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Journal articles on the topic "Work-related fatalities"

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O’Connor, Peter J., and Nina O’Connor. "Work-related maritime fatalities." Accident Analysis & Prevention 38, no. 4 (July 2006): 737–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2006.01.004.

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Helmkamp, J., W. Lundstrom, and J. Williams. "Work-related fatalities in west virginia." Annals of Epidemiology 10, no. 7 (October 2000): 478. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1047-2797(00)00116-2.

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Mitchell, Rebecca, Timothy Driscoll, and Sandra Healey. "Work-related road fatalities in Australia." Accident Analysis & Prevention 36, no. 5 (September 2004): 851–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2003.06.002.

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Blyth, F. M., M. S. Frommer, and J. E. Harrison. "Injury patterns in work-related fatalities." Journal of Occupational Accidents 12, no. 1-3 (June 1990): 248–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0376-6349(90)90114-b.

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O'Connor, M., K. Mason, and J. Lincoln. "Work-Related Aviation Fatalities in Alaska, 2004–13." International Journal of Epidemiology 44, suppl_1 (September 23, 2015): i262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyv096.496.

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Langley, J. "Reporting of work related fatalities: bystanders and commuters." Injury Prevention 10, no. 4 (August 1, 2004): 193–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2004.006114.

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Mitchell, R. J., T. R. Driscoll, and J. E. Harrison. "Traumatic work-related fatalities involving mining in Australia." Safety Science 29, no. 2 (July 1998): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0925-7535(98)00012-5.

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Harrison, James E., John A. Mandryk, and Michael S. Frommer. "Work-related road fatalities in Australia, 1982–1984." Accident Analysis & Prevention 25, no. 4 (August 1993): 443–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0001-4575(93)90073-6.

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Erlich, S. M., T. R. Driscoll, J. E. Harrison, M. S. Frommer, and Jim Leigh. "Work-related agricultural fatalities in Australia, 1982-1984." Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 19, no. 3 (June 1993): 162–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.1486.

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Harvey-Sutton, P. L., T. R. Driscoll, M. S. Frommer, and J. E. Harrison. "Work-related electrical fatalities in Australia, 1982-1984." Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 18, no. 5 (October 1992): 293–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.1574.

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Driscoll, Timothy Robert. "The epidemiology of work-related fatalities in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1087.

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Background: There is no on-going information on the number, rate or circumstances of work-related fatal injury in Australia. This thesis reports on a study aimed to identify and describe all work-related fatalities that occurred in Australia during the four-year period 1989 to 1992, in order to make a significant contribution to the effectiveness of activity designed to prevent work-related traumatic death. Methods: A broad definition of work was used, with particular focus on workers and bystanders. The study also included the injury-related deaths of volunteers, students, persons performing home duties and persons fatally injured on farms but not due to obvious farm work. The data were obtained primarily from coronial files. Files were found for 99.7% of the deaths of interest. Detailed results are presented on the work-related deaths of workers, bystanders and persons fatally injured while engaged in home duties. The results for workers are also compared with those from an earlier study of work-related fatalities in Australia, which covered the years 1982 to 1984 inclusive. Other aspects of work-related deaths are considered in detail, including the effect of employment arrangements; their coverage by occupational health and safety and compensation agencies; their handling by the coronial system; the role of External Cause codes in identifying and monitoring work-related injury deaths; and the reliability and validity of the definitions used to classify work-related injury deaths. Results: There were 2,413 persons fatally injured while working or commuting during the study period (1,787 working; 626 commuting), with a rate of death for working persons of 5.5 per 100,000 persons per year. This compared to the rate of 6.7 for working deaths during 1982 to 1984, with just under half of the decline probably due to changes in the industry distribution of the workforce. Another 802 persons were fatally injured as a result of someone else’s work activity, and 296 persons aged 15 years and over were fatally injured while undertaking active tasks in an unpaid and informal capacity in their own home or in someone else’s home. Thirty-four percent of working deaths were not covered by either occupational health and safety (OHS) or compensation agencies. A consideration of External Cause codes for the period 1979 to 1997 inclusive suggested there was a yearly decrease in the rate of workplace deaths of 2.6% per year, with less than half of this change due to industry changes in the workforce. Deaths occurring in a small number of particular circumstances were found to pose classification problems. Conclusion: Fatal work-related trauma remains an important problem for the Australian community. By understanding how and why these deaths occur, appropriate steps can be taken to prevent similar incidents recurring. It is expected that the results reported here, and other information that has arisen from the study, will make an important contribution to developing this understanding and preventing the occurrence of work- related traumatic death in Australia.
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Driscoll, Timothy Robert. "The epidemiology of work-related fatalities in Australia." University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1087.

