Exploring the impacts of factors contributing to unsafe behavior of coal miners

Wang, Chen; Wang, Jiakun; Wang, Xinhua; Yu, Hao; Bai, Li; Sun, Qing

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2019.02.003

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“…Simultaneously, some studies have proved that the proportion of human factors causing gas explosion accidents is about 97% [21]. Therefore, reducing people’s unsafe behaviors has become the key to preventing gas explosions [22]. However, the actual situation of gas explosion accident research is that more than 80% of scientific research projects aim to solve the unsafe state of objects and fewer than 20% of scientific research projects aim to study the behavioral causes of accidents.…”

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Risk Assessment of Miners’ Unsafe Behaviors: A Case Study of Gas Explosion Accidents in Coal Mine, China

Tong

Yang

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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China’s coal mine production situation is grim and various types of accidents occur frequently, and gas explosion accidents are the highest incidence of coal mine accidents. The authors selected 200 gas explosion accidents of coal mine enterprises in recent years, and extracted a large number of workers’ unsafe behaviors. Meanwhile, four working types related to gas explosion accidents were obtained, namely ventilation, gas prevention and fire extinguishing, blasting, and electrician. This article listed some influencing factors of unsafe behaviors and corrected the probability of unsafe behaviors. In addition, a probabilistic risk assessment model was established, and the Monte Carlo method was used to analyze the risks caused by unsafe behaviors of various working types. The results show that the risk of unsafe behaviors caused by the ventilation working type is the highest, followed by gas prevention and fire extinguishing, and finally blasting and electrician. This paper studies the influencing factors of miners’ unsafe behaviors from the perspective of behavior, guarantees effectively the safety management of coal mine enterprises, and lays a foundation for studying unsafe behaviors related to coal mine gas explosions.

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Risk Assessment of Miners’ Unsafe Behaviors: A Case Study of Gas Explosion Accidents in Coal Mine, China

Tong

Yang

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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“…(2) From the analysis on evolution stability, we can see that these equilibrium points of E 1 (0, 0, 0), E 2 (0, 0, 1), E 5 (1, 0, 0), and E 6 (1, 0, 1) are not stable state, indicating that if the miners choose unsafe operation, no matter what strategy the organization and managers adopt, the evolutionary game model will not reach the stable state. From the perspective of evolutionary game, it is proved that the unsafe behavior of miners is the most direct and main cause of coal-mine safety accidents [2][3][4] and the decision making of miners plays an important role in the operation of coal-mine safety production [29-31, 50, 51]. In addition, the equilibrium point E 3 (0, 1, 0) is not stable state.…”

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“…e first research stream of coal-mine safety production enhancement focuses on the human factors such as controlling the unsafe behavior of miners. e unsafe behavior of miners is the most direct cause of coal-mine safety accidents and the main reason for destroying the normal operation of coal-mine safety production [4][5][6]. e miners always face a trade-off between work stress for safe operation and psychological benefits for unsafe operation, and reaching higher psychological and spiritual benefits might have strong substitution effects with safe operation.…”

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Game Modelling and Strategy Research on Trilateral Evolution for Coal-Mine Operational Safety Production System: A Simulation Approach

Zhang

Dai

et al. 2020

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In view of the particularity and high risk of coal mining industry, the decision-making behavior of multiple agents inside the coal-mine enterprise plays a very important role in ensuring the safety and sustainable development of coal mining industry. The existing literature studies on coal-mine safety production focus mainly on statically analyzing the game among the external entities such as the government, the enterprises themselves, and the employees inside the enterprise from a macro perspective,are short of research on revealing the dynamic interactions among the actors directly involved in the coal-mine accidents and also on proposals for effective interactions that will lead to improved safety outcomes. Therefore, this paper explores the use of evolutionary game theory to describe the interactions among the stakeholders in China’s coal-mine safety production system, which includes the organization, the first-line miners, and the first-line managers. Moreover, the paper also explores dynamic simulations of the evolutionary game model to analyze the stability of stakeholder interactions and to identify equilibrium solutions. The simulation results show that when certain conditions are met, the decision-making behavior of the organization, miners, and managers can evolve into the unique ideal steady state (1, 1, 1). In addition, the strategy portfolio with a relatively high initial proportion of three agents converges more quickly to an ideal state than a relatively low strategy portfolio. Moreover, the stable state and equilibrium values are not affected by the initial value changes. Finally, we find that the combination of positive incentive policies and strict penalties policies can make the evolutionary game system converge to desired stability faster. The application of the evolutionary game and numerical simulation when simulating the multiplayer game process of coal-mine safety production is an effective way, which provides a more effective solution to the safety and sustainable development of coal mining industry.

