Risk rates of workplace accidents in Brazil: effect of the Accidental Prevention Factor (APF)? - Wernke AR, Teixeira MCL, Kock BO, Sousa OLO, Melo ACMC, Sakae TM, Magajewski FRL.
Historically, the conflict of interests between employers and workers obliged the State to assume the role of regulating this relationship, instituting laws and overseeing the application of health and safety standards at work. The Accident Prevention Fact... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Predicting multiple types of traffic accident severity with explanations: a multi-task deep learning framework - Yang Z, Zhang W, Feng J.
Predicting traffic accident severity is essential for traffic accident prevention and vulnerable road user safety. Furthermore, the explainability of the prediction is crucial for practitioners to extract relevant risk factors and implement corresponding c... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Understanding work to transform training: a study for accident prevention in the telecommunications sector - Ouellet S.
The training needs analysis stage is crucial to training design. Although several data sources are used in the field of adult education, the ergonomic analysis of the work activity is neglected because of the costs associated with its development. This art... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Falls Source Type: news
Modern cause and effect model by factors of root cause for accident prevention in small to medium sized enterprises - Kang Y, Yang S, Patterson P.
BACKGROUND: Factors related to root causes can cause commonly occurring accidents such as falls, slips, and jammed injuries. An important means of reducing the frequency of occupational accidents in small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMSEs) of South Korea... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Changes in risk in medium business plating and paint manufacturing plants following the revision of the Korean Chemical Accident Prevention System - Lee HE, Kim MG, Yoon SJ, Huh DA, Moon KW.
Chemical accidents can occur anywhere. The need for chemical management in Korea was realized following the 2012 Gumi hydrofluoric acid accident in 2012. The Chemicals Control Act was enacted in 2015. This system evaluates the risks (high, medium, low) and... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Effective measure for accident prevention onboard sea vessels--improvements on 4M4E analysis - Kunieda Y, Ino A, Kashima H, Murai K.
This study aims to reduc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
How to use accident informations for your company's safety -contribution of risk assessment for accident prevention - Nakamura M.
Risk assessment is the cornerstone of safety management, but can it be said that it functions effectively to prevent accidents? Risk assessment is based on the accident investigation report of four serious accidents, the vinyl chloride monomer manufacturin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Car accidents caused by older drivers and future perspectives on traffic accident prevention from the view point of human behavior - Kosuge H.
The risk of car accidents caused by older adults having drivers' licenses is increasing in the current super-aging society. Dementia and cognitive function disorders in older drivers inhibit safe driving. Moreover, cognitive functions decline with aging. T... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
A spatial decision support system for traffic accident prevention in different weather conditions - Ivajn šič D, Pintarič D, Grujić VJ, Žiberna I.
Natural conditions play an important role as determinants and cocreators of the spatiotemporal road traffic accident Hot Spot footprint; however, none of the modern commercial, or open-source, navigation systems currently provides it for the driver. Our fi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Causality-network-based critical hazard identification for railway accident prevention: complex network-based model development and comparison - Li Q, Zhang Z, Peng F.
This study investigates a critical hazard identification method for railway accident prevention. A new accident causation network is proposed to model the interaction between hazards and accidents. To realize consistency between the most likely and shortes... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Long-term effectiveness of reverse linear perspective markings on crash mitigation in car-following: evidence from naturalistic observations - Ding N, Jiao N.
Perceptual markings on roads are verified with short-term effectiveness for accident prevention. However, the long-term performance of them is seldomly investigated, which unintentionally impedes its more widely recognition and application as a low-cost an... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Accident prevention activity and accident experience in the Republic of Korea military - Kim HJ, Oh SY, Choi DW, Won SY, Kim HJ, Ko SC, Woo SY, Park EC.
INTRODUCTION: According to data released by the Korea National Statistical Office, the number of accidents has been decreasing since 2012. However, a considerable number of deaths related to safety accidents (23-46 deaths) are still reported annually. This... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Caroline Thomas obituary
My wife, Caroline Thomas, who has died aged 79 of cancer, was an applied psychologist who worked on safety and accident prevention, championing the role of consumers in the development of standards.Known professionally as Caroline Warne, she played a pivotal role in consumer safety and accident prevention over six decades, beginning with research into industrial and household accidents, and culminating in her chairing the consumer policy committee of the International Standards Organization (ISO). She was appointed OBE in 2005.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Godfrey Thomas Tags: Civil service Psychology Source Type: news
Analysis of work-related accidents and ill-health in Brazil since the introduction of the accident prevention factor - Shimizu HE, Bezerra JC, Arantes LJ, Merch án-Hamann E, Ramalho W.
BACKGROUND: Since 2004, Brazil has had a national policy for occupational health and safety. This policy means companies' tax burden is altered according to the numbers of work-related accidents and ill-health amongst their workers. In 2010, a multiplicati... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Accident prevention, detection and reporting for two wheeler safety system - Kalyanaraman B, Choudhary S, Singh M, Kumar D.
This paper manages the improvement of a security framework which is coordinated with the keen protective cap and shrewd bicycle to lessen mishaps and other alcoholic and drive cases for bikes. Here weight sensor and the accelerometer sensor checks whether ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
