Moslem Alimohammadlou

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (full) at Shiraz University

Highlights •WSRM is vital for safety; but errors can undermine its effectiveness. •A mixed-methods approach was utilized to identify and classify common errors and pitfalls in WSRM. •Research found 49 errors in WSRM, along with 70 influencing factors. •The study offer valuable insights for developing evaluation tools and error mitigation strategies...

The growing global population and the need for sustainable energy due to nonrenewable resources necessitate innovative solutions to meet energy demands while minimizing environmental impacts. The cardinal motivation behind this research is to move towards efficient biomass resource management in order to overcome environmental uncertainty and ambig...

The reliability of shop floor workers, who are often as the final level of a socio-technical system, has been identified as a crucial factor in complex systems. This study aimed to develop and apply a quantitative and practical method to help safety practitioners manage unsafe behavior in industrial systems. This study is a descriptive-analytical,...

Increasing environmental burdens and the importance of innovation in the presently competitive environment have encouraged small- and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) to adopt and implement green innovation practices. This process, however, is faced with many limitations and obstacles. The purpose of this study is to propose a framework to identify barr...

In recent decades, entrepreneurship and innovation have emerged as primary drivers of economic development and employment generation. Universities play a significant role in nurturing entrepreneurs and disseminating entrepreneurial culture, while also providing diverse resources and capabilities to support entrepreneurial endeavors. The selection o...

Circular Economy is widely recognized as an effective tool for achieving urban sustainability. Over the past years, scientific research on Urban Circular Economy (UCE) has intensified. However, there is a lack of review studies that effectively capture the evolution and current state of UCE in relation to sustainability. To address this gap, we tho...

Safety considerations in process industries primarily revolve around process and occupational safety. In recent times, there has been a growing emphasis on the development and application of risk estimation frameworks to provide a more holistic evaluation of these critical risk types. While previous studies have offered valuable insights into the c...

Objectives. Unsafe behavior (UB) is defined as the likelihood of intentionally or unintentionally deviating from pre-defined plans. This study aims to investigate the validation of a self-report tool for measuring workers' cognitive-based UB using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). Methods. The cognitive-based unsafe behavior questionnaire...

In the context of process safety, vulnerability refers to the inherent susceptibility of a process industry to exacerbate the potential for escalating negative outcomes resulting from natural or man-made disturbances. Conducting vulnerability assessments is crucial in identifying potential hazards and formulating effective risk management strategie...

The present study aimed to perform a dynamic risk assessment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in spherical storage tanks using the Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) method. The “LPG release from spherical storage tank” scenario was determined to be a top event based on the risk level. The causes and consequences of this scenario were then specified us...

In recent years, reverse logistics (RL) has come to the fore as an important issue, given the increasing environmental concerns, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable competition. Today, RL is considered a strategic activity. Legal requirements, social responsibilities, environmental concerns, economic interests, and customer awareness h...

Intuitionistic fuzzy (IF) is one of the fuzzy approaches that better responds to environmental uncertainty taking into account the two concepts of membership and non-membership functions. IF approach is defined in two ways: ordinary IF and interval-valued IF (IVIF). In this chapter, an attempt is made to use these two approaches in evaluating the w...

Today’s turbulent, complex and multi-dimensional world has led managers and organizational experts to use multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques and to integrate them with a variety of developed fuzzy sets to overcome environmental uncertainties and ambiguities. Circular Intuitionistic fuzzy set (C-IF SETS) can be introduced as one of the...

Industrial waste encompasses all types of waste generated from industrial, manufacturing, and mining activities. To minimize adverse environmental impacts, industrial waste can be effectively managed through implementingsmart technologies. The present study aimed to identify the challenges of industrial waste management and propose smart solutions...

Objectives: Planning and scientific policy making is required for the investigation of scientific productions. Scientific productions are published through universities and research centers in the form of articles and research journals. Scientometric approaches are a tool to assess the performance of journals in different fields. The aim of the pre...

