Advancing hazardous materials transport safety: Systematic insights on risks, challenges, and research gaps
March 2026
•Comprehensive review of 1779 publications on Hazmat transportation safety.•Identifies critical gaps in resilience engineering, human factors, and security.•Advances understanding of dynamic risks and...
A fuzzy multi-criteria decision framework for community isolation center site selection to enhance public health resilience
March 2026
•Proposes a fuzzy MCDM framework for selecting isolation centers during outbreaks.•Integrates FAHP and FTOPSIS using trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to model uncertainty.•Applies the model to a real-world...
Skeleton-based detection of anomalous personal protective equipment doffing behaviors among healthcare workers
March 2026
Identification of doffing behaviors of personal protective equipment (PPE) plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of healthcare workers. With the continuous emergence of new infectious diseases,...
Coupled effects of ammonia addition proportions and pipeline diameter on self-ignition in high-pressure hydrogen leakage
March 2026
Hydrogen's intrinsic flammability and explosiveness pose serious safety hazards. This study systematically investigates the coupled effects of pipe diameter and ammonia addition proportions on self-ignition...
Construction and application of knowledge graph for urban agglomeration emergency rescue collaboration in earthquake disasters
March 2026
This study proposes an emergency rescue collaboration knowledge graph construction method for urban agglomeration in earthquake disasters. Based on the collection of 22 earthquake disaster emergency...
Towards a systematic achievement of supply network resilience - integrating five major theoretical lenses
Available online 24 March 2026
Supply network resilience is increasingly important, yet managers and researchers still lack an integrated theoretical basis to systematically select and quantify resilience mechanisms and their effectiveness...
Integrating Multi-Temporal LiDAR and AHP for Landslide Detection and Susceptibility Mapping in Prince George’s County, Maryland
Available online 21 March 2026
Landslides pose a persistent threat to transportation infrastructure, ecosystems, and human safety, particularly in low relief but rapidly urbanizing regions where shallow slope failures are often overlooked...
Enhancing flood resilience analysis for chemical plants: An LLM-assisted Bayesian network approach to electrical equipment damage causation
Available online 14 March 2026
Global warming has exacerbated flood disasters, leading to severe Natural hazard triggered technological accident(Natech). Chemical plants are particularly exposed because their process continuity,...
SeBot-MLS: Multi-level structural feature learning for graph-based social bot detection
Available online 12 March 2026
Recent advances in artificial intelligence technologies, especially large language models, have made social bots more intelligent and human-like. This increased sophistication poses significant challenges...
Real-time prediction of transient thermal hazard decay during large-scale crude pool fire suppression: An algebraic model calibrated by coupled simulation-field data
Available online 12 March 2026
The accurate characterization of transient thermal hazard decay in large-scale crude oil pool fires (D=15 m) remains a significant challenge due to complex sooting combustion dynamics and the scarcity...
Advancing pandemic preparedness: A Scenario-and-Respond framework for disease “X”
Available online 11 March 2026
Pandemics, caused by unknown high-consequence pathogens, referred to as Disease “X”, pose extreme yet plausible threats to public health security. Their inherent unpredictability challenges conventional...
Enhancing warehouse safety and resilience through virtual reality: A user-centered design approach to training feasibility
Available online 10 March 2026
Safety training is essential for saving lives and resources, especially in high-risk environments like warehouses. This study investigates virtual reality (VR) as a tool for safety training and utilizes...
Accident impact analysis for hydrogen car tank explosions at complex hydrogen refueling stations
Available online 9 March 2026
•Established a station-scale blast consequence assessment workflow using FLACS with a TNT-equivalent approach.•Validated the numerical model against full-scale experimental overpressure measurements.•Investigated...
A dynamic prediction method for pool fire burning rates based on temporal image-scale structure fusion
Available online 7 March 2026
Understanding the dynamic burning behavior of pool fires under different ullage heights is critically important for process safety and environmental protection, as ullage height directly governs burning...
Stochastic Resilience Thresholds and Early Warning Signals in Water-Energy-Food Systems: A Safety Science Framework for Preventing Catastrophic Transitions
Available online 6 March 2026
•Stochastic resilience framework detects 82 catastrophic transitions with 20-78 time steps advance warning•Cross-sectoral cascade amplification quantified: 70% water shock propagates to 14% energy and...
Blockchain and digital twin integration for construction safety: A bibliometric and systematic review
Available online 6 March 2026
The construction industry is progressively utilizing digital technologies to mitigate on-site risks, enhance incident reporting, and increase worker efficiency through real-time monitoring and automated...
A data-driven framework for evaluating risk communication effectiveness in public emergency events: An EPPM extension with quantitative parameters
Available online 2 March 2026
Risk communication plays a critical role in facilitating effective interactions between governments and the public, promoting compliance with coordinated policies, and enhancing the prevention and control...
Time-dependent assessment criteria for power system resilience
Available online 15 February 2026
This study presents a novel time-dependent framework and metric for resilience assessment of complex systems, with a focus on power systems. The proposed method integrates qualitative and quantitative...
Resilience assessment of China’s strategic mineral supply chain: A hybrid GRA–BP–LSTM approach for risk prediction and early warning
Available online 14 February 2026
Strategic mineral resources constitute the fundamental pillars of national security, industrial stability, and technological progress. In China, these resources underpin over 70 % of the nation’s GDP...
Exploring the construction and optimization of collaborative forest fire rescue systems in China
Available online 12 February 2026
The abruptness, devastation, and unpredictability of forest fires place significant demands on the systemic and coordinated functions of rescue organizations. Strengthening the forest fire rescue system...
Exploring probabilistic patterns in illicit trade drivers using Bayesian belief networks: An analysis of associations with global supply chain risk
Available online 12 February 2026
•Bayesian Belief Networks quantify probabilistic links in illicit trade drivers•Economic and institutional factors strongly shape supply chain risk patterns•Operational weaknesses in supply chain intermediaries...
Accurate hazardous gas detection under uncertain disturbing environment with multi-fusion model combined with artificial olfactory system
Available online 3 February 2026
•A novel precise hazardous gas detection based on artificial olfactory system (AOS) was proposed.•Deep learning AOS model has better performance for gas quantitate identification under disturbing environment...
Severe Psychological Distress Among Internally Displaced Adults Due to Armed Gang Violence in Haiti: Associations with Community Violence, Social Support, and Resilience
Available online 2 February 2026
•About two thirds of internally displaced adults in Haiti experience severe psychological distress.•Psychological distress is markedly higher among rural residents compared with urban residents.•Women...
Analysing roadwork zone incursions and accidents using a sustainable GenAI system
Available online 30 January 2026
Roadwork zone incursions, which refer to unauthorized or unintended entries into restricted work areas, present significant safety hazards and often lead to road accidents. While these incidents account...
From simulation to safety strategy for unplanned mass gatherings: Agent-based evacuation optimization with lessons from Wuhan’s Mega-Event
Available online 30 January 2026
•Evaluates the effectiveness of three crowd management strategies for unplanned gatherings: no guidance, guidance-only, and a coordinated delay-guidance strategy.•Quantifies the impact and contribution...
