The National Institute o f Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is dedicated to achieving "safety and health at work for all people — through research and prevention." An important procedure in pursuing this goal is the NIOSH surveillance studies where the number o f injuries are monitored according to demographic, employment, and injury characteristics. These numeric data are then used to id...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the workers safety behavior and to determine the importance of each unsafe behavior in an iranian steel manufacturing company. methods: this study was conducted in mobareke steel manufacturing company, which is located in the middle of iran, in 2007. the methodology was based on the safety behavior sampling (sbs) technique and entropy. after specifying t...

objectives: because of the high rates of accidents, the construction industry has become a hazardous industry in iran and therefore paying more attention is required. this paper investigates safety management in construction companies for improving workers’ safety as one of the ergonomics aims. methods: in order to survey the safety management in construction companies a questionnaire was prepa...

Extensive work has been carried out by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in the development of a proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain (YM), Nevada, for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. In support of this development and an associated license application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the DOE completed an extensive performance assessment (PA) for the propos...

Despite the possibility of providing standard collection frameworks, object-oriented languages do not generally encourage a 'very high level' style of programming in which collection components are regarded as first class citizens and in which different implementations for a collection can be exchanged without affecting the correctness of a program and with minimal change to the source code. Th...

Extensive work has been carried out by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the development of a proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain (YM), Nevada, for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. In support of this development and an associated license application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the DOE completed an extensive performance assessment (PA) for the pr...

Extensive work has been carried out by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the development of a proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain (YM), Nevada, for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. In support of this development and an associated license application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the DOE completed an extensive performance assessment (PA) for the pr...

Development of a Hierarchical Fuzzy Model for the Evaluation of Inherent Safety. (August 2004) Michela Gentile, B.S., Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. M. Sam Mannan Inherent safety has been recognized as a design approach useful to remove or reduce hazards at the source instead of controlling them with add-on protective barriers. However, inherent saf...

Improving transport users’ safety is one of the main priorities of research into transport system attractiveness. Level crossings are one of the most critical weak point involving road and rail users’ infrastructure. They have become increasingly dangerous and unsafe due to road and railway users’ behavior. Furthermore, rail and highway safety professionals from several countries must deal with...