Background and Objective: Occupational safety is an important and significant issue that helps maintain the health and safety of employees and prevent occupational accidents and injuries. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of reviewing and analyzing books related to occupational safety. Materials and Methods: The current resear...

Blockchain technology is one of the prominent advancements of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), although the technology is difficult to be implemented, particularly in relatively small organizations. This study investigates the challenges of blockchain implementation in the supply chain management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, this st...

Identifying and modeling the factors affecting unsafe behaviors (UBs) have been conducted by various methods such as qualitative studies, game theory, and modeling using dynamic system. Therefore, the present study aimed to provide a study protocol in the field of modeling the factors affecting UBs by conducting a case study in Iranian workers. Thi...

Objective The imbalance between work and family life, otherwise called work-family conflict, represents one of the major challenges that individuals encounter in the twenty-first century. Given this issue, the present study seeks to identify the factors affecting work-family conflict and its indicators and to interpret the relationships between the...

Society 5.0 promotes the use of artificial intelligence in human life and the return of humanity to the center of the world. Society 5.0 seeks to achieve economic growth while overcoming social and environmental challenges, contributing to the welfare of the global community. The purpose of this study is to explore how digital transformations intro...

The transportation sector has extensive environmental, social, and economic impacts on society. Given such impacts, it is necessary for this sector to rely on sustainable development. A growing number of investigations explore fuzzy decision systems for sustainable transport each year, addressing a multitude of topics in this area of research. The...

Over the last decade, many academics, practitioners, and policy-makers have focused on the notion of circular economy (CE) as a way to operationalize sustainable development. There is, however, a shortage of review studies that reflect the evolution and status of CE with respect to sustainability in the maritime industry. The purpose of this study...

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is currently a major topical concern in the literature on maritime industry. Maritime 4.0 is the area concerned with the integrated implementation of digital processes and technologies in the maritime industry. There is, however, a shortage of review studies that can reflect the research directions and various important issues i...

To date, the use of three key aspects together has received little attention in studies on sustainable business models (SBMs). These aspects are a) the qualitative design of SBMs based on a valid sustainable business model canvas presented so far, b) the dynamic quantitative analysis of the designed SBMs, and c) the identification of appropriate bu...

The reliability of shop floor workers, mostly as the last level of a socio-technical system, has been identified as an essential factor in complex systems. This study aimed to develop and apply a quantitative and applicable method to help safety practitioners to manage unsafe behavior in industrial systems. This work is a descriptive-analytical and...

Future study is an approach that contributes the active directors in tourism field to prepare the ground to import smartening technologies e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) in tourism by long term planning and to help its growth and development. The present study aims to predict and identify the foremost effective factors and prepare Plausible and fav...

Although small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) shape the cornerstone of the economy, they encounter various challenges in managing the transition to Industry 4.0. This condition represents an ill-structured problem under uncertainty, which requires a set of specific tools to be solved. This study relies on an integrated approach composed of th...

Lifting operation, especially Asymmetric Tandem Lift, is one of the essential activities in the construction industry, posing a substantial threat to sustainable management. This study aims to assess the risk of crane overturning in ATL using the fuzzy fault tree analysis method. The risk factors affecting crane overturning were identified and quan...

The supply chain (SC) represents a network of activities that seeks to deliver products to consumers all around the world. Globalization has led to fluctuations and disruptions in the SC. Presently, alarming disruptions are caused by increasing amounts of industrial waste, greenhouse gasses, and other types of wastage that have engendered environme...

Introduction: Micro-enterprises are acknowledged as one of the most high-risk workplaces often due to poor safety practices and performance. Despite ongoing efforts to reduce these workplace accidents, they remain as a serious problem. Therefore, understanding the relationship between the contributing factors to workplace accidents in micro-enterpr...

Despite the importance of relying on renewable energy sources, oil-producing countries, especially Iran, encounter numerous risks associated with the generation of such energy sources. The present study investigated the risks in renewable energy in Iran. As the first investigation addressing this problem in Iran, the study methodologically improved...

