BACKGROUND The hospital environment has many occupational health risks that predispose healthcare workers to various kinds of work accidents. OBJECTIVE This study aims to compare different methods for work accidents investigation and to verify their suitability in hospital environment. METHODS For this purpose, we selected three types of accidents that were related with needle stick, worker...

Several factors can influence the ability to drive by patients with diabetes mellitus. The most important factor would be hypoglycaemia. It seems logical that hypoglycaemia unawareness would be an important risk factor for accidents. However, in everyday practice, hypoglycaemia-related accidents are rare. Moreover, it seems that only a small subset of people with diabetes is responsible for the...

Surface and underground mining, due to its technical challenges, is considered a hazardous industry. The great majority of accidents fatalities are frequently associated with ineffective or inappropriate training methods. Knowing that knowledge occupational accident causes plays significant role in safety management systems, it important systematise this kind information. primary objective syst...

The accident rate for general aviation remains high. While most general aviation accident studies have been pilot-focused, there is little research on the involvement of aircraft maintenance errors. We undertook a study to answer this question. The Microsoft Access database was queried for accidents occurring between 1989 and 2013 involving single engine piston airplanes operating under 14CFR P...

Over the course of recent decades, Brazil has become an industrialized society. From an epidemiological perspective and considering changes that have been occurring in the Brazilian population, particularly concerning demographic and epidemiological transitions, this paper discusses the need to adapt the epidemiological surveillance system in order to incorporate the surveillance of non-transmi...