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“…Based on the ndings from our review, the safety concern from managers and supervisors is identi ed the most key factor affecting the workers' risk perception and their understanding of safety issues [19,42,[49][50][51]. In addition, supervisors' safe behaviours such as regular safety inspection, motivating and supporting the subordinates, and providing resources for appropriate training of the workforce can motivate safety performance, encourage workers' participation as well as reporting potential incidents and unsafe behaviours [41,[52][53][54][55][56]. These ndings are consistent with the poor direct safety management and supervision theme of our qualitative study.…”

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“…The included studies assessed the relationship between safety climate and workers' perceptions of safety issues, and various aspects of safety-related behaviour. These studies examined work safety climate and aspects of working conditions and their association with occupational safety and work-related injuries among various workplace settings [11,42,[56][57][58]. They focus mainly on improving working conditions and its organizational and psychological aspects such as perceived work pressure, emergency response, physical and psychosocial hazards at work, job demands, physical factors of workplace, mental workload and stress, and defect of technology and design [42,50,51,[58][59][60].…”

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Safe Behaviour in The Petrochemical Industry: Evaluating The Consistency Between Conceptual Frameworks and Factors Reported by Iranian Workers

Harsini

Bohle

Matthews

et al. 2020

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Background: Unsafe worker behaviour is often identified as a major cause of dangerous incidents in the petrochemical industry. Behavioural safety models provide frameworks that may help to prevent such incidents by identifying factors promoting safe or unsafe behaviour. A literature review was conducted to identify models of safe behaviour and determine which were most consistent with the experiences reported by workers in our qualitative study of the Iranian petrochemical industry.Methods: Five databases (EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, ProQuest, Science Direct, Scopus) were searched for studies between 2000 and 2019 that evaluated antecedents and outcomes of safe workplace behaviours in the petrochemical industry or other industrial settings. After duplications were removed, 141 publications were screened and 31 that met the inclusion criteria were reviewed. Constructs described in each publication were assessed for consistency with themes derived from the interview responses from Iranian petrochemical workers in the qualitative study: poor direct safety management and supervision; unsafe workplace conditions; workers' perceptions, skills and training; and broader organisational factors. Results: The themes identified in the qualitative study most closely matched those in the model described by Wu et al. (2011): poor direct safety management and supervision matched with safety leadership and several subscales; unsafe workplace conditions matched with several subscales; workers' perceptions, skills and training matched with two subscales, and broader organisational factors matched with two other subscales. The model selected was the one that included the most constructs matching the themes identified in the qualitative study.Conclusions: Valid behavioural safety models can provide a basis for more effective safety cultures and management systems in selected contexts. This study identified most consistency between themes elicited from Iranian petrochemical workers and the constructs described by Wu et al. (2011), providing evidence of the validity of their model. Intervention studies are needed to assess the effectiveness of safety models in improving safe behaviours in industrial settings.Trial registration: Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials: IRCT20170515033981N2. Registered 19 June 2018. https://www.irct.ir/trial/26107

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Exploring the impacts of factors contributing to unsafe behavior of coal miners

Cited by 57 publications

References 46 publications

Risk Assessment of Miners’ Unsafe Behaviors: A Case Study of Gas Explosion Accidents in Coal Mine, China

Risk Assessment of Miners’ Unsafe Behaviors: A Case Study of Gas Explosion Accidents in Coal Mine, China

Game Modelling and Strategy Research on Trilateral Evolution for Coal-Mine Operational Safety Production System: A Simulation Approach

Safe Behaviour in The Petrochemical Industry: Evaluating The Consistency Between Conceptual Frameworks and Factors Reported by Iranian Workers

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