The development of safety cases has become common practice in many safety critical system domains. Safety cases are costly since they need a significant amount of time and efforts to be produced. Moreover, safety critical systems are expected to operate for a long period of time and constantly subject to changes during both development and operational phases. Hence, safety cases are built as li...

conclusions this study confirmed a relatively high incidence of nssis among hcws. inadequate occupational health and safety measures such as lack of training on occupational health hazards and safety issues, absence of written protocols for reporting nssis, and lack of safety instructions were associated with nssis. effective training programs and raising the awareness of hcws to reduce unsafe ...

OBJECTIVE Despite concerted policy efforts, a sizeable percentage of children lack health insurance coverage. This article examines the impact of the health care safety net and health care market structure on the use of health care by uninsured children. METHODS We used the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey linked with data from multiple sources to analyze health care utilization among uninsur...

sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (sglt2) inhibitors are a new glucose-lowering therapy for t2dm with documented benefits on blood glucose, hypertension, weight reduction and long term cardiovascular benefit. they have an inherent osmotic diuretic effect and lead to some volume loss and possible dehydration. there is some concern about the safety of using sglt2 inhibitors in muslim type 2 diabete...

Agile development methodologies are becoming a tendency in today’s changing software development. However, due to a lack of safety assurance activities, especially safety analysis, agile methods are criticized for being inadequate for the development of safe software. In this paper, we introduce an agile ”Safe Scrum” by mapping a novel systematic safety analysis method, called STPA (System-Theo...

Background:   Elevator-related accidents are uncommon, but can cause significant injury. However, little data exist on these types of accidents. To compile and analyze accident data involving elevators in an effort to eliminate or at least significantly reduce such accidents. Methods: In this retrospective study we investigated 1,819 cases of elevator-related accidents during a four-year period...

employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...