occupational accidents severely deteriorate human capital, and hence negatively affect the productivity andcompetitiveness. but despite these negative points, there are still deficiencies in safety managementperformance and indicators. therefore the safety issue needs an active management. for this reason, thewriter has proposed an approach to evaluate organizations based on safety management. ...

background: sohan is a traditional iranian confectionery product prepared mainly by mixing and cooking of wheat flour, sugar, malt, oil, natural flavoring additives and coloring materials. regarding to high consumption and popularity of sohan as well as importance of its safety and hygienic status, we investigated microbial and chemical profiles of sohan in retailers throughout qom province of ...

ninety percent of road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, which claim less than half the world's registered vehicle fleet. iran and georgia have a strategic position in the region and as a bridge connect europe to asia. almost all over the world countries are planning and implementing solutions to stop tsunami of road accidents. in this paper the main challenges of r...

Occupational accidents severely deteriorate human capital, and hence negatively affect the productivity and competitiveness. But despite these negative points, there are still deficiencies in safety management performance and indicators. Therefore the safety issue needs an active management. For this reason, the writer has proposed an approach to evaluate organizations based on safety managemen...

background hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is a serious global health problem that is associated with huge social and economic costs. early antiviral drugs, such as interferon-α2b, peginterferon-α2a, lamivudine, and adefovir, all have their limitations (such as low responses or safety concerns) in clinical application. telbivudine and entecavir are two of the latest nucleotide drugs and both ...

background and objectives: patient safety (ps) is one of the most important and essential elements of quality in healthcare setting. a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to assess the status of patient safety culture using the hospital survey on patient safety culture (hsopsc). methods: in this systematic review and meta-analysis study, data were collected through searching datab...

Occupational accidents severely deteriorate human capital, and hence negatively affect the productivity and competitiveness. But despite these negative points, there are still deficiencies in safety management performance and indicators. Therefore the safety issue needs an active management. For this reason, the writer has proposed an approach to evaluate organizations based on safety managemen...

Increased reliance upon outsourcing has made the issue of vendor selection even more critical to the success of the modern manufacturing organization. The usual performance measure on which selection is based has been the distribution of the vendor’s delivery lead-time (LT), often as characterized by the mean and variance. In this paper, we show that the distribution of demand per unit time (DP...

Humans may be viewed as being merely fallible operators of machines; however, that technology-centred view can easily understate the ability of the human to perform tasks which most machines are incapable of doing and to intervene in the event of failure. On the other hand, an overly human-centred view may not take full advantage of the ability of machines to carry out numerically-complex, repe...