At the precipice now, in eternal safety thereafter?

Histology safety: now and then.

Histology safety usually focuses on general laboratory issues, but this article concentrates on the hazards affecting the individual histotech and their evolution in the last half a century. Using the information from a survey especially designed for the occasion, the hazards were divided into 4 groups, and their prevalence was expressed as percentages for national and foreign laboratories. All...

Smarter arrow now available in the food safety quiver.

Occupational safety and health in India: now and the future.

India, a growing economy and world's largest democracy, has population exceeding 1.2 billion. Out of this huge number, 63.6% form working age group. More than 90% work in the informal economy, mainly agriculture and services. Less than 10% work in the organized sector; mainly industry, mining and some services. New service industries like Information Technology (IT), Business Process Outsourcin...

Cliff-Edge Consensus: Agreeing on the Precipice

This paper presents a new form of consensus that allows nodes to agree locally on the extent of crashed regions in networks of arbitrary size. One key property of our algorithm is that it shows local complexity, i.e. its cost is independent of the size of the complete system, and only depends on the shape and extent of the crashed region to be agreed upon. In this paper, we motivate the need fo...

The effects of a safety educational intervention on promoting safety behavior at textile workers

Introduction: Behavioral science is an inseparable part of a comprehensive accident prevention strategy in a work place. This study reports a behavior approach used to evaluate the effects of an occupational safety training intervention on industrial textile workers. Methods: This study is a quasi-experimental based on Solomon 4-group design participatory study, which is conducted as pretest-po...