Industrial and Mining Safety

Industrial and mining safety research examines how workers, organizations, and engineered systems can identify and reduce the physical, chemical, and procedural hazards inherent in extractive and heavy-industry environments—from underground methane explosions and dust exposure to the management failures that allow routine risks to escalate into disasters. The work draws on occupational health science, reliability engineering, and formal risk assessment methods to build safety management systems that function under real operational pressures rather than ideal conditions. As the energy sector shifts toward renewable infrastructure, researchers are extending these frameworks to new work environments that carry their own poorly understood hazard profiles, while simultaneously pressing on longstanding problems like environmental pollution from mine tailings and the gap between written safety procedures and actual practice on the ground.

Works

8,099

Total citations

7,903

Keywords

Occupational HealthSafety ManagementRisk AssessmentWork EnvironmentsExplosion RiskRenewable Energy