Search results for "Safety"

Safety diagnostic method in urban circular intersections

2004

The available knowledge of traffic safety at roundabouts is not a complete reference for geometric design; where there are organizational schemes for junctions characterized by a geometric design, quite different driving behaviours are required from those that are observable at roundabouts. This is very frequent in urban areas, where the existing constraints, particularly physical ones, often render it necessary to make “compromise choices” relating to one or more geometric features of the roundabout (central island shape, circulatory roadway width, symmetry and number of the arms, entry width, etc). The objective of this study is to explain the accident phenomenology of this kind of road s…

An Italian experience on crash modeling for roundabouts

2015

In the last few years a considerable amount of safety models and evaluation tasks have been developed and specifically dedicated to roundabouts. Several safety performance functions (SPFs), indeed, have been implemented for roundabouts worldwide. Since SPFs are developed using crashes, traffic volume and other characteristics of a specific site (or geographical area), their direct transferability to other contexts different from those in which SPFs were calibrated is not always possible and, in any case, it must be done very carefully. A safety performance function cannot be used without a transferability evaluation for sites not included in the geographic area for which it was developed. S…

Corporate responsibility in the food chain: The criteria and indicators

2012

Corporate responsibility (CR) is becoming a key issue in the food chain. In order to make sense of this phenomenon, a seminal aper by Maloni and Brown (2006) called for further empirical investigation on the criteria of responsibility in the food supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to answer the call by identifying the criteria for defining CR and develop indicators for measuring the responsibility performance of the food chain. The study was based on interactive and participatory stakeholder dialogues with diverse experts, corporate representatives and other stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental bodies. Through an iterative research process w…

Safety Culture and Safety Performance in High-Reliability Organizations: A Synthesis of IDOCAL’S Contributions to the Literature

2020

Improving safety culture and safety performance is a constant concern for companies operating in high-risk environments. For almost two decades, IDOCAL (the Research Institute of Personnel Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of Working Life) has been contributing to advancing our understanding of these important concepts through theoretical development and empirical research. The objective of this article is to synthesize these contributions. Some of the most prominent are (1) the development of a framework for the evaluation of safety culture and its correlates based on the AMIGO model, (2) the establishment of the empowering leadership model as a valuable concept in safety …

Sociāla reklāma un tās ietekme uz cilvēkiem

2016

Šīs darbs piedāvā informāciju un pētījumu par sociālo reklāmu un tās ietekmi uz cilvēkiem. Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot cilvēku sajūtas un uztveri par sociālo reklāmu. Darbs sniedz informāciju par sociālo reklāmu, tās misiju, funkcijām un īsu vēsturi. Kritiskā diskursa analīze sniedz autores pētījumu par sociālo reklāmu, kas ir saistīta ar ģimenes vardarbību, ceļa drošību un ekoloģijas problēmām. Aptaujas analīze apraksta cilvēku viedokļus par sociālo reklāmu, kā arī viņu izjūtas un emocijas aplūkojot konkrētus sociālās reklāmas piemērus.

Ochrona porządku i bezpieczeństwa publicznego przez policję na przykładzie gminy Dąbrowa Górnicza

2017

Public order and safety is one of the priority tasks of the State and local government units. The safety of people and the maintenance of public order and security rests with the Police. The scope of activities and competence of this service regulated by an umber of legal acts. Police Headquarters in Dąbrowa Górnicza is an organizational unit of the Police constituting an auxiliary camera. Its activities are directly subject to the supervision of the Silesian Commander of Provincial Police. A police officer must perform their duties to the best of knowledge and will with due honesty and integrity. His duty is to respect human dignity and respect for and protection of human rights.

A novel device for assessing the health risk caused by hand-arm vibrations in olives harvesting

2012

The mechanization of olive harvesting is very important both to reduce the costs of production and to assure the oil quality because the manual harvest does not allow to operate at the right time and also need a long period to be completed. The use of portable shakers, that are spreading more than others typologies, can give a solution to the problem. However, the use of such equipment may involve risk of exposure to hand-transmitted vibration. The aim of this study was to assess the level of exposure to hand-arm vibration of the operators using portable shakers (reference standards UNI EN ISO 5349-1:2004, Italian Low Decree 81/2008). The research presented here concerns the definition of a…

Safety in the use of portable olive harvesters

2011

Safety of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients With Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Real-World Use of Lenvatinib and Sorafenib in Korea

2019

Background: Thyroid cancer has become the most common cancer in Korea. Generally, thyroid cancer patients have a good prognosis; however, 15–20% of patients experience recurrence or distant metastasis or are refractory to standard treatment. We assessed the safety of sorafenib and lenvatinib in patients with advanced or metastatic radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) consecutively treated at a tertiary center in South Korea.Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of all consecutive patients with DTC treated during ≥6 months with lenvatinib (February 2016–April 2018) and sorafenib (January 2014–April 2018) at Gangnam Severance Hospital. Patients were tre…

Online interventions to prevent mental health problems implemented in school settings: the perspectives from key stakeholders in Austria and Spain

2021

Abstract Background Schools are key settings for delivering mental illness prevention in adolescents. Data on stakeholders’ attitudes and factors relevant for the implementation of Internet-based prevention programmes are scarce. Methods Stakeholders in the school setting from Austria and Spain were consulted. Potential facilitators (e.g. teachers and school psychologists) completed an online questionnaire (N=50), policy makers (e.g. representatives of the ministry of education and health professional associations) participated in semi-structured interviews (N=9) and pupils (N=29, 14–19 years) participated in focus groups. Thematic analysis was used to identify experiences with, attitudes a…