A NASA Ames Research Center analysis of rotorcraft accident data identified safety issues that could lead to a reduction in accidents. The primary source of data was summaries of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports. Lower cost hel...

... Program has two different focus areas: accident prevention and accident mitigation. Accident prevention research concentrates on the following issues: ...

System-Wide Accident Prevention Addresses aviation safety issues associated with human error and procedural non-compliance ...

Feb 18, 2003 ... Columbia Accident Investigation Board Press Briefing ... management issues, the work force issues, safety and mission insurance, ...

safety recommendations are issued as a result of its investigations of transportation accidents, incidents and safety studies conducted by the Safety Board to improve...

The 1999 accident at the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant near Tokyo is the context for a student discussion on nuclear power and the consequences of a nuclear accident. The case covers issues ranging from chemical process safety to risk management of chemical industries to the ethical responsibilities of ...

An important goal of the US DOE reactor development program is to conceptualize advanced safety design features for a demonstration Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR). The treatment of severe accidents is one of the key safety issues in the design approach for adv...

... Title : Some Implications of the Three Mile Island Accident for LMFBR Safety and Licensing: The Design Basis Issue. Descriptive Note : RAND Note. ...

System-Wide Accident Prevention Addresses aviation safety issues ... Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling, Accident Mitigation, and Synthetic Vision. ...

of the accident could have been mitigated. The safety issues identified during the investigation were: 1 accidents, determine the probable causes of the accidents, issue safety recommendations, study. The following discussion includes a narrative ...

During the 1980s, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated several accidents that involved operator fatigue. Following completion of these accident investigations, the Safety Board in 1989 issued three recommendations to the U.S. Department o...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Circular OSA obstructive sleep apnea RSAC Railroad Safety Advisory Committee SEPTA Southeastern obstructive sleep apnea. In its investigation of this accident, the Safety Board examined one ...

Aviation Safety Network Collection of reports and statistics of aviation accidents, updated ... Safety Board Formal reports on accidents investigated by the NTSB ... on everything from aviation history, to human factors, safety issues and weather. ...

The railroad industry's overall safety record has improved over the last decade and most safety trends are moving in the right direction. However, significant train accidents continue to occur, and the train accident rate has not shown substantive improve...

... Both the nuclear reactor accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and shipping disasters such as the Exxon Valdez and the Herald of Free ...

with safety (that is, with the possibility of a major accident that would release radioactivity in large amounts) has been the paramount issue for the designers and operators of...

The 1999 accident at the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant near Tokyo is the context for a student discussion on nuclear power and the consequences of a nuclear accident. The case covers issues ranging from chemical process safety to risk management

It is not feasible to use the existing British Coal accident information collection, storage and retrieval system to identify systematically human factors issues relevant to the accident. The implementation of a human factors code list, developed during t...

Report Report highlights agency efforts in FY 2010, including launching to six major accidents, releasing 10 major investigative reports, issuing 227 new safety...

This current issues review opens with a general discussion of safety in complex energy systems, including inherent safety versus engineered safety. Other topics include the Chernobyl accident, other notable nuclear accidents, and recent issues of ...

ACcident Mitigation is a primary element of the Aviation. Safety. Program. The overall ..... Issues. The certification issues of a systems approach aircraft ...

During the 1980s, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated several aviation, highway, and marine accidents that involved operator fatigue. Following completion of these accident investigations, the Safety Board in 1989 issued three recommenda...

The purpose of the advanced reactor program is to provide NRC with a comprehensive data base essential to defining key safety issues, understanding the controlling accident sequences, verifying the complex computer models used in accident analysis and lic...

This paper discussed the safety of nuclear reactors. The authors examined some of the safety problems associated with the accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. He stressed the need to reduce the frequency of accidents and the need for greater preparation for the consequences of inevitable failures. He ...

The report discusses the results of a study to determine the data needs necessary to address truck safety issues and to develop a data collection and analysis plan. Priority truck safety issues that are amenable to truck accident data analyses were identi...

The report discusses the results of a study to determine the data needs necessary to address truck safety issues and to develop a data collection and analysis plan. Priority truck safety issues that are amenable to truck accident data analyses were identi...

