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Funahashi, Yoshifuru. "Comparative analysis of aviation safety information feedback systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59672.
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Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2010.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-283).<br>In the aviation system, there are several feedback systems to prevent an accident. First of all, the accident and serious incident reporting and investigation system is established by the Chicago Convention. In general, once an accident or a serious incident occurs, it must be reported to the Investigation Authority in the state where the event occurred. The Investigation Authority which receives the report conducts the investigation of the event. Then, based on the probable causes identified, the Investigation Authority issues the recommendations to the Civil Aviation Authority. Next, the Civil Aviation Authority which receives the recommendations takes corrective actions, including rule-making, to prevent the recurrence of the event. This feedback system ensures that an accident with the same causes will not occur again. The feedback system described above can be considered a reactive approach. There are also proactive feedback systems to prevent an accident. In order to identify hazards that could potentially lead to an accident, the contracting states of the Convention have mandatory reporting systems for incidents. In addition, some contracting states even have voluntary reporting systems for safety-related occurrences not limited to formally defined incidents. If these feedback systems are utilized to the full extent. they could help in reducing the accident rate. This thesis, aiming at offering insights for responsible authorities in contracting states of the Chicago Convention to improve their aviation safety information feedback systems, conducted a comparative analysis of the feedback systems in four contracting states of the Chicago Convention: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan. This thesis examined both mandatory reporting systems and voluntary reporting systems in each state. Furthermore, this thesis examined the rule-making process in each Civil Aviation Authority as part of the feedback systems. This thesis identified several differences in the feedback systems in the four states. In particular, this thesis identified a relatively larger number of differences in voluntary reporting systems than in mandatory reporting systems. On the other hand, as regards the rulemaking process, this thesis showed that there are no substantial differences.<br>by Yoshifuru Funahashi.<br>S.M.in Technology and Policy
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Oliveira, Miguel Armando Riem de. "Automatic information and safety systems for driving assistance." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/10658.
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Doutoramento em Engenharia Mecânica<br>O objeto principal desta tese é o estudo de algoritmos de processamento
e representação automáticos de dados, em particular de informação
obtida por sensores montados a bordo de veículos (2D e
3D), com aplicação em contexto de sistemas de apoio à condução.
O trabalho foca alguns dos problemas que, quer os sistemas de condução
automática (AD), quer os sistemas avançados de apoio à condução
(ADAS), enfrentam hoje em dia. O documento é composto por
duas partes. A primeira descreve o projeto, construção e desenvolvimento
de três protótipos robóticos, incluindo pormenores associados
aos sensores montados a bordo dos robôs, algoritmos e arquitecturas
de software. Estes robôs foram utilizados como plataformas de ensaios
para testar e validar as técnicas propostas. Para além disso, participaram
em várias competições de condução autónoma tendo obtido
muito bons resultados. A segunda parte deste documento apresenta
vários algoritmos empregues na geração de representações intermédias
de dados sensoriais. Estes podem ser utilizados para melhorar
técnicas já existentes de reconhecimento de padrões, deteção ou navegação,
e por este meio contribuir para futuras aplicações no âmbito dos
AD ou ADAS. Dado que os veículos autónomos contêm uma grande
quantidade de sensores de diferentes naturezas, representações intermédias
são particularmente adequadas, pois podem lidar com problemas
relacionados com as diversas naturezas dos dados (2D, 3D, fotométrica,
etc.), com o carácter assíncrono dos dados (multiplos sensores
a enviar dados a diferentes frequências), ou com o alinhamento
dos dados (problemas de calibração, diferentes sensores a disponibilizar
diferentes medições para um mesmo objeto). Neste âmbito,
são propostas novas técnicas para a computação de uma representação
multi-câmara multi-modal de transformação de perspectiva inversa,
para a execução de correcção de côr entre imagens de forma a
obter mosaicos de qualidade, ou para a geração de uma representação
de cena baseada em primitivas poligonais, capaz de lidar com grandes
quantidades de dados 3D e 2D, tendo inclusivamente a capacidade
de refinar a representação à medida que novos dados sensoriais são
recebidos.<br>The main object of this thesis is the study of algorithms for automatic information
processing and representation, in particular information provided
by onboard sensors (2D and 3D), to be used in the context of
driving assistance. The work focuses on some of the problems facing
todays Autonomous Driving (AD) systems and Advanced Drivers Assistance
Systems (ADAS). The document is composed of two parts.
