Showing papers in "Safety Science in 2004"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new accident model based on basic systems theory concepts, which provides a theoretical foundation for the introduction of unique new types of accident analysis, hazard analysis, accident prevention strategies including new approaches to designing for safety, risk assessment techniques, and approaches to design performance monitoring and safety metrics.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the status of safety management in Chinese construction industry, explore the risk-prone activities on construction sites, and identify factors affecting construction site safety.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of how three groups of accident prevention measures: modification of attitudes, behaviour, and structural conditions, are influencing two broad categories of risk factors: (a) behavior, and (b) physical and organisational environment; and two process factors: attitudes and beliefs, and social norms and culture.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic approach has been applied in the study of meaning and symbols relating to work, hazards, occupational accidents and prevention, and case studies in Danish manufacturing show that it usually is necessary to differentiate between several safety cultures dispersed throughout the shop floor and other parts of the manufacturing organization.

TL;DR: The results are consistent with decreased availability of occupational safety services in small companies and suggest the need of auditing, safety training activities, education and information, as well as of support to safety investments targeted to small-sized industries.

TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire is presented, OSCI (Organisational and Safety Climate Inventory), to address the characterisation of both organisational climate and safety climate, which comprises 78 items.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of the evaluation of the effect of the campaign and examine the association between risk perception and traffic behaviour, and show that assessing the probability of traffic accidents and concern are non-significant predictors for self-report risk behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, a study has been carried out of accidents occurring in seaports and the results obtained show a significant increase in the frequency of accidents over time: 83% of the accidents occurred in the last 20 years and 59% in the past decade.

TL;DR: This work identified six categories of reasons for not reporting and highlighted a difference between the plant's operators and management, with regard to the perceived importance especially of successfully recovered events with no remaining consequences, or events considered to be nothing new.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the coefficient of friction (COF) between the shoe/sole and the floor using a Brungraber Mark II slip tester with four footwear materials: leather, neolite, ethylene vinyl acetate, and blown rubber.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study at a maintenance organization of a nuclear power plant is presented, where the CULTURE-questionnaire is used to measure the different cultural aspects of complex organizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to promote occupational health and safety (OHS) within an organization by identifying the target audience and the objective of the campaign and keeping employees focused in a positive and proactive way.

TL;DR: In this paper, the evaluation of a process of behavioural safety within the nuclear industry is concerned with personal inputs to, and experiences of a behavioural safety process (BSP), over a 4-year period, rather than organizational safety performance per se.

TL;DR: In this paper, a risk and decision analysis methodology for the assessment and management of risk associated with mine roof fall in underground coal mines is proposed, where risk assessment requires the determination of probabilities, possible consequences and cost of consequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, historical accident records of two underground coal mines of two different panels (conventional and mechanized) are collected and statistically analyzed to determine the effect of mining methods on productivity and safety.

TL;DR: A survey on the procedures for reporting occupational accidents in the EU countries focuses particularly on the reporting and registration systems, as well as on the main characteristics of National Databases being used for the production of official statistics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effectiveness of an approach used in the UK, designed to help small enterprises set up and operate a simple health and safety management system, based on the introduction of a health-safety policy and risk assessment with the development of appropriate subsequent control measures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the issue of confidence in a formal safety assessment (FSA) approach, as encountered during three case studies conducted by the authors over the years 1998-2002.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how much visual information from the road is required for proper driving and how do people cope with a visually ambiguous road configuration in an advanced driving simulator.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of case studies taken from a range of UK industry sectors is presented to illustrate some of the most commonly encountered pitfalls through a series case studies, and good practice is also presented in each case.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface roughness parameters generated from quarry tiles were correlated with the transition friction between the tiles and a commonly used sole testing material, Neolite, with three different mixtures of glycerol and water as contaminants at the interface.

TL;DR: The paper presents models for overruns arising from both landings and aborted takeoffs, and concludes that the models, though adding value to existing methods of assessing risk, are not as good as they could be, due to the lack of data on normal operations.

TL;DR: Complying with the revised scaffold safety standard would prevent approximately 4.6 fatalities, 404 nonfatal injuries, and 2896 lost workdays per year and generate a significant cost saving in the construction industry.

TL;DR: Practical and theoretical issues in defining and measuring reliability in use of correlational measures, the reporting and calculating of indices of concordance and the use of correction coefficients are concerned.

TL;DR: Investigation of factors involved in the accident process preceding over-exertion back injuries among nursing personnel indicated that the measures for prevention must be of different kinds and at several different levels in the organization.

TL;DR: In this article, a participatory group decision-making method is proposed to support safety experts in reaching a shared view on the problem of infrastructure planning, where safety considerations generally range behind economic issues.

TL;DR: In this article, a statistical model to estimate the probability of slip and fall incidents is presented, where both the available and required friction coefficients have stochastic distributions, and the results generated with the current model are compared with those based on other models using a normal distribution.

TL;DR: According to the suggestions of fire fighting works during the tenth-five-year plan, the main strategies of fire safety in China is introduced and the main features of fire accidents in the past few years are introduced.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire survey was conducted among foreigners at Lulea University of Technology of Sweden, where winter season lasts for six months in a year, and the results of ordinal regression showed that the slip frequency according to a 5-point rating scale decreased as the living experience in cold environments increased.

TL;DR: A detailed study of injuries and machine characteristics resulted in a safer fodder-cutter design that is cost effective and can be incorporated, in both existing and new fodder- cutter machines.