Call for papers for the Journal “Safety Science” Special Issue: The future of Safety Science
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全文截稿: 2019-09-30
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中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:工业 - 2区
• 小类 : 运筹学与管理科学 - 2区
Overview
This Special Issue has a twofold aim:
- to attempt to identify the future of the science of safety and
- to attempt to identify the future of the Safety Science journal.
Occupational Safety started at the height of the industrial revolution (Swuste, 2010) as an engineering problem but increased industrialization of western societies and urbanization of industrial cities led to societal as well as occupational hazards. In turn safety became a social issue. The roots of safety science go back to the creation of the Chair of Social Hygiene in 1907 (Stoop et al, 2017). The discipline of Safety Science was established at TU Delft in 1978, based on interdisciplinarity, problem orientation and a systems approach (Stoop et al, 2017). Stoop et al (2017) describe chronologically, as well as constructively the process that led to the realization of interdisciplinarity of safety science.
Safety Science (the Journal), likewise, evolved over the years. Eisner (1976) in his first editorial of the first ever issue of Safety Science (then known as Journal of Occupational Accidents) wrote that: “We are striving for a balance between speculation and measurement, theory and experiment. Where, as here, theories are plentiful and hard facts few, it is perhaps inevitable that ideas that were already shop-soiled some years ago tend to be regurgitated from time to time”. Eisner (1991), in his last editorial describes the evolution of Safety Science in a wonderful manner: “Natural disasters apart, the prime cause is always man: risk maker or taker, designer or manufacturer, user or manager, builder or dweller, driver or passenger. Accordingly we see no reason and some advantage why we should not expand our remit to embrace the whole of human safety, not just that applying to work.” In a way, Safety Science and Safety Science (Journal) have followed a similar evolution. It has developed from a vehicle describing the physical processes leading to accidents to a vehicle researching the involvement of the human in this process.
Safety Science is in a transition period. A number of new challenges have arisen:
- Increased security issues;
- A number of impacts of the recent financial crisis to the safety of workers as well as to organizational safety systems;
- An increase in migration;
- A number of emerging risks;
- New ways of communicating risk.
And many other factors that either have emerged or have changed from the traditional ways that safety science was perceived.
This Special Issue aims to attain the two aims described in the beginning by including papers on:
- The history and evolution of safety science;
- Emerging risks in safety science;
- New models, processes and theories in safety science;