The first part describes the design, construction and development of
three robotic prototypes, including remarks about onboard sensors, algorithms
and software architectures. These robots were used as test
beds for testing and validating the developed techniques; additionally,
they have participated in several autonomous driving competitions with
very good results. The second part of this document presents several
algorithms for generating intermediate representations of the raw
sensor data. They can be used to enhance existing pattern recognition,
detection or navigation techniques, and may thus benefit future
AD or ADAS applications. Since vehicles often contain a large amount
of sensors of different natures, intermediate representations are particularly
advantageous; they can be used for tackling problems related
with the diverse nature of the data (2D, 3D, photometric, etc.), with the
asynchrony of the data (multiple sensors streaming data at different
frequencies), or with the alignment of the data (calibration issues, different
sensors providing different measurements of the same object).
Within this scope, novel techniques are proposed for computing a multicamera
multi-modal inverse perspective mapping representation, executing
color correction between images for obtaining quality mosaics, or
to produce a scene representation based on polygonal primitives that
can cope with very large amounts of 3D and 2D data, including the
ability of refining the representation as new information is continuously
received.
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Hutin, Yvan. "Evidence and information for national injection safety policies /." Basel : Universität Basel, 2004. http://edoc.unibas.ch/diss/DissB_6912.
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Attah, Aloysius. "The Relationship Between Information Quality and Construction Safety." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6713.
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Fatal occupational injury is a construction and management problem in the United States. Fatality rates among specialty trade contractors made up the largest percent of fatalities in construction at 62% per year. The purpose of this nonexperimental study was to examine the relationship between the quality of information in construction safety plans and construction safety among specialty trade contractors. The theoretical foundations for the study were Petersen's accident/incident theory and work systems theory. The key research question was to examine the relationship between information quality and construction safety among specialty trade contractors. A survey with closed-ended questions was used to collect primary data from a self-selection sample of 134 specialty trade contractors in the United States. Spearman rank correlation coefficient (rs) was used to measure the strength of the relationship between information quality and construction safety. Results indicated that the quality of information in construction safety plans (measured by the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of information) did not have any statistically significant relationships with construction safety among U.S. specialty trade contractors. Further research is needed to understand if the variables used in this study are relevant predictors for construction safety. This study connects with positive social change by bringing into focus quality information systems research required to improve safety among U.S. specialty trade contractors and provide safety professionals a direction for continuous safety improvement in the U.S. construction industry, thus benefitting construction stake holders.
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McAlinden, Leo. "Information modelling to support the exchange of safety information in the process industries." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265543.
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Gaissmaier, Miriam. "Better Safe than Sorry : Boosting Workplace Safety with Interactive Textiles." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-257492.
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Despite various safety regulations and procedures, work accidents remain a significant problem in the global process industry as well as the Swedish steel industry. In order to address personal safety and safety culture, wearable alert systems based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology were prototyped and tested with steel workers in iterative workshops following the Constructive Design Research approach. Results show that interactive textile patches worn on the protection gear are a simple way of transmitting personal alerts with light. Another crucial design factor is to enable the communication between the worker, peers and the control room. The visual design can positively impact the acceptance of the patch, but only adds minimal value to the safety culture. The present study contributes to the field research by approaching work place safety and culture with new, innovative IoT and e-textile technologies.<br>Trots olika säkerhetsbestämmelser och förfaranden förmlir arbetsolyckor ett betydande problem i den globala processindustrin såväl som den svenska stålindustrin. För att ta itu med personlig säkerhet och säkerhetskultur, ett bärbart varningssystem baserade på Internet of Things (IoT)-teknologi prototyperades och testades med stålarbetare i iterativa workshops enligt Constructive Design Research-metoden. Resultat visar att interaktiva textillappar som bärs på skyddsutrustningen är ett enkelt sätt att överföra personliga varningar med ljus. En annan viktig designfaktor är att möjliggöra kommunikation mellan arbetaren, kollegor och kontrollrummet. Den visuella designen kan påverka acceptansen av patchen positivt, men lägger bara till minimalt värde för säkerhetskulturen. Den föreliggande studien bidrar till fältforskningen genom att närma sig arbetsplatsens säkerhet och kultur med nya, innovativa teknologier för IoToch e-textilier.
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Aguilar, Gustavo Enrique. "Construction real time information and communication system for safety." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43666.
