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2nd Edition of Industrial Safety and Risk Management

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2022) | Viewed by 4085

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gianpaolo Di Bona

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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, 03043 Cassino, Italy
Interests: RAMS analysis; process optimization; statistical process control; logistic and quality and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); sustainability
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Dr. Antonio Forcina

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Department of Engineering, Isola C4, Centro Direzionale Napoli, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80133 Naples, Italy
Interests: RAMS analysis; simulation; statistical process control; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); circular economy; sustainability; LCA/LCC analysis
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Dr. Filippo De Carlo

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Department of Industrial Engineering (DIEF), University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
Interests: industrial plant engineering; maintenance; industrial safety and risk; reliability; manufacturing systems; energy management
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Dr. Luca Silvestri

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Department of Engineering, University of Rome “Niccolò Cusano”, 00166 Rome, Italy
Interests: power plants; energy systems; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); automotive electrified powertrain; E-mobility; waste management; circular economy; sustainability; life cycle assessment (LCA); RAMS analysis; mechanical plant engineering; manufacturing; logistics; reliability and maintenance; industry 4.0
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Safety is one of the most important issues in modern industrial plants and industrial activities. The role of Safety Engineering is to ensure that production systems have acceptable safety levels, not only to respect local laws and regulations, but also to improve production efficiency and to reduce manufacturing costs. For these reasons, the choice of a proper model for risk assessment is crucial.

Emergency management in industrial plants is a fundamental issue to ensure the safety of operators. The emergency management analyzes two fundamental aspects: system reliability and human reliability. System reliability is the capability of ensuring the functional properties within a variability of work conditions, considering possible deviations due to unexpected events. However, system reliability is strongly related to the reliability of its weakest component. The complexity of the processes could generate incidental situations, and the worker appears (human reliability) to be the weakest part of the whole system.

This 2nd Edition of the Special Issue seeks research papers on various aspects of industrial safety, risk management, and reliability allocation in production systems. The main aims of this Special Issue are:

  • To provide a review of safety literature to identify the range of qualitative and quantitative techniques;
  • To carry out an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses;
  • To understand the connections between safety, reliability, and maintenance.
  • To understand the connections between human reliability and safety system
  • To understand the connections between occupational health and safety.

We especially encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work and multicountry collaborative research. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts presenting safety models that focus on issues related to industrial plants, production systems, and maintenance models. We welcome original research papers using different study designs as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Dr. Gianpaolo Di Bona
Dr. Antonio Forcina
Dr. Filippo De Carlo
Dr. Luca Silvestri
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. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2500 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

  • safety
  • reliability
  • human reliability analysis
  • risk analysis
  • accident evaluation
  • maintenance
  • safety and reliability allocation

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Impact of Unsustainable Environmental Conditions Due to Vehicular Emissions on Associated Lifetime Cancer Risk in India: A Novel Approach
by Parteek Singh Thind, Deepak Kumar, Sandeep Singh, Jasgurpreet Singh Chohan, Raman Kumar, Shubham Sharma, Changhe Li, Gianpaolo Di Bona, Antonio Forcina and Luca Silvestri
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(11), 6459; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116459 - 26 May 2022
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The Indian Western Himalayas (IWHs) are a world famous tourist spot, and every year millions of tourists visit this area in fossil fuel-driven vehicles. Emissions from these vehicles persistently deteriorate the pristine environment of the IWHs. Therefore, in the current study, efforts were [...] Read more.
The Indian Western Himalayas (IWHs) are a world famous tourist spot, and every year millions of tourists visit this area in fossil fuel-driven vehicles. Emissions from these vehicles persistently deteriorate the pristine environment of the IWHs. Therefore, in the current study, efforts were made to assess the compromised environmental conditions of Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India that resulted from the inflow of tourists and the activities undertaken by them. This study revealed that Manali could sustainably accommodate only 0.305 M tourists/month, and this threshold was reported to be crossed in the months of April, May and June. Furthermore, to augment these findings, water and ambient air samples were collected and analyzed for the presence of elemental carbon (EC) from one of the medium tourism potential regions of Manali, i.e., the Hamta glacier. The tributary receiving water from the Hamta glacier and the ambient air of the area was observed to be contaminated with 42 ± 12 ppb and 880 ± 43 µg m−3 of EC, respectively. It was observed that the inhalation and ingestion of EC-contaminated air and water could jeopardize human health due to a high lifetime cancer risk. However, without the intervention of eco-tourism in the study area, higher environmental health effects were also speculated. The observations made in this study are expected to trigger the interests of the researchers, international scientific community and regional authorities working towards the unsustainable development of the IWHs and deteriorating environmental conditions. Full article
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High Energy-Consuming Industrial Transfers and Environmental Pollution in China: A Perspective Based on Environmental Regulation
by Shijin Wang and Huiying Zhou
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(22), 11866; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211866 - 12 Nov 2021
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Environmental regulation and industrial restructuring are highly relevant to environmental governance and green development in China. A dynamic game model was used to analyse the mechanisms behind the role of environmental regulation in promoting the restructuring of energy-intensive industries. A dynamic spatial Durbin [...] Read more.
Environmental regulation and industrial restructuring are highly relevant to environmental governance and green development in China. A dynamic game model was used to analyse the mechanisms behind the role of environmental regulation in promoting the restructuring of energy-intensive industries. A dynamic spatial Durbin model was constructed to empirically test the dynamic spatial effects and regional heterogeneity of the transfer of high energy-consuming industries on environmental pollution under environmental regulation with panel data. Thus, the study found that the environmental emission effect of a single high energy-consuming industry transfer and environmental regulation is significant, while the combined effect of both exhibits a negative environmental effect. Environmental regulation and the concentration of high energy-consuming industries have a positive spatial spillover effect on environmental pollution, and the long-term effect is greater than the short-term effect; high energy-consuming industries are gradually transferred from the more developed regions in eastern and central China to the less developed regions in western China. Full article
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