Exit Advance Guide Signs play an important role in driving safety on highway tunnels. With the increase of mountain recent 10 years, how to set exit advance guide signs inside tunnels become a new problem China. This paper evaluates effects setting schemes through simulation experiments. Specially, mountainous tunnel were divided into location sign and distance sign. Six different height, width...

OBJECTIVES To develop, implement and evaluate a training programme for senior doctors to become faculty leaders for patient safety training. METHODS Senior doctors were recruited from across 20 hospitals in the North Western Deanery, England, UK. The intervention comprised a half-day course in patient safety theory, root cause analysis and small-group facilitation, following which participant...

We present an intelligent night vision system for automobiles in this paper. This system, implemented mainly by adopting infrared cameras and computer vision techniques, aims at enhancing safety and convenience of night driving by providing functionalities such as adaptive night vision, road sign detection and recognition, scene zooming and spotlight projection. We have tested the system in bot...

This white paper lays out some foundational information about different approaches to safety: how various industries differ in their approaches to safety engineering, and a comparison of three general approaches to safety (system safety, industrial safety engineering, and reliability engineering). An attempt is made to lay out the properties of industries and systems that make one approach more...

Alarm fatigue, a condition in which clinical staff become desensitized to alarms due to the high frequency of unnecessary alarms, is a major patient safety concern. Alarm fatigue is particularly prevalent in the pediatric setting, due to the high level of variation in vital signs with patient age. Existing studies have shown that the current default pediatric vital sign alarm thresholds are ina...

Research from the United States which explores events related to the surgical count has identified that there are opportunities to review our practice in order to reduce risks to surgical patients. The Safe Surgery Saves Lives Campaign highlights this aspect of perioperative patient safety, ensuring that poor processes and poor communication, often the reasons for retained surgical items, becom...

Detection, recognition, and positioning of road signs are critical components of a roadway asset management system. In this research, a stereo visionbased system is developed to conduct automated road sign inventory. The system in real time integrates and synchronizes the data streams from multiple sensors of high-resolution cameras, Differential Global Positioning System receivers, Distance Me...