Accident Prevention: Introduction

Accident Prevention Program

While general aviation flying is a safe mode of transportation, accident statistics indicate that the vast majority of accidents involve pilot error. In fact, most pilots who enjoy the adventure of flying recognize that certain risks are involved. Airmen who are either unaware of the potential hazards or who actually relish the opportunity to take unnecessary risks are those likely to be involv...

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Accident prevention in radiotherapy

In order to prevent accidents in radiotherapy, it is important to learn from accidents that have occurred previously. Lessons learned from a number of accidents are summarised and underlying patterns are looked for in this paper. Accidents can be prevented by applying several safety layers of preventive actions. Categories of these preventive actions are discussed together with specific actions...

Accident Prevention via Bluetooth

In India there has been an increase of 17.4% in the total number of road accidents during the period of 2011-2012.This percentage has raised eyebrows and caught the attention of many to curb the growing rate. It is found that 80% of the times it is the fault of the driver. This can be avoided if we could device a mechanism which could alert the driver about the coming jeopardy. This can be achi...

Introduction to Criticality Accident Evaluation

So far 22 criticality accidents have been reported (McLaughlin et al., 2000) including JCO accident in Japan. All cases took place with fuel solution or slurry except one case of metal fuel. It was not clear that what was actually happening during those criticality accidents except the JCO accident, for which a fission power profile was reproduced from a gammaray monitoring data (Tonoike et al....