Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Natalia Marzia Gusmerotti, Niccolo Maria Todaro, Duccio Tosi, Francesco Testa
Summary: Employees' eco-initiatives play a crucial role in promoting sustainability in the workplace. This study examines the factors that influence employees' pro-environmental behaviors, including the work environment and individuals' cognitive dynamics. The results highlight the importance of green work climate and work meaningfulness in stimulating employees' eco-initiatives, and emphasize the role of supervisors in managing conflicting priorities between sustainability and productivity.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Hanneke Palmen, Miranda Sentse, Esther F. J. C. Van Ginneken, Anouk Q. Bosma
Summary: In order to perform their work effectively, correctional officers should feel safe. This study examined the impact of prison climate and work climate on officers' subjective safety. The findings suggest that work climate is more important than prison climate in determining officers' safety.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Divine Tuinese Novieto
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between safety climate, occupational safety behavior, and psychological ownership, and finds that safety climate positively predicts construction professional's safety behavior and psychological ownership. Furthermore, psychological ownership is found to predict occupational safety behavior and mediate the relationship between safety climate and occupational safety behavior.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Michelle Renecle, Matteo Curcuruto, Francisco Javier Gracia Lerin, Ines Tomas Marco
Summary: Mindful organising is a team-level capability that allows teams to anticipate and quickly act to maintain system stability in high-risk operations. A study on chemical workers found that a high level of safety priority in a team is crucial for mindful organising to develop, leading to increased safety citizenship and compliance with safety protocol.
Article
Business
Yimo Shen, Wan-Ju Chou, John M. Schaubroeck, Jun Liu
Summary: The present study examines the mediating role of harmonious passion in the relationship between benevolent leadership and employee performance, specifically job performance and organizational citizenship behavior. The findings suggest that benevolent leaders satisfy employees' psychological needs, which in turn promotes harmonious passion and boosts employee performance. Trust climate was found to moderate the indirect effect of harmonious passion on employee performance, indicating that the positive indirect relationship between benevolent leadership and employee performance via harmonious passion is significant when trust climate is higher. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Kristina Vaktskjold Hamre, Stale Valvatne Einarsen, Guy Notelaers
Summary: Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and safety signal theory, this study investigates the moderating effect of an organization's psychosocial safety climate (PSC) on the relationships between individual experience of role stressors and workplace bullying. The results show that both role ambiguity and role conflict are related to reports of workplace bullying, and an organization's PSC is negatively associated with workplace bullying. Furthermore, the organization's PSC moderates the association between role conflict and workplace bullying across organizations, and to a lesser extent, the association between role ambiguity and workplace bullying.
Article
Business
Jian Guan, Zhimin Gao, Justin Tan, Weizheng Sun, Fan Shi
Summary: Through mixed-ownership reform, China aims to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of state-owned enterprises by introducing diversity of ownership interests. Research shows that board chairs have a noticeable impact on financial performance, which is reduced by mixed-ownership reform.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Virginia Gewin, Chenxi Xu
Summary: Palaeoclimatologist Chenxi Xu traces annual growth rings to identify periods of heavy rainfall or drought over centuries by analyzing the sources of water.
