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In the fireworks industry (FI), many accidents and explosions frequently happen due to human error (HE). Human factors (HFs) always play a dynamic role in the incidence of accidents in workplace environments. Preventing HE is a main challenge for safety and precautions in the FI. Clarifying the relationship between HFs can help in identifying the correlation between unsafe behaviors and influential factors in hazardous chemical warehouse accidents. This paper aims to investigate the impact of HFs that contribute to HE, which has caused FI disasters, explosions, and incidents in the past. This paper investigates why and how HEs contribute to the most severe accidents that occur while storing and using hazardous chemicals. The impact of fireworks and match industry disasters has motivated the planning of mitigation in this proposal. This analysis used machine learning (ML) and recommends an expert system (ES). There were many significant correlations between individual behaviors and the chance of HE to occur. This paper proposes an ML-based prediction model for fireworks and match work industries in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. For this study analysis, the questionnaire responses are reviewed for accuracy and coded from 500 participants from the fireworks and match industries in Tamil Nadu who were chosen to fill out a questionnaire. The Chief Inspectorate of Factories in Chennai and the Training Centre for Industrial Safety and Health in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India, significantly contributed to the collection of accident datasets for the FI in Tamil Nadu, India. The data are analyzed and presented in the following categories based on this study's objectives: the effect of physical, psychological, and organizational factors. The output implemented by comparing ML models, support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and Naïve Bayes (NB) accuracy is 86.45%, 91.6%, and 92.1%, respectively. Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) has the optimal classification accuracy of 94.41% of ML models. This research aims to create a new ES to mitigate HE risks in the fireworks and match work industries. The proposed ES reduces HE risk and improves workplace safety in unsafe, uncertain workplaces. Proper safety management systems (SMS) can prevent deaths and injuries such as fires and explosions.
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Sci Total Environ
February 2025
Institute of Health Sciences, Korea University College of Health Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea; School of Health and Environmental Science, Korea University College of Health Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
Firework burning can significantly contribute to emissions of ambient air pollutants such as particulate matters (PM), which might pose serious public health concerns. Nevertheless, environmental research and public health attention to this matter are limited in many countries, particularly in Korea where firework festivals remain popular in megacities. This study aimed to examine temporal and spatial patterns of ambient air pollution during large-scale firework festivals in two megacities of Korea, focusing on each event held in Seoul (the second highest population in the world, as a metropolitan area) and Busan (the second highest population in Korea) in 2023.
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November 2024
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Sensors (Basel)
April 2023
Security Engineering Lab, Computer Science Department, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia.
In the fireworks industry (FI), many accidents and explosions frequently happen due to human error (HE). Human factors (HFs) always play a dynamic role in the incidence of accidents in workplace environments. Preventing HE is a main challenge for safety and precautions in the FI.
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April 2023
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 142 Moore Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
Visual search is greatly affected by the appearance rate of given target types, such that low-prevalence items are harder to detect, which has consequences for real-world search tasks where target frequency cannot be balanced. However, targets that are highly representative of a categorically defined task set are also easier to find. We hypothesized that targets that are highly representative are less vulnerable to low-prevalence effects because an observer's attentional set prioritizes guidance toward them even when they are rare.
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October 2020
Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
The aim of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group clinical field study was to evaluate the effect of detomidine oromucosal gel in alleviating anxiety and fear in horses. Sixteen horses with a history of acute anxiety and fear associated with firework-related noise entered the study. On New Year's Eve, eight horses were treated with 30 μg/kg detomidine gel and eight horses with placebo gel.
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