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Despite stronger regulations for health and safety implemented throughout the years, the construction industry (CI) remains one of the most hazardous industries. Just in British Columbia, an average of 16,000 workers suffer from work related injuries and diseases on a yearly basis. An average of 33 workers die yearly for the same reason. Current health and safety (H&S) information made available by regulating bodies may not provide an accurate picture of the hazards and key focus areas in the CI. As a consequence, construction stakeholders do not necessarily rely on published data for decision making, training, and H&S management of their construction projects. This thesis describes a research project which aimed to develop and test a web-based communication and information system called the construction real-time information and communication system for safety (C-RTICS²). Information sent from multiple construction projects is gathered in a centralized database where real time safety indicators can be obtained for projects and for project types (e.g., Commercial, Industrial, Residential, and Transportation). A preliminary version of the proposed system was developed and tested in a one on one session with seven industry professionals with experiences in the construction industry ranging from 1 year to more than 25 years. 43% of participants considered that implementing C-RTICS² would “definitely” improve safety in their projects, while 57% considered it as “probably”. The on-the-spot training capabilities provided by the proposed system would be a definite advantage of the C-RTICS² system. Informed safety oriented decision making can be accomplished with the use of the proposed system. Furthermore, industry-wide H&S information sharing can lead to a positive change to the current safety status of the CI. C-RTICS² can be the starting point for a safer CI.
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Md-Ulang, Norhidayah. "Communication of construction health and safety information in design." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9817.
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Occupational health and safety (H&S) is important to the design, construction, maintenance, refurbishment and demolition of buildings and facilities in all branches of industry, business and commerce. H&S issues have been a major consideration in construction. Far too many people get hurt, injured or die even though the situation has improved over recent years. Accident and fatality rates continue to be significantly higher than other industry sectors. Although all parties involved in the construction industry may address their respective responsibilities, the lack of integration between each organization often results in communication problems which jeopardize H&S. Of particular note is the communication during the design phase. All information pertaining to the project must be readily accessible for all parties, to ensure smooth and hitch-free project execution. This research reviews the challenges in the communication of health and safety information in the design phase of construction projects. It characterizes the various aspects of collaborative communications at this stage and highlights the problem area. The research was conducted in the UK based on a combination of qualitative research methods including literature review, interviews and analysis of focus group interviews data. Observations on documentation and interviews are used to investigate the current industry practice. The literature reviews revealed that communication industry is facing challenges with its communication system due to the nature of industry itself. The construction industry is a fragmented and complex industry with too many parties involved in a project. These parties come from various backgrounds and involved in the project in a temporary duration. The parties who become team members must be able to establish a relationship in such a short period of time and create a communication system that enables all of the parties to collaborate and interact with each other.
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Tedori, Veronica. "Design of a safety management information and tracking system." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302010-020341/.
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Åkerberg, Johan. "On Security in Safety-Critical Process Control." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-7334.
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<p>This Licentiate thesis is about security in automation networks with emphasis on fieldbus communication. In the process industry, network and system security have become even more important since the introduction of Ethernet-based fieldbus protocols. As an example, a successful attack on a power plant, supporting large cities with energy, could result in a temporal but total power loss. Such attacks could be devastating for the society. The security threats are real, and motivations for attacking industrial communication systems may be political or economical.</p><p>The visions of autonomous systems, which can be supervised, diagnosed and maintained from remote is not far from reality, but stress the need for security and safety measures. Wired fieldbus protocols are mature when it comes to safety and there are existing standards for safe communication. In a setup like an autonomous system security measures over safe communication has to be taken into account.</p><p>The state-of-the-art in automation security is to use firewalls to restrict incoming and outgoing traffic to the networks. Firewalls can be deployed between different automation networks, i.e. server, control, and fieldbus networks, and even protect a single automation cell with a dedicated firewall. If an adversary can penetrate the perimeter defenses, no other security countermeasures exist in process automation to protect the safety-critical communication from sabotage.</p><p>In this thesis we initially explore the possibilities of security attacks on the automation protocols PROFINET IO and PROFIsafe. We show that it is possible to attack safety-related communication to take control of safety-critical fieldbus nodes. We propose the concept of <em>Security Modules</em> in combination with PROFINET IO and PROFIsafe to achieve safe and secure real-time fieldbus communication.</p>
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Abugessaisa, Imad. "Analytical tools and information-sharing methods supporting road safety organizations." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, GIS - Geografiska informationssystem, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11596.
