Background and purpose: The safety climate refers to employees’ perception of safety which can be affected by job-related stress in the workplace. This study aimed to assess the safety climate and investigate the relationship between job stress factors and safety climate dimensions in a dairy industry. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The data was collected using two se...

Abstract Background Kurdistan province of Iran is among disaster prone areas the country. The Primary Health Care facilities in deliver health services at all levels nationwide. Resiliency and flexibility such important when a occurs. Thus, evaluating functional, structural, non-structural aspects safety essential. Methods In this cross-sectional study, instrument used to evaluate four sections...

Abstract I n this paper, the behavior of the real oil price and OPEC and non-OPEC oil production during 1973-2013 are modelled. Interactions among OPEC, non-OPEC oil production, global oil consumption, and the real price of crude oil are estimated using a Structural VAR model (SVAR). After providing evidence for the structural breaks in oil price in 1996, the results indicate that, ac...

Robust prediction of the motion of debris from explosions is critical to the estimation of separation distances, fragment density, and debris lethality in explosive safety hazard analysis. Debris dispersion models have been developed and applied to many specific types of hazardous debris (ranging from masonry, concrete, structural steel elements, soil and rock ejecta, to bomb fragments). These ...

BACKGROUND There can be little doubt that the construction is the most hazardous industry in the worldwide. This study was designed to modeling the factors affecting unsafe behavior from the perspective of safety supervisors. METHODS The qualitative research was conducted to extract a conceptual model. A structural model was then developed based on a questionnaire survey (n=266) by two stage ...

background: seat belts have been proven as one of the most successful means of preventing or reducing injuries to occupants of cars during an accident. this paper examines the reasons behind the non-compliance of the seat belt law in malaysia and suggests possible measures to get the percentage of seat belt usage up higher. methods: various databases of articles were searched for seat belt usag...