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Background: There is no on-going information on the number, rate or circumstances of work-related fatal injury in Australia. This thesis reports on a study aimed to identify and describe all work-related fatalities that occurred in Australia during the four-year period 1989 to 1992, in order to make a significant contribution to the effectiveness of activity designed to prevent work-related traumatic death. Methods: A broad definition of work was used, with particular focus on workers and bystanders. The study also included the injury-related deaths of volunteers, students, persons performing home duties and persons fatally injured on farms but not due to obvious farm work. The data were obtained primarily from coronial files. Files were found for 99.7% of the deaths of interest. Detailed results are presented on the work-related deaths of workers, bystanders and persons fatally injured while engaged in home duties. The results for workers are also compared with those from an earlier study of work-related fatalities in Australia, which covered the years 1982 to 1984 inclusive. Other aspects of work-related deaths are considered in detail, including the effect of employment arrangements; their coverage by occupational health and safety and compensation agencies; their handling by the coronial system; the role of External Cause codes in identifying and monitoring work-related injury deaths; and the reliability and validity of the definitions used to classify work-related injury deaths. Results: There were 2,413 persons fatally injured while working or commuting during the study period (1,787 working; 626 commuting), with a rate of death for working persons of 5.5 per 100,000 persons per year. This compared to the rate of 6.7 for working deaths during 1982 to 1984, with just under half of the decline probably due to changes in the industry distribution of the workforce. Another 802 persons were fatally injured as a result of someone else’s work activity, and 296 persons aged 15 years and over were fatally injured while undertaking active tasks in an unpaid and informal capacity in their own home or in someone else’s home. Thirty-four percent of working deaths were not covered by either occupational health and safety (OHS) or compensation agencies. A consideration of External Cause codes for the period 1979 to 1997 inclusive suggested there was a yearly decrease in the rate of workplace deaths of 2.6% per year, with less than half of this change due to industry changes in the workforce. Deaths occurring in a small number of particular circumstances were found to pose classification problems. Conclusion: Fatal work-related trauma remains an important problem for the Australian community. By understanding how and why these deaths occur, appropriate steps can be taken to prevent similar incidents recurring. It is expected that the results reported here, and other information that has arisen from the study, will make an important contribution to developing this understanding and preventing the occurrence of work- related traumatic death in Australia.
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Brown, Katherine Ann. "A national study of the association between Mothers Against Drunk Driving and drunk-driving laws, driving-under-the-influence arrests and alcohol-related traffic fatalities /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486461246814652.

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Yang, Chong-cheng, and 楊忠政. "Contributing factors of work-related electrical fatalities." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21843682222450058733.

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In Taiwan, approximately 50-80 workers died from electrical fatalities each year which accounted for 14.6% of all occupational fatalities. The average annual incidence rate-0.91 per 100,000 workers was relatively high as compared to 0.4 in U.S. and 0.49 in Australia indicating that occupational electrical fatal injury is a significant problem. In-depth accident analysis is an important source of information for deriving potential risk factors and developing effective prevention strategies. The first part of the dissertation analyzed 423 work-related single fatalities from the years 1996 to 2002 in terms of industry, month, and voltage for these accidents. The result indicated that majority of the victims were construction workers (255, 60%) and died from low voltage electricity, almost half of the fatalities took place in summer (45%). Fatality rate was found to probably have a relationship with the monthly average temperature. The second part of the dissertation focused on the analysis of 255 electrical fatalities of construction industry. Each electrical fatality was analyzed in terms of individual factors (age, gender, experience of the victim), task factors (performing tasks), environmental factors (wet condition and cramped space), management factors (company size measured by number of workers), source of injury, and causes for these accidents. The result indicated most victims were male (254, 99.6%), less than 34 years old (148, 58%), worked for companies with less than 30 workers (226, 89%), and had less than 1 year of work experience (182, 71%). Besides, These electrocution accidents were divided into five accident patterns: (1) direct workers contact with an energized power line (41, 16%), (2) boomed vehicle contact with an energized power line (36, 14%), (3) conductive equipment contact with an energized power line (19, 8%), (4) direct workers contact with an energized equipment (53, 21%), (5) improperly installed or damaged equipment (101, 40%), and other unclassified (5, 2%) to identify contributing factors for each. According to the significant associations between accident cause and accident pattern Improper use of PPE, and improper grounding, failure to maintain safe distance, failure to de-energize, and poor work practices can contribute to worker’s contact with energized power line accidents. Failure to maintain safe distance was the majority cause for boomed vehicle and conductive equipment contact with energized power line accidents. Direct workers contact with energized equipment was most commonly caused by improper use of PPE, contacts with live parts, poor work practices, and failure to de-energize. Improperly installed or damaged equipment accident was most likely be caused by defective tools and equipments, poor work practices, lack of effective safety devices, and unsafe environments. Contributing factors and prevention measures (safe work practices, guarding, grounding, insulation, and electrical protective devices) for each accident patterns were derived based on the identified common scenarios. The result from the analysis could lead to more effective safety policy, system, training, and compliance with safety regulation in order to reduce the electrical fatality.
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(7441232), Sean A. Tormoehlen. "ANALYSIS OF OLDER FARMER WORK-RELATED FATALITIES IN INDIANA WITH APPLICATION OF FINDINGS TO INJURY PREVENTION EFFORTS." Thesis, 2019.

