This paper describes safety management systems (SMSs) on five core aspects: definition,
evolution, models, purpose and common elements of SMSs. A safety management system …

Introduction This systematic review examines and reports on peer reviewed studies that
have applied systems thinking accident analysis methods to better understand the cause of …

ABSTRACT During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period (2011–2015), the safety production
situation of coal mines in Guizhou province was generally good. The main types of accidents …

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
provides new theoretical insights and many robust tools that will guide researchers …

Coal mine accidents pose a serious threat to miners and the surrounding environment.
Despite a recent downward trend in the numbers of major accidents and casualties in …

It is important to systematically identify the contributing factors in coal mine accidents from a
large-scale analysis of accident reports. However, previous scholars have mainly used …

Extraordinarily severe coal mine accidents (ESCMAs) are characteristized by thirty fatalities
or more in one accident. In this paper, such ESCMAs are analyzed using 188 cases which …

Although the total death toll due to various accidents in China's coal mining industry has
decreased in recent years, coal mine gas explosion is still occupied the main proportion of …

Coal mine accidents are not only caused by a single factor risk, but also by the coupling
between multifactor risks. Therefore, exploring the mechanism of multifactor risk and …

The safety of coal production in China's mines has been greatly improved in the past few
years; however, major accidents still occur frequently, causing large numbers of casualties …