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Incident Intervention-- A Powerful Resource in Loss Control for Health and Safety Managers
meetings. Aside from ensuring a safe and healthful workplace, managers must keep a close eye on the costs of their programs. They must identify and...
Company: WorkCare
Date: January 2001 |
WorkCare |
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What is an accident and why should it be investigated?
The term "accident" can be defined as an unplanned event that interrupts the completion of an activity, and that may (or may not) include injury...
Company: osh.net
Date: June 2001 |
osh.net |
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Core Principles Of Safety Engineering And The Cardinal Rules Of Hazard Control
Safety engineering, like any applied science, is based upon fundamental principles and rules of practice. Safety engineering involves the identification, evaluation, and control of hazards...
Company: Nelson and Associates
Date: January 2003 |
Nelson and Associates |
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Guidelines on Project Safety and Health
The construction industry, by its inherent nature, is susceptible to potentially dangerous conditions that affect safety of all personnel working on construction projects. As a...
Company: Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America
Date: October 2005 |
Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America |
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Improving Safety in Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Operations
The purpose of this white paper is to delineate positions held by the Helicopter Association International relative to the issue of safety and its enhancement...
Company: Helicopter Association International
Date: August 2005 |
Helicopter Association International |
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Driving Down the Cost of Vehicle Crashes: The Impact of the Drivecam Driving Feedback System on Insurance Costs for Commercial Fleets
Motor vehicle collisions cost the U.S. more than $230 billion each year. For fleets, the insured costs include worker's compensation, automobile physical damage, automobile liability,...
Company: DriveCam
Date: February 2004 |
DriveCam |
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Personal Air Vehicles: A Rural/ Regional and Intra-Urban On-Demand Transportation System
NASA's Aeronautics Blueprint outlines diverse future aviation mobility solutions for travel, expanding upon the single market focus that exists today of a centralized airline hub...
Company: NASA
Date: September 2005 |
NASA |
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The Creation of an Aviation Safety Reporting Culture in Danish Air Traffic Control
In 2001, a new law was passed by the Danish Parliament, mandating the establishment of a compulsory, strictly non-punitive, and strictly confidential system for the...
Company: NASA
Date: July 2003 |
NASA |
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Risk-Based Classification of Incidents
As the penetration of software into safety-critical systems progresses, accidents and incidents involving software will inevitably become more frequent. Identifying lessons from these occurrences and...
Company: University of Virginia
Date: July 2003 |
University of Virginia |
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Using Software Development Standards to Analyse Accidents Involving Electrical, Electronic or Programmable, Electronic Systems: The Blade Mill PLC Case Study
This paper presents the results of a project commissioned by the Electrical and Control Systems Unit of the UK Health and Safety Executive. The results...
Company: University of Glasgow
Date: July 2003 |
University of Glasgow |
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Enhancing Flight-Crew Monitoring Skills Can Increase Flight Safety
To ensure the highest levels of safety each flight crewmember must carefully monitor the aircraft's flight path and systems, as well as actively cross-check the...
Company: NASA
Date: November 2002 |
NASA |
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Analysis of Adverse Events in Identifying GPS Human Factors Issues
The purpose of this study was to analyze GPS related adverse events such as accidents and incidents (A/I), Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) reports and...
Company: Federal Aviation Administration
Date: May 2001 |
Federal Aviation Administration |
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Understanding Normal and Atypical Operations Through Analysis of Flight Data
Flight data analysis offers much promise toward the proactive management of safety risk by operators, but this will require more sophisticated and more automated analysis...
Company: NASA
Date: February 2004 |
NASA |
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Flight Testing an Integrated Synthetic Vision System
NASA's Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) project is developing technologies with practical applications to eliminate low visibility conditions as a causal factor to civil aircraft accidents...
Company: NASA
Date: April 2005 |
NASA |
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Should Reporting Programmes Talk to Each Other?
The go-around study combined the best of both worlds. The historic and statistical data from the ASR programme showed that the issue of go-around frequency...
Company: NASA
Date: July 2003 |
NASA |
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Flight Test Comparison Between Enhanced Vision (FLIR) and Synthetic Vision Systems
Limited visibility and reduced situational awareness have been cited as predominant causal factors for both Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) and runway incursion accidents. NASA's...
Company: NASA
Date: April 2005 |
NASA |
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Rethinking Crew Error: Overview of a Panel Session
This paper discusses that to improve aviation safety one must stop thinking of pilot errors as the prime cause of accidents, but rather think of...
Company: NASA
Date: July 2001 |
NASA |
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Toward a Concept of Operations for Aviation Weather Information: Implementation in the Evolving National Airspace System
The capacity of the National Airspace System is being stressed due to the limits of current technologies. Because of this, the FAA and NASA are...
Company: NASA
Date: December 2002 |
NASA |
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An Overview of the NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP): System-Wide Accident Prevention (SWAP): Human Performance Modeling (HPM) Element
An overview is provided of the Human Performance Modeling (HPM) element within the NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP). Two separate model development tracks for performance...
Company: NASA
Date: June 2004 |
NASA |
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Progress in the Development of Weather Information Systems for the Cockpit
Weather is a causal factor in thirty percent of all aviation accidents. Many of these accidents are due to a lack of weather situation awareness...
Company: NASA
Date: July 2002 |
NASA |
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Concept of Operations for the NASA Weather Accident Prevention (WxAP) Project
This paper is created and maintained by the Systems Engineering team and approved by the Weather Accident Prevention (WxAP) Project Management Team. The Weather Accident...
