OBJECTIVE to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based injury prevention program. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING 20 primary schools in Nottingham, UK. PARTICIPANTS 459 children aged 7 to 10 years. INTERVENTION The "Risk Watch" program delivered by teachers, aimed at improving bike and pedestrian, falls, poisoning and fire and burns safety. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES...

The concept of probabilistic modelling under uncertainty within the context of fire and rescue through the application of the Bayesian network (BN) technique is presented in this paper. BNs are capable of dealing with uncertainty in data, a common issue within fire incidents, and can be adapted to represent various fire scenarios. A BN model has been built to study fire development within gener...

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The Fire Safety Evaluation System (FSES) for Health Care Facilities [1] was the first of a series of FSES documents covering a variety of types of occupancies including apartment buildings [2], prisons and jails [3], office and laboratory buildings [4], overnight accommodations in National Parks [5], and board and care facilities [6]. These have provided means for meeting or exceeding the level...