Hearing Health in Agricultural Aviation Pilots from Cindacta II Wearing Earplugs and a Helmet

Helmet Wearing

Humans adapt their risk-taking behaviour based on perceptions of safety; this risk compensation phenomenon is typified by people taking more risks when using protective equipment. Existing studies have looked at people who know they are using safety equipment, and have specifically examined changes in behaviours against which that equipment might reduce risk. We demonstrate risk-taking increase...

Aviation psychology. II: Assessing workload and selecting pilots.

The principal impact on the crew of improved technology on the flight deck has been a reduction in the number of tasks that the crew must perform but an increase in the amount of information that must be monitored. Under such circumstances it is difficult to determine the extent of the pilot's workload, yet its assessment is crucial in deciding how many people are required to operate a given ai...

Cycle helmet wearing in teenagers--do health beliefs influence behaviour?

Automatic Safety Helmet Wearing Detection

Surveillance is very essential for the safety of power substation. The detection of whether wearing safety helmets or not for perambulatory workers is the key component of overall intelligent surveillance system in power substation. In this paper, a novel and practical safety helmet detection framework based on computer vision, machine learning and image processing is proposed. In order to asce...

Intrinsic motivation and psychological factors on wearing helmet among motorcyclists in Gorgan City, Iran, in 2016

Background: Motorcycles have a higher rate of fatality than cars within the same distance travelled. Head injuries are the main causes of death in motorcycle crashes. The objective of this study is to investigate intrinsic motivation and psychological factors on use of a helmet among motorcyclists in Gorgan City, Iran, in 2016. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted a...