Work-related injuries, diseases and fatalities have received considerable attention by
researchers and have led to a greater awareness about incident causation in the workplace …

Purpose The burden of health and safety related issues emanating from the modern
workplace is overwhelming. Although the prevailing statistics found in the literature show …

Mining is an economic sector with a high number of accidents. Mines are hazardous places
and workers can suffer a wide variety of injuries. Utilizing a database composed of almost …

Each day thousands of workers suffer occupational accidents of varying degrees of severity.
Accidents at work render workers incapable of carrying out their day to day activities, either …

Background Despite improvements in safety performance, the number and severity of
mining-related injuries remain high and unacceptable, indicating that further reduction can …

Introduction: The aim of this paper is to understand the causes of occupational accidents in
Spain's mining sector in order to propose action plans and improve future accident rates …

The construction industry has the highest number of casualties per accident, and workers at
construction sites are vulnerable to accidents. Current research on unsafe behavior mainly …

An analysis of occupational accidents in the mining sector was conducted using the data
from the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Safety between 2005 and 2015, and …

Many high-hazard industries around the world have explicitly recognized the critical role that
human, management and organizational risk factors play in major accidents. The findings of …

The safety of underground coal mining has always been a global concern, involving the
stable supply of energy and stakes in miners' lives. Lessons learned from historical …