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...

Introduction: Each year millions of workers throughout the world involve in occupational accidents resulting in their disability or death. The nurses, whose main task is promoting the health of the society, play an important role in preventing these kinds of accidents. Nurses are needed in industrial environment as a member of health team to prevent occupational accidents. Since most of these a...

The article deals with the problem of labour protection state in railway transport. transport sector, particular railway, is one main country's activity spheres, which significantly affects level its social and economic development. analysis statistical data shows that industry leaders most trauma-hazardous human spheres. Thus, injury rates factors determining professional reliability locomotiv...

Compensation for asbestos-related cancers occurring in occupationally-exposed workers is a global issue; this is also an issue in Korea. To provide basic information regarding compensation for workers exposed to asbestos, 60 cases of asbestos-related occupational lung cancer and mesothelioma that were compensated during 15 yr; from 1993 (the year the first case was compensated) to 2007 by the K...

The purpose of this study is to present the importance of work-related cerebrovascular and heart disease from the viewpoint of expenses. Using the insurance benefit paid for the 4,300 cases, this study estimated the burden of insurance benefits spent on work-related cerebrovascular and heart disease. The number of cases with work-related cerebrovascular and heart disease per 100,000 insured wor...

conclusion the chances of sustaining serious spine and associated multiple injuries in car accidents are quite high in iran. this may be due to the low level of standards or car manufacturing, absence, or inadequacy of appropriate safety measures in cars, poorly designed roads, and problems in the quality of driving to mention just a few reasons. therefore, these victims are prone to significan...