BACKGROUND The Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) literature shows that noise could represent a risk factor for professional orchestral musicians. The continuative exposition to elevated noise levels and the particular nature of the activity make necessary an "atypical" OH&S approach, which was identified to be necessarily organizational. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, a parametric-b...

The evaluation of safety performance in occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS) 18001-certified companies provides useful information about the quality of the management system. A certified organization should employ an adequate level of safety management and a positive safety culture to achieve a satisfactory safety performance. The present study conducted in six manufacturing...

Safety and Health Programs, OSHA, shall furnish guidelines to field councils concerning the preparation of this report. (d) Upon determination that a council is not operating in accordance with its charter and the provisions of this subpart, and after consultation with appropriate OSHA regional officials, the Secretary shall revoke the council’s charter. Upon revocation of a charter, the counci...

We present CSolve, an automated verifier for C programs based on Liquid Type inference. We show how CSolve verifies memory safety through an example and describe its architecture and interface.

A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY exists regarding the effectiveness of safety incentive programs in construction. Most research on incentives involves case studies and theoretical analyses of their advantages and disadvantages. Using primary survey data from construction firms and craftworkers, this article examines the impact of incentives on the safety performance of U.S. construction firms. The s...

background: the reliability and safety of gas refineries are strongly associated with the reliability of other parts of the system. defect and failure in one part of a system can cause total system breakdown or accident. the failure and damage in these equipment such as transformers and boilers results in not only the equipment damage and human injuries but also productivity reduction. the purp...

one of the ways to ensure food safety is to educate the public. of the organizations providing food safety education in the united states (u.s.), the cooperative extension system (ces) is one of the most reliable. the effectiveness ces programs depends not only on what is being taught but also on how it is taught. both a needs-based curriculum and how that curriculum is delivered are equally im...