VISION ZERO – Tools for Safety, Health, and Well-being Management and the Application in the Vietnamese Coal Mining Industry

The Vietnamese mining industry is one of the most dangerous industries in the country. Miningcompanies understand safety and health for sustainable development at the mining sector and the nationallevel. Thus, they have been applying many measures to improve their safety and health managementachievements. Besides technology measures, organizational and personal measures are priorities. At theinternational level, VISION ZERO is a global movement based on the belief that all accidents, diseases,and harm at work are preventable. VISION ZERO develops its Seven Golden Rules to guide leaders,managers, and workers to create a safe and healthy working environment for the well-being of employees.The paper focuses on VISION ZERO, its theoretical aspects, and the application process in the Vietnamesecoal mining companies.

Pedestrian Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID pandemic provides a natural experiment examining how a 50–60% reduction in pedestrian activity might lead to a reduction in pedestrian deaths. We assessed whether the reduction in pedestrian deaths was proportional to a one-to-one matching presumed in statistics correlating mobility with fatality. The primary analysis examined New York (largest city in US), and the validation analysis examined Toronto (largest city in Canada). We identified pedestrian activity in each location from the Apple Mobility database, normalized to the baseline in January 2020. We calculated monthly pedestrian deaths from the Vision Zero database in each city with baseline data from 3 prior years. We found a large initial reduction in pedestrian deaths during the lockdown in New York that was transient and not statistically significant during the summer and autumn despite sustained reductions in pedestrian activity. Similarly, we found a large initial reduction in pedestrian deaths during the lockdown in Toronto that was transient and not sustained. Together, these data suggest the substantial reductions in pedestrian activity during the COVID pandemic have no simple correlation with pedestrian fatality counts in the same locations. An awareness of this finding emphasizes the role of unmeasured modifiable individual factors beyond pedestrian infrastructure or other structural contributors.

Supporting kids’ active travel during the pandemic: Milwaukee SRTS Program

The Milwaukee Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program, a partnership between the city of Milwaukee Department of Public Works and the Wisconsin Bike Federation continued their commitment to children’s active travel during the COVID-19 pandemic through offering community walks and Black and Latinx neighborhoods to discuss and incorporate preferences for planned infrastructure improvements; urban summer bicycle camps for kids; and support for teachers as SRTS champions. Staff made modifications such as conducting programming outdoors; modifying materials and facilitation methods to support physical distancing; providing face coverings and minimizing touching equipment. The National Center for Safe Routes to School recognized their efforts with the 2021 Vision Zero for Youth Innovation Award.

Less Temptation To Exceed The Speed Limit Or Towards Vision Zero

In 2020 the Lithuanian Government approved traffic safety programme Vision Zero. One of the integral measures applied to improve traffic safety and to reduce the number of road traffic infringements is the development of average speed cameras’ network on state significance roads. It is planned that the network of average speed cameras will cover more than 800 km of state significance road network in Lithuania in 2020-2021. Initially, it was planned to implement these measures only on rural roads. However, taking into consideration the principles of road eligibility for average speed camera installation, some road sections crossing the so-called linear settlements were selected to test the impact of such systems on driving habits as well. It is presumed that from the beginning of exploitation of these systems the reduction in the consequences of severe traffic accidents on the selected most dangerous state significance road sections will be observed.

In Cars (Are We Really Safest of All?): Interior Sensing and Emotional Opacity

This paper considers car driver monitoring systems that measure bodies to infer and react to emotions and other affective states. Situated within social trends in personalisation and automation, developers of driver monitoring systems promise increased safety on the road and comfort for cabin occupants. The impetus is threefold, namely: (1) European road safety policy seeks to vastly reduce road deaths using computational surveillance; (2) interest in the role of safety solutions based on in-cabin sensing of emotion and affective states of drivers and passengers; and 3) autonomous driving trends changing the nature of interactions between vehicle and driver. These systems are of special interest because they are backed by policy and standards initiatives, not least the European Union’s Vision Zero policy that seeks to reduce road death to zero, and industry-oriented safety programmes like the New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP). Informed by 13 expert interviews with interviewees working in and around in-cabin sensing developments, this paper identifies and explores features of emergent in-cabin profiling through emotional AI and biometric measures. It then carries ambivalent insights found into analysis of applicable European regulations, also finding a deep ambivalence in the politics of Emotional AI for interior sensing of cabins and occupants.

Evaluation of the Road Policy in the Light of Vision Zero in Jaworzno, Poland

Vision Zero (VZ) is a systematic approach whose goal is to reduce the fatalities and serious injuries suffered in road accidents to zero, which was first adopted in Sweden in 1997. Besides assessing the policy implementation in the Polish town of Jaworzno, this paper applies VZ as a framework to describe transport policy development in Jaworzno. It concludes, that even without an explicitly defined strategical VZ document, the action taken by city officials in Jaworzno clearly overlaps with VZ, as evidenced in Sweden. Also, strong political commitment, clear leadership and a dynamic approach to adjust the development according to new evidence, show the city of Jaworzno to be a learning institution in its enhancement of road safety and its support of sustainable development.

New Vision Zero Measures with the use of Telematics and Mobility Data

Worldwide, 1.35 million people die every year as a result of road accidents [Status 2018]. More than half of all traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclist, and motorcyclists [1]. To reduce this number, there are many approaches, an effective and sustainable variant is the Vision Zero(VZ). First and foremost, VZ should be seen as a strategy based on an ethical foundation, creating and supporting a totally new perspective on the road safety problem and the approach to solve it. In Germany, the German Road Safety Council (DVR) has pursued the strategy since 2006 and in 2018 the German Parliament has committed to VZ in the coalition agreement [2]. Since the turn of the century, many European countries have been pursuing the vision of zero traffic fatalities. Numerous VZ measures for traffic infrastructure, vehicle safety features and for instruction have been defined, implemented and validated in order to improve traffic safety, but facing new digital technologies as telematics systems and mobility data via smart phone sensors, these measures need to be redefined in order to be smarter, more efficient and cheaper.

Problems of Occupational Safety Management in the Context of Implementation of the Vision Zero Concept

A large number of the scientific publications is devoted to the development and improvement of occupational safety and health management systems, which analyze various factors that can affect their efficiency. At the same time, the review of domestic and foreign statistics of injury rate shows that when introducing the golden principles of the concept of Vision Zero, many companies and organizations faced the problem of stabilizing injury rates indicators, especially incidents or injuries with serious consequences. Modern concept of the occupational safety and health management at the workplace, in a production unit or organization is presented, which involves constant monitoring of the situation for identifying the ways and developing measures to improve it. It provides for the use of a set of leading indicators which are a form of active monitoring and are used as input data required to achieve the set goals in the field of safety. Based on the conducted analysis, the algorithm for the formation and adjustment of the Balanced Scorecard is proposed, the purpose of which is to transform the organization strategy in the field of occupational safety into the specific goals of each subdivision. The developed system of indicators is an efficient mechanism for assessing the degree of efficiency of preventive actions for occupational health and safety management system, and, also, provides an opportunity for the feedback to increase the efficiency of these actions, which is required for the processes of continuous improvement.