The safety hazard

Relationship between Safety Investment and Safety Performance Indices Considering the Project Hazard Level in Construction Industry

Introduction: Each country needs to preserve its human capital through preventing accidents for its development. Therefore, this study is carried out to study the relationship between safety investments and safety performance indices considering the interactive effect of the project hazard level in construction industry. Material and Methods: This study was conducted using multiple case studie...

Software Hazard and Safety Analysis

Safety is a system property and software, of itself, cannot be safe or unsafe. However software has a major influence on safety in many modern systems, e.g. aircraft and engine controls, railway signalling, and medical equipment. The paper outlines the principles of system hazard and safety analysis, and briefly describes work on adapting classical hazard and safety analysis techniques to apply...

Alarm fatigue a top patient safety hazard.

Texting while doctoring: a patient safety hazard.

Texting while driving is associated with a 23-fold increased risk for crashing (1) and is illegal in most states (2). Using a cell phone while driving reduces the amount of brain activity devoted to driving by 37% (3). Multitasking is dangerous—cognitive scientists have shown that engaging in a secondary task disrupts primary task performance (3). Might physician typing into electronic health r...

Hazard to fetus from safety harness.