Background: The effectiveness of safety systems is critical to the realization of their goals. Thereششfore, this study was conducted to investigate the role of safety management systems on accidents and the status of safety performance indicators in a combined cycle power plant in 2011. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical research was carried out in two stages in all Yazd Combin...

This study focuses on identifying accident-prone areas and analyzing the factors contributing to distribution of traffic accidents near highway ramps. A combined method kernel density estimation, spatial autocorrelation analysis, multivariate logistic regression analysis helped identify accident hotspots. Through data collection clustering characteristics in diversion merging were identified. F...

Accidents in the energy sector have been identified as one of the main contributors to man-made disasters. The present work focuses on the assessment of severe accident risks relating to fossil energy chains. Evaluations were based on the highly comprehensive Energyrelated Severe Accident Database (ENSAD), which was established at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). The historical experience repr...

introduction: the effects of accidents vary from minor injuries to fatalities and from insignificant damage to very severe damage to the environment and property. in order to prevent accidents in the work place, the root causes of and events should be identified using a systematic method and the results should be published. the current study aims to investigate the given causes of an accident i...

BACKGROUND Many studies that have reported decreases in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related mortality since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have also reported steady increases in non-HIV-related mortality over the same time periods. We examined temporal trends and risk factors for accident- and injury-related mortality among HIV-infected and -uninfected partici...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the numbers and characteristics of patients with ophthalmological accidents and emergencies presenting to hospitals. DESIGN Prospective survey over eight weeks. SETTING Two general and one ophthalmic accident and emergency departments, two general outpatient departments, and an eye hospital ward consulting room (all in two teaching hospitals) in Newcastle upon...