International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
May 14, 2024
. Currently, numerous studies have focused on testing or modeling to evaluate the safe service life of thermal protective clothing after thermal aging, reducing the risk to occupational personnel. However, testing will render the garment unsuitable f...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Mar 30, 2024
. This study examines the role of different machine learning (ML) algorithms to determine which socio-demographic factors and hand-forearm anthropometric dimensions can be used to accurately predict hand function. . The cross-sectional study was cond...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Sep 26, 2022
Numerous labourers lose their lives or suffer from injuries and disabilities yearly due to the lack of safety enforcement in construction projects and accidents caused by excavation collapses. The identification and ranking of human errors have alwa...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Aug 25, 2022
Hospitals provide direct and indirect employment benefits to medical professionals. Accidents in hospitals often lead to disastrous consequences such as fatalities, property damage and economic losses. It is, therefore, imperative to have an occupat...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
May 24, 2022
Using a cobot could relieve workers of strenuous and repetitive tasks while preserving their expertise. To understand the consequences of using a cobot on the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), within a theoretical framework based on act...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Mar 19, 2021
. A necessity for this study was felt in the catalyst replacement process as a maintenance operation, because some fatal incidents have occurred due to human error in process industries during catalyst replacement operation. Identification and evalua...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Nov 6, 2020
In this study, an intelligent knowledge base (IKB) is developed based on a model developed by Fu et al. for identification of accident causes, which may play a significant role in preventing accidents. This IKB has been generated using eight sample a...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Mar 9, 2020
. Given the burgeoning impacts of climatic variability on human health, suitable computational paradigms are used to explore the subsequent ergonomic repercussions. The artificial neural network (ANN), in particular, exhibits near-accurate input-outp...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Aug 30, 2019
Hazard evaluation generally defines the ranking of hazards in the work environment and ignores the interaction of hazards. This article aims to overcome this drawback using a fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) approach to analyze the interaction of hazards re...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Apr 8, 2019
Safety is of paramount importance in high-risk systems. Safe and reliable operation of a system depends mainly on its key component, 'the human'. Human error is pivotal in an accident sequence and the rate of error is instrumental in the analysis of ...