This project was conducted with a multicultural construction company in Hawaii, USA. The job duties performed included drywall and carpentry work. The following objectives were selected for this project: (a) fire prevention training and inspection of first aid equipment; (b) blood-borne pathogen training and risk evaluation; (c) ergonomic and risk evaluation intervention program; (d) electrical...

in order to perform preventive maintenance (pm), two approaches have evolved in the literature. the traditional approach is based on the use of statistical and reliability analysis of equipment failure. under statistical-reliability (s-r)-based pm, the objective of achieving the minimum total cost is pursued by establishing fixed pm intervals, which are statistically optimal, at which to replac...

Abstract The corrosion causes of the grounded flat steel a 110kV transmission tower were experimentally analyzed by means macro testing, microstructure inspection, chemical composition analysis, product morphology and energy spectrum, galvanized layer thickness test, soil physical property analysis other test methods. results show that improper selection anti-corrosion process service environme...

India has witnessed a rapid increase in its vehicle population from 3 million vehicles in the 1960 to 40 million in 2002. This has implications for air quality. To mitigate transport emissions, stringent emission norms are being introduced for new vehicles. However, this effort would be futile without an improvement in the emissions performance of the large number of in use vehicles. Hence, an ...

Due to the direct influence of night vision equipment availability on the safety of night-time aerial reconnaissance, maintenance needs to be carried out regularly. Unfortunately, some defects are not easy to observe or are not even detectable by human eyes. As a consequence, this study proposed a novel automatic defect detection system for aviator's night vision imaging systems AN/AVS-6(V)1 an...

Management of desert grasslands requires rapid, low technology, coarse assessment methods that provide a triage-like prioritization for the manager. Such approaches necessitate the ability to quickly and effectively identify coarse-scale plant communities that provide guidance for this prioritization. Complex, computer intensive digital image classification of Landsat TM data, while marginally ...

665 In order to maintain a comfortable office environment periodical inspection of the air conditioning equipment is very important. It is necessary to measure the air temperature and the volume of the controlled outlet air correctly from the ceiling air diffuser. The periodical inspection of a large number of ceiling air diffusers must be done efficiently and in a short time. Up to now this ha...

This paper gives a brief overview of computer-aided coordinate measurement as a method for testing the geometry of solid workpieces or components in mechanical engineering and similar fields. In contrast to conventional workpiece testing equipment, one can measure most kinds of workpiece with the coordinate measuring instrument as the only universal inspection centre. The principle is to measur...

Acute myocardial infarction is one of the main causes unusual death. However, diagnosing acute based on post-mortem examination may be difficult; notably, it cannot diagnosed inspection. In this study, we aimed to investigate usefulness cardiac marker analysis in diagnosis and review possibility its application inspections. This study included 69 autopsy cases, including 29 cases which interval...

BACKGROUND In China, there was a pressing need to establish a governmental agency to oversee the organizations that provide public health and medical services. The Chinese Health Inspection Authority (HIA), a relatively independent organization functioning at each administrative level (provincial, municipal, and county), was mandated to conduct 11 health inspection functions to maintain efficie...