Unresolved Safety Issue (USI) A-48 arose as a result of the large amount of hydrogen generated and burned within containment during the Three Mile Island accident. The issue covers hydrogen control measures for recoverable degraded core accidents for all ...

The purpose of this safety manual is to provide a resource to help manage and minimize potential risks in science classrooms where students spend up to 60% of instructional time engaged in hands-on activities. This manual contains information on standards, legal aspects, and responsibilities for science safety; general laboratory ...

This briefing summarizes, for a general, technical audience not specifically familiar with high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) concepts, the following: generic HTGR safety features and issues as identified from Accident Initiation and Progression A...

The Guiding Principles address the various issues which may affect safety at a hazardous installation. These include prevention-related issues such as those concerning the establishment of a corporate Safety Policy, the planning, design, siting, construct...

For the report, the Safety Board examined 8 separate fire apparatus accidents and conducted an informal survey of the 50 States and the District of Columbia to determine their requirements for inspecting fire apparatus. The safety issues discussed in the ...

Nov 1, 2000 ... The System-Wide Accident Prevention (SWAP) project goal is to address aviation safety issues associated with human error and procedural noncomplianc ... Reducing or mitigating human error effects should result in ...

In the unlikely event of a core meltdown accident, an important safety issue is the potential for steam explosions and their effects on the accident progression. Steam explosion phenomena can be divided into three stages: (a) mixing of the molten fuel and...

and articles which deal with robot safety and robot accidents, ...... Carlson, J . Industrial Robots and Accidents at Work TRITA-A06-0004. (Sweden), ...

System Issues. Coverage. "Global. "Regional. "Oceanic. "Line-of-Sight. Utilization ... Mitigation. Douglas Rohn. (GRC). Accident. Mitigation. Douglas Rohn ...

... Secretary Pena committed to develop an action plan within 30 days that would detail DOT and FAA's response to these issues. ...

Address aviation safety issues associated with. Human error; Procedural non- compliance. Reduce aviation accident rates by. Reducing or mitigating human ...

had been prescribed this medication. Small amounts of THC (the active substance in marijuana major safety issues were identified in this accident: � Inadequacy of the medical certification process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Medical

This paper presents an overview of the results of the experimental program being conducted in the Power Burst Facility and the relationship of these results to certain safety and licensing issues. The safety issues that were addressed by the Power-Cooling-Mismatch, Reactivity Initiated ...

The Severe Accident Analysis Program (SAAP) is a program of experimental and analytical studies aimed at characterizing severe accidents that might occur in the Savannah River Site Production Reactors. The goals of the Severe Accident Analysis Program are: To develop an understanding of severe accidents in SRS ...

... Descriptors : *DECISION MAKING, *SAFETY FACTOR, *ACCIDENTS, *MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, MILITARY PERSONNEL, MANAGEMENT ...

... PREVENTION, *ACCIDENTS, ARMY PERSONNEL, AVIATION ACCIDENTS, AVIATION SAFETY, MILITARY COMMANDERS, FIRE PREVENTION. ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Environmental, Safety, and Health Emergency Response Organization has the responsibility of providing analyses of personnel exposures to neutrons and gamma rays from a nuclear accident. This report presents the technical and philosophical basis for the dose assessment aspects of the nuclear ...

been able to see the truck and avoid the accident. Truckdriver The truckdriver was 41 and had been HIGHWAY/HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ACCIDENT SUMMARY REPORT COLLISION OF TRACTOR/CARGO TANK SEMITRAILER accidents, determine the probable causes of the accidents, issue safety ...

During the 1980s, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated several aviation, highway, and marine accidents that involved operator fatigue. Following completion of these accident investigations, the Safety Board in 1989 issued three recommenda...

In its special investigation, the Safety Board examined the safety aspects of NICTD's accident history and safety record, infrastructure and operating practices, internal safety programs, and corporate safety culture. With respect to the particular ...

... ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS, SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS, PREVENTION, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, RISK MANAGEMENT. ...

This report gives the results of a Savannah River Site (SRS) K-Reactor Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA). Measures of adverse consequences to health and safety resulting from representations of severe accidents in SRS reactors are presented. In addition, the report gives a summary of the methods employed to represent these ...

