BACKGROUND Furniture companies can analyze their safety status using quantitative measures. However, the data needed are not always available and the number of accidents is under-reported. Safety climate scales may be an alternative. However, there are no validated Portuguese scales that account for the specific attributes of the furniture sector. OBJECTIVE The current study aims to develop a...

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The institutionalisation of information systems allows managers in organisations to concentrate on and devote creative energy to their prime tasks. This paper argues that the process of deciding whether an information system is institutionalised or not can be understood better by examining its political dimension. We focus on the failure to institutionalise the London Ambulance Service informat...

The rapid development and growth of information technology has a positive impact on agencies engaged in industry, sales, services. Currently, sales are no longer carried out by sellers buyers who meet face-to-face at the point sale. Sales can already be done without having to go sale, seller buyer do not have person. systems such as utilizing internet services for buying selling online This res...

The international literature has dealt extensively with innovativeness, both in theory, as well as in a pleiad of empiric studies. Radical innovations encompass high quality action that contributes to the creation of new sectors, products or markets. Cooper (1998) adds that as long as innovations become more radical, they lead to evident and risky removal from existing practices. It is obvious ...

background: in our competing educational world, students spend a considerable part of their daily life, studying at library furniture. not surprisingly, due to lack of proper anthropometric databases, these products have typically been ill fitted for the intended user populations. objective: to verify the optimum anthropometric match of library furniture within an academic environment, through ...

Three child fall issues have been selected by VISU for special focus because of the major contribution they make to serious fall injury, and their preventability: (1) playground equipment fall injury (26% of fall injury hospital admissions); (2) furniture-related fall injury: chairs, beds, tables and other furniture (11%); and (3) fall injury involving ice skates, skis, roller skates, skateboar...

a quarantine hospital. The room occupied by the feverpatient was in a dirty condition, and was almost destitute of furniture. The patient lay on a dilapidated bed, with old bags for bed-clothing; an old table and one or two ricketty chairs completed the furniture of the room. All the inmates were removed and the house closed up that same evening. On making further inquiries, I found that in a h...