Researchers have a long history in the conduct of evaluations of road safety countermeasures. However, despite the strengths of some evaluative road safety evaluations that align with previous and current thinking on program evaluation, few published road safety evaluations have followed standard conceptualization and methodology outlined in numerous program evaluation textbooks, journal articl...

OBJECTIVE Using a standardized quality criteria list, we appraised the methodological quality of economic evaluations of occupational safety and health (OSH) interventions conducted from a corporate perspective. METHODS The primary literature search was conducted in Medline and Embase. Supplemental searches were conducted in the Cochrane NHS Economic Evaluation Database, the National Institut...

Excluding occupational health and safety (OHS) from project management is no longer acceptable. Numerous industrial accidents have exposed the ineffectiveness of conventional risk evaluation methods as well as negligence of risk factors having major impact on the health and safety of workers and nearby residents. Lack of reliable and complete evaluations from the beginning of a project generate...

Journal of Medical Device Regulation May 2006 The third edition of IEC 60601-1 represents a major overhaul of the IEC 60601 family of medical electrical equipment safety standards. First published in 1977, IEC 60601-1 has become the ‘bible’ of electromedical equipment safety and the parent standard of over 60 particular device standards ranging from diagnostic electrocardiographs to electron ac...

Pedestrians and cyclists are the most vulnerable road users. One of ways to increase their safety is safest route selection. Nowadays, there a lot navigation systems planners. However, these routes not assessed from viewpoint safety. The article describes one possible system alternatives assess for different types developed based on multifactorial analysis information. Correction factors allow ...

Study on land ecological safety has become a forefront topic of regional sustainable development. The paper constructed an evaluation index system of land ecological safety. Then it discussed the ranges of indexes corresponding to each evaluation grade. Considering the illegibility and uncertainty in land ecological safety evaluation, the paper combined fuzzy matter-element and entropy method t...