Article
Business
Xingyi Zhang, Smita Singh, Jing Li, Xiaolong Shao
Summary: This research examined the effects of value co-creation strategies in events on attendees' citizenship behaviors, with a focus on the mediating roles of attendees' senses of empowerment and psychological ownership. The findings showed that events' value co-creation strategies positively influenced attendees' sense of empowerment, which in turn predicted their citizenship behaviors through their psychological ownership of the event. Moreover, the study revealed that the effects of value co-creation strategies varied between first-time and repeat attendees. These findings have implications for businesses in optimizing their events to promote positive attendee experiences and behaviors.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
Article
Business
Huw Flatau-Harrison, Mark A. Griffin, Marylene Gagne
Summary: This study explores the impact of safety climate strength on the relationship between safety climate perceptions and individual safety motivation in a safety critical context, revealing a negative influence of safety climate strength on safety motivation.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Yang Yang, Rui Yan, Yuting Gao, Feng Feng, Yan Meng
Summary: During serious emergencies, the uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of the external environment pose survival challenges for organizations and employees. By fostering a psychosocial safety climate, organizations can effectively stimulate employee organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) and overcome difficulties collaboratively. Resilience and employee trait gratitude play important roles in mediating the relationship between a psychosocial safety climate and OCBs.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sharon Newnam, Amanda Stephens, Carlyn Muir, Simon Bruce, Tim Austin, Tony Mazzeo
Summary: This study explored the factors influencing safety outcomes for incident responders working on high-speed roads and found that safety voice, safety motivation, and role clarity were significantly associated with safer results. These findings will guide the development of a training program to enhance the skills of these workers.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Amy Zadow, May Young Loh, Maureen Frances Dollard, Gro Ellen Mathisen, Bella Yantcheva
Summary: This study examines the relationship between psychosocial safety climate (PSC), work engagement, and creativity in a software engineering firm. The results indicate that PSC is positively related to individual fluctuations of creativity, work engagement, and job performance. Work engagement also mediates the relationship between PSC and creativity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nikki Forrester, Andrea Fischer
Summary: Glaciologist Andrea Fischer shares her firsthand experience of studying the constantly changing ice masses.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zeljko Zgrablic
Summary: This sentence briefly introduces the work of field mycologist Zeljko Zgrablic and his dog in tracking how climate change affects truffles.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Hao Sun, Haiqing Wang, Ming Yang, Genserik Reniers
Summary: To maintain continuous production, chemical plant operators may choose to ignore or handle faults online rather than shutting down process systems. However, the interaction and interdependence between components in a digitalized process system are significant, and faults can propagate to downstream nodes, potentially leading to risk accumulation and major accidents. This study proposes a dynamic risk assessment method that integrates the system-theoretic accident model and process approach (STAMP) with the cascading failure propagation model (CFPM) to model the risk accumulation process. The proposed method is applied to a Chevron refinery crude unit and demonstrates its effectiveness in quantifying the process of risk accumulation and providing real-time dynamic risk profiles for decision-making.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
M. Rempel
Summary: This article examines a major maritime disaster scenario and explores the evacuation process in such a situation. The study finds that there are various factors that affect the number of lives saved, including the uncertainty of individuals' medical condition, the arrival time of maritime and air assets, and the decision policies used. The authors formulate the multi-domain operation as a sequential decision problem using a modeling framework and provide decision support through a hypothetical case study.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
D. Scorgie, Z. Feng, D. Paes, F. Parisi, T. W. Yiu, R. Lovreglio
Summary: This study investigates the application and effectiveness of VR safety training solutions in various industries such as construction, fire, aviation, and mining. The findings suggest a need for more studies that adopt theories and measure long-term retention. Two meta-analyses demonstrate that VR safety training outperforms traditional training in terms of knowledge acquisition and retention.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Shital Thekdi, Terje Aven
Summary: This paper examines biases in risk studies and investigates how to identify and address them to ensure high-quality risk analysis. By considering biases related to systematic error, event inclusion, models, and cognitive factors, the paper explores their influence on risk characterization. The insights gained from this exploration can be valuable to risk analysts, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in risk study applications.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Maryam Lari
Summary: Occupational health and safety (OHS) are crucial for employee well-being and productivity. This study examines the impact of OHS practices on employee productivity in a UAE Fire and Security company, finding that OHS interventions can enhance workplace ambiance and significantly boost employee productivity.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Elleke Ketelaars, Cyrille Gaudin, Simon Flandin, Germain Poizat
