Background: Today, occupational safety play the vital role to reduce the number of accidents. In other words, it is necessary to pay attention to improving the safety performance of employees in organizations. Indeed, safety performance is part of safety activities, describing the behavioral aspect of employees and being influenced by various factors. The purpose of this research is to provide ...

The purpose of an Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) is to audit, assess and review processes used in a project to show compliance to best and appropriate practice and to assess the adequacy of the evidence. The main objective of using an ISA in any project is to provide assurance that a contractor considers and addresses safety issues. An ISA needs to be convinced that the process captures, unde...

OBJECTIVE To investigate physicians' knowledge about evidence-based patient safety practices, their attitudes on preventing and managing medical errors and to explore physicians' behavior when facing medical errors. DESIGN A nationwide cross-sectional survey. SETTING We first stratified our population by the 20 Italian regions. Then, within each stratum, we selected by simple random samplin...

human factors issues associated with roadway design and operations are critical components of improving highway safety. first, the three major components of highway safety are driver behavior, vehicle safety, and roadway safety. the general philosophy in roadside safety follows the priorities of (1) remove the hazard, (2) relocate the hazard, (3) make the hazard forgiving, and (4) shield the ha...

This study is one of the first that investigated youth’s response to unwanted Internet experiences, not only for those youth who were bothered or distressed but for all youth who reported the experience. Three types of response were examined: telling someone about the incident and ending the unwanted situation by active or passive coping. Responses to the following unwanted Internet experiences...