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A prerequisite for improving road safety are reliable and consistent sources of information about traffic and accidents, which will help assess the prevailing situation and give a good indication of their severity. In many countries there is under-reporting of road accidents, deaths and injuries, no collection of data at all, or low quality of information. Potential knowledge is hidden, due to the large accumulation of traffic and accident data. This limits the investigative tasks of road safety experts and thus decreases the utilization of databases. All these factors can have serious effects on the analysis of the road safety situation, as well as on the results of the analyses. This dissertation presents a three-tiered conceptual model to support the sharing of road safety–related information and a set of applications and analysis tools. The overall aim of the research is to build and maintain an information-sharing platform, and to construct mechanisms that can support road safety professionals and researchers in their efforts to prevent road accidents. GLOBESAFE is a platform for information sharing among road safety organizations in different countries developed during this research. Several approaches were used, First, requirement elicitation methods were used to identify the exact requirements of the platform. This helped in developing a conceptual model, a common vocabulary, a set of applications, and various access modes to the system. The implementation of the requirements was based on iterative prototyping. Usability methods were introduced to evaluate the users’ interaction satisfaction with the system and the various tools. Second, a system-thinking approach and a technology acceptance model were used in the study of the Swedish traffic data acquisition system. Finally, visual data mining methods were introduced as a novel approach to discovering hidden knowledge and relationships in road traffic and accident databases. The results from these studies have been reported in several scientific articles.
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Abugessaisa, Imad-Eldin Ali. "Analytical tools and information-sharing methods supporting road safety organizations /." Linköping : Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11596.
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Nour, Hossam A. "An information approach for enhancing the health and safety file." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550316.
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Radtke, Stephen W. "An analysis of the XYZ/ABC Company's risk control management information system." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999radtkes.pdf.
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Zheng, Yunan. "The impact of localized road accident information on road safety awareness." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/721/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.<br>Ph.D. thesis submitted the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Computing Science. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Yuksekol, Irem. "Evaluation Of Pedestrian Safety Around Bus Stops Using Geographic Information Systems." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614977/index.pdf.
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Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users in terms of traffic safety. Public transit users mostly have a pedestrian trip before and/or after the transit one. Thus, pedestrian activity is produced at transit stops naturally. The main focus of this study is pedestrian safety problems around transit stops, more specifically bus stops. The proposed methodology first includes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the pedestrian safety along the study corridors and around bus stops on them<br>this enables determination of accident-prone corridor segments and bus stops, respectively. Later, two analyses are studied to understand their correlation. Finally, linear regression analyses are performed to find the significant factors affecting pedestrian safety. These analyses use parameters created in the GIS analyses in the first part, as well as others (i.e. built environment, traffic network, etc.) that have potential impact on pedestrian movement or safety. In corridor safety models, the number of pedestrian accidents or accident density (or some transformation of them) is used as the dependent variable<br>while it is selected as the total number of accidents within a selected buffer zone in the bus stop safety models. The case study corridors are selected based on the high density of pedestrian accidents in Ankara, including the Central Business District (CBD) and four main arterials serve from CBD to different regions. The bus stops on corridors with high motorized and pedestrian flows are found to be more critical than others.
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Bohdan, V., and N. Karaeva. "Information support for environmental assessment of the enterprise effectiveness." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40710.
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Contemporaneous (modern) approach to raise ecological safety of
economic activity has to be based on the operative recourses management
methods with using the information technologies (IT). Complex number
and using the information allow creating necessary analysis data base,
forecasting and planning economical and ecological activity of enterprise,
raise the basing of the creating strategies, gives the ability for modern
correction of plans and budget of the enterprise.
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France, Paul. "Preventing terrorism using information sharing networks." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Sep%5FFrance.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Nadav Morag and Robert Simeral. "September 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78). Also available in print.
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Jonsson, Patrik. "Intelligent networked sensors for increased traffic safety." Licentiate thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi och medier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-14982.
