In emergency management, the identification of hazards, analysis of risks, development of mitigation and response plans, maintaining of situational awareness and support of response and recovery are all complex responsibilities. A major accident brings together individuals belonging to many different organizations, having backgrounds in different fields of operation, and representing different ...

Even if the focus on risk management is increasing in our society, major accidents resulting in several fatalities seem to be unavoidable in some industries. Since the consequences of such major accidents are unacceptable, a thorough investigation of the accidents should be performed in order to learn from what has happened, and prevent future accidents. During the last decades, a number of met...

The goal of the new NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) is to reduce the civil aviation fatal accident rate by 80% in ten years and 90% in twenty years. This program is being driven by the accident data with a focus on the most recent history. Pilot error is the most commonly cited cause for fatal accidents (up to 70%) and obviously must be given major consideration in this program. While the g...

introduction: motorcycling is a risky activity and motorcyclists are vulnerable to road accidents. the behavior of motorcyclists is a significant factor of accident. unfortunately there is little information regarding social and mental characteristics of motorcyclists which lead to the accident. the purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth qualitative understanding of reasons for riding a ...

advanced driver assistance systems (adas) have the potential to accomplish a major contribution to road safety. this is valid for minor crashes to very severe accidents with personal injuries. the allianz centre for technology attends the development of new driver assistance systems by carrying out accident analysis and estimating the efficiency of new adas. in this context new adas from differ...

Accident prevention is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable development, and effective crisis learning a necessary path to it. This article focuses on whether local governments in non-accident areas learn from crises accident areas, that “learn the mistakes of neighbors” “grow wisdom.” Using panel data 2006–2017 30 provinces China, our empirical test discovered there not one-to-o...

RETURNING now to the United States for a consideration of research developments there during the late fifties and early sixties. In reviewing the major publications of the time, one can see that the whole approach to the question of accident proneness was still one of openminded inquiry. Despite a certain amount of despondency over the lack of statistical evidence to support the concept (especi...

RETURNING now to the United States for a consideration of research developments there during the late fifties and early sixties. In reviewing the major publications of the time, one can see that the whole approach to the question of accident proneness was still one of openminded inquiry. Despite a certain amount of despondency over the lack of statistical evidence to support the concept (especi...