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Biomechanics of primary traumatic head injury
Published in Helen Whitwell, Christopher Milroy, Daniel du Plessis, Forensic Neuropathology, 2021
Biomechanical engineers working in the forensic environment have routinely relied on the heavily funded automotive safety research injury standards and thresholds. The HIC, which is based on linear acceleration, has been largely vindicated by the significant reduction in the number of automotive-related head injuries sustained over the last 50 years. However, it continues to draw criticism from the safety engineering community for conspicuously failing to take into account those injuries that result from the angular acceleration vulnerability of the human head. In response, research into the effects of angular acceleration has received greater emphasis than linear acceleration in an attempt to establish tolerance limits for angular acceleration exposure.
A comparative study of mental health law
Published in Takenori Mishiba, Workplace Mental Health Law, 2020
In Germany, occupational health and safety is categorized as occupational health and safety engineering [technischer Arbeitsschutz] as opposed to legal protection in the workplace [sozialer Arbeitsschutz], which deals with subjects like work hours and termination. There are two layers of occupational health and safety oversight (authorities). The first is the Employer’s Liability Insurance Association, which oversees the Accident Prevention Regulations it formulates, and the second is the Business Inspectorate [Gewerbeaufsicht], which oversees laws and regulations issued by the state, such as the Employee Protection Act. However, few personnel at either level are versed in mental health, leading to problems identifying risks and efforts to mitigate them.56
Errors and accidents
Published in Nicholas Green, Steven Gaydos, Hutchison Ewan, Edward Nicol, Handbook of Aviation and Space Medicine, 2019
Nicholas Green, Steven Gaydos, Hutchison Ewan, Edward Nicol
Examples of a chain of event model are fault and event trees: In a fault tree, multiple causal factors can be identified for each event and for each causal factor. Each factor in the event tree is linked by either AND or OR relationships, enabling the model to be both explanatory and predictive. Fault tree analysis is widely used in safety engineering, and there are software tools that can support its use.
Examining the role of road safety audits worldwide: exploring road safety expert’s opinions
Published in International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2023
Souad AlHamad, Mustafa Almallah, Mohammad N. Naser, Wael K. M. Alhajyaseen, Michael Philip de Roos
Additionally, the study found that as the income level of a country increases, the use of guidelines, mandates, and use of engineering toolkits become more common. These results also reinforce the need for lower income countries to further adopt RSA procedures and mandates in their road design projects. The results also indicate that the effectiveness of RSAs can be improved in low- to middle-income countries by increasing the awareness and use of road safety engineering toolkits. Adopting evidence-based road safety engineering practices will assist in the development of cost effective road safety interventions. Moreover, results show that issues raised by RSAs are sometimes not effectively corrected as indicated by road safety auditors who participated in this research. The general trend for this finding is similar to the previously discussed results where, as the income level of a country declines, safety issues are less likely to be treated and effectively corrected.
Is ‘invisible gorilla’ self-reportedly measurable? Development and validation of a new questionnaire for measuring cognitive unsafe behaviors of front-line industrial workers
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2021
Mahnaz Shakerian, Alireza Choobineh, Mehdi Jahangiri, Jafar Hasanzadeh, Mohammad Nami
Safety engineering practitioners have recently made efforts to develop a behavior-oriented safety method to determine individual differences that contribute to unsafe behavior in the workplace [30]. CFA is a particular form of factor analysis, mostly applied to test whether items of a factor are consistent with a researcher’s perception of the nature of that factor. Likewise, the aim of CFA is to test whether the data fit a hypothesized measurement model. Therefore, model fit items could be achieved to evaluate how well the suggested model captured the covariance between all items in the model. When the limitations the researcher has imposed on the model are not consistent with the sample data, the results of statistical tests of model fit will show a poor fit, and the model could not be accepted. If the fit is poor, it may be due to some items measuring multiple factors or that several items within a factor are more linked to each other than to others [42].
Study on the influence of an underground low-light environment on human safety behavior
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Jing Li, Zhen Wang, Yaru Qin, Ruikang Qi, Gui Fu, Baochang Li, Lei Yang
The experiment selected 10 male graduate and undergraduate students aged between 22 and 26 years as measurement subjects. Their normal vision or corrected vision is 0.7 or above, and none of them has color blindness. Their majors are mining and safety or related, so all of them are familiar with the underground coal mine environment. The experiment was carried out in the laboratory of the School of Safety Engineering in the University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China. The laboratory has no windows, so the room can block the light. When the lighting of the laboratory is turned off, the indoor visibility is almost zero, as shown in Figure 5.