background : in china, over 80% of all work-related deaths in the mining industry occur in coal mines and human factors constitute 85% of the direct causes of coal mine accidents, which indicates that significant shortcomings cur-rently exist in the safety behavior management of chinese coal mine workers. we aimed to verify the impact of human psychological behavior in coal mine accidents syste...

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...

one of the increasingly important organizational considerations involves occupational health and staff safety. hence, it is crucial for the managers to identify the key organizational factors contributing to reduce work-related accidents. this study was conducted on 340 workers, employees, experts, supervisors, directors, and managers. the data evaluation involved a questionnaire while the anal...

worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...

BACKGROUND Millions of workers are the victims of different kinds of accidents every year throughout the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between safety attitude and occurrence of the occupational accidents. METHODS This investigation was a cross-sectional study performed in a gas refinery in south of Iran in 2008. Sample size of this study was 176 people....

When the editor suggested that we write a piece for this 50 edition of the newsletter, it seemed appropriate to reflect on the longer term history of our field and, in particular, to focus on the topic of accident investigation which has been the focus of our previous work. In early 1928, the Assistant Secretaries for Aeronautics in the Departments of War, Navy, and Commerce in the United State...

conclusion: due to the high rate of accidents in metal and construction industries, engineering controls, the use of appropriate protective equipment and safety worker training seems necessary. results: the occupational accidents rate was 253 in 100,000 workers in 2008. 98.2% of injured workers were men. the mean age of injured workers was 32.07 ± 9.12 years. the highest percentage belonged to ...