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This article clarifies how leader behavioral integrity for safety helps solve follower's double bind between adhering to safety protocols and speaking up about mistakes against protocols. Path modeling of survey data in 54 nursing teams showed that head nurse behavioral integrity for safety positively relates to both team priority of safety and psychological safety. In turn, team priority of safety and team psychological safety were, ...

Today’s level of cyclists’ road safety is primarily estimated using accident reports and self-reported measures. However, the former is focused on post-accident situations and the latter relies on subjective input. In our work, we aim to extend the landscape of cyclists’ safety assessment methods via a two-dimensional taxonomy, which covers data source (internal/external) and type of measurement (objective/subjective). Based on this taxonomy, we ...

The catchphrase “Safety: everybody’s concern, everybody’s duty” implies that in order to safe-guard the social order and safety we, the professionals as well as the public, need to unite and work together. In this sense, social connectedness and civic engagement are perceived as the prime sources to counter crime and people’s perception of safety. In this paper, we will first clarify that the references to ‘active citizenship’ and ‘social ...

Over the last decades, process safety has been an important area of academic inquiry, aiming to build knowledge which can contribute to reduce the occurrence of industrial accidents in the process and chemical industries, or to mitigate their consequences. Knowledge in this interdisciplinary research domain is created using applied science, engineering, organizational, and social science approaches. This article provides a retrospective overview ...

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Big data and Machine learning Techniques are reshaping the way in which food safety risk assessment is conducted. The ongoing ‘datafication’ of food safety risk assessment activities and the progressive deployment of probabilistic models in their practices requires a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of these advances. In particular, the low level of trust in EU food safety risk assessment framework highlighted in 2019 by an ...

The slogan ‘Better Safe than Sorry, But You Know, Don’t Overdo It’ is inspired by a column written by Melissa Summers about ‘National Baby Safety Month’ (2007). In a cynical but funny manner Summers criticises the industry that, in order to sell some outlandish safety devices, preys on one of parents’ biggest fears: a preventable accident hurting their baby. Summers does not ridicule their fear, but urges parents not to get terrorised by these ...

According to the Learning Theory of Attachment, naturalistic learning experiences about others' responsiveness during distress are an underlying mechanism in the development of attachment. Previous studies have demonstrated attachment figures' unique safety-inducing effects in highly controlled conditioning procedures. Yet, neither have studies examined the presumed influence of safety learning on state attachment, nor have they examined how ...

Safe reinforcement learning (RL) with hard constraint guarantees is a promising optimal control direction for multi-energy management systems. It only requires the environment-specific constraint functions itself a priori and not a complete model (i.e., plant, disturbance and noise models, and prediction models for states not included in the plant model — e.g. demand forecasts, weather forecasts, price forecasts). The project-specific upfront ...