Abstract
Any systems can be expressed by and connected with information. For the safety education system, doing so is essentially a process of safety information dissemination and cognition. Therefore, information is the core of the safety education system. At present, the key factors affecting the effectiveness of safety education are safety demand analysis information, the dissemination and cognitive processes of safety information and information feedback. Research on the construction of a framework model for safety education under the guidance of information flow clears and classifies information-related elements of the safety education process. Therefore, it is conducive to the construction of a safety education system to improve its management level and, through the rational use of information technology, to improve the conversion rate of safety information into safety behaviour. Based on a systematic review and comparison of the existing research perspectives on safety education and information-flow-based safety education (IFSE), this paper analyses the reasons why we need a new perspective on safety education. We introduce information flow into the safety education framework model. The fundamental and expanding elements of safety education propagation are examined and deduced based on information theory. Combined with the connotations of safety education and information flow, this paper analyses the implementation steps of IFSE and applies them to the safety education of new employees in metal and nonmetal mines. In the micro-design, virtual reality technology is used to integrate safety education content and information technology. A new perspective on safety education is created; then, the framework model of IFSE, its implementation steps and models of the processing and utilization processes of safety education are constructed. IFSE is a new perspective for realizing safety education in practice, and the framework model of IFSE provides rigorous theoretical knowledge. Of course, to improve IFSE in practice, more scientific and detailed evaluation methods need to be introduced. This paper is helpful for guiding the safety education theory research from “trivializes situated” to “systematic” and for guiding the design, implementation, assessment and optimization of the safety education practice.
Highlights
Research status of safety management and safety educationAccidents happen every day in the world, and unsafe behaviour is an important reason for a series of unsafe events, including accidents, injuries, losses and network safety events (Heinrich, 1980; Mcsween, 1995; Han & Lee, 2013; Li et al, 2015)
Research on the application of safety education and training in high-risk industries and of new information technology is common (Le et al, 2015; Wang et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2017); it lacks a foundation in the perspective on systems and information, so it is difficult to make a breakthrough in macro-control, management and lifelong safety education and there is a lack of scientific guidelines in micro-practice
Starting from the demand analysis, design, implementation, evaluation, feedback and other behaviours of safety education, this paper explains the information flow and implementation steps involved in the practice of safety education in detail, and a process model is constructed for information processing and utilization of information-flow-based safety education (IFSE) centred on the educated to improve and optimize the practice of safety education
Summary
Accidents happen every day in the world, and unsafe behaviour is an important reason for a series of unsafe events, including accidents, injuries, losses and network safety events (Heinrich, 1980; Mcsween, 1995; Han & Lee, 2013; Li et al, 2015). Research on the application of safety education and training in high-risk industries and of new information technology is common (Le et al, 2015; Wang et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2017); it lacks a foundation in the perspective on systems and information, so it is difficult to make a breakthrough in macro-control, management and lifelong safety education and there is a lack of scientific guidelines in micro-practice. A good model of a scientific field can effectively guide all research and practice In this respect, this paper attempts to construct a new model of safety education based on information flow to provide a basis for the theory and practice of systematic safety education, its basic ideas and methods and to enhance the effectiveness of safety education. Starting from the demand analysis, design, implementation, evaluation, feedback and other behaviours of safety education, this paper explains the information flow and implementation steps involved in the practice of safety education in detail, and a process model is constructed for information processing and utilization of IFSE centred on the educated to improve and optimize the practice of safety education
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