Sustainable Solutions for Promoting Occupational Health and Safety
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 1945
Special Issue Editors
Interests: underground mining; surface mining; health and safety; corporate social responsibility; ESG
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Interests: mining; underground mining; surface mining; health and safety; corporate social responsibility
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Interests: data mining; health and safety; robust control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The promotion of occupational health and safety is one of the most important challenges for companies in ensuring the safest possible working conditions for their employees. It is well known that firms benefit economically from the proper promotion of occupational health and safety. This is because accidents and related illnesses incur high direct and indirect costs for companies. Many studies have shown that countries with high occupational accident and disease rates are less competitive than countries with lower rates. Therefore, companies should invest in the promotion of occupational health and safety for their workers not only for ethical reasons, but also to improve their own social and economic sustainability.
It is essential that the measures adopted by a company to guarantee the health and safety of its workers are sustainable from an economic point of view (i.e., economically feasible for the firm), from a labour-social point of view (through the implementation of effective measures to minimise the number of accidents at work) and from an environmental point of view (by minimising environmental damage).
In the last 20 years, there have been major technological advances in fields such as information and communication technologies; robotics; processes based on machine learning; software that enables the processing of large amounts of data (data mining), enabling the extraction of models, behavioural rules and trends; and the sensorisation and modelling of parameters. These advances have fundamentally improved factors such as the efficiency and sustainability of tools for analysing and managing accidents at work, and prevention methods that prevent a greater proportion of accidents and occupational illnesses.
In this Special Issue, we would like to invite authors to present innovative and original research that stimulates debate on recent and future trends; on the adoption of solutions for the smart, effective and sustainable promotion of health and safety at work; and on how advances in theories, methodologies and/or related policies can encourage the promotion of the indicated solutions.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Theories, praxis and key concepts for the smart, effective and sustainable promotion of health and safety at work;
- Safety at work, sustainability challenges and the innovative promotion of practices and solutions;
- Data mining as a tool to improve research on accidents at work;
- Promoting smart occupational safety.
Dr. Lluís Sanmiquel Pera
Dr. Marc Bascompta Massanés
Prof. Dr. Josep M. Rossell
Dr. Carla Vintró Sánchez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- systemic models
- occupational accident analysis
- safety culture
- safety management systems
- Bayesian network
- job risk assessment
- safety learning
- machine learning
