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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"worker safety"”.
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Improving worker safety and pig welfare in commercial pig production
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #19360 on 2023-12-04 at 17:17:45
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Evaluation of a digital communication device for railroad worker safety
… prototype of a smartphone to be used by roadway workers and dispatchers that was based in a wireless data link service. The main purpose of using a smartphone in railroad communications is to eliminate errors due to radio and pronunciation deficiencies. Previous studies analyzed the communication …
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Design and evaluation of a communications device to enhance railroad worker safety
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Semantic and spatio-temporal understanding for computer vision driven worker safety inspection and risk analysis
… we are still far from eliminating construction safety risks. Recently, computer vision techniques have been applied for construction safety management on real-world residential and commercial projects; they have shown the potential to fundamentally change safety management practices and safety …
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Automatic trajectory generation for mobile-manipulators using 3D LiDAR scans of unknown surfaces
An approach to improving worker safety in underground uranium drift mining through automating the radiation scanning and shotcrete application process is presented. Utilizing the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework to achieve autonomous operation, workers can be removed from the most hazardous …
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International investigation of electronic waste recycling plant design
… the recycling rate and improving employee safety within the plants have been identified. Appropriate clothing, included masks and gloves will improve worker safety while the recycling rate can be increased by separating the disassembly process into two tasks: disassembly and sorting. …
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An Evaluation of Fatigue and Performance Changes During Intermittent Overhead Work
… ergonomic changes that can help to improve worker safety. Sixteen people participated in eight experimental conditions (two levels of duty cycles, two work heights, and two hand positions). Four dependent measures based on endurance, subjective, objective, and physiological fatigue were used …
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Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Policy Evolution in the Garment Industry: A Case Study from Bangladesh Using a Multiple-Streams Approach and Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
… of the Accord on the Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh as a proposed independent and legally binding agreement governing garment factory conditions in that country. The Accord led to a series of audits aimed at reforming a large part of Bangladesh’s garment industry, hence there has …
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A Case Study Approach to Identifying the Constraints and Barriers to Design Innovation for Modular Construction
… a means of improving production efficiency and worker safety in the construction industry raises into question the design quality of modular buildings, and whether or not the merits of the building process can also be captured from the perspective of the architect. For this reason, the …
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Safety Benchmarking of Industrial Construction Projects Based on Zero Accidents Techniques
Safety is a continually significant issue in the construction industry. The Occupation Safety and Health Administration as well as individual construction companies are constantly working on verifying that their selected safety plans have a positive effect on reduction of workplace injuries. Worker …
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Three Essays on Occupational Safety and Labor Market Outcomes
… comprises of three papers on occupational safety and health. Occupational injuries and illnesses are prevalent and costly. To reduce workplace injuries and the associated costs, the government uses workplace inspections and the associated penalties as the primary enforcement tool. This …
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Successful public sector enforcement of environmental standards in the Toritama Jeans industry in Pernambuco, Brazil
… agencies begin to enforce environmental and worker safety standards in 2001 among small firms that have largely been exempted from such standards for many years? I argue that: 1.) the local residents' complaints to both the Public Ministry and CPRH aligned with these two agencies' current …
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Risk-informed incident management for nuclear power plants
… is forced to make decisions that may have safety and economic consequences. Formal decision theory offers the potential for a structured approach capable of taking into account risk-related aspects (plant and worker safety, for instance) and, at the same time, important factors like …
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Federated multimodal simulators in transportation
… and AFADs were able to improve work zone and worker safety. Second, the development of federated simulators with the use of the high-level architecture (HLA) framework was documented. By using federated simulators, the effectiveness of autonomous vehicle (AV) external designs for AV-pedestrian …
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Design and evaluation of a GPS-aided communication device for railroad workers
… congestion is often a problem when railroad workers try to establish communication with dispatchers at the Traffic Control Center. This problem is expected to grow with the introduction of new rail services. At the same time, roadway worker fatalities still occur every year. Moreover, …
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Measuring Safety Attitude Differences in the Construction Supply Chain
Construction worker safety is normally a construction activity in the United States, even though there is an emerging body of literature discussing the positive effects of considering safety earlier in the construction lifecycle. This literature has discussed the fragmentation in terms of safety …
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Flexible schedule optimization for human-robot collaboration
… robotic schedules is required to guarantee the safety of all involved while maintaining high levels of productivity. Three algorithms are presented in this work: the Adaptive Preferences Algorithm, the Multi-Agent Optimization Algorithm, and Tercio. Tercio, the culminatory algorithm, is capable …
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Automated safety analysis of construction site activities using spatio-temporal data
… US. This is partially attributed to ineffective safety management strategies, specifically lack of automated construction equipment and worker monitoring. Currently, worker safety performance is measured and recorded manually, assessed subjectively, and the resulting performance information is …
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Industrial automation and control in hazardous nuclear environments
… The automation of this process increases the safety of radiation workers by handling radioactive nuclear material. This decreases glovebox worker dose and exposure to tools, sharps, and fines. This effort examines the hardware and software framework developed to support the use of a Port …
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Safety On A Drilling Rig: Is It Safety Culture?
<p>Why do workers on a modern offshore drilling rig continue to make decisions leading to unsafe conditions, acts or incidents? In a perfect world, workers in any industry would go to work and come home in the same condition as they started the day: no incidents. Worker injuries and deaths are all …
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