Statistics of accidents in British coal-mines have been collected in one form or another since 1873 (Ministry of Power, 1957). From those early days there has been a steady decline in the numbers of fatalities but even now more than 300 men a year are killed in mining accidents. About a million and a half injuries, varying from the trivial to the fatal, are reported in a year and coal-miners, w...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Black Spot Programs in Western Australia. Reduction in crash rate at the treated locations and the economic benefits of these treatments were assessed. The results showed that the programs have been effective overall, reducing all reported crash rate by 15%. The estimated crash cost savings were 50.8 million Australian dollars, of which 89% could be...

Nurses in an Armed Force Hospital (AFH) expose to stronger stress than those in a civil hospital, especially in an emergency department (ED). Ironically, stresses of these nurses received few if any attention in academic research in the past. This study collects 227 samples from the emergency departments of four armed force hospitals in central and southern Taiwan. The research indicates that t...

Given both the expected growth in the number of older drivers and their over-involvement in fatal and serious injury crashes, there has been a world-wide call for improved licensing procedures to manage older driver safety. In particular, licensing authorities have been urged to move from mandatory assessment of all older drivers to assessment practices targeting only those at higher crash risk...

The UPA (Underwriting Profitability Analysis) application embodies a new approach to mining Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance policy and claims data for the purpose of constructing predictive models for insurance risks. UPA utilizes the ProbE (Probabilistic Estimation) predictive modeling data mining kernel to discover risk characterization rules by analyzing large and noisy insurance data se...

Handling highly dynamic scenarios as they arise in mass casualty incident (MCI) situations requires lots of information about the situation and an extremely flexible IT infrastructure that can assist in managing the incident. We show a combination of technologies from different fields of research that have focused on the support of the strategic and tactical level in such situations. We describ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether case managers affect patient evaluation/treatment/outcome and staffing requirements during Multiple Casualty Incidents (MCIs). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Multiple patient relocations during MCIs may contribute to chaos. One hospital changed its MCI patient relocation policy during a wave of MCIs; rather than transfer patients from one medical team to another in each ...

Introduction: Across the United States (US), there are approximately 2,000 burn beds in 133 centers, only 72 of which verified by American Burn Association (ABA). As such, many areas US hundreds miles from closest center. Eight states do not have a center, and another 11 an ABA-verified Further, average center has 15 beds, and, on average, 90 available across US. Therefore, addition to patient ...