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This study attempted to find the association between four measures of laterality (handedness, footedness, eyedness, and earedness) and accident proneness in locomotive drivers. The Sidedness Bias Schedule was administered to a sample of 80 locomotive drivers to ascertain their preferential bias. Their accident records were also ...

The term accident proneness was coined by psychological research workers in 1926. Since then its concept�that certain individuals are always more likely than others to sustain accidents, even though exposed to equal risk�has been questioned but seldom seriously challenged.This article describes much of the work and theory on which ...

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There were 469 unnatural deaths among the Sheffield child population between 1947 and 1979, 226 of which were caused by traffic accidents. The annual incidence of these fatal traffic accidents has risen steadily since the early 1960s with boys being consistently more vulnerable. Fatal accidents were disproportionately higher among ...

In order to improve the knowledge of road users' perception of the various control techniques in the traffic system and its influence on behavior, driver behavior of passing private cars was studied at seven accident-prone road bends controlled differentl...

This study uses continuously logged driving data from 166 private cars to derive the level of jerks caused by the drivers during everyday driving. The number of critical jerks found in the data is analysed and compared with the self-reported accident involvement of the drivers. The results show that the expected number of accidents for a driver increases ...

The social/physiological/psychological review of an aircraft accident involving input of incorrect controls and low-altitude ejection of a student naval aviator enlightened the investigators as to maybe a not-so-uncommon problem--accident proneness resulting from an obsessive-compulsive nonpsychotic personality. Review of the pilot's ...

There were 469 unnatural deaths among the Sheffield child population between 1947 and 1979, 226 of which were caused by traffic accidents. The annual incidence of these fatal traffic accidents has risen steadily since the early 1960s with boys being consistently more vulnerable. Fatal accidents were disproportionately higher among ...

Agriculture is one of the most accident-prone industries in the United States. In 1990, the occupational injury incidence rate per 100 full-time workers in production agriculture was 12.3 on farms employing 11 or more workers, compared with 8.3 for all in...

Growing concern over traffic safety as well as rising congestion costs have been recently redirecting research effort from the traditional crash detection and clearance reactive traffic management towards online, proactive crash prevention solutions. In t...

An investigation of a traffic accident involving a tractor-trailer and a passenger car that were traveling at high speed is presented. The cause was the fracture of a trailer axle. The investigation showed that the fracture was because of the fatigue failure. In addition, cracks were found in the remaining three trailer wheels. Hardness measurements showed that, because of ...

Behavior models have provided an accident proneness concept based on life change unit (LCU) factors. This paper describes the development of a Korean Life Change Unit (KLCU) model for workers and managers in fatal accident areas, as well as an evaluation of its application. Results suggest that death of parents is the highest ...

... The vulnerability of a prone protected man is less than that of a prone man but greater than that of a man crouching in a foxhole. ...

Air transportation systems are designed to ensure that aircraft accidents are rare events. To minimize these accidents, factors causing or contributing to accidents must be understood and prevented. Despite many efforts by the aviation safety community to reduce the accidents, accident rates ...

Three studies on childhood accidents are presented. The aim was to study the importance of different factors regarding the accidents in question. The following factors have then been taken into consideration: the enviromental hazard, the accident proneness, the supervision and the education. Methodologically the ...

Psychosocial and occupational stressors among 194 male employees on drilling rig and production platform installations in the United Kingdom and Dutch sectors of the North Sea were studied. Mental well-being and job satisfaction were also assessed, with attention to the incidence of accidents offshore. This occupational group were found to be much less satisfied with their ...

Accidents are unexpected events usually producing injury. Many victims of trauma have a history of recurrent accidents. This study is a preliminary effort to verify the hypothesis that accidents may be considered as a recurrent disease in certain families; these children and families belong to a 'high risk group'. Two-hundred ...

This study presents a comparative assessment of severe accident risks in the energy sector, based on the historical experience of fossil (coal, oil, natural gas, and LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)) and hydro chains contained in the comprehensive Energy-related Severe Accident Database (ENSAD), as well as Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) for the nuclear ...

Accuracy of the Violence Proneness Scale (VPS) of the Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI-R) was evaluated in 328 boys for predicting use of illegal drugs, DUI, selling drugs, sexually transmitted disease, car accident while under acute effects of drugs/alcohol, trading drugs for sex, injuries from a fight, and traumatic head injury. Boys were prospectively ...

Accuracy of the Violence Proneness Scale (VPS) of the Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI-R)1 was evaluated in 328 boys for predicting use of illegal drugs, DUI, selling drugs, sexually transmitted disease, car accident while under acute effects of drugs/alcohol, trading drugs for sex, injuries from a fight, and traumatic head injury. Boys were ...

In addition to multi-vehicle accidents, large trucks are also prone to single-vehicle accidents on the mountainous interstate highways due to the complex terrain and fast-changing weather. By integrating both historical data analysis and simulations, a multi-scale approach is developed to evaluate the traffic safety and operational ...

The NRC has completed 70% (as of 1983) of the TMI Action Plan, which is the combination of the Kemeny, Rogovin, and other recommendations. The industry has combined forces to achieve increased communication, high-quality and uniform operation, and better management of nuclear power. The state of the art of reactor safety was assessed by examining probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs) of about two ...

A study of 193 infants admitted for burns over a 4-year period revealed 11 infants (5.7 per cent) had sustained scalds during the process of water aerosol inhalation. The water aerosol inhalation therapy was prescribed for respiratory tract infection and carried out at home using either an electric kettle or a saucepan. It appears that infants are prone to this type of injury ...

Individuals over 60 and children under 2 form the two most burn-prone age groups in the United States. These figures are confirmed in other western cultures. The majority of injuries sustained in these two groups are preventable and relate to inadvertent scalding from hot water at the tap or spilled liquids in the kitchen and ignition of fabrics by faulty heaters or ...

This study aimed to determine whether two brief, low cost interventions would reduce young drivers' optimism bias for their driving skills and accident risk perceptions. This tendency for such drivers to perceive themselves as more skillful and less prone to driving accidents than their peers may lead to less engagement in ...

The teachers and caretakers (on kibbutzim) of the index and control children were questioned about a variety of behaviors, including emotional adjustment, school performance and achievement, interests and activities, and relations with others. Index children were rated as more impaired or disturbed than control subjects in the following areas: schoolwork, mood, suspiciousness, daydreaming, ...

Investigation of aircraft wreckage does not provide crash investigators with adequate information. Crash-protected flight recorder data is invaluable when determining accident cause factors. Inertial navigation systems provide an excellent source of highly accurate flight parameters. Nonvolatile solid state memory is available which can replace failure ...

This paper outlines the design of a Vessel Traffic Management and Information System (VTMIS) for the Turkish Straits and taking this as an example shows how modelling and simulation may aid safe and efficient navigation of vessels through waterways which are narrow and winding with changing currents and are therefore difficult to navigate and prone to ...

Shale-roof deterioration in coal mines, caused by ventilation air-humidity fluctuations, is a common ground-control problem. Shale-roof deterioration often results in increased accidents, decreased production, inadequate ventilation, and increasing operating costs in maintaining haulage roads and airways. The results of Bureau of Mines research indicate that air-tempering ...

... Title : The Proneness to Intercrystalline Corrosion of Austenitic Chrome-Nickel Steels Alloyed with Nitrogen and Molybdenum,. ...