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The primary goal of this research was to summarize the occupational farm-related fatalities of Indiana farmers 55 years and older and to recommend evidence-based intervention strategies targeting older farmers who perform activities that involve the cutting and trimming of trees. The primary activities consisted of (1) preparing a summary of occupational farm-related fatalities of farmers who were 55 years and older, (2) preparing a summary of occupational farm-related fatalities of older farmers who were performing activities in a woodlot setting or that included the occasional cutting and trimming of trees, and finally (3) the development of recommendations for evidence-based injury prevention strategies targeting older farmers who conduct occasional woodcutting activities.

The summary of older Indiana farmer fatalities identified a total of 388 fatalities reported between 1988 and 2017 with an increase in the number of reported fatalities over the period of 2012-2017. Tractors were identified as the most common source of injury (40.5%) with tractor overturns involved in no fewer than 86 cases or 22.2% of all cases. Older farmer fatalities for occasional woodcutters accounted for 40 fatalities with the cutting and trimming of trees to be the most common cause of injury (67.5%).

Core desired safety competencies were identified that were used to develop injury prevention strategies based upon the summary of injuries, areas of concerns reported in the review of literature and the results gathered from the summaries of Indiana older farmers killed while performing woodcutting activities. A pilot evidence-based intervention instructional presentation was developed with the assistance of a panel of experts to be used by Extension Educators to increase awareness of the target population of current safety practices relating to woodlot activities.

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Matiko, Joshua Mwita. "Policies and regulatory frameworks influencing trends of work-related fatalities and severe injuries in the construction industry in Dar-es-Salaam region, Tanzania, 1980-2009." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11083.

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Introduction Despite the existence of data in the Labour Commissioner’s Accident and Occupational Diseases Register of Tanzania, trends in the frequency of work-related fatalities and severe injuries in the construction industry, in relation to the development of policies and regulatory frameworks over the years and their effectiveness as interventions, have not been systematically evaluated. Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the regulatory framework, trends in the frequency of work-related fatalities and severe injuries among construction workers in Dar-es-Salaam Region, Tanzania, from January 1980 to December 2009. Methods The Accident Notification and Register was accessed from the Tanzanian Labour Department. Data were extracted from the register, coded and analyzed using SPSS. Chi square was used to test if injuries and fatalities in the construction industry and non-construction industries are influenced by introduction of regulatory bodies, legislation and policies during the baseline period (1980 – 1981) and subsequent time periods. Dependent variables were cases of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry and in the non-construction industries, while independent variables included duration during which the regulatory bodies, legislation and policies have been operational, age, sex, education and duration of employment. Results The introduction of regulatory bodies, legislation and policies was statistically significant in the reduction of reported cases in the construction industry across all time periods as compared to the baseline period. The adjusted risk of fatalities and work related injuries frequency in the construction industry decreased (OR 0.5; 95% CI 0.4 – 0.6 during 1998 – 2001) in almost all time periods compared to the baseline period except for the period between 1982 and 1985 (OR 1.2; 95% CI 1.0 to 1.3). Discussion This study is the first to be conducted in Tanzania. The study has shown that new governing bodies and the introduction of new policies and legislations that were introduced in the construction sector were effective in terms of reduction of reported accidents. The results of this study are similar to other studies that have conducted elsewhere. The studies that were conducted in US in 2001and 2003 to evaluate regulatory intervention on vertical falls found evidence that introduction of regulations was effective in preventing non-fatal and fatal injuries in the construction industry. Our results could have been confounded by other factors such as improvement of economic status, construction technologies and work practices. Recommendations In addition to establishment of regulatory bodies, legislation and policies to reduce the accidents, the focus should be also to change technology and practices on construction sites. A safety culture should also be emphasized
Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.
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Books on the topic "Work-related fatalities"