"Accident Prevention. "Accident Mitigation. "Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling. Accident Prevention is attacking the issue of airplane accidents from ...

safety in Texas secondary school science laboratory, classroom, and field settings. The Texas Education ignited as the chemistry teacher heated it in a small container. This accident severely burned a student attention, most safety issues in the classroom, laboratory, and field are not publicized. For instance

One of the tasks of the ITER Systems Analysis Group has been safety and environmental analyses. The safety analyses show that radiological doses from operational effluents and accidents are consistent with anticipated regulatory dose limits. To improve safety further and to meet the ambitious goal of passive ...

This paper discusses the issue of safety in complex energy systems and provides brief accounts of some of the most serious reactor accidents that have occurred to date. Details are also provided of Ontario Hydro's problems with Unit 2 at Pickering. (Atomi...

The influence of speed limits on roadway safety is an extremely important social issue and is subject to an extensive debate in the State of Indiana and nationwide. With roughly 900 fatalities and sixty thousand injuries annually in Indiana, traffic accid...

One of the more complex issues in highway safety evaluation is how to incorporate some measure of exposure, some numerical measure of the opportunity for an accident to occur in the analysis. On a roadway section, for example, exposure might be vehicle-mi...

This citation summarizes a one-page announcement of technology available for utilization. A collection of three reports addresses some of the issues relating to the safety of liquefid petroleum gas (LPG) in transportation and storage. These studies are pa...

French PWR power plant design relies basically on a deterministic approach. A probabilistic approach was introduced in France in the early seventies to define safety provisions against external impacts. In 1977 an overall safety objective was issued by th...

Information is presented concerning new trends in licensing; seismic considerations and system structural behavior; TMI-2 risk assessment and thermal hydraulics; statistical assessment of potential accidents and verification of computational methods; issues with respect to improved safety; human factors in nuclear power plant ...

The report discusses safety issues identified during the Safety Board's special investigation of 55 emergency medical services (EMS) aircraft accidents that occurred in the United States between January 2002 and January 2005. Safety issues discussed in th...

With increasing emphasis on hands-on inquiry activities, teachers need to be as knowledgeable as possible about safety. Unfortunately, accidents in science classrooms are no exception! As a result, the theme of this issue of The Science Teacher (TST) is Science Safety. The Field Editor highlights several articles ...

The safety issues associated with the transition (core disruption) phase of hypothetical LMFBR accidents are identified and discussed. This discussion is intended to serve as a basis for defining future experimental needs to support core disruption analysis, and for defining analytical code developments required to support the ...

This paper addresses safety issues associated with High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes constructed along freeway medians, without physical separation from adjacent traffic. Data associated with operation of such an HOV facility in Southern California are analyzed relative to the pattern of accidents on the facility and the potential ...

... 6 Chernobyl Accident Led to More Safety Assessments 7 ... CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT LED TO MORE SAFETY ASSESSMENTS ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to construct and operate the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The goals of the NIF are to (1) achieve fusion ignition in the laboratory for the first time by using inertial confinement fusion (ICF) technology based on an advanced-design neodymium glass solid-state laser, and (2) conduct high-energy-density experiments in support of national security and ...

Presently, systems and equipment within a nuclear power plant are classified as safety or non-safety related systems and equipment. After the TMI-2 accident, it was clear that several systems and equipment important to safety were not designed, fabricated, and maintained at the level equivalent to their ...

One method used by the Department of Energy (DOE) to promote worker safety is through the Department`s accident investigation program. The objectives of the program are, among other things, to enhance safety and health of employees, to prevent the recurrence of accidents, and to reduce accident ...

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The present study aims at identifying existing and emerging Intelligent Transport System (ITS) that have the possibility to enhance the safety of motorcycle rider. A review of the literature revealed that very few commercially available ITS currently exist specifically for motorcycles, although several emerging technologies were identified. Consultations with international ...

The report explains the accident involving an Air Transport International DC-8-63, which was destroyed by ground impact and fire during an attempted takeoff at Kansas City International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri, on February 16, 1995. Safety issues i...

This report explains the accident involving a Cessna 177B airplane that collided with terrain after a loss of control following takeoff from runway 30 at the Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 11, 1996. Safety issues in the report include fatig...

This report explains the accident involving Federal Express flight 14, an MD-11, which crashed while landing on runway 22R at Newark International Airport, Newark, New Jersey, on July 31, 1997. Safety issues discussed in this report focus on landing techn...

