In this paper, the predictors of work injuries based on Leamon's Man-Machine model are identified in a sociotechnical framework. Several hypotheses are developed and tested to describe the accident/injury phenomena in mining worksystems. Possible designs for improving work-system's safety are specified using scaled Mahalanobis distance (MD). A case control study design is adopted. Five variable...

background: safety climate is a description of employees' safety sharedconcepts about safety management. assessment of safety climate is one of therequirements for promoting safe behaviors in the workplace. nordic safetyclimate questionnaire (nosacq-50) is a valid tool for measuring safety climatethat its reliability and validity has been investigated in different languages.the aimof this study...

background: safety culture and attitude form an integral part of organizations' cultures and their improved levels are influential in the prevention of occupational accidents and injuries. the present study was conducted to assess the safety culture and attitude of workers in the mining industry in iran. materials and methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted on 172 workers ...

An integral component of effective project management is the minimization economic, technological, informational, personnel, and environmental threats to safety project. Within framework this article, essence design safety, main stages mechanisms for its provision are considered.

nowadays, in addition to implement the quality of management systems and environment management and due to the effects of safety and health issues on working processes, the organizations have also sought to acquire health and safety management systems. this descriptive–analytic and past reviewing study has been implemented based on five years (from 2006 to 2010) recorded documents and statistic...

the aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to iran as a tourism destination. the concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. the members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. thestatistical data were collected by conve...