OBJECTIVE Safety climate has previously been associated with increasing safe workplace behaviours and decreasing occupational injuries. This study seeks to understand the structural relationship between employees' perceptions of safety climate, performing a safety behaviour (ie, wearing slip-resistant shoes) and risk of slipping in the setting of limited-service restaurants. METHODS At baseli...

this article presents the seismic vulnerability assessment of the s. joão de loure bridge, inportugal. the single span steel bridge has riveted joints, commonly affected by corrosion,which can lead to a significant stiffness reduction. with the objective of evaluating theinfluence of the joints stiffness in the structural response of the bridge, a structural model ofthe bridge was created, and ...

This paper deals with the assessment of Safety Management Systems performance and presents a new tool developed for that purpose. It recognizes two dimensions in a SMS: a structural facet corresponding to the formal description of the system and an operational one focused on the system’s influence on the working environment and practices of people. Building up the operational performance of a S...

Structural  design  optimization  usually  deals  with  multiple  conflicting  objectives  to  obtain the minimum construction cost, minimum weight, and maximum safety of the final design. Therefore, finding the optimum design is hard and time-consuming for  such problems.  In this paper, we borrow the basic concept of multi-criterion decision-making and combine it with  Particle  Swarm  Optimi...

The Aviation Safety Reporting System includes over a million confidential reports describing safety incidents. Natural language processing techniques allow for relatively rapid and largely automated analysis of large collections of text data. Meaningful interpretation of the results and further investigations by subject matter experts can follow. This article describes the application of struct...

In order to meet the basic needs of foreign asylum seekers coming our countries such as shelter, nutrition, and education, government has established temporary shelters in different regions country. One them is a completely disassembled steel school building with 23 classrooms, carrier system which construction, educational shelter located Ceylanpınar district Şanlıurfa city. The roof this was ...