Pages

Although deep reinforcement learning has achieved great success in the field of autonomous driving, it still faces technical obstacles, such as balancing safety and efficiency in complex driving environments. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,719 Views
11 Pages

2 February 2023

Students’ behaviors have a close relationship with their learning efficiencies, particularly about professional knowledge. Different types of behaviors should have different influences. Disclosing the special relationship between undergraduate...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
10,390 Views
24 Pages

Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly applied for the control of safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in application areas that cannot easily be mastered with traditional control approaches, such as autonomous driving. As a consequence, the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,572 Views
15 Pages

A Complete Reinforcement-Learning-Based Framework for Urban-Safety Perception

  • Yaxuan Wang,
  • Zhixin Zeng,
  • Qiushan Li and
  • Yingrui Deng

Urban-safety perception is crucial for urban planning and pedestrian street preference studies. With the development of deep learning and the availability of high-resolution street images, the use of artificial intelligence methods to deal with urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,937 Views
16 Pages

13 March 2021

The use of neural networks and reinforcement learning has become increasingly popular in autonomous vehicle control. However, the opaqueness of the resulting control policies presents a significant barrier to deploying neural network-based control in...

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  • Open Access
1,369 Views
33 Pages

Transfer Learning for Generalized Safety Risk Detection in Industrial Video Operations

  • Luciano Radrigan,
  • Sebastián E. Godoy and
  • Anibal S. Morales

This paper proposes a transfer learning-based approach to enhance video-driven safety risk detection in industrial environments, addressing the critical challenge of limited generalization across diverse operational scenarios. Conventional deep learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,187 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2025

Safety remains a central challenge in autonomous driving: overly rigid safeguards can cause unnecessary stops and erode efficiency. Addressing this safety–efficiency trade-off requires specifying what behaviors to incentivize. In reinforcement...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,402 Views
18 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Applications for Safety Management in the AEC Industry: A Review

  • Lei Hou,
  • Haosen Chen,
  • Guomin (Kevin) Zhang and
  • Xiangyu Wang

16 January 2021

Safety is an essential topic to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. However, traditional methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) and jobsite safety management (JSM) are not only inefficient, but also costly. In the p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,006 Views
37 Pages

8 December 2021

The application of deep learning (DL) for solving construction safety issues has achieved remarkable results in recent years that are superior to traditional methods. However, there is limited literature examining the links between DL and safety mana...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,568 Views
48 Pages

Machine Learning in Maritime Safety for Autonomous Shipping: A Bibliometric Review and Future Trends

  • Jie Xue,
  • Peijie Yang,
  • Qianbing Li,
  • Yuanming Song,
  • P. H. A. J. M. van Gelder,
  • Eleonora Papadimitriou and
  • Hao Hu

Autonomous vessels are becoming paramount to ocean transportation, while they also face complex risks in dynamic marine environments. Machine learning plays a crucial role in enhancing maritime safety by leveraging its data analysis and predictive ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,819 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2023

Reinforcement learning (RL) is being gradually applied in the control of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems to learn the optimal control sequences for energy savings. However, due to the “trial and error” issue, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
21 Pages

23 January 2026

The widespread adoption of lithium-ion battery-powered electric vehicles has raised increasing concerns regarding battery safety under mechanical abuse conditions. However, mechanical abuse scenarios, such as battery extrusion, are highly diverse, ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,408 Views
24 Pages

Critical Parameter Identification for Safety Events in Commercial Aviation Using Machine Learning

  • HyunKi Lee,
  • Sasha Madar,
  • Santusht Sairam,
  • Tejas G. Puranik,
  • Alexia P. Payan,
  • Michelle Kirby,
  • Olivia J. Pinon and
  • Dimitri N. Mavris

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the application of data science techniques that leverage aviation data collected from commercial airline operations to improve safety. This paper presents the application of machine learning to improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,824 Views
24 Pages

24 December 2022

Different sets of drivers underlie different safety behaviors, and uncovering such complex patterns helps formulate targeted measures to cultivate safety behaviors. Machine learning can explore such complex patterns among safety behavioral data. This...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,315 Views
29 Pages

