The continuity of operations in pharmaceutical/healthcare supply chains is vital to human welfare and the span and quality-of-life of patients [1]. This is particularly important when the population is confronted with a massive health problem, such as a breakout of a pandemic (e.g., a deleterious mutation of the swine flu H1N1 virus), an industrial accident (e.g., the release of a massive dose ...

Fire accidents inside the mine are one of the most horrifying disasters in the mining industrial field. It causes the number of casualties of the miners and the wastage of the valuable natural resources. It is the prime and primitive requirement to find out some technique or process to predict the possibility of fire so that the causes could be prevented for which the conditions of the broke ou...

In 1987, the curriculum of Environmental Sciences was introduced at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ([Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich], ETHZ). The curriculum was motivated by demands and pressures that characterize our post-industrial age, particularly the necessity to understand complex environmental problems and assess their long term impacts from an interdisciplinary...

Assessment of likely consequences of a potential accident is a major concern for loss prevention and safety promotion in process industry. Loss of confinement on a storage tank, vessel or piping on industrial sites could imply atmospheric dispersion of toxic or flammable gases. Gas dispersion forecasting is a difficult task since turbulence modeling at large scale involves expensive calculation...

In 1973 and 1974, several thousand Michigan dairy farms were contaminated by polybrominated biphenyls (P.B.B.) as the result of an industrial accident. An unknown quantity of contaminated meat and dairy products entered the food chain before contaminated farms were quarantined. To determine the extent of human exposure, P.B.B. concentrations were measured in human breast milk, which was collect...

Industrial safety is an important issue in Thailand, and attempts have been made to improve safety performance and accident records. This paper examines key criteria influencing safety improvement. Exploratory factor analysis confirms 9 safety criteria, including 5 "enablers" and 4 "results", with a total of 47 associated attributes. A safety assessment approach is developed, using those 9 key ...

Amputation of the penis is a rare condition reported from various parts of the world as isolated cases or small series of patients; the common aetiology is self-mutilating sharp amputation or an avulsion or crush injury in an industrial accident. A complete reconstruction of all penile structures should be attempted in one stage which provides the best chance for full rehabilitation of the pati...

• Increasing mortality. The overall death rate grew steadily from 1991 until peaking in 1994, then gradually abating. This reflects the well-publicized increase in male (and, less markedly, female) mortality during the first half of the 1990s. The male death rate jumped from 11.6 per thousand in 1990 to 17.8 per thousand in 1994, then declined somewhat to 15.0 per thousand in 1997. The mortalit...