Each year in Northern Ireland (NI) approximately 40 children under 16 years of age die and almost 4000 are admitted to hospital from injuries sustained in accidents. Northern Ireland has a higher child population than the rest of the UK with 24% of its population aged under 14 years. The population is also more disadvantaged in socioeconomic terms with average annual household income 6% less th...

Two cases of injury to passengers seated on public transport buses occurred after the vehicles had traversed road humps. While the potential dangers to seated bus passengers have been acknowledged in the Department of Transport literature, specific mention in medical reports is lacking. Should the United Kingdom follow the example set by the United States, where the placement of road humps on b...

The paper discusses challenges from a changing working life on occupational accident modelling and asks if ideas from models developed for high-risk, complex socio-technical systems can be transformed and adapted to occupational accident prevention. Are occupational accidents mainly simple component failures or is a systemic approach of some interest and value?

Violence is an important global public health problem that claims the lives of over 1.6 million people each year and results in numerous other health and social consequences. It is also a preventable health problem. This paper provides an overview of the current status of prevention efforts in developing and developed countries, describes what is known about the effectiveness of different appro...

It is now generally recognized that in order to make significant advances in accident prevention, the focus of industrial firms must shift from assessing the risks of existing production and manufacturing systems to discovering technological alternatives, i.e. from the identification of problems to the identification of solutions. Encouraging the industrial firm to perform (1) an inherent safet...

This Project focuses mainly on road accidents occurring due to poor indication of sign boards, drowsy state and drunken state of drivers in both two wheelers and four wheelers. The eye blink sensor detects the drowsy state and alarms the driver using buzzer .The alcohol sensor detects the alcohol from breath and stops the engine by micro controller immediately .The light sensor detects the inte...