Characteristic Analysis of Casualty Accidents in Chemical Accidents

Accidents and their management at two casualty units.

This is a study of the nature and management of accidents at a hospital casualty unit and at the medical centre of a large factory. Analysis shows that a high proportion of the refer-rals to both units were for the treatment of minor injuries. Minor injuries create an excessive burden on hospital doctors, who are required to see each person attending the unit, although such injuries often do no...

Commuting accidents in the German chemical industry.

Due to accident severity and the extent of claim payments commuting accidents are a significant expense factor in the German industry. Therefore the aim of the present study was the identification of risk factors for commuting accidents in a German chemical company. A retrospective analysis of commuting accidents recorded between 1990 and 2003 was conducted in a major chemical company in German...

epidemiologic characteristic of road traffic accidents mortality in mashhad, iran

Analysis and Forecast of Mining Accidents in Pakistan

In the mining sector, the barrier to obtain an efficient safety management system is the unavailability of future information regarding the accidents. This paper aims to use the auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, for the first time, to evaluate the underlying causes that affect the safety management system corresponding to the number of accidents and fatalities in the surf...

Anthropotechnological analysis of industrial accidents in Brazil.

The Brazilian Ministry of Labour has been attempting to modify the norms used to analyse industrial accidents in the country. For this purpose, in 1994 it tried to make compulsory use of the causal tree approach to accident analysis, an approach developed in France during the 1970s, without having previously determined whether it is suitable for use under the industrial safety conditions that p...