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Safety, Volume 5, Issue 1

March 2019 - 17 articles

Cover Story: The general improvement of urban livability and sustainability requires safety interventions on existing urban road segments and intersections, integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. This study proposes an integrated design framework, for which several pilot applications were performed on the urban road network in Bari, Italy. View this paper.
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,412 Views
13 Pages

21 March 2019

Food safety is one of the residents’ initial demands in daily life, and the negative perception of food safety potentially leads to public panic and dissatisfaction with government performance. Existing literature only focused on certain region...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,111 Views
20 Pages

The Impact of Job, Site, and Industry Experience on Worker Health and Safety

  • Emily J. Haas,
  • Brianna Eiter,
  • Cassandra Hoebbel and
  • Margaret E. Ryan

14 March 2019

A debate exists about the impact of mineworker experience on health and safety (H&S). Studies often assert that length of time on the job (tenure) is negatively associated with accidents (i.e., new employees have a higher accident rate). However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,069 Views
11 Pages

Effects of 7-Day Ketone Ingestion and a Physiological Workload on Postural Stability, Cognitive, and Muscular Exertion Measures in Professional Firefighters

  • Harish Chander,
  • Matthew J. McAllister,
  • Angelia M. Holland,
  • Hunter S. Waldman,
  • Benjamin M. Krings,
  • Jonathan C. Swain,
  • Alana J. Turner,
  • Steven A. Basham,
  • JohnEric W. Smith and
  • Adam C. Knight

8 March 2019

Background: Postural stability and cognitive performance are challenged in firefighters. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of 7-day ketone supplementation on postural stability, cognitive performance, and muscular activation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,293 Views
11 Pages

7 March 2019

Computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools are complex production systems with fully automatic machine parts. Nowadays, high feed rates and machining speeds are used during the machining process. Human operators are still needed to set-up the mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,248 Views
31 Pages

An Integrated Design Framework for Safety Interventions on Existing Urban Roads—Development and Case Study Application

  • Pasquale Colonna,
  • Paolo Intini,
  • Nicola Berloco,
  • Veronica Fedele,
  • Giuseppe Masi and
  • Vittorio Ranieri

6 March 2019

The need for improving urban road safety, livability, and sustainability is evident. Quantitative estimates and qualitative methods/strategies can be used by road safety practitioners to design safety interventions. This study proposes a flexible int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
14,087 Views
23 Pages

22 February 2019

The rate of occupational accidents is increasing, leading to a number of organizational deficiencies. For European Union (EU), the non-fatal accident number in 2017 was 3,315,101. An increase in the number of accidents is recorded in many of the memb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,989 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2019

The innovation and utilization of new products leads to technological changes in contemporary societies and a need for the Fire Brigades (FBs) to update their expertise regarding the challenges these new products may represent. The present study exam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
19,010 Views
16 Pages

7 February 2019

This study examines food safety knowledge and practices of food service staff in Al Madinah hospitals, Saudi Arabia. A total of 163 food service staff participated voluntarily from 10 hospitals across the city of Al Madinah. The participants complete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
13,577 Views
9 Pages

7 February 2019

Healthcare professionals are inherently vulnerable to moral distress due to their frequent work with persons who are suffering or in crisis, in combination with the strong empathic orientation that underpins the very act of care giving. When accompan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,673 Views
10 Pages

The Influence of Alcohol and Drugs on Drowning among Victims of Senior Years

  • John H. Pearn,
  • Amy E. Peden and
  • Richard C. Franklin

1 February 2019

Unintentional fatal drowning among older people is an issue as lifespans lengthen and older people embrace active retirement. While pre-existing medical conditions are a known risk factor for drowning among this age group, less is known about the rol...

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