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Our society needs to continuously perform transports of people and goods toensure that business is kept going. Every disturbance in the transportation ofpeople or goods affects the commerce and may result in economical losses forcompanies and society. Severe traffic accidents cause personal tragedies forpeople involved as well as huge costs for the society. Therefore the roadauthorities continuously try to improve the traffic safety. Traffic safety may beimproved by reduced speeds, crash safe cars, tires with better road grip andimproved road maintenance. The environmental effects from roadmaintenance when spreading de-icing chemicals need to be considered, i.e.how much chemicals should be used to maximize traffic safety and minimizethe environmental effects. Knowledge about the current and upcoming roadcondition can improve the road maintenance and hence improve traffic safety.This thesis deals with sensors and models that give information about the roadcondition.The performance and reliability of existing surface mounted sensors wereexamined by laboratory experiments. Further research involved field studies tocollect data used to develop surface status models based on road weather dataand camera images. Field studies have also been performed to find best usageof non intrusive IR technology.The research presented here showed that no single sensor give enoughinformation by itself to safely describe the road condition. However, the resultsindicated that among the traditional road surface mounted sensors only theactive freezing point sensor gave reliable freezing point results. Furtherresearch aimed to find a model that could classify the road condition indifferent road classes from existing road weather sensor data and road images.The result was a model that accurately could distinguish between the roadconditions dry, wet, snowy and icy. These road conditions are clearly dissimilarand are therefore used as the definition of the road classes used in this thesis.Finally, results from research regarding remote sensing IR technology showedthat it significantly improves knowledge of the road temperature and statuscompared to data from surface mounted sensors.<br>Vårt samhälle bygger på att det finns effektiva transporter av människor ochvaror för att säkerställa att samhällets funktioner fungerar och att företagenkan genomföra sina affärer. Störningar i transporterna av människor och varorpåverkar handeln och kan leda till ekonomiska förluster för både företag ochvårt samhälle. Allvarliga trafikolyckor orsakar personliga tragedier för deinblandade samt stora kostnader för samhället. Det är med denna bakgrundsom vägmyndigheterna kontinuerligt arbetar med att förbättratrafiksäkerheten. Trafiksäkerheten kan förbättras genom att minskahastigheterna, se till att bilarna blir krocksäkra, krav på däck med bättreväggrepp och ett bättre vägunderhåll. Miljöeffekterna från vinterväghållningdär avisningsmedel sprids på vägarna måste beaktas, d.v.s. hur mycketkemikalier bör användas för att maximera trafiksäkerheten och minimeramiljöpåverkan. Denna avhandling handlar om sensorer och modeller som gerinformation om väglaget. En kunskap om aktuellt och kommande väglag kanförbättra väghållningen och därmed öka trafiksäkerheten.I avhandlingen har prestanda och tillförlitlighet hos befintliga vägmonteradesensorer granskats i laboratorieexperiment. Data från fältstudier har använtsför att utveckla modeller som kan ge information om vägytans status baseratpå meteorologiska mätdata och kamerabilder. Det har också genomförtsfältstudier för att utforska den fördelaktigaste användningen av beröringsfriinfraröd sensorteknik.Den forskning som presenteras här visar att ingen enskild givare ger tillräckliginformation för att säkert beskriva väglaget. Från de traditionella ytmonteradesensorerna drogs slutsatsen att den aktiva fryspunktsgivaren gav de mesttillförlitliga fryspunktsresultaten. Det vidare arbetet handlade om att hitta enmodell som skulle kunna klassificera vägförhållanden i olika vägklassergenom att utnyttja information från befintliga sensorer och kamerabilder.Detta arbete resulterade i en modell som tillförlitligt kan särskilja väglagentorr, våt, snöig och isig. Dessa väglag är väsentligt olika och har därför valtssom väglagsklasser i denna avhandling. Under en säsong genomfördes ävenfältförsök med beröringsfri infraröd mätteknik där det visade sig att denberöringsfria teknologin förbättrar kunskapen om vägbanans temperatur och vägbanans status.
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Creely, Karen Sarah. "Communication of hazard and risk information using computer multimedia safety data sheets." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440055.
