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Critical hazards identification and prevention of cascading escalator accidents at metro rail transit stations

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posted on 2020-05-18, 12:48 authored by Zhiru Wang, Ran Bhamra, Min Wang, Han Xie, Lili Yang
Escalator accidents not only happen frequently but also have cascading effects. The purpose of this study is to block the formation of cascading accident networks by identifying and preventing critical hazards. A modified five-step task-driven method (FTDM) is proposed to break down passenger-related cascading escalator accidents. Three complex network parameters in complex network theory are utilized to identify critical and non-critical Risk Passenger Behavior (RPB) hazards and Other Hazards related with Risk Passenger Behavior (OH-RPB) in accident chains. A total of 327 accidents that occurred in the Beijing metro rail transit (MRT) stations were used for case studies. The results are consistent in critical and non-critical RPB and OH-RPB and prove that through combination of FTDM accident investigation model and complex network analysis method, critical and non-critical RPB and OH-RPB in a complicated cascading hazards network can be identified. Prevention of critical RPB can block the formation of cascading accident networks. The method not only can be used by safety manager to make the corresponding preventive measures according to the results in daily management but also the findings can guide the allocation of limited preventive resources to critical hazards rather than non-critical hazards. Moreover, the defects of management plan and product design can be re-examined according to the research results.

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, grant number L181009 and 9194028

Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China, grant number 18YJC630193

National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 71771113

Ministry of Science and Technology of China, grant number 2018YFC0807000

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, grant number 2015M570121

History

School

  • Business and Economics
  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Department

  • Business

Published in

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volume

17

Issue

10

Pages

3400

Publisher

MDPI AG

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2020-05-08

Publication date

2020-05-13

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

1660-4601

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Thomas Huggins; Lili Yang; Didier Sornette

Depositor

Dr Ran Bhamra Deposit date: 13 May 2020

Article number

3400

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