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The main objective of the study is to determine the effect of safety measures to the cybersecurity issues encountered by the selected banks in China. The researcher employed descriptive correlational research design and the probability sampling was utilized specifically, purposive sampling technique. The study involved a sample of 150 employees from selected commercial banks in China as respondents. Majority of the respondents agreed that the commercial bank has successfully managed cybersecurity issues, detecting and preventing most attacks, unauthorized access attempts, and sophisticated cyberattacks. They have also experienced data breaches, providing timely notifications and effective measures. Despite financial losses, the bank has implemented financial safeguards to mitigate threats. The findings revealed that safety measures have significant impact on cybersecurity issues in commercial banks. Electronic banking challenges for commercial banks include customer-related issues, such as ensuring customer confidence and a smooth user experience, while also addressing competition and market dynamics due to rapid innovation in the FinTech industry. Efficient cost control is critical for delivering superior digital services while ensuring successful use of electronic banking systems. Additionally, cultural and organizational changes are necessary to overcome resistance to change and promote digital activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human factors are considered the main cause of accidents involving pipeline explosionf. In order to identify the path of human‐induced explosion accidents, a gas pipeline explosion that occurred in Shiyan city of China is investigated thoroughly in this study. Applying the 24Model, the causes of the accident are classified into two levels: organizational and individual. The organizational level causes are further categorized into two elements, namely safety culture and safety management system. The individual level causes are further categorized into personal abilities and safety behaviors—both unsafe actions and unsafe conditions. The 24Model methodology further refines unsafe actions and unsafe conditions into subcategories for increased clarity. Based on the 24Model, it was determined that the Shinyan City incident was caused by gaps in personal abilities, which included insufficient safety knowledge, low safety awareness, and bad safety habits. Causes related to ability factors, safety management system, and safety culture were also identified. In addition, the relationship between the identified factors was developed according to the roles played by the accident causes, and the propagation path of the accident was established. This clarity helps to strengthen safety measures related to human factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: Adverse events threaten residents' safety. Risk management is important to provide proper care and maintain quality in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). However, there is little data on adverse events, risk management, and risk early warning in RACFs in the Chinese mainland. This study aimed to fill this gap by investigating the prevalence of the aforementioned aspects and related factors in China. Participants and Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, a field survey of 272 RACFs in Hunan Province was conducted from January 25 to June 1, 2020. Data were collected using four main tools on prevalence of nursing adverse events, risk management, risk early warning, and general information. Descriptive statistics were described by frequency (percentage) and median (interquartile range). Mann–Whitney U-test and Kruskal–Wallis H-test, and Spearman coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Results: RACFs experienced an average of five (15) adverse events in 2019, with falls and pressure ulcers being the most common. The total average score of risk management in RACFs was 4.72 (0.98) out of 5, with the environment and personnel management dimensions scoring the highest with 4.75 (1) and the service management dimension scoring the lowest with 4.60 (1). Only 72.79% had trained their staff on ethical and legal knowledge and 84.56% had utilized pre-hospital first aid. Further, 30% to 40% were unprepared for contingency plans of suicide, electric shock, gas poisoning, and drowning. There were significant risk management differences among the following variables: facilities' locations, accreditation with the Practice Certificate of Social Welfare Facilities, bed-size, nursing hours per resident day, requirement for nursing staff with certificates, and payment for nursing staff (p < 0.05). Conclusion: RACFs are facing safety challenges with a high prevalence of nursing adverse events. These facilities need to improve risk early warning and management to ensure residents' safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has developed into a global pandemic, with its early roots from Wuhan city in China. Many warring nations have placed forward maximum precautionary steps and tools to reduce transmission and decrease fatality rates. Infection control measures are required to prevent the infection and to avoid further spread of the virus and to help control the infection. Restrictive steps such as social distancing, lockdown, case identification, isolation, contact tracing and quarantine of exposed had identified the most effective efforts to monitor the spread of the disease. The risk of cross-infection between patients and dental practitioners may be high due to the characteristics