Safety engineering approach to public accident prevention

Safety Effectiveness of Integrated Accident Prevention Strategies

There are potential interactions among approaches to reduce or prevent certain accident causes. Given the overlapped safety benefits of various measures for accident prevention, it is necessary to identify their interactions and quantify the safety effectiveness of combined accident prevention strategies. This study focuses on strategies to prevent broken rails and broken wheels, respectively. ...

Engineering aspects of home accident prevention.

Ac 2011-1435: System Safety Literacy and Multidisciplinary Engineering Education: Teaching Accident Causation and Prevention

Cynthia C. Pendley is a Program Coordinator for the Center for Space Systems in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology where she has served since 2005. Prior to joining Georgia Tech Ms. Pendley was a product developer at Kimberly-Clark Corporation where she was awarded two patents for specialized filtration products. She received her B.S. in Textiles from Georgia...

A Systems Theoretic Approach to Safety Engineering

A model or set of assumptions about how accidents occur lies at the foundation of all accident prevention and investigation efforts. Traditionally, accidents have been viewed as resulting from a chain of events, each directly related to its “causal” event or events. The event(s) at the beginning of the chain is labelled the root cause. Event-chain models, however, are limited in their ability t...

Software Engineering-Inspired Approach to Prevention Healthcare

The paper extracts proven principles from software engineering to be applied in the field of prevention and wellness preserving. For instance, the concern-oriented partitioning principle could support the analysis and design of healthcare information systems. Results of such an approach are multifaceted systems that integrate all stakeholders’ concerns. For such a system, the paper proposes a m...