Sustainable development is a process through which the needs of the present generation are satisfied without damaging the benefits or resources for meeting the needs of succeeding generations. Sustainable development could help to realize a society with far better conditions than those in today’s society, especially for future generations. This stu...

Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) shape the cornerstone of economy, they encounter various challenges in transitioning to Industry 4.0. This issue represents an ill-structured problem under uncertainty, which requires a specific set of tools to be solved. This study relied on a hybrid method composed of the interval type-2 fuzzy BW...

The prevention of Unsafe Behaviors (UBs) requires a deep understanding of their root causes and motivations. Therefore, the present study aimed at modeling the factors affecting UBs using the best-worst (FBWM) and Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) methods. The present study consisted of three parts: identifying the factors affecting UBs using content analy...

Purpose: This scientometric study was aimed to investigate research and hot topics on unsafe behavior. Methods and Materials: This study was performed using Scientometric analysis mapping tools, such as CiteSpace, Gephi, MINITAB, and VOSviewer for statistical analysis. Studies published in Web of Sciences were included in our study. Results: The fi...

In Analytic Network Process method (ANP), the complex relationships among different levels of decision, transactions, and feedbacks of criteria and alternatives are considered for calculating the weight of elements. However, a large number of pair-wise comparisons in ANP, and the difficulties in understanding the methods used for comparison by the...

Background Some researchers state that they are not yet able to provide a deep understanding of the underlying causes of unsafe behaviors. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the attitudes and experiences of Iranian workers of unsafe behaviors. Methods This present study was conducted in 35 industries using a semi-structured...

Aims: A most widely used tool for measuring the workload is the NASA‑task load index (TLX) questionnaire, in which various studies have reported numerous problems. The present study aimed to improve the NSAS‑TLX mental workload questionnaire using the fuzzy linguistic variables instead of the virtual rating scale, and multicriteria decision‑making...

Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) is an interactive process in which a malformed (bad structured) problem is structured into a comprehensive systematic model. Yet, despite many advantages that ISM provides, this method has some shortcomings, the most important one of which is its reliance on participants' intuition and judgment. This problem u...

This study sought to construct a model for selecting green suppliers. The study was conducted in three phases: in phase 1, the literature was reviewed based on the meta-synthesis method and experts' opinions were analyzed to create a model composed of 11 dimensions and 40 criteria for selecting green suppliers. In phase 2, intuitionistic fuzzy best...

The prevention of industrial accidents is not completely practical by implementing safety programs unless focusing on protecting vulnerable workers. The unsafe behavior cognitive factors (UBCFs) are essential determinants contributing to human failure. This study aimed at eliciting the most important UBCFs, along with investigating hierarchical cau...

Fire is one of the most dangerous phenomena causing major casualties and financial losses in hospitals and healthcare settings. In order to prevent and control the fire sources, first risk assessment should be conducted. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is one of the techniques widely used for risk assessment. However, Risk Priority Number (...

The present study aimed to evaluate different illumination systems in the control room of a power plant and decide on the optimal illumination system in terms of the operator’s cognitive performance. This study was conducted on a control room, consisting of 16 operators. The cognitive performance and sleepiness of the subjects were evaluated under...

Supply chain agility is a critical contributor to the companies’ performance. It enables them to deal with the challenges of a dynamic and complex business environment. Today’s companies due to be agile in the turbulent market should be aware of the essential factors of agility. The purpose of this paper is to identify the most important ones betwe...

Chemical process industries (CPI) are inherently hazardous complex systems where large inventory of extremely flammable and explosive chemicals are processed and stored in a highly congested process area. A reliable safety analysis method plays a significant role to measure risks and to develop preventive strategies in process industries. This pape...

Most of the incidents including near misses are attributed to human unsafe acts. An available means for preventing incidents is to recognize "accident-prone" workers in a system as the last layer of the working system. This study was conducted to recognize individual cognitive factors affecting unsafe acts among Iranian industrial workers as well a...

