A detailed study and analysis of previous research has been carried out to illustrate the relationships between a range of environmental emergencies, and their effects on the emotional state of the rescuers involved in responding to them, by employing Pub Med, Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Scholar, CNKI and Scopus for required information with the several keywords "emergency rescue", "...

activities working?” Safety performance should be evaluated in an organization in the same manner as productivity and other aspects of the business. Areas to evaluate include determining the overall effectiveness of a particular intervention, where a company’s safety performance stands with regard to other companies, identifying potential impediments to safety success, and determining the trend...

The behavior-based approach to managing occupational risk and preventing workplace injuries is reviewed. Unlike the typical top-down control approach to industrial safety, behavior-based safety (BBS) provides tools and procedures workers can use to take personal control of occupational risks. Strategies the author and his colleagues have been using for more than a decade to teach BBS to safety ...

On a global level, it is estimated that over 5,000 people die every day due to accidents, injury or sickness contracted at work. For each fatality there is another 1,000 injuries which lead to incapacitation (Else, 2003). These figures raise the question of whether this is a necessary side-effect of present day society, or the result of failure to address key issues. This paper presents a brief...

construction is one of the most hazardous workplaces in all around the world. awareness about workers’ attitude towards safety could be helpful in anticipating the workers' behavior. the aims of this study were to determine both the tunneling workers' safety attitude and the relationship between workers' attitude towards safety and occupational accidents. in this cross-sectional study performed...

BACKGROUND Action research (AR) holds promise as a method to improve occupational health and safety. METHODS This case study explores the challenges and accomplishments during the first 6 months of an AR occupational health and safety committee at a manufacturing facility. RESULTS Critical steps in the formative phase of the AR project included: (1) addressing differing power levels and per...

penile amputation is an uncommon urological emergency. although rare, traumatic amputation of penis is a challenging injury to treat. however, modern microsurgical reconstruction techniques have improved success rate of penile replantation and become the procedure of choice for managing these patients. herein, we report on a case of penile amputation following an industrial accident.