To study the indoor climate, the psychosocial work environment and occupants' symptoms in offices a cross-sectional questionnaire survey was made in 11 naturally and 11 mechanically ventilated office buildings. Nine of the buildings had mainly cellular offices; five of the buildings had mainly open-plan offices, whereas eight buildings had a mixture of cellular, multi-person and open-plan offic...

Roadway incidents involving motorized vehicles accounted for 24% of fatal occupational injuries in the United States during 2013 and were the leading cause of fatal injuries among workers.* In 2013, workers' compensation costs for serious, nonfatal injuries among work-related roadway incidents involving motorized land vehicles were estimated at $2.96 billion.(†) Seat belt use is a proven method...

BACKGROUND Injuries and deaths from road traffic collisions present an enormous challenge to the South African (SA) healthcare system. The use of restraining devices is an important preventive measure. OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between seatbelt use and injury severity in vehicle occupants involved in road traffic collisions in Cape Town, SA. METHODS A prospective cohort design...

Pickup trucks have become increasingly popular in the United States. A recent study found that in crashes involving fatalities, cargo area passengers were 3 times more likely to die than were occupants in the cab. Compared with restrained cab occupants, the risk of death for those in the cargo area was 8 times higher. Furthermore, the increased use of extended-cab pickup trucks and air bag-equi...

The present study aims at investigating the indoor air quality (IAQ) in selected households in the urban slums, as well as a control site, in Delhi, the capital city of India. The study includes assessments of associated respiratory health effects and Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) on the occupants living in inefficiently designed houses with poor ventilation. The comparative analysis of concentr...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in road death rates for child pedestrians, cyclists and car occupants. DESIGN Analysis of road traffic injury death rates per 100 000 children and death rates per 10 million passenger miles travelled. SETTING England and Wales between 1985 and 2003. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 0-14 years. INTERVENTIONS None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Death rates per 100,000 chil...

In Europe, emphasis is being transferred from injury prevention to accident prevention to reduce road casualties. This study attempted to identify the current potential for serious casualty reduction using passive safety by examining the crash performance of new cars with seriously injured occupants. The Co-operative Crash Injury Study conducts in-depth investigations of around 1200 vehicles pe...

Heating energy demand in buildings depends in part on occupants’ behavioural responses to thermal discomfort during the heating season. The understanding of this has become one of the priorities in the quest to reduce energy demand. Thermal comfort models have long been associated with occupants’ behaviour by predicting their state of thermal comfort or rather discomfort. These assumed that occ...

We estimate the risk of traffic injuries as the ratio of amount of casualties and mobility. Crash data come from a road trauma Registry, including outpatients and inpatients, on the Rhône county (1.6 M inhabitants, including Lyon). These data are far more complete than police data, in particular for cyclist crashes. Mobility comes from travel surveys. Compared with car occupants and with regard...