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Safety, Volume 6, Issue 4

2020 December - 14 articles

Cover Story: Traffic accidents are a global concern problem, and despite efforts to improve road safety conditions, road management agencies have not been able to implement road safety projects due to lack of economic resources and staff. This procedure intends to be a guideline in the planning and implementation of good practices to improve the safety of high-risk roads. View this paper.
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Articles (14)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,397 Views
18 Pages

Teenage and Adult Drivers’ Views of a One-Day Car Control Class on a Closed-Road Course

  • Lauren Mims,
  • Johnell O. Brooks,
  • Casey Jenkins,
  • Alexander Stronczek,
  • Donnie Isley and
  • Daniel Gubitosa

21 December 2020

Traffic-related crashes impact drivers of all ages. Post-license driving classes have emerged to equip drivers with higher level skills needed to prevent and avoid emergency situations. A performance driving center offers teenage and adult car contro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,705 Views
11 Pages

Parents’ Views of a Classroom and Closed-Road Post-License Driving Program for Teen Drivers, Guard Your Life

  • Lauren Mims,
  • Johnell O. Brooks,
  • Casey Jenkins,
  • Breno Schwambach and
  • Daniel Gubitosa

18 December 2020

In the US, teenage drivers have an increased risk of being involved in crashes. To address this, post-license advanced driving programs have emerged. This study gains parents’ perspectives while observing their teens’ involvement in a pos...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
16,531 Views
33 Pages

On Driver Behavior Recognition for Increased Safety: A Roadmap

  • Luca Davoli,
  • Marco Martalò,
  • Antonio Cilfone,
  • Laura Belli,
  • Gianluigi Ferrari,
  • Roberta Presta,
  • Roberto Montanari,
  • Maura Mengoni,
  • Luca Giraldi and
  • Johan Plomp
  • + 5 authors

12 December 2020

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs) are used for increasing safety in the automotive domain, yet current ADASs notably operate without taking into account drivers’ states, e.g., whether she/he is emotionally apt to drive. In this paper,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,695 Views
9 Pages

Investigating the Routine Dispatch Tasks Performed by Police Officers

  • Robin Orr,
  • Benjamin Hinton,
  • Andrew Wilson,
  • Rodney Pope and
  • Jay Dawes

10 December 2020

Police officers perform a variety of physical tasks that can range from deskwork to chasing down fleeing suspects on foot. If not sufficiently prepared these tasks can lead to an increased risk of injury or task failure. The aim of this study was to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,843 Views
15 Pages

Reporting as a Key Element of an Effective Near-Miss Management System in Shipping

  • Nermin Hasanspahić,
  • Vlado Frančić,
  • Srđan Vujičić and
  • Lovro Maglić

1 December 2020

Shipping is a high-risk industry and prone to accidents. A near-miss management system is an important aspect of the safety performance in shipping because the causes are the same for near-misses and accidents. Reporting, analyzing, and learning from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,299 Views
12 Pages

14 November 2020

There is little data delineating relationships between health and worker musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS), particularly among stone, sand, and gravel mine (SSGM) workers. There is also little data detailing the relationships between physical activity a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,371 Views
17 Pages

13 November 2020

Researchers in the resilience engineering space have proposed the notion that organisations operating in complex socio-technical systems cannot ‘be’ resilient but can have the ‘potential for resilient performance’. This theore...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,201 Views
23 Pages

9 November 2020

In recent years, the focus in safety management has shifted from failure-based analysis towards a more systemic perspective, redefining a successful or failed performance as a complex and emergent event rather than as a conclusion of singular errors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,747 Views
14 Pages

26 October 2020

Trends and underlying patterns should be identified in the timely distribution of road traffic offenses to increase traffic safety. In this study, a time series analysis was used to study the incidence rate of road traffic violations on Iranian rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,680 Views
10 Pages

20 October 2020

(1) Background: The purpose of this study is to identify emergency medical technicians’ perceptions of the most pressing issues that they experience when responding to motor vehicle collisions and record their opinions about what information is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,798 Views
13 Pages

A Cloud-Based Tool for Integrating Occupational Risk Assessment Within Management Systems for SMEs

  • Diego De Merich,
  • Maria Grazia Gnoni,
  • Brunella Malorgio,
  • Guido J. L. Micheli,
  • Giusi Piga,
  • Guido Sala and
  • Fabiana Tornese

19 October 2020

About 67% of workers employed in the industrial and service sectors in the European Union are currently contracted by Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which represent the economic heart of the European economy. However, this strength is co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,952 Views
15 Pages

15 October 2020

Driver education providers may utilise technologies such as driving simulators to augment their existing courses. Understanding the perceptions that young drivers and parents have of simulators may help to make simulator-based driver education more a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
20,430 Views
18 Pages

Road Safety Analysis of High-Risk Roads: Case Study in Baja California, México

  • Marco Montoya-Alcaraz,
  • Alejandro Mungaray-Moctezuma,
  • Julio Calderón-Ramírez,
  • Leonel García and
  • Cynthia Martinez-Lazcano

9 October 2020

The objective of this research is to develop a useful procedure to assess and identify risks that promote accidents by road users, with the vision of improving safety through the implementation and technical employment of operative strategies. The re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,001 Views
17 Pages

Teenage Drivers’ Views of a Classroom and Closed-Road Post-License Advanced Driving Program, Guard Your Life

  • Lauren Mims,
  • Johnell O. Brooks,
  • Casey Jenkins,
  • Breno Schwambach and
  • Daniel Gubitosa

28 September 2020

In the US, teenage drivers have an increased risk of being involved in crashes. To address this, post-license advanced driving programs have emerged. This study gains teenagers’ perspective of a post-license defensive driving program focused on...

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