Correspondence to Selmi Yilmaz (Yardimci), Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Kirikkale University, Kurtuluş Mahallesi 692. Sokak No: 31. Merkez, Kirikkale, Turkey Tel: +90-318-224-4927 Fax: +90-318-225-0685 E-mail: selmiyard@ gmail.com Received: Jan 23, 2014 Accepted: Jan 24, 2014 Cite this article as: Yilmaz S. The safety of high-field MRI? Int J Occup Envir...

This paper addresses the question of whether adopting safety culture improves hazard prevention in enterprises characterized by high primary risk. To answer this question, sample underground coal mines were examined to investigate the basic elements of the safety culture of employees. This paper presents the results of a diagnosis of the basic elements of the safety culture of supervisors (midl...

construction is one of the most hazardous workplaces in all around the world. awareness about workers’ attitude towards safety could be helpful in anticipating the workers' behavior. the aims of this study were to determine both the tunneling workers' safety attitude and the relationship between workers' attitude towards safety and occupational accidents. in this cross-sectional study performed...

the school environment is an environment wherein a student spends one third of his life with teachers and other students. in the present study, the safety levels of governmental and non-governmental schools were studied and compared. in a descriptive cross-sectional study we assessed schools safety using fire and life safety inspection checklist presented by the national fire prevention agency ...

Manufacturing managers face increasing pressure to reduce inventories across the supply chain. However, in complex supply chains, it is not always obviouswhere to hold safety stock to minimize inventory costs and provide a high level of service to the final customer. In this paper we develop a framework for modeling strategic safety stock in a supply chain that is subject to demand or forecast ...

Although risk management tools are put to good use in many industrial sectors, some large projects have been met with numerous problems due to failure to take occupational health and safety (OHS) into consideration. In spite of the high level of risk and uncertainty associated with many industrial projects, the number of studies of methods for managing all known risks systematically remains sma...

A high-level Petri net can be viewed as an abstract concurrent program and thus can be tested. In this paper, we present a theory of testing high-level Petri nets by adapting some of our general results in testing concurrent software systems. We propose a set of schemes to observe and record testing results and a set of coverage criteria to measure the testing adequacy of given Petri nets. We s...

Reports suggesting that gram doses of ascorbic acid are beneficial for the prevention and treatment of several disorders have led to widespread ingestion of vitamin C supplements. Possible adverse health effects of this practice have, therefore, received considerable scrutiny. Of major concern has been the influence of ingesting gram amounts of ascorbic acid on renal calcium oxalate stones, sys...

Food preservation using high pressure is a promising technique in food industry as it offers numerous opportunities for developing new foods with extended shelf-life, high nutritional value and excellent organoleptic characteristics. High pressure is an alternative to thermal processing. The resistance of microorganisms to pressure varies considerably depending on the pressure range applied, te...

Two studies were conducted investigating the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and occupational safety. In Study 1, data were obtained from company human resource and safety directors across 138 organizations. LISREL VIII results showed that an HPWS was positively related to occupational safety at the organizational level. Study 2 used data from 189 front-line employees ...