This study investigated outsourceable activities through fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (FMCDM) techniques. The study, which involved five phases, relied on an integrated, exploratory research method. In phase 1, the qualitative method of meta-synthesis was used to identify the factors effecting outsourcing decisions. Next, the Delphi method...

Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (F-ANP) method is able to consider the complex relationships among different levels of decisions, transactions, and feedbacks of criteria and alternatives to calculate the weights of the elements. The large number of pair-wise comparisons in F-ANP and also difficulties in understanding the way of comparisons for the...

The exceptional opportunities provided in the Iranian Petroleum industry have attracted the attention of international oil/gas companies. Ever since the sanctions on economic and financial cooperation with Iran have been lifted, major oil companies have expressed their interest in cooperating with Iran in its oil/gas fields. This study sought to pr...

Ever since the sanctions on economic and financial cooperation with Iran have been lifted, leading EPC contractors in the field of energy have expressed their interest in Iran’s energy sector. This study sought to formulate a model for assessing and ranking foreign EPC companies which are willing to cooperate with Iran. To accomplish this, the best...

Nowadays, the business environment has provided causes of emerging a high level of uncertainty and turbulent behavior in supply chains. In most cases, suppliers are considered as the main sources of external risks which provide causes of emerging wide levels of disruptions in supply chains; therefore, choosing the appropriate and also resilient sup...

The use of financial ratios as the necessary information is considered as one of the noticeable issues for researchers to apply quantitative models for evaluating the performance of institutions. The reason for introducing these new approaches is that the financial ratios cannot individually provide a correct and adequate understanding of an instit...

The purpose of this study is to design a four-echelon supply chain network in which operational and financial dimensions have been considered by a holistic, comprehensive and rigorous viewpoint within tactical and strategic decision-making levels. In this process, the aforementioned dimensions are extended and integrated in mathematical modeling fr...

Nowadays efficiency measurement is considered as one of the most important methods for performance assessment of the organizations. Assessment of academic education and research system is a vital factor for education and research promotion and also is a panoramic mirror for education and research activities. The aim of this research is to assess th...

Designing supply chain network system is one of the basic issues in supply chain management. In supply chain, financial flows exist like physical flows. The purpose of this study is to design a four level supply chain network considering holistic and systems thinking, which was conducted in three stages. The first stage, deals with tactical and str...

Conducting assessment management and selecting the most efficient contractor are critical issues for efficiently implementing a project, using foreseen resources. Contractors' assessment significantly reduces the costs and improves corporate competitiveness. There are various techniques, including mathematical methods, used for assessing suppliers/...

Conducting assessment management and selecting the most efficient contractor are critical issues for efficiently implementing a project, using foreseen resources. Contractors' assessment significantly reduces the costs and improves corporate competitiveness. There are various techniques, including mathematical methods, used for assessing suppliers/...

The cement industry, as a basic industry, has an essential function in the development of a country's infrastructure. This industry in Iran, however, despite numerous advantages such as high-quality mines and the use of energy at an affordable price, faces many challenges. Problems such as misuse of the production capacity in the industry threaten...

In the emerging knowledge economy, universities play a critical role in knowledge transfer and knowledge diffusion of their research findings to the industry. Using the Total Quality Management opens a new horizon in higher education settings in order to facilitate knowledge transfer process and institutionalize its diffusion in the industrial cont...

Purpose – In the contemporary global market, supplier selection represents a crucial process for enhancing firms’ competitiveness. This is a multi-criteria decision-making problem that involves consideration of multiple criteria. Therefore this requires reliable methods to select the best suppliers. The purpose of this paper is to examine and propo...

In the recent years, issues like high competitive pressure, globalization, business difficulties, resources limits, technological complications and activities specialization, fast changes in environment, etc. have caused organizations to reconsider their management methods. As a result, they are looking forward to branding new strategies in order t...