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77 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,525 Occupational Health and Safety Research papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • While the construction industry may broaden employment opportunities, little is known about how ADHD traits shape workers' performance, sustained attention, and situational awareness in dynamic job-site environments.

    Understanding ADHD Productivity in Construction Work: Toward AI-enabled VR Interventions · 2026

  • Future studies should address these limitations by incorporating field-level micro-data to account for informal employment, utilizing qualitative methods to understand reporting barriers, and applying machine learning algorithms such as principal component analysis and k-nearest neighbors to enable behavioral profiling of risk management and safety compliance. Occupational diseases remained largely underreported; only 953 cases were recorded in the same year, with eight fatalities and 161 cases of permanent incapacity (Tables 8, 10, and 11). Traditional, rule-based training programs that merely fulfill legal obligations are insufficient, especially for young and inexperienced workers facing critical first-month vulnerability in hazardous sectors, such as BMI.

    Türkiye’s Basic Metal Industry From A Decade-Long Perspective: Dynamics of Occupational Accidents and Diseases · 2026 · DOI

  • These findings suggest that knowledge transmission alone is insufficient to reduce biological risk exposure in clinical settings: appraisal-activating components—including scenario-based learning and near-miss incident review—should be integrated into occupational safety curricula for health professions students, with attention to gender differences in risk perception.

    Biological Risk Knowledge and Occupational Safety Training: Testing the Threat Appraisal Pathway of Protection Motivation Theory in Healthcare · 2026 · DOI

  • Consequent upon the conclusion drawn from this paper, it is therefore recommended that: 1. AI should be deployed in OHS in Nigerian workplace to facilitate the smooth service delivery 2.

    Influence of Artificial Intelligence Technology Integration on Occupational Health and Safety among workplaces in Nigeria · 2026 · DOI

  • Overall, the findings indicated that GEN-AI support improved hazard identification accuracy relative to traditional approaches in this dataset, with limited evidence of additional gains from the training intervention.

    Assessing the Effectiveness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Hazard Identification on Construction Sites · 2026 · DOI

  • This study has several limitations. First, the data are derived from declared enterprises, potentially excluding unregistered or informal operations where exposure levels might be even higher (31). Therefore, the findings can only be generalized to formally operating enterprises. Second, no individual-level exposure and PPE compli- ance data were collected, limiting assessment of actual worker expo- sure. Finally, the cross-sectional nature of the annual snapshots limits causal inferences regarding specific interventions.

    Analysis of silica dust monitoring results and prevention implications in industrial and mining enterprises of Sichuan Province, China (2021–2025) · 2026 · DOI

  • Irma Purnama Sari, Marthia Ikhlasiah To cite this article: Sari, I. P., & Ikhlasiah, M. (2026). Determinants of unsafe behavior among welding workers: A narrative review of occupational safety and health perspectives. Priviet Social Sciences Journal, 6(6), 304–314. https://doi.org/10.55942/pssj.v6i6.1958. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.55942/pssj.v6i6.1958 Follow this and additional works at: https://journal.privietlab.org/index.php/PSSJ Priviet Social Sciences Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This PSSJ: Original Article is brought to you for free and open access by Privietlab.

    Determinants of unsafe behavior among welding workers: A narrative review of occupational safety and health perspectives · 2026 · DOI

  • camera is The results also show that newer YOLO versions did not automatically outperform earlier variants. Although YOLOv10, YOLOv11, and YOLOv12 include architectural updates, their performance varied across model sizes. For example, YOLOv12l performed competitively, but YOLOv12n and YOLOv12s were among the lower-performing variants in near-miss F1. Similarly, YOLOv9t showed limited frame-level coverage despite belonging to a newer model generation. These results suggest that improvements in general object-detection architectures do not always translate directly into better performance for spatial proximity-based nearmiss detection. Task-specific evaluation is therefore necessary when selecting models for construction safety monitoring, especially when the downstream goal involves interaction-level risk assessment rather than object detection alone. For practitioners, the findings suggest that model selection should depend on deployment context rather than accuracy alone. Within the present image-space benchmark, mid-to-large models such as YOLOv8x, YOLOv8l, and YOLOv9c achieved the strongest near-miss performance and may be preferable when the priority is reducing missed hazardous interactions. However, these models typically require greater computational resources, memory, and inference time than lightweight variants, which may limit their suitability for lowpower edge devices, embedded cameras, or real-time on-site deployment. Smaller models may be more practical for resourceconstrained environments, but their lower frame-level coverage may increase the risk of missed near-miss events. Therefore, deployment decisions should consider hardware availability, acceptable latency, camera density, network bandwidth, and whether inference is performed locally at the edge or centrally on a server. However, this study did not directly measure inference latency, memory consumption, energy use, hardware-specific throughput, or realthe deployment time edge-device performance. Therefore, discussion should be interpreted as a practical consideration based on model size and detection behavior, not as a hardwarebenchmarking result. The tradeoff between false positives and false negatives is also central to practical use. False negatives are especially concerning in construction safety because they represent missed hazardous interactions and may prevent timely intervention. False positives, while generally less severe, can contribute to alarm fatigue, reduce worker trust, and increase the review burden for safety personnel. The results show that detected near-miss-positive frame count alone is not a sufficient indicator of model effectiveness.