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Barnhart, Stacey. Work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities to health care workers in Oregon, 1993-1997. Salem, OR: Research & Analysis Section, Dept. of Consumer & Business Services, 1999.

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Barnhart, Stacey. Work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities to health care workers in Oregon, 1993-1997. Salem, OR: Research & Analysis Section, Dept. of Consumer & Business Services, 1999.

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Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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United States. Office of Personnel Management. Retirement and Insurance Service, ed. Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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United States. Office of Personnel Management. Retirement and Insurance Service., ed. Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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United States. Office of Personnel Management. Retirement and Insurance Service., ed. Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1997.

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Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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United States. Office of Personnel Management. Retirement and Insurance Service, ed. Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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United States. Office of Personnel Management. Retirement and Insurance Service., ed. Work-related injuries and fatalities: What you and your family need to know about your benefits. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Retirement & Insurance Service, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Work-related fatalities"

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Skeffington, Petra M. "The Impact of Trauma on Firefighters and Their Families." In Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of Justice, 113–36. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7348-8.ch006.

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This chapter outlines the key issues that face firefighters, including prevalence of trauma-related mental health issues, the differing impact of disaster response, violence, fatalities, and cumulative stress. The risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder are explained, with attention to fixed and variable factors. Stigma and barriers to help-seeking are explored with consideration of issues specific to firefighters, and an overview of how to influence protective factors is provided. There are other aspects of firefighting other than trauma exposure that impact wellbeing; the impact of shift work, sleep disruption, alcohol use, and relationship stress are outlined. Finally, this chapter discusses the impact of firefighting on partners and families.
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Nölke, Andreas. "Inequality: Increase or Reduction?" In Post-Corona Capitalism, 41–48. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219425.003.0007.

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The pandemic and the related recession have strongly increased socio-economic inequalities of all kinds. This is in stark contrast to previous global pandemics where a high mortality rate among workers have led to higher wages via labour scarcity. During the coronavirus pandemic, in contrast, fatalities have been mainly concentrated in older age groups. Income inequalities were increased via lockdown measures for low-income workers, whereas highly educated professionals were able to work from home. The young, women and ethnic minorities were particularly disadvantaged. Wealth inequality has increased even more than income inequality. Inter-country inequality also increases, as does absolute poverty. Increased social stratification seems to become a cornerstone for post-coronavirus capitalism.
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Stein, Michael D., and Sandro Galea. "What Kills Our Kids?" In Pained, 45–48. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197510384.003.0014.

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This chapter asks what kills children and what people can do about it. One of the greatest triumphs in health over the past century has been the dramatic decrease in childhood mortality, yet children still die. In 2016, there were, in the United States, about 38,000 deaths of children under the age of 19. Roughly half of deaths occur in early childhood due to genetic conditions, chromosomal abnormalities, and other perinatal conditions, many of which people do not know how to treat. However, we should be able to prevent most of the other half. The leading causes of injury deaths are motor vehicle deaths and gun-related deaths. Understanding how to prevent them can provide a template for stopping other childhood deaths. The chapter then considers the Vision Zero initiative, passed by the Swedish parliament 20 years ago, which aims to reduce traffic fatalities to zero. Just like motor vehicle accidents, childhood deaths from guns will not end until people work to create a safer environment by reducing the availability of firearms.
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Conference papers on the topic "Work-related fatalities"

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Song, Siyuan, Ibukun Awolusi, and Zhehan Jiang. "Work-Related Fatalities Analysis through Energy Source Recognition." In Construction Research Congress 2020. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784482872.031.

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Drummond, A., and M. Codd. "1238 Psychosocial risk for survivor drivers in work-related road traffic fatalities." In 32nd Triennial Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), Dublin, Ireland, 29th April to 4th May 2018. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2018-icohabstracts.1603.

