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The oil and gas industry is undergoing a structural transformation driven by sustainability requirements, decarbonization policies, and the integration of alternative energy carriers such as hydrogen. In this context, ensuring the safety, reliability, and continuity of technological processes is critical, given the high-risk nature of hydrocarbon extraction, processing, and transport systems. Technological failures in oil and gas operations may generate cascading effects, including environmental pollution, greenho...

are usually trained from a technical, procedural and physical point of view. Still, during rescue simulations and competitions, technical training is not the only element involved. Participants work under time pressure, external evaluation, uncertainty and responsibility, and these conditions may generate strong emotional reactions. If these reactions are not regulated, they can affect attention, decision-making, coordination with the team and recovery after the task. The current paper starts from the practical ne...

Psychosocial risks are defined by the International Labor Organization in terms of interactions between job content, work organization and management, and other environmental and organizational conditions, on one hand, and employee conditions, skills, and needs, on the other. Thus, psychosocial risks refer to those interactions that prove to have a dangerous influence on employees' health through their perceptions and experience. Long-term involvement in stressful work situations can lead to onset of burnout syndr...

In recent years, virtual reality developers have managed to create an artificial environment that can simulate reality so that the user has the impression of an almost real physical presence in the virtual world. By overlapping and synchronizing projected images with spatial sounds and even with forces that interact with the user, the user is detached from the real environment and an all-encompassing involvement in the virtual world occurs. Virtual reality is frequently present in aviation, medicine, military trai...

Jiu Valley represents one of the most important areas for coal mining in Romania, thus industrial development has generated a high level of health and safety at work issues. At work places in mining industry, the staff of the woodworking workshops is exposed to various concentrations of dust, possibly leading, in time, to occupational illnesses. Thus, wood processed in mining unitsпїЅ workshops is utilized for temporary support of coal faces, wrapping underground mining, insulation dams, ventilation doors, etc. Th...