Emergency incidents, including natural disasters, terrorist attacks, public health outbreaks, and industrial and mining accidents, and so forth, result in severe human casualties and property losses. Emergency facilities, which provide relief materials and services, play an important role in rescue management. The decision of where to locate the emergency rescue facilities is very important, as...

A study was undertaken to examine the type, location, incidence and mechanism of injury sustained by amateur parachutists in Denmark during a five-year-period. A total of 110,000 parachute jumps resulted in six (0.005%) fatalities and 155 (0.14%) cases, requiring medical treatment. The latter group sustained 176 injuries of which 36.9% were significant soft tissue lesions and 63.1% fractures. L...

Warehouse accidents have become of wide concern to the public because they often cause heavy economic losses and casualties. Therefore, it is critical foster safety reliability warehouse facilities reduce accidents. However, in relevant literature, increased has seldom been researched. This a main research gap that authors would like supplement with aim enhancing facility improve risk managemen...

Electronics play a key role in improving vehicles safety. Use of electronics has made possible the introduction and integration of a wide range of new safety and environmental devices in cars. Nowadays, both customer demands and government legislation continue to improve traffic safety. Safety awareness for vehicles has been increasing strongly since the 1980s. It started with simple seat-belt ...

This article reviews the literature describing four chemical and nuclear accidents and the lessons learned from each regarding the evacuation of civilian populations. Evacuation may save lives however, if poorly orchestrated, it may cause serious problems. For example, an inaccurate assessment of danger may lead to the evacuation of the same population twice, as the area requiring evacuation be...

Today safety of the human life is major concern. Nowadays about 75% of the casualties has been observed due to the accidents during transport of the vehicle. These are especially due to the flaw in the tire pressure. Tire break avoiding is very important for safe driving in superhighway. Wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) is used to detect whether one or more of the vehicle’s tire ...

It is commonly accepted that the majority of maritime causalities are caused by human factors/errors. The role of human factor in maritime accident and the possible reasons of this argument can be quantitatively evaluated based on expert knowledge and multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology. To investigate what makes the first “human factor” in ship accidents, a hybrid approach was...

PURPOSES This study involved analysis of (a) type of injuries and medical services used by military casualties in 3 conflicts and (b) medical needs of military and civilian casualties from the 2006 conflict. BASIC PROCEDURES Military casualties from 3 conflicts and military and civilian casualties from the 2006 conflict were analyzed. Casualties were compared in relation to type of injury, le...