The report explains the accident involving the Phoenix Air Learjet 35A that crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Fresno Air Terminal, Fresno, California, on December 14, 1994. Safety issues in the report focused on maintenance, inspection and ...

This report describes the circumstances of an accident involving an Aerospatiale SA365N1 that crashed on approach to landing during an emergency medical services flight operated by the Maryland State Police (MSP). The safety issues discussed include risk ...

The report explains the accident involving the TAESA Learjet 25D that crashed near the threshold of runway 1R at Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virgnia, on June 18, 1994. Safety issues in the report focused on weather at the airport, flightcrew ...

This report explains the accident involving Corporate Airlines flight 5966, a BAE Systems BAE-J3201, N875JX, that crashed short of the runway on approach to land at Kirksville Regional Airport, Kirksville, Missouri. Safety issues in this report focus on o...

This report explains the accident involving Federal Express flight 1478, a Boeing 727-232F, N497FE, which struck trees on sort final approach and crashed short of runway 9 at the Tallahassee Regional Airport, Tallahassee, Florida. Safety issues in this re...

This report contains reviews of operating experiences, selected accident events, and industrial safety performance indicators that document the performance of the major US DOE magnetic fusion experiments and particle accelerators. These data are useful to form a basis for the occupational safety level at matured research facilities ...

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... Descriptors : *ARMY PERSONNEL, *MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, COST ANALYSIS, MILITARY VEHICLES, SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS ...

... AVIATION ACCIDENTS, *ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS, INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS, AVIATION SAFETY, RUNWAYS, AIRCRAFT LANDINGS ...

The major safety issue in the accident concerns the manner in which Amtrak provides protection from intrusions onto out-of-service tracks. The specific issues include: Amtrak's use of blocking devices and train orders to take tracks out-of-service; Amtrak...

This overview paper draws together findings from previous focus group research and studies of 100 individual construction accidents. Pursuing issues raised by the focus groups, the accident studies collected qualitative information on the circumstances of each incident and the causal influences involved. Site based data collection ...

In the thirty-odd years that core-disruptive accidents have been analyzed, great advances have been made both in understanding the physical phenomena involved and in development of computational techniques to deal with them. More realistic modeling has tended to reduce predicted accident consequences. Some safety ...

This book documents and analyzes 36 accidents involving U.S. nuclear weapons that occurred between 1950 and 1980, compilied from declassified Aircraft Accident Reports, Explosive Ordinance Disposal Reports, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) reports, memoranda, and other primary sources. Each of the books chapters describes a specific ...

An important goal of the US DOE reactor development program is to conceptualize advanced safety design features for a demonstration Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR). The treatment of severe accidents is one of the key safety issues in the design approach for advanced SFR systems. It is necessary to develop an in-depth ...

... Descriptors : *DISASTERS, *SUBMARINES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ACCIDENTS. Subject Categories : SUBMARINE ENGINEERING SAFETY ...

... ACCIDENTS, *RAILROADS, *SAFETY, RAILROADS, DECELERATION, WOUNDS AND INJURIES, EJECTION, RAILROAD CARS, AVIATION ...

This report provides an assessment of safety management, safety review, and safety methodology employed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and private contractors. Chapter 1, "The DOE Safety Framework," examines safety objectives for production reactors and processes to implement the objectives. ...

The two worst accidents in the world's nuclear industry occurred in a time span of seven years, namely, the accidents at Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2 (TMI-2) in 1979 and at Chernobyl in 1986. Because probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs) have been shown to be effective in identifying weak points in plant design and operations, they can ...

Current space nuclear power reactor safety issues are discussed with respect to the unique characteristics of these reactors. An approach to achieving adequate safety and a perception of safety is outlined. This approach calls for a carefully conceived safety program which makes uses of lessons ...

This paper presents findings from an extensive study into factors that impact upon the high rate of injuries due to mechanical equipment, especially in small manufacturing firms. Issues relating to knowledge of health and safety issues and to management practices have been shown to be extremely important with regards to ...

Road safety plays an increasing role in communities throughout the entire world. According to estimates, road accidents will have moved from ninth to third in the worldwide ranking of burden of disease by 2020. This theme issue is dedicated to community-based applications that have the aim to enhance road safety. ...