Summary: This systematic literature review examines the literature on resilience training (RT), specifically focusing on the effectiveness of RT interventions in preparing professionals to effectively respond to critical situations. The review identifies five types of RT and suggests the need for conceptual advancements, vocational education and training perspectives, and a cross-disciplinary approach in future research to enhance resilience in safety-related domains.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Meng Shi, Zhichao Zhang, Wenke Zhang, Yi Ma, Hanbo Li, Eric Wai Ming Lee
Summary: This study investigates pedestrian behaviours and evacuation processes in both fire and non-fire conditions using Minecraft. The results demonstrate the potential of Minecraft for realistically simulating evacuation processes, as the behaviours and flow patterns of pedestrians in virtual experiments fit well with real-life experiments. The study also shows that pedestrians exhibit fire avoidance behaviours and orderly queuing during a fire emergency, resulting in faster evacuation.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Andrea Bikfalvi, Esperanza Villar Hoz, Gerusa Gimenez Leal, Monica Gonzalez-Carrasco, Nuria Mancebo
Summary: This paper proposes a solution for integrating occupational safety and health (OSH) into education, combining theoretical foundations and empirical evidence. The findings include analysis of teachers as stakeholders, barriers and facilitators of OSH integration, and the development of an ICT tool for interaction and sharing in this field. The main contribution lies in envisioning, orchestrating, and validating a solution to integrate OSH into schools and ultimately contribute to sustainable development goals.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
David Rehak, Alena Splichalova, Martin Hromada, Neil Walker, Heidi Janeckova, Josef Ristvej
Summary: This article discusses the adoption of a new directive on the resilience of critical entities and emphasizes the importance of assessing their level of resilience in relation to current security threats. The authors have developed a tool, known as the CERFI Tool, which uses a probabilistic algorithm to predict the failure point of critical entity resilience based on the relationship between threat intensity and protection. The tool is important for increasing the safety of technically oriented infrastructures, particularly in the energy and transport sectors.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Leonardo Leoni, Ahmad Bahootoroody, Mohammad Mahdi Abaei, Alessandra Cantini, Farshad Bahootoroody, Filippo De Carlo
Summary: This paper presents a systematic bibliometric analysis (SBA) on the research of machine learning and deep learning in the field of safety. The main research areas, application fields, relevant authors and studies, and temporal evolution are investigated. It is found that rotating equipment, structural health monitoring, batteries, aeroengines, and turbines are popular fields, and there is an increase in popularity of deep learning and new approaches such as deep reinforcement learning.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Tom Becker, Peter Ayton
Summary: By analyzing global civil aviation data, we found that there is a significant increase in the number of accidents and safety critical incidents, as well as the fatalities, when the Pilot-in-Command acts as the Pilot Flying instead of the Pilot Monitoring. Most of these events occurred in technically airworthy aircraft without any emergencies, and the flight crew assessed them as preventable. These findings align with the crew assignment effect, suggesting that role-dependent status hierarchy and cognitive overload contribute to ineffective flight crew teamwork. The measures implemented to enhance flight crew teamwork, such as Crew Resource Management training, have not been successful in preventing these issues.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Ben Hutchinson, Sidney Dekker, Andrew Rae
Summary: This study found that health and safety audits often fail to identify critical deficiencies, with corrective actions mainly focusing on superficial fixes rather than addressing significant operational risks.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Sina Rasouli, Yaghoub Alipouri, Shahin Chamanzad
Summary: Construction projects are risky environments, but the development of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and comprehensive safety management can effectively control the number of accidents.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Laura Mills, Verity Truelove
Summary: This study investigated the use of police location communities (PLCs) for obtaining information about roadside drug testing (RDT) among drivers, and found that drivers who used PLCs were more concerned about being caught for drug driving, had a better understanding of the related penalties and procedures, and knew others who also used PLCs to avoid detection for drug driving. Furthermore, the study found that the use of PLCs was associated with choosing back roads for driving, which may reduce the risk of detection for drug driving.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Chao Wu, Xi Huang, Bing Wang
Summary: After decades of development, the safety discipline in China has made remarkable progress. The project led by the Safety & Security Theory Innovation and Promotion Center of Central South University has filled the gaps in safety science education by creating textbooks and courses for postgraduate students. These achievements have played an important role in the development of safety science and can serve as a reference for basic research and talent training in safety science globally.