The Auckland Harbour Bridge (AHB) utilises a movable concrete barrier (MCB) to regulate the uneven bidirectional flow of daily traffic. In addition to the risk of human error during regular visual inspections, staff members inspecting the MCB work in...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,669 Views
11 Pages

There is a worldwide concern for young children’s online safety and a growing necessity for e-safety skills to be taught to children from a young age as part of formal schooling. The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,987 Views
23 Pages

16 January 2025

Every year, thousands of accidents occur in Poland, often resulting in severe injuries or even death. The implementation of solutions supporting road safety analysis and management processes is necessary to reduce the risk of accidents and minimize t...

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  • Open Access
782 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2025

This paper presents a methodological framework for selectively optimizing computer vision models for safety-critical applications. Through systematic processes of hyperparameter tuning alongside multitask learning, we attempt to create a highly inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,511 Views
11 Pages

23 February 2018

Improved water safety management, as addressed by the Sustainable Development Goals, can be aided by Water Safety Planning, a risk-assessment and risk-management approach introduced by the World Health Organization and implemented to date in 93 count...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
17,784 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2023

In this study, we used image recognition technology to explore different ways to improve the safety of construction workers. Three object recognition scenarios were designed for safety at a construction site, and a corresponding object recognition mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,160 Views
15 Pages

A traditional structural analysis of scaffolding structures requires loading conditions that are only possible during design, but not in operation. Thus, this study proposes a method that can be used during operation to make an automated safety predi...

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  • Open Access
62 Citations
3,126 Views
12 Pages

13 April 2020

This article presents a machine learning approach in a heterogeneous group of algorithms in a transport type model for the optimal distribution of tasks in safety-critical systems (SCS). Applied systems in the working area identify the determination...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,540 Views
23 Pages

Unmanned Aerial Systems and Deep Learning for Safety and Health Activity Monitoring on Construction Sites

  • Aliu Akinsemoyin,
  • Ibukun Awolusi,
  • Debaditya Chakraborty,
  • Ahmed Jalil Al-Bayati and
  • Abiola Akanmu

26 July 2023

Construction is a highly hazardous industry typified by several complex features in dynamic work environments that have the possibility of causing harm or ill health to construction workers. The constant monitoring of workers’ unsafe behaviors...

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  • Open Access
200 Views
16 Pages

Extreme Events and Dam Safety: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Spillway Erosion

  • Sanjeeta N. Ghimire,
  • Joseph Schulenberg and
  • Stefan Flynn

1 February 2026

This study examines the erosion potential of earthen spillways under the growing risks posed by changing climate and extreme flood events, which threaten the stability and safety of dam infrastructure. Specifically, it employs a machine learning appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,236 Views
19 Pages

Increasing the Safety of Adaptive Cruise Control Using Physics-Guided Reinforcement Learning

  • Sorin Liviu Jurj,
  • Dominik Grundt,
  • Tino Werner,
  • Philipp Borchers,
  • Karina Rothemann and
  • Eike Möhlmann

12 November 2021

This paper presents a novel approach for improving the safety of vehicles equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) by making use of Machine Learning (ML) and physical knowledge. More exactly, we train a Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) Reinforcement Learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,867 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2022

So far, studies for predicting construction safety accidents have mostly been conducted by statistical analysis methods that assume linear models, such as regression and time series analysis. However, it is difficult for this statistical analysis met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,709 Views
37 Pages

23 April 2025

This study advances crime analysis methodologies in Maryland by leveraging sophisticated machine learning (ML) techniques designed to cater to the state’s varied urban, suburban, and rural contexts. Our research utilized an enhanced combination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,269 Views
18 Pages

Deep Learning Approaches for Classifying Aviation Safety Incidents: Evidence from Australian Data

  • Aziida Nanyonga,
  • Keith Francis Joiner,
  • Ugur Turhan and
  • Graham Wild

1 October 2025

Aviation safety remains a critical area of research, requiring accurate and efficient classification of incident reports to enhance risk assessment and accident prevention strategies. This study evaluates the performance of three deep learning models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,156 Views
18 Pages