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Two mmSDSs were developed, the first for two, similar, formaldehyde-based embalming fluids, the second for a solvent-based paint. Workplace and laboratory intervention studies were undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the mmSDSs in increasing knowledge of the products hazards and risks; inducing attitudinal and risk perception changes; appropriate protective behaviour and decreasing inhalation exposure. Subjects received either the mmSDS or the conventional SDS package, with subjects being assessed both pre- and several times post-intervention. Fourteen embalmers participated in the workplace evaluation. Knowledge increased, with more mmSDS users showing increases at the first post-intervention study. Cumulative exposure to formaldehyde decreased slightly post-intervention, although there were no significant differences between packages. There was little change in the use of protective measures due to embalmers already using measures available. Twenty-four members of the general public participated in a laboratory-based painting study. None had previously used the paint and knowledge increased for both mmSDS and SDS users. The mmSDS was more effective at promoting positive changes in the wearing of masks, hand washing and ventilation. Cumulative exposures to solvents decreased, although there were no statistically significant differences between packages. The impact of the mmSDSs and SDSs interventions on participants’ behaviour and exposure to chemicals was more pronounced in the laboratory study however the majority of the workplace participants were already using all the protective measures available. Overall, the findings suggest that the mmSDS concept may be an effective method of providing chemical hazard and risk information in the workplace.
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Зачко, Олег Богданович, Дмитро Сергійович Кобилкін, and Назарій Євгенович Бурак. "Impact of information technologies at ensuring life safety of population and territories." Thesis, Zachko О. B. Impact of information technologies at ensuring life safety of population and territories / О. B. Zachko, D. S. Kobylkin, N. Ye. Burak // Management of the development of technologies: Fourth international scientific-practical conference. – Kyiv: KNUCA, 2017. – P. 26, 2017. http://sci.ldubgd.edu.ua:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/8935.
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Зачко, Олег Богданович, Дмитро Сергійович Кобилкін, and Назарій Євгенович Бурак. "Impact of information technologies at ensuring life safety of population and territories." Thesis, Zachko О. B. Impact of information technologies at ensuring life safety of population and territories / О. B. Zachko, D. S. Kobylkin, N. Ye. Burak // Management of the development of technologies: Fourth international scientific-practical conference. – Kyiv: KNUCA, 2017. – P. 26, 2017. http://sci.ldubgd.edu.ua:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7742.
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Зачко, Олег Богданович, Дмитро Сергійович Кобилкін, and Назарій Євгенович Бурак. "lmpact of information technologies at ensuring lite safety of population and territories." Thesis, KYIV NATIONAL UNIVERSIТY OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHIТECTURE, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3702.
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Зачко, Олег Богданович, Дмитро Сергійович Кобилкін, and Назарій Євгенович Бурак. "Impact of information technologies at ensuring life safety of population and territories." Thesis, Zachko О. B. Impact of information technologies at ensuring life safety of population and territories / О. B. Zachko, D. S. Kobylkin, N. Ye. Burak // Management of the development of technologies: Fourth international scientific-practical conference. – Kyiv: KNUCA, 2017. – P. 26, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3938.
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Greene, K. H. "The sharing of safety information between hospitals in the state of Victoria." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 1989. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/165032.
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"This study uses two examples of occupational health and safety problems encountered in nine major hospitals to illustrate that hospitals fail to identify, evaluate and share information adequately. The two safety examples used are 1. Needle-stick incidents 2. The potential for injuries associated with floor cleaning methods."<br>Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
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Chambers, Cortney M. "Sharing of Threat-Related Information Among Public Safety Agencies in Honolulu, Hawaii." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7615.
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There is a lack of knowledge regarding how public safety organizations communicate threat-related information at the local level. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore the benefits and challenges of sharing threat-related information between public safety agencies (law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical services, and public health) in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conceptual framework for the study was general systems theory. The sample for this study was a subset of 13 individuals from the larger population of approximately 50 subject matter experts who worked within four public safety agencies and had extensive experience analyzing and sharing threat-related information. Purposeful sampling was utilized for the study. Data were collected through in-depth interviews. The findings of this study clearly identified several important themes related to sharing threat-related information between local public safety organizations: information flow, collaboration, participation with the state fusion center, and the complexity of sharing confidential information. I found that Honolulu public safety agencies are currently communicating through information flow within and between organizations; however, this flow of information is intermittent. I also found that threat-related information often contains highly protected, or law enforcement sensitive information, and is difficult to share between agencies. Inadequate threat-related information sharing and poor collaboration among local public safety agencies may put the public at increased risk from violent attacks. The results of this study contribute to positive social change by identifying the benefits and challenges of sharing threat-related information between local public safety agencies.
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Suresh, Raju Vishnu. "Verifying arbitrary safety-related rules using Web Ontology Language." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-251652.
