Active Work Zone Safety: Preventing Accidents Using Intrusion Sensing Technologies

Vehicle Active Safety Systems for Preventing Road Departure Accidents

On U.S. highways single-vehicle road-departure (SVRD) accidents account for approximately one fourth of all accidents and one third of all fatalities. This paper describes an active safety system to help prevent SVRD accidents. Many aspects of the proposed system have been implemented on a prototype vehicle, and evaluated in driving tests. In addition to providing an overview of this vision-bas...

A Systems Approach to Patient Safety: Preventing and Predicting Medical Accidents Using Systems

Zone Functions Using Remote Sensing

There is an increasing demand amongst resource managers for cost-effective watershed-scale inventories of riparian buffer condition and function. Recent developments in image processing software and decreasing satellite imagery costs enable a new methodology that can help meet this demand. ASTER satellite imagery, which has 15 metre pixel size, is processed with image segmentation software to i...

Evaluating the effectiveness of contractor safety training in reducing work-related accidents

Background: Safety training as the most important step in obtaining safety qualifications for construction contractors can help reduce the accidents rate. This study has been conducted with the aim of evaluating the effectiveness of safety training for construction contractors in reducing work-related accidents during a 5-year period (2014-2018). Method: This historical cohort study was conduc...

Making Informed Decisions on Selecting Promising Work Zone Safety Treatments

Lack of detailed and accurate safety records on incidents in Australian work zones prevents a thorough understanding of the relevant risks and hazards. Consequently it is difficult to select appropriate treatments for improving the safety of roadworkers and motorists alike. This paper presents a method for making informed decisions about safety treatments by 1) identifying safety issues and haz...