BACKGROUND Despite considerable efforts made in recent years, the industrial accident rate and the fatality rate in the Republic of Korea are much higher than those in most developed countries in Europe and North America. Industrial safety policies and safety regulations are also known to be ineffective and inefficient in some cases. METHODS This study focuses on the quantitative evaluation o...

The study examined the relationships between work experience and (a) safety perceptions, (b) job satisfaction, (c) compliance with safety management policies and (d) accident frequency. Participants were Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320). They were divided into 2 cohorts: experienced and inexperienced workers. Workplace safety perceptions were assessed with Hayes et al.'s 50-item work safet...

Human reliability quantification (HRQ) methods are becoming increasingly important in risk and accident assessment in systems these terms are usually related to (hi-tech industrial systems, including nuclear and chemical plants). These methods began to intensively develop after numerous accidents caused by human error or inadequate activity of people who controlled and managed complex technolog...

The Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (CIMAH) regulations was introduced in 1996 to regulate workplaces with hazardous chemicals their facilities. Regulations provide a minimum standard ensure precautionary measures related major hazard risks are taken. Although the have been enforced for more than two decades Malaysia, there limited efforts review information, trends and data since ...

During the last decade most countries of the world have witnessed increased morbidity from breast cancer. When studying the basic oncologic morbidity of organs of the female reproductive system in Ukraine, including industrial regions, areas of strict radiation control were singled out following the Chernobyl nuclear accident. In Kiev and Kiev region we found that among female malignant neoplas...

Hazardous Material transportation by road is coupled with inherent risk of accidents causing loss of lives, grievous injuries, property losses and environmental damages. The most common type of hazmat road accident happens to be the releases (78%) of hazardous substances, followed by fires (28%), explosions (14%) and vapour/ gas clouds (6 %.). The paper is discussing initially the probable ‘Imp...