Accidents from glass.

Learning from Normal Accidents

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Injuries from road accidents.

Technological Accidents: Learning from Disaster

Financial support from the program " Risques collectifs et situations de crise " of CNRS is gratefully acknowledged. In 1979 a partial melt-down of the reactor core at Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear power accident to that time. massive radiation overdoses during treatment using the Therac-25 machine. In the summer of 1991, ten million subscribers in the United States lost telephone ser...

Lessons from Major Radiation Accidents

Lessons have been learned from investigations into a relatively large number of accidents that have occurred in three major practices, namely: industrial radiography, gamma irradiators and electron accelerators used in industry and research, and radiotherapy. This paper provides an overview of the lessons learned and specifically considers the human actions and omissions that have resulted in a...

Reducing child accidents: lessons from down under.

Home visits by public health nurses with knowledge of accident prevention strategies can reduce hazards to children. Several areas in Australia are developing "safe communities" in response to a WHO project. In several towns the public health nurse delivers age-related safety information to families during routine contacts. Health visitor education in the UK is falling to respond to the challen...