Introduction

Open Journal of Safety Science and Technology (OJSST) is an openly accessible journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of safety science and technology.

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Singiresu S. Rao, University of Miami, USA
Dr. Jo-Ming Tseng, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Chinese Taipei
Editorial Board
Dr. Rabiul Ahasan, University of Oulu, Finland
Prof. Fakhru’l-Razi Ahmadun, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Aidy Ali, National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM), Malaysia
Dr. Pedro Martins Arezes, School of Engineering of the University of Minho, Portugal
Prof. Corneliu BOB, University “Politehnica” of Timisoara, Romania
Prof. José J. Cañas, University of Granada, Spain
Dr. Baoping Cai, China University of Petroleum, China
Dr. Alan Hoi-Shou Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China
Dr. Jianwei Cheng, China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), China
Prof. Bruno Fabiano, University of Genoa, Italy
Dr. Frank A. Felder, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Dr. Tifeng Jiao, Yanshan University, China
Dr. In-Ju Kim, University of Sharjah, UAE
Prof. Fausto Pedro García Márquez, University of Castilla‐La Mancha, Spain
Dr. Deepak M.D., National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Pune, India
Dr. Panagiotis Mitropoulos, San Diego State University, USA
Dr. Yuichi Otsuka, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Prof. K. Balaji Rao, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, India
Prof. Chi-Min Shu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Chinese Taipei
Prof. Isabelle Sochet, Industrial Risk Engineering Department, Institute of Technology INSA Centre Val de Loire, France
Dr. Paolo Vestrucci, University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Xin Ye, California State Polytechnic University, USA

Aims & Scope

• · Aerospace vehicle safety
• · Blast safety
• · Bridge safety engineering
• · Chemical health and safety
• · Coal, gas and rock burst
• · Construction and building safety
• · Dam safety
• · Drug safety
• · Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
• · Emergency management and evacuation
• · Explosion performance and safety of hazardous materials
• · Fatigue, lifetime and reliability
• · Fire control and extinguishing
• · Fire experiment and property research
• · Fire extinguishing agent and fire equipment
• · Food safety
• · Gas and dust control in coal mine
• · Gas explosion and safety
• · Human factors and ergonomics
• · Leakage of combustible and toxic materials
• · Machinery safety
• · Numerical simulation of fire
• · Occupational health and human behavior
• · Other aspects of safety science and technology
• · Patient safety in surgery
• · Performance and process of burning
• · Public security
• · Robot safety
• · Safety assessment and risk analysis
• · Safety engineering
• · Safety management
• · Safety monitoring and supervision
• · Safety of chemical reaction tank and pressure vessel
• · Safety of tunnel and metro construction
• · Slope stability
• · Smoke control
• · Spontaneous combustion in coal mine
• · Structural safety
• · Theories and methods of safety science
• · Traffic and transportation safety
• · Ventilation
• · Work safety in coal mine