background: this study investigated the relationship between people's attitudes towards the safety culture and comparing its perceptions among three levels of refinery personnel: top management, supervisory staff and frontline workers by conducting safety culture survey. methods: a questionnaire comprising general information and 59-safety attitude statement were distributed among 237 workers, ...

background: high-risk unsafe behaviors (hrubs) have been known as the main cause of occupational accidents. considering the financial and societal costs of accidents and the limitations of available resources, there is an urgent need for managing unsafe behaviors at workplaces. the aim of the present study was to find strategies for decreasing the rate of hrubs using an integrated approach of s...

New classes of distributed applications are appearing that require the ability to transmit executable code. To support these applications, we have implemented a function transmission facility for Facile, a distributed extension of Standard ML. Satisfying the needs of efficiency, heterogeneity, and distributed type safety required some modifications to the language. In this paper we report on th...

background: the safety of rehabilitation centers is of great importance to ensure the well-being of patients. the present study aimed to determine non-structural and functional vulnerability of state rehabilitation centers of tehran city welfare organization in disasters using national standard instruments in 2014. materials and methods: this study has a descriptive and cross-sectional design. ...

The concept of Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSM) involves the identification of hazards and risks in the workplace and the definition of the rights, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in the implementation of control and or preventive measures. The study identifies 5 different classes of hazards to include – chemical, biological, physical, ergonomic and psychosocial hazar...