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<p>Occupational chemical exposure prevention is increasingly shaped by digitalisation, persistent challenges in safety culture and learning, and the growing expectation that exposure prevention aligns with sustainability and green chemistry. Yet these streams are often reviewed separately, limiting guidance for designing interventions that improve both worker health and environmental performance. This scoping‑integrative review synthesised evidence from occupational safety and health, chemical hazard management, Safety 4.0 technologies, safety culture/leadership, and sustainability assessment, drawing on 66 included sources, to conceptualise occupational chemical exposure management as an integrated socio‑technical system. Evidence indicates that digital tools can strengthen exposure recognition, reporting, and decision support, but their effectiveness is constrained by practical limitations such as data quality, interoperability, implementation cost, maintenance demands, and limited industrial validation in some contexts. The review also found that digital tools underperform when organisations lack leadership commitment to hazard control, just culture practices that sustain reporting and learning, and data governance that ensures interpretability and feedback. Sustainability integration remains uneven, with substitution and hazard prevention frequently treated as peripheral to compliance. Through thematic synthesis of recurring patterns across the included literature, a Digital–Culture–Sustainability (DCS) framework was proposed that specifies enabling conditions, coupling mechanisms, and failure modes, including algorithmic surveillance, data incompleteness, and the decoupling of worker health and sustainability goals. The framework is presented as a conceptual synthesis that requires future empirical validation and is operationalised through construct definitions, illustrative indicators, a maturity model, and a phased implementation roadmap for organisations and regulators, including resource‑constrained settings. Future research priorities include digital safety leadership, auditable and explainable analytics aligned with just culture, and integrated metrics that link reductions in occupational exposure to life‑cycle sustainability outcomes.</p>

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Digital culture sustainability framework for managing occupational chemical exposure hazards in the digital age

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    2026年6月20日

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  • Oluwaseun Ruth Alara,
  • Kennedy Adakporia Osakwe

摘要

Occupational chemical exposure prevention is increasingly shaped by digitalisation, persistent challenges in safety culture and learning, and the growing expectation that exposure prevention aligns with sustainability and green chemistry. Yet these streams are often reviewed separately, limiting guidance for designing interventions that improve both worker health and environmental performance. This scoping‑integrative review synthesised evidence from occupational safety and health, chemical hazard management, Safety 4.0 technologies, safety culture/leadership, and sustainability assessment, drawing on 66 included sources, to conceptualise occupational chemical exposure management as an integrated socio‑technical system. Evidence indicates that digital tools can strengthen exposure recognition, reporting, and decision support, but their effectiveness is constrained by practical limitations such as data quality, interoperability, implementation cost, maintenance demands, and limited industrial validation in some contexts. The review also found that digital tools underperform when organisations lack leadership commitment to hazard control, just culture practices that sustain reporting and learning, and data governance that ensures interpretability and feedback. Sustainability integration remains uneven, with substitution and hazard prevention frequently treated as peripheral to compliance. Through thematic synthesis of recurring patterns across the included literature, a Digital–Culture–Sustainability (DCS) framework was proposed that specifies enabling conditions, coupling mechanisms, and failure modes, including algorithmic surveillance, data incompleteness, and the decoupling of worker health and sustainability goals. The framework is presented as a conceptual synthesis that requires future empirical validation and is operationalised through construct definitions, illustrative indicators, a maturity model, and a phased implementation roadmap for organisations and regulators, including resource‑constrained settings. Future research priorities include digital safety leadership, auditable and explainable analytics aligned with just culture, and integrated metrics that link reductions in occupational exposure to life‑cycle sustainability outcomes.