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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"safety metrics"”.
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Demonstrating an Equivalent Level of Safety for sUAS in Shielded Environments
… detect and avoid standards require the same safety metrics, even when in close proximity to the ground or structures. This requirement has the potential to hinder low altitude small unmanned aircraft operations, such as local package delivery and utility inspection. One of the main safety …
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Impediments to Effective Safety Risk Assessment of Safety Critical Systems: An Insight into SRM Processes and Expert Aggregation
Safety risk assessment forms an integral part of the design and development of Safety Critical Systems. Conventionally in these systems, standards and policies have been developed to prescribe processes for safety risk assessment. These standards provide guidelines, references and structure to …
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Implementation Of Teamstepps® In A Peri-Operative Environment In An Urban Medical Center
… including perceptions of teamwork, and safety metrics were evaluated pre and post-intervention.</p> <p>Intervention: TeamSTEPPS® was selected as the training curriculum. TeamSTEPPS® is a highly adaptable curriculum designed to address these gaps and to improve team function in the …
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Optimal Automated Vehicle Piloting: Avoiding Perfection being the Enemy of the Good
… benefits against the goal of perfected safety. Although AV technology is not accident-free, it shows potential in reducing crash rates. This work introduces a mathematical framework designed to maximize social welfare through AV pilots, integrating elements such as safety metrics, …
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Analysis of Union Safety: Determining Relationships between Union Membership and Injury and Fatality Rates
… wages, benefits, employee engagement, and safety. In more recent years, the government and other organizations have caught up in focusing on safety. Countless studies have been conducted and determined that unions have a significant positive impact on safety compared to work environments …
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STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL ENERGETIC COORDINATION COMPLEXES AND THEIR POTENTIAL AS MAGNETICALLY SWITCHABLE EXPLOSIVES
… explosives with both high performance and safety metrics, this work seeks to create novel high-energy density energetic materials with controllable sensitivities. An improvement in energy density is obtained through linkage of energetic organic salts to transition metals, which breaks the …
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Quantifying the business case for aerospace assembly automation
… the annual production schedule, learning curve metrics, labor hour savings through automation, rework, health & safety metrics, and automation operating and downtime costs. A current program was used as a case study against the financial model. One significant finding is the effect production …
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Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment of Advanced Air Mobility Systems
… This thesis is motivated by the need to assess safety risks due to cyber vulnerabilities in the surveillance components of AAM systems such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and the Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). We focus on spoofing attacks targeted at specific …
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Improving implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist in high-income contexts
… The World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is used in over 130 countries to improve patient safety by reducing preventable surgical complications. Previous studies have demonstrated that there is significant variation in adherence to and implementation of the SSC in …
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thesis in the field of Mechanical Engineering: Relevance for Human-Robot Collaboration: Definitions, Systems, Algorithms, and Applications
… by human cognition, to improve the efficiency, safety, and intelligence of HRC. Relevance enables robots to prioritize objects based on their importance to human goals, allowing them to concentrate computational resources on key elements. This focused approach reduces input space for essential …
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Leading Indicators of Safety in Nuclear Energy
… to determine the key leading indicators of safety in the nuclear energy generation industry. A leading indicator is a metric of safety performance that is not dependent on trending injuries or incidents. This study was conducted by sending surveys to individuals working in the nuclear energy …
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The Politics of Food Safety
… of most ordinary people than risks to their food safety. </p><p>However, despite concerted political will, governments tasked with securing food safety face many challenges in doing so. Authoritarian governments in particular, often touted for their ability to spur economic development precisely …