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Gorucu, Serap, and Michael L. Pate. "Agricultural Work-Related Fatalities to Non-Working Youth: What can we learn?" In 2019 Boston, Massachusetts July 7- July 10, 2019. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/aim.201900034.

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Wojcik, Laura A., Dingding Lin, Maury A. Nussbaum, Peggy A. Shibata, and Michael L. Madigan. "Age and Gender Differences in the Effects of Localized Muscle Fatigue on Joint Torques Used During Bipedal Stance." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-204239.

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Work-related falls are still a major cause of injuries and fatalities, even after continuous efforts towards improving worker safety. Falls accounted for more than 20% of nonfatal occupational injuries and were the second leading cause of occupational fatalities in the United States [1,2]. Given projections showing an increasing number of workers over the age of 55 [3], the older population must be considered in assessing the risks and prevention of work-related falls.
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Schlesinger, Dave. "Analysis of Roadway Worker Injuries and Fatalities at FRA and FTA-Regulated Railroads." In 2014 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2014-3822.

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Roadway workers perform a key role in keeping the nation’s freight, passenger, and transit rail systems operating safely and efficiently. These individuals perform a variety of critical maintenance, repairs, and inspection on all aspects of the rail system. Despite a renewed effort by the rail industry, fatalities and injuries to roadway workers continue to occur across the nation’s freight, passenger, and transit rail systems. The causes of these accidents are all human factor related, especially in the area of adherence to rules and procedures. Other factors include rules compliance and organizational issues. At the same time, there is no unified and cohesive source from which railroads and other concerned organizations can gain a perspective of roadway worker safety issues. Using accident reports and information available primarily from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as well as the FRA and FTA, and the railroad industry, research was conducted, with a focus on the probable causes and contributing factors. Research was also conducted on the various industry efforts, both public and private, to curb these fatalities and injuries. One of these efforts has been to develop a roadway worker warning system, to notify employees of an approaching train. Those railroads who have implemented this solution have reported positive results; however, this technology has not been widely accepted. This may be, in part, due to major capital requirements, such as Positive Train Control, which limits funding for other programs. Training best practices are also outlined, with the goal of ensuring that roadway workers understand the risks they face while working on the railroad. Strategies are presented to ensure that training is conducted following best practices, including key case studies whose real life examples help trainees understand the criticality of following the rules and procedures each and every time they work on the system.
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Oliveira, Hudson Régis, Guilherme Licodiedoff Cordeiro, Marcelo Julio Langone, and Henrique Xavier de Paula. "Landslide and Emergencial Works in Transpetro Right-of-Way." In ASME 2015 International Pipeline Geotechnical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipg2015-8562.

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Several natural disasters involving mass movements have occurred in Santa Catarina and Brazil. One of these caused a large number of fatalities, social and economic damage were those that occurred in the middle valley of the Itajaí River in November 2008. However, landslides continue to occur and provisions should be adopted. This paper aims to describe the contingency actions during emergency works related to a landslide, which occurred at a slope besides BR-376 Highway (Guaratuba / PR) and Transpetro right-of-way in March 2011. The landslide affected the highway concessionaire and Transpetro operations. This site was stabilized by emergency works, including an anchored wall, which is shown and described in the work. This paper records the emergency works taken and lessons learned.
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Tucker, Julie, Mary Ernesti, and Akira Tokuhiro. "Quantifying the Metrics That Characterize Safety Culture of Three Engineered Systems." In 10th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone10-22146.

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With potential energy shortages and increasing electricity demand, the nuclear energy option is being reconsidered in the United States. Public opinion will have a considerable voice in policy decisions that will “roadmap” the future of nuclear energy in this country. This report is an extension of the last author’s work on the “safety culture” associated with three engineered systems (automobiles, commercial airplanes, and nuclear power plants) in Japan and the United States. Safety culture, in brief is defined as a specifically developed culture based on societal and individual interpretations of the balance of real, perceived, and imagined risks versus the benefits drawn from utilizing a given engineered systems. The method of analysis is a modified scale analysis, with two fundamental eigenmetrics, time- (τ) and number-scales (N) that describe both engineered systems and human factors. The scale analysis approach is appropriate because human perception of risk, perception of benefit and level of (technological) acceptance are inherently subjective, therefore “fuzzy” and rarely quantifiable in exact magnitude. Perception of risk, expressed in terms of the psychometric factors “dread risk” and “unknown risk”, contains both time- and number-scale elements. Various engineering system accidents with fatalities, reported by mass media are characterized by τ and N, and are presented in this work using the scale analysis method. We contend that level of acceptance infers a perception of benefit at least two orders larger magnitude than perception of risk. The “amplification” influence of mass media is also deduced as being 100- to 1000-fold the actual number of fatalities/serious injuries in a nuclear-related accident.
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Choi, Sang, and James G Borchardt. "Physical, Psychophysical and Demographic Changes Require Automated and Autonomous Machines & Equipment (AAM&E) in Construction." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002603.

