中国安全科学发展管窥

——中南大学安全理论创新与促进研究中心的安全基础研究与六门安全专业新研究生课程建设的综述 

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Wu, C. and Huang, X. and Wang, B. (2024). Glimpse of safety science development in China: a review of safety fundamental research and construction of six new postgraduate courses for safety majors by Safety & Security Theory Innovation and Promotion Center of Central South University. Safety Science, 169: 106323 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106323 

Abstract

After more than half a century of development, the safety discipline has accumulated many theories, methods, models, and principles, but these results are still relatively scattered in various fields, and have not formed a complete subject system. Furthermore, there remain many gaps in the foundations of safety science over the years, and there are few textbooks on safety fundamental theory that are usable by postgraduate students in safety majors. To fill the gaps, this paper introduces a project concerning fundamental safety research and the construction of textbooks and new courses on safety science theories for the postgraduate education of safety majors. These texts and courses were created by the Safety & Security Theory Innovation and Promotion Center of Central South University. The project depended upon a strategy of “innovating safety science theory, publishing a series of papers, writing postgraduate textbooks, setting up postgraduate courses, and popularizing them to universities all over China.”After persisting for over ten years, our research group published more than 200 papers (mostly in Chinese journals) and compiled these papers into 11 monographs or textbooks. These books were Principles of Safety & Security Science, Methodology of Safety Science, Safety Statistics, Safety & Security Informatics, Safety Culturology, and Safety Pedagogy, among others. Then, the corresponding courses were opened and matching teaching materials were built. Accordingly, these courses were popularized in many universities with safety majors in China. The above works have achieved remarkable effects and played an important role in the development of safety science. This review provides a glimpse of safety science development in China. Our experiences are also significant insofar as providing reference value for the basic research on safety science and talent training worldwide.

Keywords: safety science in China; safety fundamental research; new textbooks for safety majors; new courses for safety postgraduate education; experiences of research and promotion 

Highlights

•The research methodology and general principles for fundamental research in safety science are introduced.

•The achievements in safety fundamental theories made by our research group over nearly 20 years are summarized and presented.

•The construction and contents of six new postgraduate courses of safety science for safety majors are described.

•The experiences in the teaching and promotion of the six new postgraduate courses are also given.