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This project work has been undertaken in order to explore the possibility of verifying arbitrary safety-related rules in the context of heavy vehicles subject to ISO26262 functional safety standard of vehicle correctness using semantic web reasoning techniques that are in Linked Data format. The aim is to further use this as a method to claim functional safety for different configuration of vehicles, in a highly automated way. The ability of current system of tools to perform the verification involves manual work and is difficult to perform because of the size and complexity of the data. The entire work was studied and implemented within Scania, where in the integrated data from system safety department, in the Linked Data format was used for the implementation of the tool. The project work was proceeded in two stages. The initial stage of the project was surveying the existing reasoners and their applications to different problems in verification of rules, on the basis of different comparison criteria’s and benchmark results. The second stage of project involved determining a suitable way to represent the rules, in order to verify them against the available data.<br>Detta examensarbete har genomförts för att undersöka möjligheten att verifiera godtyckliga säkerhetsrelaterade regler i samband med tunga fordon som omfattas av ISO 26262 funktionell standard för fordonsäkerhet, med hjälp av semantiska webresoneringsmetoder i länkat dataformat. Syftet är att använda detta vidare som en högt automatiserad metod för funktionell säkerhet för olika fordonskonfigurationer. Det nuvarande systemet med verktyg för att utföra verifieringen innebär manuellt arbete och är svårt att använda på grund av datas storlek och komplexitet. Examensarbetet utfördes inom Scania, där data tillhandahölls av systemsäkerhetsavdelningen. För implementering av verktyget användes länkade data. Arbetets första steg var att kartlägga de befintliga resonerarna och deras tillämpningar på olika problem vid kontrollen av regler baserade på olika jämförelsekriterier och benchmarkresultat. Den andra etappen av projektet var att bestämma ett lämpligt sätt att representera reglerna för att verifiera dem mot tillgängliga data.
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Taylor, Charles Theodore. "Better safe than sorry? An examination of safety behaviour reduction interventions in social anxiety disorder." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/199.
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Contemporary cognitive theories argue that socially anxious individuals adopt self-protective behavioural strategies under conditions of perceived social threat in order to prevent or diminish the likelihood of negative social outcomes. When performed in an anxiety-provoking but otherwise innocuous situation, however, safety behaviours are posited to facilitate biased processing of threat-relevant information, disrupt behavioural performance, elicit negative social responses, and ultimately prevent disconfirmation of fear-relevant beliefs. This dissertation project was designed to evaluate the effects of safety behaviour reduction strategies on a number of the core processes relevant to the persistence of pathological social fear. Two studies were conducted to address the following issues: Do safety behaviour reduction strategies influence socially anxious individuals’ (1) self- and social-judgments, (2) social performance, (3) the interpersonal reactions of oneself and others, and (4) appraisals of future social events.
In study 1, in vivo safety behaviours were manipulated in a sample of 50 socially anxious students during a laboratory social interaction. Participants were randomly assigned to either a safety behaviour reduction (SB, n = 25) or exposure alone (control, n = 25) condition, and subsequently took part in two conversations with a trained experimental assistant. Results revealed that participants in the SB group displayed more accurate self-judgments of anxiety-related behaviour, improved social performance, and evoked more positive partner reactions.
Study 2 was designed to replicate and extend the findings of study 1 in a sample of 80 patients seeking treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD). Following a baseline conversation, participants were randomly assigned to the graduated exposure (GE, n = 40) or safety behaviour reduction condition (SB, n = 40). Consistent with the findings of study 1, the SB group displayed more accurate self-judgments about visible displays of anxiety, more effective social behaviour, and were better liked by their interaction partner relative to GE participants. Moreover, relative to controls, participants in the SB group made less negative judgments about the likelihood of previously identified feared outcomes pertaining to future social events. Implications of the present findings for elucidating the role of safety behaviours in the maintenance of SAD, and its treatment outcome will be considered.
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Held, Jonathan S. Mingo Fred J. "Automating the aviation command safety assessment survey as an Enterprise Information System (EIS) /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA360024.
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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.<br>"March 1999". Thesis advisor(s): C. Thomas Wu, Anthony Ciavarelli. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126). Also available online.
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Woodward, Suzette. "From information to action : improving implementation of patient safety guidance in the NHS." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2008. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6920/.
