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Safety and Risk Assessment in Industrial Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 499

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Dipartimento Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
Interests: risk assessment; risk management; safety; process plant; dynamic risk assessment; process model
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Dipartimento Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
Interests: risk assessment; risk management; safety; process plant; dynamic risk assessment; process model

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The safety in the production and process application have a significant role to reduce the incidents and injuries, still too high the industrial field. Furthermore, the introduction of new technologies added new emerging risks, that require specific risk assessment approach not always available.

This Special Issue aims collect papers on:

  • Adnvanced machinery risk assessment, whit focus on the new UE regulament;
  • Advansced process risk assessment;
  • Cyber security for the Cyber Physical System;
  • Advanced resilience assessment for plant;
  • Advanced method to evaluate the Natural event on the industrial plant;
  • Advanced correlation between the human factor and the risk assessment;

The prewiev list is not exhaustive, so we have pleasure to consider also paper whit other safety domains.

We are pleased to invite you contribute to the special issue Safety and Risk Assessment in Industrial Systems

Dr. Gabriele Baldissone
Dr. Salvina Murè
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • safety
  • risk assessment
  • cyber security
  • resilience
  • Natech
  • human factor
  • risk machinery
  • risk process safety

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Safety Challenges in Battery Swapping Operations of Electric Underground Mining Trucks
by Alberto Martinetti, Ognjen Popović, Micaela Demichela, Pier Paolo Oreste, Aleksandar Cvjetić and Vladimir Milisavljević
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(12), 6763; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15126763 - 16 Jun 2025
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Recently, the global landscape of public transportation has witnessed a transformative shift towards sustainable and efficient modes of mobility, with particular emphasis on electric vehicles (EVs) and their integration into industrial applications. The mining industry, including the underground mining of the mineral resources [...] Read more.
Recently, the global landscape of public transportation has witnessed a transformative shift towards sustainable and efficient modes of mobility, with particular emphasis on electric vehicles (EVs) and their integration into industrial applications. The mining industry, including the underground mining of the mineral resources sector is following this trend. However, underground mines are critical environments and the adoption of EVs needs to be carefully analysed. This study investigates the associated hazards and risks of adopting EVs (such as dumpers and loaders) focusing on the swapping battery operations. First, current hazards related to battery swapping are identified—21 in total, occurring in 25 instances. After, risks are assessed and associated with specific hazards. Finally, possible measures and solutions for reducing the impacts of these risks on the performance of the EVs are offered. Full article
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