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Construction is one of the most dangerous with high prevalence of work-related fatalities and injuries among the high-risk industrial sectors. Concurrently, the construction industry is experiencing workforce demographic changes and shortages of skilled trade/construction workers. This paper provides an overview of the shifting construction workforce and the benefits & exposures from the evolving automated and autonomous machines & equipment (AAM&E) under development for the construction industry. Specifically, this paper describes a synopsis of design methodology and principles of AAM&E associated with human-related factors (e.g., self-efficacy, mental/cognitive workload, situation awareness). Also, this paper discusses potential practical applications and insights on the human-machine interaction/collaboration and key factors for building trust in human-robot teamwork (e.g., rule-based framework, transparency/feedback, observation, predictability). This paper can assist human factors & ergonomics (HFE) and safety professionals who may not be current with this evolving AAM&E technology to pre-plan and design control methods into industrial and construction projects.
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Redkar, Sangram, Tom Sugar, Bill Dillard, and Karthik Narayanan. "Inertial Sensing of Dummy Kinematics." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87051.

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Motor vehicle crashes claim over 40,000 lives and injure over two million people each year in the United States. To reduce the number of injuries and fatalities through vehicle design improvements, it is important to study occupant kinematics and related injury mechanisms during crashes. Occupant motion in crash tests is typically measured with high speed video, spatial scanning, direct field sensing, and inertial sensing. In this work, we present simulation and testing results on inertial sensing of dummy kinematics based on a novel algorithm known as Quaternion Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Signal Processing for Biomechanics (QFLASP-B). This approach uses three angular rates and three accelerations (one gyroscope-accelerometer pair about each axis) per rigid body to compute orientations (roll, pitch and yaw), positions and velocities in the inertial (fixed) reference frame. In QFLASP-B, quaternion errors and gyro biases are calculated and used in an adaptive loop to remove their effects. The Fuzzy Estimator at the core of the algorithm consists of a fuzzification process, an inference mechanism, a Rule Base and a defuzzification process. In this paper, we examine those aspects of the QFLASP-B Fuzzy Estimator critical to accurate kinematics sensing, hardware and software implementations and experimental results compared with traditional approaches.
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Gómez-Bull, Karla. "A Review of Risk Perception in Construction Industry." In 33rd Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference. International Society for Occupational Ergonomics and Safety, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47461/isoes.2021_028.

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The construction industry has been notorious for its high rates of accidents and injuries associated with social, financial, and legal implications. Previous studies mention that risk perception is related to workers´ safety behavior and, therefore, accidents. This review aims to identify in which context risk perception has been studied in recent years and the variables associated with it. Google Scholar and Science Direct databases were searched for articles using the following keywords: “risk perception,” “construction industry”, and “safety behavior.” The inclusion criteria were that the articles answered the questions formulated in the spider methodology. Sixty-three articles were included in the literature review. The results indicated that risk perception is a subjective judgment that results from the combination of the likelihood perception of a specific risk being present and the severity perception of the risk if it occurs. The risk perception has been studied in different areas such as tourism, driving behavior, electricians, firefighters, and confrontation to viruses or pandemic, and the construction industry. Personal traits, sociodemographic variables, cultural factors, and occupational characteristics (training in security, experience, and seniority at work) have been addressed to study risk perception in construction workers. Safety must be a priority for construction organizations. This study highlights the importance of studying risk perception in the workplace since construction workers are exposed to risky activities at work. Also, it is important to understand the risk perception process and its contributory factors for construction workers. It is possible to have specific information that helps design actions for effective risk management and prevent the number of accidents and fatalities from increasing.
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Reports on the topic "Work-related fatalities"

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Work-related roadway crashes. Prevention strategies for employers. Roadway crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatalities in the U.S. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, March 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.26616/nioshpub2004136.

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