Rates of fatal accidents per 100,000 workers in industry are indicators of achievement in occupational safety and health. The pattern of fatal occupational accidents varies in different regions of the world particularly in developing countries. In global estimates of fatal occupational accidents by Takala J (1999) from the International Labour Organization there are no data related to fatal occ...

some of the most destructive accidents of 1980s and 90s which occurred in process industries were domino accidents. although domino accidents are among the most destructive industrial accidents, there are not much pioneering works done on quantification of them. the analytical formulation of the domino accidents is usually complex and need a deep knowledge of probability rules. even if the case...

This paper presented a part of results from an ongoing project for pedestrian protection, which is carried out at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. A validated pedestrian mathematical model was used in this study to simulate vehicle-pedestrian impacts. A large number of simulations have been carried out with various parameters. The injury-related parameters concerning head, chest, pe...

OBJECTIVE To instruct children and teenagers about safe transportation and about their behavior as cyclists and pedestrians. SOURCES OF DATA The MEDLINE and LILACS databases were searched, using the following terms, from 1995 to 2005: traffic accidents, child, adolescent, morbidity, mortality, age, and gender. Scientific articles on morbidity and mortality from traffic accidents, children in ...

The occurrences of accidents on the railways are inevitable in today’s world and the factors which may cause it, except the atmospheric and accidental ones, are identified and preventable as well. Therefore, these factors can be investigated and useful actions can be performed in order to reduce these accidents. The main impetus of the present research is the statistical analysis of the causes ...

Pedestrians in Libya are the more risk group of road users; the present study was intended to study the general characteristics of 442 pedestrians struck by vehicles on Libyan road in 2003 and 2004. Accidents were described in terms of vehicles involved, age and sex of the casualties, the location of impact, and the overall severity of injuries sustained. The pedestrian details were collected f...

BACKGROUND All over the world motorcycle accident are one of the major causes of road death and injury. This study aimed to determine the pattern of Motorcycle Fatal Accidents in Mashhad-Iran. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 2006 to analyze the epidemiological pattern of the motorcycle accident in Mashhad, North-Eastern Iran. Three hundred fifty cases of moto...