background: millions of workers are the victims of different kinds of accidents every year throughout the world. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between safety attitude and occurrence of the occupational accidents. methods: this investigation was a cross-sectional study performed in a gas refinery in south of iran in 2008. sample size of this study was 176 people....

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of an intervention to reduce fall hazards in the homes of older people. DESIGN The intervention was administered to the 570 subjects in the experimental arm of a randomized controlled trial, with follow-up of subjects for 1 year. SETTING Community-based seniors living in Perth, Australia. PARTICIPANTS People age 70 and older. INTERVENTION Registered nur...

STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) is a new, more powerful hazard analysis technique that assumes accidents are caused by inadequate enforcement of constraints on component behavior rather than simply component failures (ref. 3). Accidents in complex systems are often caused by unsafe interactions among components that have not failed. Because STPA includes both component failure accident...

BACKGROUND Despite the realized importance of unsafe abortion as a global health problem, reliable data are difficult to obtain, especially in countries where abortion is illegal. Estimates for most developing countries are based on limited and incomplete sources of data. In Mexico, studies have been undertaken to improve estimates of induced abortion but the determinants of unsafe abortion hav...

Little is known about maternal near-miss (MNM) due to unsafe abortion in Nigeria. We used the WHO criteria to identify near-miss events and the proportion due to unsafe abortion among women of childbearing age in eight large secondary and tertiary hospitals across the six geo-political zones. We also explored the characteristics of women with these events, delays in seeking care and the short-t...

Background: Occupational incidents still account for a high percentage of causes of death and disability. A study was designed to determine the relationship between employee safe behavior and safety culture. Methods: In this analytical study, all employees of an industrial livestock units of Tehran participated (n = 200). The data on the employee behavior was evaluated using the safety samplin...

Unintended pregnancy is common in Uganda, leading to high levels of unplanned births, unsafe abortions, and maternal injury and death. Because most pregnancies that end in abortion are unwanted, nearly all ill health and mortality resulting from unsafe abortion is preventable. This report summarizes evidence on the context and consequences of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion in Uganda, ...

background: safety programs are a core part of safety management in workplaces that can reduce incidents and injuries. the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of safety training observation program (stop) technique as a behavior modification program on safety climate in a construction company . methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on workers of the petrochemical co...