Abstract:

In order to promote the safety soft science to advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the trend of the times, the literature review method and comparative analysis method were used to sort out and analyze the research connotation, extension, trends, and challenges of safety soft science. The results show that safety soft science can be understood as a structured knowledge system involving safety decision-making, risk prevention, emergency management, and it is also an organic combination of comprehensive and interdisciplinary subject groups. Safety soft science mainly involves three levels and categories: philosophical thinking, humanistic interpretation, and empirical confirmation of safety science. The philosophical thinking category focuses on objective safety theory research and rational safety decision-making spiritual activities. The humanistic interpretation category concentrates on various safety cultural phenomena aggregated in the development of human society. The empirical category deal with the exploration of significant accident evolution laws and scientific system safety analysis and argumentation. In the face of the complexity of safety issues, it is urgent to further construct a safety soft science theoretical system for integrated open systems. Under the trend of new technology integration and multidisciplinary intersection, the advantages of globalization and informatization of safety should be given full consideration and the path of multi-agent cooperative governance should be explored.

Key words: safety soft science, safety science, connotation, extension, trends, challenges