A framework for a decision-support system for adjudicating construction industry occupational accidents is developed using case-based reasoning (CBR) with a nearest-neighbor retrieval (NNR) search mechanism. One hundred thirty-three guilty verdicts of trial court judgments resulting from fatal construction occupational accidents (COAs) with injuries/deaths are collected, and 26 attributes, incl...

Since the end of the Second World War, industrial and medical uses of radiation have been considerably increasing. Accidental overexposures of persons, in either the occupational or public field, have caused deaths and severe injuries and complications. The rate of severe accidents seems to increase with time, especially those involving the public; in addition, accidents are often not immediate...

A case-control study was conducted to study the association between individual and socioeconomic characteristics and occupational accidents. Cases were 264 workers who had suffered a "typical" occupational accident registered at the National Institute of Social Security in the city of Pelotas in 1996. Workers were interviewed in their homes with a standardized questionnaire. Two fatal accidents...

Information retrieval has been widely study due to the growing amounts of textual information available electronically. Nowadays organizations and industries are facing the challenge of organizing, analyzing and extract knowledge from masses of unstructured information for decision making process. The development of automatic methods to produce usable structured information from unstructured te...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the proportion of occupational accident benefits granted within the total for health-related social security benefits, viewing the costs according to benefit type and the impact on productivity according to work days lost. METHODS Records of benefit decisions from the National Benefits System of the National Social Security Institute for the State of Bahia in 2000 were u...