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Integrating Safety Engineering and Risk Management in High-Hazard Industrial Systems: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Sustainable Operations

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Such industries as chemical processing, nuclear energy, oil and gas, etc. are considered to be high hazard at best and thus require an effective safety approach in terms of their functioning. This paper discusses the lasting problem of maintaining sustainable and safe operations in those industries by introducing a cross-disciplinary framework of combining safety engineering with the holistic management of risks. The underlying methodology is a systems approach by harnessing the input of engineering and occupational health along with environmental science & human factors to preemptively determine, evaluate, and where possible reduce risks during the industrial lifecycle. Significant findings say that the combination of technical and organizational controls along with real-time safety monitoring and predictive analytics and cross-sector alignment in regulations dramatically enhances the operational reliability and safety performance. Moreover, intensive stakeholder involvement and safety culture construction are defined as the key facilitators of successful risk governance. The need to take an interdisciplinary approach to further the cause of regulatory compliance, accident prevention, and environmental and human sustainability over the long term in the high-risk industrial systems is highlighted by the proposed system.

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High-Hazard Industrial Systems Industrial Safety Integration Multidisciplinary Framework Risk Management Safety Engineering Sustainable Operations

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Scientific Journal of Engineering, and Technology

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2(1), (2025)

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126-133

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18-06-2025

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Holt, K. L. (2025). Integrating Safety Engineering and Risk Management in High-Hazard Industrial Systems: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Sustainable Operations. Scientific Journal of Engineering, and Technology, 2(1), 126-133. https://doi.org/10.69739/sjet.v2i1.688

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