Typical seatbelt designs can interfere with police officers operational work by lengthening their response time in threatening situations. Therefore, in certain operational circumstances there is a direct conflict between operational safety (effective response to threat) and driving safety (seatbelt use). To evaluate this potential conflict, 341 police officers from the southeastern US complete...

As in every industry at risk, the human and organizational factors constitute the main stakes for maritime safety. Furthermore, several events at sea have been used to develop appropriate risk models. The investigation on maritime accidents is, nowadays, a very important tool to identify the problems related to human factor and can support accident prevention and the improv...

Nowadays, physical pain is playing a major role in construction industry workers. Discomforts force masons to have disharmonious and unpleasant atmosphere which affects their interest finishing work. It important know about the risk factors its mandatory bring comfortable pleasing working environment Ergonomics selected for this study. The main purpose of ergonomics analyse awkward postures dur...

Although most accidents are activated by Human Factors, common safety analysis methods do not address human related issues systematically. The most significant reasons for this problem are the lack of knowledge on Human Factors as well as the lack of approaches and systematic methods to solve these issues. This paper outlines an overview of results of different own research projects with the ov...

The aim of this paper is to carry out an ergonomic assessment of sonographers’ activity by means of advanced modelling and simulation software and to verify the relative literature evidences. The objective is to arrange a support tool for the risk assessment that permits a preventive analysis and the identification of the best working conditions. Modelling and simulation of abdominal ultrasound...

This paper discusses some crucial issues associated with the exploitation of data and information about health care for the improvement of patient safety. In particular, the issues of human factors and safety management are analysed in relation to exploitation of reports about non-conformity events and field observations. A methodology for integrating field observation and theoretical approache...

THE PREDICTION OF VIOLENT RECIDIVISM AMONGST INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS: SITUATIONAL VS. DISPOSITIONAL FACTORS By Michelle Nicole Harris August 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Brent Teasdale Major Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology The objective of this study is to evaluate why some individuals with mental illness are more inclined to violently recidivate. There appears to be two per...

Traceability has become an essential business function to consistently supply quality and safe food products to consumers. However, it has been not rare that the efforts in traceability are separately made from routine operations management decisions. In this paper, an integrated optimisation model is developed in which the product safety related traceability factor is incorporated with operati...

We conducted human-subject market experiments to check the effects of charging different types of market fees on human trader’s market selection behavior across multiple markets. In alignment with previous findings using software trading agents, a market charging lump-sum registration fees attracted intramarginal or high-value human traders, while, extra-marginal traders, or low-value traders, ...

A study was done on a road in the Western Cape of South Africa, the R44, to investigate the causes of road accidents. The causes of the accidents on this 25km stretch of road were deduced from analysing 404 accident reports and from relationships that were determined with other factors. Risk factors (human-, vehicleand environment factors) are proposed for the 14 accident types that occurred on...