of the dental settings. Strict and reliable guidelines on the prevention of infections are urgently needed for dental practices and hospitals in areas (potentially) affected by COVID-19. This article provides a detailed overview of general and relevant preventive interventions, methods and prevention of infections in the healthcare and public settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• This study employs a novel dataset of 180 coverups cases of mining accidents derived from official, judicial and media sources. • The dataset indicates that China's safety measures are structurally compromised and deliberately manipulated. • Failing regulatory, monitoring, and sanctioning measures have led to an unreliable estimate of mining accidents and fatalities. • This study cast doubts about the conceived success of China's new safety narrative. China has taken on a series of comprehensive institutional measures to improve the safety of its coal mining industry and workers. Official figures indicate similar reductions to both accidents and fatalities, from which a "new safety narrative" has emerged in official discourses. However, this view neglects the fact that many accidents are concealed or underreported in China's mining sector. This study critically examines China's safety measures with a novel dataset of 180 mining accident coverup cases derived from official, judicial, and media sources. The study's findings support three observations: (i) despite the imposition of stricter regulations and the closure of many informal and small-scale mines, accident coverups have continued at both legal and large-scale mines; (ii) despite increased monitoring including the implementation of a fatality indicator system, accident reporting is consistently manipulated by mine owners, local authorities, and even victims' families; and (iii) although new stiffer penalties specifically sanction accident coverups, they are rarely imposed. Our results cast doubt on the conceived success of China's new safety narrative and demonstrate how industrial safety measures are deliberately and structurally compromised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – Property defects and building safety have been major concerns for many years in Hong Kong. The local government intends to launch a Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (MBIS) for owners of aged buildings; and instigate necessary defect rectification to enhance building and public safety (HKSAR BD, 2010). This study aims to examine the effects of the proposed enforcement actions, attain major stakeholders' views, and to establish any unidentified problems. Design/methodology/approach – The investigation will be comprised of three stages, i.e. first, a thorough review of some target buildings having received repair orders from government; second, dispatch a structured questionnaire to major stakeholders to solicit their respective views for such potential building; and third, analyze such collected data with statistical tools with proposed solutions and conclusion. Findings – It is anticipated that this research will explore the fundamental concerns, threshold, constraints and actions to be implemented to enhance for better building safety for a potential long-outstanding problem in Hong Kong. Originality/value – The research is based on quantitative studies with originality and value attributed to major stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Due to the unique concept of HTR-PM (High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor-Pebble Bed Module) design, Chinese nuclear authority has anticipated that HTR-PM will bring challenge to the present regulation. The pilot use of PSA (Probabilistic Safety Assessment) during HTR-PM design and safety review is deemed to be the necessary and efficient tool to tackle the problem, and is actively encouraged as indicated in the authority''s specific policy statement on HTR-PM project. The paper summarizes the policy statement to set up the base of PSA development and application activities. The up-to-date status of HTR-PM PSA development and the risk-informed application activities are introduced in this paper as the follow-up response to the policy statement. For open discussion, the paper hereafter puts forward several technical issues which have been encountered during HTR-PM PSA development. Since HTR-PM PSA development experience has the general conclusion that many of the PSA elements can be and have been implemented successfully by the traditional PSA techniques, only the issues which extra innovative efforts may be needed are highlighted in this paper. They are safety goal and risk metrics, PSA modeling framework for the non-water reactors, passive system reliability evaluation, initiating events frequencies and component reliability data estimation techniques for the new reactors and so on. The paper presents the way in which the encountered technical issues were or will be solved, although the proposed way may not be the ultimate best solution. The paper intends to express the standpoint that although the PSA of new reactor has the inherent weakness due to the insufficient information and larger data uncertainty, the problem of component reliability data is much less severe than people have conceived. The unique design conception and functional features of the reactors can influence the results more significantly than the component reliability data. What we are benefited from PSA is indeed the systematic way which PSA follows. This is more important especially for the new reactors. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]