OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between occupational cognitive failures (OCFs) and unsafe behaviors, accidents and driving offences among municipal bus drivers in Tehran, Iran. METHODS Systematic random sampling was used to select 190 drivers from 3 transport and traffic Tehran districts. Data were collected with the occupational cognitive failure questionnaire...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with sexual risk behavior in adolescent girls and boys in order to plan future school health interventions. METHODS A cross-sectional study with two-stage cluster sampling that included 97 schools and 9,340 students aged between 14 and 16 years old was carried out in 2005-2006 in Catalonia (Spain). For the survey, a self-administered paper-based que...

Despite rapid technological advances in computer hardware and software, insecure behavior by individual computer users continues to be a significant source of direct cost and productivity loss. Why do individuals, many of whom are aware of the possible grave consequences of low-level insecure behaviors such as failure to backup work and disclosing passwords, continue to engage in unsafe computi...

We propose computer vision-based biomechanical analysis for construction field workers. Taking into account the fact that the number of fatalities in construction is the highest among all industries [1], and that the unsafe acts and behavior of workers cause 80% to 90% of accidents in construction [3,5,7], the systematic understanding of field construction workers’ unsafe behavior has great pot...

Introduction An article in the December 2002 issue of Safety & Health, asserted that behavior-based safety has run its course and is in decline. A construction worker and trades unionist for many years, I witnessed too many accidents resulting from unsafe behavior. Since then I have spent many years researching and implementing behavioral safety in 12 industries on four continents. I was a Prof...

Background: The Minister of Manpower stated that the construction sector contributed to highest number work accidents. cause construction-sector work-accidents as much 40% came from unsafe behavior workers. Unsafe is described possibility individuals not following safety standards, procedures, instructions, and criteria specific organization applies to. According a preliminary study, 6 out 10 w...