It was a pleasure to serve as guest editor of this special issue of WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation that focuses on “Safer and Healthier Workplaces”. This issue is dedicated to workers all over the world who have suffered an accident at work or have acquired an occupational or work-related disease. Workers should be protected from occupational risks they could be ex...

This paper presents a linear cryptanalytic attack against reduced round variants of the SAFER family of block ciphers. Compared with the 1.5 round linear relations by Harpes et al., the following new linear relations were found: a 3.75-round non-homomorphic linear relation for both SAFER-K and SAFER-SK with bias = 2−29; a 2.75 round relation for SAFER+ with bias = 2−49. For a 32-bit block mini-...

BACKGROUND This paper reports on the feasibility and initial efficacy of a culturally sensitive, comprehensive women-centered substance use intervention for women who inject drugs in Georgia in terms of the primary and secondary sex risk outcomes. The hypothesis under examination was that, relative to case management participants, participants in a culturally sensitive, comprehensive women-spec...

Popularisation of Lean in healthcare has led to emphasis on Lean quality improvement tools in isolation, with inconsistent results. We argue that delivery of safer, more efficient, and higher quality-patient focused care requires organisational transformation of which the Lean toolkit is only one component. To successfully facilitate system transformation toward higher quality care at lower cos...

As part of the development of the ASEAN Regional Road Safety Strategy, a new index for measuring road safety maturity (RSM) was constructed from numerical weightings given to measurable factors presented for each of the pillars that guide national road safety plans and activities in WHO Global Road Safety Report 2013: road safety management, safer road and mobility, safer vehicles, safer road u...

mannion and davies’ article recognises whistleblowing as an important means of identifying quality and safety issues in healthcare organisations. while ‘voice’ is a useful lens through which to examine whistleblowing, it also obscures a shifting pattern of uncertain ‘truths.’ by contextualising cultures which support or impede whislteblowing at an organisational level, two issues are overlooked...

mannion and davies’ article recognises whistleblowing as an important means of identifying quality and safety issues in healthcare organisations. while ‘voice’ is a useful lens through which to examine whistleblowing, it also obscures a shifting pattern of uncertain ‘truths.’ by contextualising cultures which support or impede whislteblowing at an organisational level, two issues are overlooked...

In order to support outsourced and third party telecommunications applications, there is a desire to modify the Erlang language and execution environment to provide safe and partitioned execution of externally sourced or outsourced programs which are imported and run on a local Erlang system. This paper outlines a possible design approach, and describes the initial prototype.