Work-related accidents as one of the most prominent indicators of safety and health in the industry play an undeniable role in developing and improving the quality of industrial health management. Therefore, their accurate analysis on a large scale is essential. To provide controlling solutions, we aimed to investigate the causes of occupational accidents in Iran for 10 years (2007-2017). At fi...

In this work, we focus accident causation for the railway industry by exploiting text analysis approaches mainly Natural Language Processing (NLP). We review and analyse investigation reports of railway accidents in the UK published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), aiming to unleash the presence of entities which are informative of causes and failures such as human, technical a...

A 15-year retrospective study of 2228 civilian amputees was conducted at the Hospital for the Disabled, Thamaing, Rangoon. It was demonstrated that utilization of appropriate technology for development of essential components had enabled the hospital to serve more amputees. The ratio of male to female was 4.23: 1. The mean age was 31 years, male slightly older than female. Trauma was the leadin...

Due to the inadequacy in measures at many construction sites in Turkey, approximately 400 workers died and hundreds of workers become permanently disabled in occupational accidents. Occupational accidents cause serious financial loss for both the company and the country economies. This study is conducted to analyze causes and results of occupational accidents at a construction site in Istanbul-...

Nine-hundred and seventy-three police road-accident files describing overtaking accidents were sampled from the headquarters of Nottinghamshire Constabulary, England, for the years 1989–1993. Salient facts were extracted from each case, including the exact manoeuvre involved, the principle explanatory factors, the driver(s) most at fault, and the drivers’ ages. Two kinds of reliability measure ...

Data mining is a promising area for dealing with the increased, stored data that has been generated in our times .It is the extraction of implicit, previously unknown and useful data. In this paper we have analyzed some of the data mining techniques, tools, applications and search engines for accident investigation and traffic analysis. Most of the accident investigation methodologies are based...

This chapter provides principles on how to conduct incident investigations. Incident investigations consist of identifying the underlying causes (sometimes called “root” causes) in a chain events leading an accident, including initiating and failure mitigation, lessons be learnt ways prevent similar accidents future. The investigation should not limited determining immediate or apparent cause(s...

The terrorist attacks of September 2001 had significant economic effects on the aviation industries. Passenger numbers fells across many countries and several large carriers were threatened with bankruptcy. More recently, there has been a gradual recovery. This has renewed concern that the rising volume of traffic will lead to an increase in the total number of safety-related incidents as accid...