The application of behavior analysis to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehide crashes is not a new idea. Behavior analysis has been used with much success to promote vehide safety belt use (e.g., Geller, 1988; Streff& Geller, 1986), and increasing vehide safety belt use has been shown to reduce dramatically the trauma inflicted on crash-involved vehide occupants (Streff, Wagena...

Hazardous chemical is the chemical product in chemical industry. Hazardous chemicals are often toxic. Some hazardous chemicals are corrosive, or easily lead to explosion. In the process of production, storage and transportation, hazardous chemicals can easily lead to leakage or explosion accidents. These result in a large number of casualties and damage to the surrounding environment. Logistics...

Critics often claim that transportation accident investigations focus on finding someone to blame at the expense of deeper inquiries into the organizational factors that may have contributed to the accidents. Our independent analysis of the results of major National Transportation Safety Board investigations into aviation, marine, rail, highway, pipeline, and hazardous materials accidents refut...

The environmental problems of the United States and the European nations have generated a dynamic body of literature in legal and economic research. One of the most significant branches of this research has been the analysis of strict liability versus ex post negligence standards, and the sharing of damages under each regime, when the level of prospective environmental damages can be estimated ...

This paper revisits work on the socio-political amplification of risk, which predicts that those living in developing countries are exposed to greater risk than residents of developed nations. This prediction contrasts with the neoliberal expectation that market driven improvements in working conditions within industrialising/developing nations will lead to global convergence of hazard exposure...

the geomorphology is an important branch of natural geography that its goal is promotion of human life, ultimately. the geomorphic processes have considerable impact on human life, and opposing, human activities and behaviors have its impacts on the geomorphologic units and geomorphologic processes, enhancing the above argument. the gilan county, at its geographic position; embraced by two stru...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this survey was to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative relationship among women from Barletta--a national renowned wine center--and their alcohol consumption. METHODS The AUDIT questionnaire was used to assess the prevalence of alcohol hazardous consumption among women. Questionnaires were submitted from March to November 2012. The sample was composed of 150 wome...