    Benchmarking YOLOv8-YOLOv12 models for image-space near-miss detection in construction safety · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could address these limitations by incorporating mixed-method approaches, including case studies, longitudinal analyses, and objective performance data, to provide a more comprehensive understanding of ImTs implementation. Future research could address these limitations and expand the knowledge base in several directions. As such, the study does not account for how the relative importance of drivers may shift over time as organisations progress from awareness to implementation and eventual institutionalisation of ImTs.

    Evaluating the Drivers of Immersive Technologies Implementation for Health and Safety Management in the Construction Industry · 2026 · DOI

  • Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations are made for enhancing the aviation security performance: • Reduce overtime or long hours of work. • Give sufficient rest periods. • Strengthen training programs. • Enhance training for emergency response • Enhance communication systems. • Implement advanced technologies. • Support employee well-being. • Perform periodic security checks.

    Human Factors in Aviation Security Failure · 2026 · DOI

  • The study emphasizes that effective PPE use requires an integrated approach combining training, ergonomic adaptation, consistent supervision, and a strong safety culture, but does not provide implementation frameworks or detailed mechanisms for integrating these interconnected factors.

    Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on personal protective equipment use in paper production facilities · 2026 · DOI

  • While the study identifies an awareness–behavior gap in PPE usage, there is a need for preventive strategies that strengthen safety behavior before accidents occur, rather than relying on reactive learning from occupational accidents.

    Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on personal protective equipment use in paper production facilities · 2026 · DOI

  • Strangely enough, this is not the case, and this lack of consensus is a major problem, because, as Leveson (2020) points out, without it "everyone starts from a different definition of safety and communication is inhibited.

    Safety is the preservation of value · 2024 · DOI

  • The review identified several limitations regarding the use of immersive technologies, which include the low level of adoption of the developed immersive technologies for OSH management by the construction industry, very limited research on the application of immersive technologies for health hazards, and limited focus on the comparison of the effectiveness of various immersive technologies for construction OSH management.

    A systematic review of the application of immersive technologies for safety and health management in the construction sector · 2023 · DOI

  • More than 90% of blood-borne pathogen infections among health workers occur in developing countries, but research focus and interventions appear concentrated elsewhere.

    Occupational Hazards among Health Workers in Hospitals of Mukalla City, Yemen · 2021 · DOI

  • There is reason to suppose that some of these issues have not been analysed in sufficient detail in either Britain or Australia, but overall it is clear that a properly structured system of statutory safety representatives/com mittees can play an important and constructive part in helping to promote a proper awareness of health and safety issues in this country.

    Statutory Safety Representatives and Safety Committees: Legal and Industrial Relations Implications · 1982 · DOI

  • Non-significant results are likely attributable to implementation failure rather than intervention ineffectiveness, highlighting a key limitation of directly transferring experimental designs.

    Replication of a Randomised Field Trial for Maintenance Depot Risk Reduction: A Methodological Evaluation in Kenya · 2026 · DOI

  • Finally, the study revealed that a quantitative assessment of whole‐body vibration exposures is warranted to provide enough data to justify regulatory attention.

    Mineworkers' Perspectives on Whole‐Body Vibration Exposures in the Ghanaian Mining Industry · 2026 · DOI

  • Although operator-related factors are recognized as important, the ways in which fatigue, emotion, and workload relate to safety performance during collaborative operation remain insufficiently examined.

    Understanding safety performance in human-robot interaction: the role of operator fatigue, emotion, and workload · 2026 · DOI

  • Purpose Cognitive distraction has been widely recognized as a contributor to unsafe behavior, yet its underlying mechanisms among construction workers remain insufficiently understood.

    Linking cognitive distraction to construction workers’ unsafe behaviors: the role of hazard perception and cognitive load · 2026 · DOI

  • Los factores como el polvo en suspensión, la iluminación cambiante y la movilidad constante del personal pueden influir en el rendimiento del sistema, presentando valoraciones moderadamente altas.

    Aplicación de inteligencia artificial para verificar el uso de equipos de protección personal en una planta de cemento, Ecuador · 2026 · DOI

  • Resulta relevante comparar distintas arquitecturas de detección y analizar su desempeño en función de variables propias del entorno industrial, como la iluminación, la presencia de polvo o la dinámica operativa.

    Aplicación de inteligencia artificial para verificar el uso de equipos de protección personal en una planta de cemento, Ecuador · 2026 · DOI

  • Sería pertinente incluir indicadores objetivos, como tasas de accidentabilidad o niveles de cumplimiento normativo, que faciliten una evaluación más precisa del impacto real de estas tecnologías.

    Aplicación de inteligencia artificial para verificar el uso de equipos de protección personal en una planta de cemento, Ecuador · 2026 · DOI

  • Futuras investigaciones deberían contemplar estudios longitudinales, muestras más amplias y el uso de indicadores objetivos, como tasas de incidentes, para evaluar con mayor precisión el impacto del sistema.

    Aplicación de inteligencia artificial para verificar el uso de equipos de protección personal en una planta de cemento, Ecuador · 2026 · DOI

  • No se incorporaron indicadores longitudinales que permitan evaluar de manera directa el impacto del sistema en la disminución de incidentes o accidentes laborales.

    Aplicación de inteligencia artificial para verificar el uso de equipos de protección personal en una planta de cemento, Ecuador · 2026 · DOI

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