JRMGE / Vol 8 / Issue 4

Review

Safety risk management of underground engineering in China: Progress, challenges and strategies

Qihu Qian, Peng Lin


2016, 8(4): 423-442. doi:10.1016/j.jrmge.2016.04.001


Received: 2015-12-04 / Revised: 2016-03-31 / Accepted: 2016-04-13 / Available online: 2016-05-20

2016, 8(4): 423-442.

doi:10.1016/j.jrmge.2016.04.001


Received: 2015-12-04

Revised: 2016-03-31

Accepted: 2016-04-13

Available online: 2016-05-20


Abstract: Underground construction in China is featured by large scale, high speed, long construction period, complex operation and frustrating situations regarding project safety. Various accidents have been reported from time to time, resulting in serious social impact and huge economic loss. This paper presents the main progress in the safety risk management of underground engineering in China over the last decade, i.e. (1) establishment of laws and regulations for safety risk management of underground engineering, (2) implementation of the safety risk management plan, (3) establishment of decision support system for risk management and early-warning based on information technology, and (4) strengthening the study on safety risk management, prediction and prevention. Based on the analysis of the typical accidents in China in the last decade, the new challenges in the safety risk management for underground engineering are identified as follows: (1) control of unsafe human behaviors; (2) technological innovation in safety risk management; and (3) design of safety risk management regulations. Finally, the strategies for safety risk management of underground engineering in China are proposed in six aspects, i.e. the safety risk management system and policy, law, administration, economy, education and technology.

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Keywords: Underground engineering, Safety risk management, Safety behaviors, Safety challenges, Safety progress and strategies

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Qihu Qian, Peng Lin, 2016. Safety risk management of underground engineering in China: Progress, challenges and strategies. J. Rock Mech. Geotech. Eng. 8 (4), 423-442.

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Prof. Qihu Qian
gcyqqh@163.com

Qian Qihu obtained a Kandidat Nauk degree (Candidate of Sciences) from Gobichev Military Engineering in Moscow, Russia. He was appointed as associate professor in 1980 and professor in 1986. Now, he is a professor and doctoral advisor at the PLA University of Science and Technology in Nanjing. Qian has been engaged in civil engineering and rock mechanics and engineering for several decades. Qian has published several monographs, such as Impact and Explosion Effects in Rock and Soil, Study of the Development and Utilization of Underground Space in Chinese Cities, and Calculation Theory for Advanced Protective Structures. He and his research group received the Important Scientific Award at the National Science Conference and National Awards for Science and Technology Progress in China for their achievements in the propagation of stress wave in rock and soil, stress wave passing through fractured rock masses and interaction of stress wave with structures in rock masses. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering. In May 1994, Qian was elected as a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), deputy director of the CAE Civil Engineering Division in 1994–2000, deputy director of the CAE Engineering Management Division in 2000–2004, vice president of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) in 2003–2007 and was elected as fellow of ISRM in 2012, Asian director of the Associated Research Centre for the Urban Underground Space (ACUUS), president of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, and concurrently a professor of many universities.

Prof. Peng Lin
celinpe@tsinghua.edu.cn