In 1983 an article was published in this Journal describing the work of the Child Accident Prevention Trust. Since that time many developments have taken place in the field of child accident prevention. There has been an increased recognition of the role of accidents and injuries in child health and the importance of accident prevention at an international, national, and local level. This has, ...

In urban cities, visual information on and along roadways is likely to distract drivers lead missing traffic signs other accident-prone (AP) features. To avoid accidents due these cues, this paper proposes a notification of AP-features based real-time images obtained via dashcam. For purpose, Google Street View around accident hotspots (areas dense occurrence) identified by real-accident datase...

The aim of this study was the identification of accident scenarios and causes by analysing existing accident reports of recognized agricultural occupational accidents with tractors, self-propelled harvesting machinery and materials handling machinery from 2008 to 2010. As a result of a literature-based evaluation of past accident analyses, the narrative text analysis was chosen as an appropriat...

The launch of a new international journal on injury prevention offers a unique opportunity to open up a debate on terminology. Over the last 30 years or so there has emerged a number of terms which may or may not be compatible. In North America there now appears to be a strong consensus on the use of the term injury control."2 In the UK the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) ...

background: high-risk unsafe behaviors (hrubs) have been known as the main cause of occupational accidents. considering the financial and societal costs of accidents and the limitations of available resources, there is an urgent need for managing unsafe behaviors at workplaces. the aim of the present study was to find strategies for decreasing the rate of hrubs using an integrated approach of s...

The majority of fatal aircraft accidents are associated with ‘loss-of-control’. Yet the notion of loss-of-control is not well-defined in terms suitable for rigorous control systems analysis. Loss-of-control is generally associated with flight outside of the normal flight envelope, with nonlinear influences, and with an inability of the pilot to control the aircraft. The two primary sources of n...

The accident factor identification and risk assessment is an essential requirement for prevention of major construction accidents in the construction project process. An integrated quantitative risk assessment (IQRA) method has been proposed in this paper to overcome the problems of difficult to quantify accident probability for construction industry. The proposed approach employs influence dia...

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is a voluntary organisation, a charity, established in 1981 by paediatricians to investigate the causes and prevention of accidents. The President of the CAPT is its founder, Dr Hugh Jackson, who remains active and in the vanguard of new ideas on prevention. Jane Asher, the Vice President, is not only a well known actress, but also a published expert o...

In a demanding environment, accidents are unavoidable disasters. This has caused accidents to fall under the top 10 of the world’s death rate. When considering Sri Lanka the accidents rate are in vast amount compared to world. The majority of accidents are caused by unawareness of critical zones rather than human errors. The research is focused on finding patterns within each accident with the ...

SINCE 1844 there has been legislation in Great Britain to prevent accidents in premises subject to the Factories Act. This legislation was the first of its kind, was continously adapted in the light of experience and has been a pattern for legislation to prevent accidents in many countries. The first factory legislation such as Sir Robert Peel's 'Health and Morals of Apprentices Act' was concer...