Understanding the underlying relationship between pedestrian injury severity outcomes and factors leading to more severe injuries is very important in dealing with the problem of pedestrian safety. To investigate injury severity outcomes, many previous works relied on statistical regression models. There has also been some interest for data mining techniques, in particular for clustering techni...

background while cyclists and pedestrians are known to be at significant risk for severe injuries when exposed to road traffic accidents (rta) involving trucks, little is known about rta injury risk for truck drivers. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the injury severity in truck drivers following rtas. patients and methods our local accident research unit prospectively documented...

Abstract Background Since 2004, Brazil has had a national policy for occupational health and safety. This means companies’ tax burden is altered according to the numbers of work-related accidents ill-health amongst their workers. In 2010, multiplication factor was introduced this policy, called Accident Prevention Factor. The idea new encourage individual employers take initiatives prevent ill ...

Due to its dynamic nature, rapid technology change, uneducated employees, harsh working conditions, many work accidents, and heavy consequences of occupational health safety (OHS) practices are essential in the construction industry. However, Health Safety measures industry come with additional costs. Therefore, employers who have bear a cost take OHS may consider costs unnecessary without cons...

The need of in-depth accident causation data in accident research is becoming more and more important. The German In-Depth Accident Study GIDAS is well qualified to deliver adequate data to conduct an investigation on this field, based also on identifying the causes of accidents. This led to the development and implementation of a special tool called ACAS (Accident Causation Analysis System) fo...

Even though 85 percent of those who have been severely injured in an accident in Germany survive, complex and serious long-term consequences are still a major problem not only for health and care insurance providers but also for the accident victims themselves because their quality of life is affected permanently. Therefore the aim of the current study is to identify factors that significantly ...

Portugal has the sixth highest road fatality rate among European Union members. This is a problem of different dimensions with serious consequences in people’s lives. study analyses daily data from police and government authorities on traffic accidents that occurred between 2016 2019 district Portugal. paper looks for determinants contribute to existence victims accidents, as well fatalities an...

We appreciate the comments made by Dr. Sabour about our manuscript. We agree that the term ‘prediction’ can be misleading. We used the term as a general one, since our study employed an explanatory rather than a predictive model.1 We estimated which factors were associated with an unfavorable outcome (defined as a Glasgow outcome scale ≤4) rather than predicting the prognosis of individual pati...