The study investigates whether a model trained on construction‑sector occupational accident narratives can accurately classify accident‑process roles in other sectors and reporting environments. Using 42,244 factual units from 6,040 construction narratives, the authors compared TF‑IDF, frozen pretrained representations, and task‑adapted pretrained models, achieving up to 85.7% balanced accuracy without retraining. The models performed consistently across metallurgy, chemistry‑plastics, and an independent company corpus, though performance varied more on the latter due to differing reporting practices.
By Aho Yapi, Pierre Latouche, Arnaud Guillin, Yan Bailly
arXiv:2609.15997v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Improving safety at intersections requires identifying crash mechanisms and recommending appropriate countermeasures. However, this process tradition...
By Abu Saif Md Nasim Uddin, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Zubayer Islam, Parvez Anowar, Chenzhu Wang
The paper presents a decision‑aware framework for predicting dementia‑related crash severity that emphasizes auditability and selective deferral. Using 4,781 Texas crash records, the authors evaluate several models—including structured, narrative, fusion, calibrated fusion, BERT‑family, and local large‑language‑model baselines—under a stratified 70/15/15 split. The leakage‑controlled Gemma model achieves the highest macro‑F1 of 0.545, while a calibrated fusion model reaches 0.522 macro‑F1 with an expected calibration error of 0.033; selective deferral further improves performance, raising macro‑F1 to 0.573 at 70% coverage and reducing severity cost to 0.577.
By Gaurab Chhetri, Anika Baitullah, Subasish Das
Medical device recalls are a critical regulatory mechanism for protecting patient safety. The growing volume of FDA recall records presents challenges in post-report recall triage, severity assessment, and root-cause interpretation.
arXiv:2606. 27174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical device recalls are a critical regulatory mechanism for protecting patient safety.
By Ali Semih Atalay, Sevgi Yigit-Sert
ConstructCIE is a manually annotated dataset designed for extracting causal information from OSHA construction accident reports. It employs a hierarchical schema that categorizes accident types, causal factors, sub‑causal factors, and the supporting evidence spans. Experiments with supervised sequence taggers and instruction‑tuned large language models show strong performance on accident‑type prediction and broad causal recovery, yet precise span‑level extraction remains challenging, highlighting the need for better domain grounding and evidence extraction.
By Hung Nguyen, Jaehoon Lee, Namgyun Kim, Kuan-Hao Huang
arXiv:2606. 19183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can make clinical decision support more accessible by interpreting free-text documentation, but their direct use as diagnostic engines is limited by sensitivity to prompts, information order, and plausible but incorrect outputs.
By Soheyl Bateni, Maryam Abdolali
arXiv:2607. 29064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Police crash narratives contain information that may supplement structured crash databases, but manual review is labor-intensive and it remains unclear how well large language models (LLMs) reproduce official crash coding.
By Sudhir Bharati, Rajendra K C Khatri, Sudip Bharati
The paper introduces a two‑stage training framework that combines Supervised Fine‑Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to improve multimodal disaster severity assessment. It creates two datasets—ReasoningSet for validated rationales and PreferenceSet for paired rationales—using a single Human‑in‑the‑Loop workflow. Experiments on InternVL‑3‑8B and LLaVA‑1.5‑7B show that SFT boosts classification accuracy and Macro‑F1, while DPO further enhances interpretability and alignment with human judgment.
By Yuanjun Zhang, Fuzel Ahamed Shaik, Suvojit Acharjee, Fahad Khalid, Mourad Oussalah
arXiv:2608. 14746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aviation industry characterized by its stringent safety standards has seen a growing need for innovative approaches to enhance safety measures.
By Aziida Nanyonga
SAFARI is the first industrial benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in automotive hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA) under ISO 26262. It comprises 3,000 de‑identified HARA cases and tests two tasks: open‑ended hazard generation and standards‑grounded risk classification, using a novel reference‑anchored LLM‑as‑a‑judge protocol. Experiments with nine state‑of‑the‑art LLMs show that while hazard narratives are often plausible, risk classification remains weak (best ASIL macro‑F1 = 0.261), with errors mainly due to missing scenario context and misjudged controllability.
"whyItMatters":"The benchmark highlights the current limitations of LLMs in safety‑critical engineering workflows, guiding future research and expert oversight in automotive safety analysis."
By Chenxi Wu, Zimu Wang, Haiyang Zhang, Wei Wang, Zhijie Xu
arXiv:2606. 01737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic accident liability analysis is a critical yet challenging task in intelligent transportation and legal assistance.
By Xu Li, Zedong Fu, Xinyi Li, Xun Han