4 November 2024

Urban transportation systems, particularly underground interchanges, present significant challenges for sustainable and resilient urban design due to their complex road geometries and dense traffic signage. These challenges are further compounded by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
948 Views
27 Pages

22 November 2025

Over the last years collaborative robots have gained great success in manufacturing applications where human and robot work together in close proximity. However, current ISO/TS-15066-compliant implementations often limit the efficiency of collaborati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,734 Views
8 Pages

Deep Learning-Based System for Preoperative Safety Management in Cataract Surgery

  • Gaku Kiuchi,
  • Mao Tanabe,
  • Katsunori Nagata,
  • Naofumi Ishitobi,
  • Hitoshi Tabuchi and
  • Tetsuro Oshika

14 September 2022

An artificial intelligence-based system was implemented for preoperative safety management in cataract surgery, including facial recognition, laterality (right and left eye) confirmation, and intraocular lens (IOL) parameter verification. A deep-lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,137 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2022

Industrial IoT (IIoT) has revolutionized production by making data available to stakeholders at many levels much faster, with much greater granularity than ever before. When it comes to smart production, the aim of analyzing the collected data is usu...

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  • Open Access
783 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Road Safety: Predicting Traffic Accident Severity in Portugal Using Machine Learning

  • José Cunha,
  • José Silvestre Silva,
  • Ricardo Ribeiro and
  • Paulo Gomes

14 December 2025

Road traffic accidents remain a major global challenge, contributing to significant human and economic losses each year. In Portugal, the analysis and prevention of severe accidents are critical for optimizing the allocation of law enforcement resour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,675 Views
23 Pages

26 January 2022

The industrial manufacturing sector is undergoing a tremendous revolution moving from traditional production processes to intelligent techniques. Under this revolution, known as Industry 4.0 (I40), a robot is no longer static equipment but an active...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,798 Views
25 Pages

24 May 2024

Risk estimation holds significant importance in the selection of risk reduction measures and ensuring machinery safety. However, subjective influences of assessors lead to an inconsistent understanding of risk among relevant stakeholders, hindering t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,513 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2025

Human perception of urban streetscapes plays a crucial role in shaping human-centered urban planning and policymaking. Traditional studies on safety perception often rely on labor-intensive field surveys with limited spatial coverage, hindering large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,831 Views
24 Pages

3 June 2021

Speed advisories are used on highways to inform vehicles of upcoming changes in traffic conditions and apply a variable speed limit to reduce traffic conflicts and delays. This study applies a similar concept to intersections with respect to connecte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,910 Views
22 Pages

14 July 2025

Assessing building fire safety risks during the early design phase is vital for developing practical solutions to minimize loss of life and property. This study aims to identify research trends and provide a guiding framework for researchers by syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,746 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Hybrid Deep Learning-Based Train Running Safety Prediction Framework of Railway Vehicle

  • Hyunsoo Lee,
  • Seok-Youn Han,
  • Keejun Park,
  • Hoyoung Lee and
  • Taesoo Kwon

Train running safety is considered one of the key criteria for advanced highway trains and bogies. While a number of existing research studies have focused on its measurement and monitoring, this study proposes a new and effective train running a saf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,672 Views
18 Pages

31 March 2023

Unfortunately, accidents caused by bad weather have regularly made headlines throughout history. Some of the more catastrophic events to recently make news include a plane crash, ship collision, railway derailment, and several vehicle accidents. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,176 Views
13 Pages

Digital Training and Advanced Learning in Occupational Safety and Health Based on Modern and Affordable Technologies

  • Arso M. Vukićević,
  • Ivan Mačužić,
  • Marko Djapan,
  • Vladimir Milićević and
  • Luiza Shamina

10 December 2021

Occupational safety and health (OSH) is a very important issue for both practical purposes in industry and business due to numerous reasons, so a number of software, educational and industrial solutions are available. In this paper, the cloud-based m...

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