Safety Science Reports

Safety Science Reports is an independent Gold Open Access sister journal to Safety Science. The journal advances clear, rigorous, and practically relevant research in safety and security across sectors and regions.

We study safety and security as properties of complex sociotechnical systems. Harm and disruption arise from interactions among technologies, people, organizations, governance structures, and broader societal conditions. Safety and security are closely connected. Today’s challenges—including AI-enabled systems, cyber-physical infrastructures, environmental change, and global interdependencies—require integrated approaches that consider both accidental harm and intentional threats.

Safety is not only technical. It is also behavioral, organizational, institutional, and ethical. The journal welcomes contributions from engineering, social sciences, humanities, law, management, and public policy. We value interdisciplinary dialogue, theory testing across contexts, replication studies, descriptive baselines, and research that strengthens cumulative knowledge. Innovation is welcome, but rigorous evidence and real-world relevance are essential.

We recognize that harm is unevenly distributed across regions and populations. Context-sensitive studies, including work from underrepresented or high-risk settings, are encouraged when they contribute to understanding, comparability, and improvement.

The journal publishes original research, reviews, methodological contributions, structured Safety and Security Reports, and perspectives. Our structured reports apply safety science principles to real-world cases and emerging risks to inform decisions, strengthen governance, and support effective interventions. Our goal is to make safety science usable and socially meaningful.

The journal welcomes work across the following broad areas:

Sectors and Domains of Application

• Environmental, climate, and public safety

• Healthcare and patient safety

• Occupational, industrial, and process safety

• Transport and mobility safety and security

• Cyberworlds, digital environments, and online safety and security

Cross-Cutting Safety and Security Themes

• Artificial intelligence, digitalization, and cyber-physical systems

• Critical infrastructure protection and systemic vulnerability

• Governance, regulation, resilience, accountability, and responsibility

• Human factors, organizational behavior, and safety culture

Approaches and Foundations

• Conceptual, philosophical, and ethical foundations of safety and security

• Risk assessment, modeling, resilience, and uncertainty analysis

• Replication, robustness testing, and baseline or surveillance studies

• Methods, tools, and structured reporting for evidence-informed decisions

Safety Science Reports aims to strengthen safety and security science by supporting interdisciplinary integration, methodological rigor, global awareness, and practical relevance. We seek contributions that improve understanding, inform policy, and ultimately help reduce harm in real systems.