Company: NASA
Date: April 2003 |
NASA |
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Beyond Error Reporting Toward Risk Assessment
Air transportation is essential to continued economic development of the world. It is the most rapidly growing mode of transportation and it is one of...
Company: NASA
Date: April 2005 |
NASA |
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Evaluation of Navigator's Performance Shaping Factors in Marine Incidents
This paper discusses progress in the development of an incident investigation system to improve maritime safety management. The authors designed a questionnaire about marine incidents...
Company: Toyama National College of Maritime Technology
Date: July 2003 |
Toyama National College of Maritime Technology |
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Software System Safety & the NASA Aeronautics Blueprint
NASA's Aeronautics Blueprint lays out a research agenda for the Agency's aeronautics program. The word software appears only four times in this Blueprint, but the...
Company: NASA
Date: August 2003 |
NASA |
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Initial Development of a Metric to Describe the Level of Safety Associated With Piloting an Aircraft With Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) Displays
Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) displays provide pilots with a continuous view of terrain combined with integrated guidance symbology in an effort to increase situation awareness...
Company: NASA
Date: April 2005 |
NASA |
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Design and Operational Aspects of Flight-Deck Procedures
In complex human-machine systems, training, standardization, quality assurance, and actual operations depend on an elaborate set of procedures. This paper examines the issue of procedurization...
Company: San Jose State University
Date: August 2005 |
San Jose State University |
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Detecting and Simulating Pilot Errors for Safety Enhancement
This paper presents research on computational models of pilot activities for detecting and simulating pilot errors, and discusses how these techniques may be used to...
Company: Society of Automotive Engineers International
Date: June 2003 |
Society of Automotive Engineers International |
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Introduction to the Development of Methodologies for Independent Verification and Validation of Neural Networks
The use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) within the NASA applications is expected to increase over the next few decades. Currently, there are over 20...
Company: Institute for Scientific Research
Date: February 2003 |
Institute for Scientific Research |
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Probabilistic Causal Analysis for System Safety Risk Assessments in Commercial Air Transport
Aviation is one of the critical modes of one's national transportation system. As such, it is essential that new technologies be continually developed to ensure...
Company: Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Date: August 2003 |
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey |
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Improving Evaluation and System Design Through the Use of Off-Nominal Testing: A Methodology for Scenario Development
An important challenge facing system developers is to ensure that a fielded system "Scales-up" from laboratory evaluations. Discovering previously unknown interactions, errors, or other negative...
Company: Wright State University
Date: April 2003 |
Wright State University |
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The Crew Activity Tracking System: Leveraging Flight Data for Aiding, Trainging and Analysis
Aviation safety is currently receiving unprecedented attention. Spurred by projected growth in air traffic, practitioners and researchers alike are seeking ways to ensure that aviation...
Company: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Date: September 2001 |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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Procedures in Complex Systems: The Airline Cockpit
In complex human-machine systems, successful operations depend on an elaborate set of procedures which are specified by the operational management of the organization. These procedures...
Company: San Jose State University
Date: August 2005 |
San Jose State University |
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The Impact of Workplace Culture on Frequency of Safety Incidents
In addition to the tragic human costs they bring, workplace accidents and injuries are fiscally costly to organizations and the world economy. According to the...
Company: International Survey Research
Date: November 2004 |
International Survey Research |
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Synthetic Vision Enhances Situation Awareness and RNP Capabilities for Terrain-Challenged Approaches
The Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) Project of Aviation Safety Program is striving to eliminate poor visibility as a causal factor in aircraft accidents as well...
Company: NASA
Date: November 2003 |
NASA |
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Agents for Analysis and Design of Complex Systems
This paper describes how intelligent agents can simulate human operators to aid in the analysis and design of complex systems. The paper presents two examples...
Company: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Date: October 2001 |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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Secure Large-Scale Airport Simulations Using Distributed Computational Resources
To fully conduct research that will support the far-term concepts, technologies and methods required to improve the safety of Air Transportation a simulation environment of...
Company: Society of Automotive Engineers International
Date: July 2001 |
Society of Automotive Engineers International |
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Can Effective Synthetic Vision System Displays Be Implemented on Limited Size Display Spaces?
The Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) element of the NASA Aviation Safety Program is striving to eliminate poor visibility as a causal factor in aircraft accidents,...
Company: NASA
Date: March 2001 |
NASA |
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Cockpit Checklists: Concepts, Design, and Use
Although the aircraft checklist has long been regarded as a foundation of pilot standardization and cockpit safety, it has escaped the scrutiny of the human...
Company: San Jose State University
Date: August 2005 |
San Jose State University |
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Preliminary Effect of Synthetic Vision Systems: Displays to Reduce Low-Visibility Loss of Control and Controlled Flight Into Terrain Accidents
An experimental investigation was conducted to study the effectiveness of Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) flight displays as a means of eliminating Low Visibility Loss Of...
Company: NASA
Date: February 2002 |
NASA |
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Analysis of Flight Operational Quality Assurance Data: Using Model-Based Activity Tracking
Future technologies will enable carriers to collect additional flight data for Flight Operational Quality Assurance. This paper describes how analysis of these data using model-based...
Company: Society of Automotive Engineers International
Date: February 2002 |
Society of Automotive Engineers International |
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