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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"accident prevention"”.
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Development of cost benefit analysis model of accident prevention on construction projects
… This research investigated the net benefit of accident prevention and explored the relationship between preventative costs and these benefits, with a view to drawing attention to the economic consequences of effective/ineffective management of health and safety by contractors in the UK …
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An inquiry into significant factors for accident prevention embodied in the Factories Act
… which are apparently intended to promote the prevention of accidents in industry. These factors have been lifted out of the Act and Regulations and their significance is discussed in this thesis. The results of a questionnaire posed to firms are presented and analysed. These results indicate a …
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Identification of pollution prevention and accident prevention technology opportunities for use in supplemental environmental projects
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1997.
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An investigation of accident prevention practices in the Zambian construction industry: a case study for Lusaka.
… and safety in a bid to minimize and reduce accidents in the construction industry. Zambia’s overriding policy goals through the Ministry of labor and social security, Occupational Safety and Health Services Department, is to promote and enforce occupational health and safety standards at …
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Safety supervisory control, model-based hazard monitoring, and temporal logic: Dynamic risk-informed safety interventions and accident prevention
Accident prevention and system safety are important considerations for many industries, especially large-scale hazardous ones such as the nuclear, the chemical, and the aerospace industries. Limitations in the current tools and approaches to risk assessment and accident prevention are broadly …
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Development of a novel knowledge-based decision support system for accident prevention of oil and gas drilling process
… and preventive measures to overcome the accidents at drilling sites. Therefore, in this study the most hazardous drilling operations with their associated potential hazards and effective hazard controlling factors at Malaysian, Saudi Arabian and Pakistani onshore and offshore drilling …
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COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS AS PREDICTORS OF CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF SAFETY AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION (REFLECTION-IMPULSIVITY, CAUSAL REASONING, PARENT STYLE)
… predictors of their understanding of safety and accident prevention. Understanding of safety and accident prevention were operationalized as differentiation of safe and unsafe situations and specification of measures for preventing accidents, respectively. Individual interviews were conducted …
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Using phase space attractors to evaluate system safety constraint enforcement : case study in space shuttle mission control procedure rework
… to create counterintuitive and catastrophic accidents. Increasingly, the accidents encountered in these systems are defying the linearized notions of accident causality that-though developed for the simpler engineered systems of the past-are prevalently used for accident prevention today. In …
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Industrial relations in the North Sea oil and gas industry 1965-1995.
… concern employment and related matters such as accident prevention and those interventions which govermnents have made in response to particular events. In addition research papers and other reports which have a close bearing on the human resource management of offshore employees have received …
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Data collection framework for vehicular On-Board-Diagnostic systems
… could be applied towards solving the problems of accident prevention, vehicular safety, and driving efficiency. In this paper, we describe our design and implementation of a distributed vehicular data collection framework for running applications that aggregate customized OBD data on demand. Our …
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Testing for Hidden Information and Action in Automobile Insurance Market
… action I develop a dynamic model of effort in accident prevention given an insurance contract with bonus experience rating scheme and I show that individual accident probability decreases with previous accidents. This result brings a testable implication for the empirical identification of …
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The loss control approach to industrial safety
Because industrial accident rates in many industrialized countries are apparently worsening, efforts are being made to devise new accident prevention techniques. One recent development is Loss Control, which involves a new management approach in which safety is incorporated in an integrated cost …
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The Heinrich Model: Determining Contemporary Relevance
… a staple of debate. His 1931 work Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach has sparked worldwide debate on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of his safety theories, as well as the accuracy or inaccuracy of his research and methods. </p> <p>Heinrich's work is undoubtedly cited …
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Aircraft position prediction using neural networks
… (FAA) has been investigating early warning accident prevention systems in an effort to prevent runway collisions. One system in place is the Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS), developed under contract with the FAA. AMASS uses a linear prediction system to predict the position of an …
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Establishing cost-effective safety management for major oil and gas exploitation projects in the design phase
… of the data used to construct trends in major accident safety performance, and qualitative research was carried out to assess the key factors that influence safety performance, and whether these are effectively applied. The conclusions of this research are that the industry has not demonstrated …
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The supervisor's role in safety: a study of leadership reinforcement
The conclusions reached in this study lead to some rather perplexing implications. The first relates to the whole matter of measuring human perceptions through the use of a questionnaire. It is possible that the individuals sampled in this study did not give completely honest answers to every …
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Leveraging vehicular cloud computing through location and request prediction
… VANET applications, such as traffic management, accident prevention, and navigation, necessitates rapid and reliable communication, which can be difficult to achieve in a network that is constantly changing. Moreover, managing and scaling the resources of a large scale network like VANET with a …
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Skills for developing safety climate in construction projects
… projects. This, subsequently, leads to accident prevention through the efforts of eliminating unsafe acts and conditions. In order to do so, project management personnel need to possess sufficient skills. Therefore, this present research has investigated the role of project management …
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Effectiveness of Mandatory Driver Training Programs for Fire Service Drivers
… as implemented through the Emergency Vehicle Accident Prevention (EVAP) program in Washington State was effective at reducing the number of crashes that fire apparatus were involved in over the study period. However, data analysis indicates that the program did not have a long-term impact …
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