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Sustainable Risk Management and Safety Engineering - Second Edition

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3306

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Mara Lombardi

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Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment (DICMA), Sapienza-University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: risk analysis; fire safety engineering (FSE); occupational safety; territorial resilience; sustainable risk management
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Dr. Mario Fargnoli

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Industrial Engineering Courses, Universitas Mercatorum, Piazza Mattei 10, 00186 Rome, Italy
Interests: occupational health and safety (OHS); product service systems (PSS); ecodesign; quality function deployment (QFD); human factors and ergonomics (HFE)
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Dr. Davide Berardi

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials, Environment, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, RM, Italy
Interests: risk analysis; fire safety engineering (FSE); occupational safety; territorial resilience; sustainable risk management
Prof. Dr. Massimo Guarascio

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials, Environment, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, RM, Italy
Interests: risk management; risk modeling; seismic risk; geostatistical modeling
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue addresses the a primary question  in research surrounding sustainable risk management: how can we forecast risks in a scientific way? This subject was selected in response to the uncertainties that cause difficulty in the decision-making processes surrounding risk management. The possibility of making the wrong decision has particular relevance due to the increasing complexity of all the aspects which require management in our contemporary systems. A scientific approach is needed in the pursuit of assurance in the resilience and sustainability of our risk-related decisions.

Evidence for the importance of addressing sustainable risk management can be found in the difficulties which arise in attempts to explain and resolve health and safety, raw-material-related, and energy-generation problems.

The hindered uptake of innovative solutions and rigorous standards in many product sectors must be replaced by responsible networking and sharing of knowledge to ensure technological development.

The scientific community has a moral obligation to contribute to decision making and to propose policies based on scientific approaches.

In this context, we welcome the submission of papers addressing the topics of this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Mara Lombardi
Dr. Mario Fargnoli
Dr. Davide Berardi
Prof. Dr. Massimo Guarascio
Guest Editors

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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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2400 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 engineering
  • sustainable risk management
  • territorial resilience
  • environmental sustainable recycling
  • engineering sustainable design

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Biobjective Optimization Model Considering Risk and Profit for the Multienterprise Layout Design in Village-Level Industrial Parks in China
by Xuemin Liu, Guozhong Huang, Shengnan Ou, Xingyu Xiao, Xuehong Gao, Zhangzhou Meng, Youqiang Pan and Ibrahim M. Hezam
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3623; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043623 - 16 Feb 2023
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With the advent and development of Industry 4.0 and 5.0, manufacturing modes have changed and numerous newly complicated and integrated village-level industrial parks have emerged in the Southeast of China, where several enterprises are gathered in the same multistory building. The number of [...] Read more.
With the advent and development of Industry 4.0 and 5.0, manufacturing modes have changed and numerous newly complicated and integrated village-level industrial parks have emerged in the Southeast of China, where several enterprises are gathered in the same multistory building. The number of floors and surrounding enterprises can have an impact on accident risk. To reduce the overall risk level of industrial parks, the layout of enterprises with different risks needs to be well designed and optimized. However, to date, limited studies have been conducted to emphatically consider safety and optimize the enterprise layout at an industrial area level, and most studies focus on the cost of the layout. Therefore, this study proposed three biobjective mathematical optimization models to obtain the trade-off between minimizing risk and maximizing rental profit. Risk factors include the enterprise location and the association risk; the enterprise inherent safety risks are not considered. To solve this problem, a specific linearization strategy was proposed and an epsilon-constraint method was applied to obtain Pareto-optimal solutions. Subsequently, an industrial park in Shunde, China, was considered as a case study to verify the performance of the proposed models and methods. Finally, a sensitivity analysis of critical parameters was conducted. The critical factors influencing the objective functions were also analyzed to provide valuable managerial insights. Full article
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Integrating Safety-I and Safety-II Approaches in Near Miss Management: A Critical Analysis
by Federica De Leo, Valerio Elia, Maria Grazia Gnoni and Fabiana Tornese
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2130; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032130 - 23 Jan 2023
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Safety-II is a recently theorized approach, considering safety as the ability of a system to reach a positive outcome under variable conditions: analyzing “what goes right” can help to understand the dynamics of the analyzed system and improve its inherent safety level. On [...] Read more.
Safety-II is a recently theorized approach, considering safety as the ability of a system to reach a positive outcome under variable conditions: analyzing “what goes right” can help to understand the dynamics of the analyzed system and improve its inherent safety level. On the contrary, a more traditional perspective, defined as Safety-I, aims at analyzing “what goes wrong”, thereby relating the safety level of a system to the number of adverse events that occurred. This study explores the potentialities of integrating these two approaches in near-miss management. Through a Safety-I approach, near-miss events are analyzed to identify the root causes generating the event chain, in order to delete them and prevent future accidents. Applying a Safety-II approach, the analysis can include elements that contributed to limiting the consequences and blocking the event chain, revealing the resilience level of the systems. This study presents a critical analysis of the two approaches and proposes a practical framework to integrate them into near-miss management systems. A test case shows the potential benefits of this integration. This work provides a tool to support the implementation of Safety-II on the operative level while suggesting a new perspective for near-miss management. Full article
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