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Patient safety is a high priority for everyone working within healthcare (Vincent 2006, Walshe and Boaden 2006). However, while over the last decade or so there has been an outpouring of information to improve the safety of patient care, unfortunately, putting the recommended changes into practice has fallen short of their envisioned potential (Mulrow 1994, Berwick 2003, Elwyn et al. 2007). The project context was the NHS in England and Wales with the scope of the project limited to the acute care hospital setting in England and Wales. The project sought to identify how the NPSA could support improvement in implementation. It sought to explore the factors that help or hinder successful implementation, through a collective effort, using my personal experience and expertise, that of NPSA colleagues, external experts and the views of staff in acute care hospitals across England and Wales together with the literature. The findings led to the design and development of an implementation toolkit, initially targeted at NPSA staff and other national bodies responsible for issuing guidance and safer practices. The project output therefore comprises a product in the form of an implementation toolkit supported by a critical commentary on the development of the product. These will provide an original contribution to my own knowledge and understanding, as well as that of my work place, the NPSA, my professional areas, nursing and patient safety, and the knowledge base of the Middlesex University. Post-doctoral activity will involve the promotion, use and evaluation of the toolkit in 2009.
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Manase, David. "An exploratory study of GIS based analysis of health and safety related information." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/39053.
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Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive show that the UK construction industry has approximately 80 fatalities per year, making the construction industry one of the most dangerous industries when compared to other industries. The reduction of construction accidents in the construction industry has led to the need for thoroughly analysed construction environment information which can be effectively utilised in formulating construction health and safety planning strategies, thus enabling the construction industry meet accident reduction targets. However, existing approaches to information analysis mainly focus on factors within construction health and safety information during analysis and do not shed light on the influencing socio-economic and spatially influenced issues within which the industry’s accident contributory factors are rooted. It is also clear that limitations of information usage in the construction industry are due to the fragmented nature in which health and safety information is availed to practitioners for ultimate utilisation in the construction process. There is, therefore, a need for more appropriate decision-support mechanisms that can take account of spatial contributory factors to accident occurrence. There is also a need for mechanisms that enhance the management, analysis and utilisation construction environment information from varied sources for integration in the construction process. The failure to utilise information from varied sources in the construction industry, means that adequately analysed information is lacking for integration in construction health and safety planning strategy formulation process. This study was initiated as a response to this challenge. This prompted further research into the utilisation of health and safety information and its integration in the construction process. A survey involving 215 construction stakeholders was conducted to establish the limitation and requirements of health and safety in the construction industry. Results derived through qualitative analysis further emphasised the need for enhanced health and safety information analysis and integration for use in decision making. The research explored how the spatial element present in all in construction environment information could be utilised to account for accident contributory factors. This led to the exploration Geographical Information System (GIS), a mechanism that takes into account spatial aspects of bodies of information of the phenomenon being explored, for its potential capabilities in management and analysis of construction environment information. The implementation of the GIS-based system known as Geographical Information System for Accident Prevention (GISAP) is then presented. The evaluation of the system by prospective end-users reveals the limitations and benefits of the system implementation and recommendations made for further research. In conclusion, it was clear from this study that this approach has the potential to provide a quick referencing GIS success that can link, organise, analyse and display accident data and other construction and non construction environment data. This can assist stakeholders in decision making during formulation of construction health and safety strategies. The approach can improve understanding of analyses and can enhance the handling of queries related to accident data and other data. This innovative approach can also offer an extra dimension of safety information management, identify trends and areas for effective accident preventive action and ultimately enable development and directions of future work and to engender wider debate.
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Held, Jonathan S., and Fred J. Mingo. "Automating the aviation command safety assessment survey as an Enterprise Information System (EIS)." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/13611.
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The Aviation Command Safety Assessment (ACSA) is a questionnaire survey methodology developed to evaluate a Naval Aviation Command's safety climate, culture, and safety program effectiveness. This survey was a manual process first administered in the fall of 1996. The primary goal of this thesis is to design, develop, and test an Internet-based, prototype model for administering this survey using new technologies that allow automated survey submission and analysis. The result of this thesis is a web site ?http:// spitfire.avsafety.nps.navy.mil that adheres to a three-tier client/server architecture. The back-end SQL server database used to store survey information is accessed via front-end Java applets or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) forms. Middleware components that complete the connection between client and server include Weblogic's Fastforward JDBCTM driver and Java servlets. The ACSA web site utilitizes many Internet technologies: Active Server Pages (ASP), HTML, Javascript, Active X, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), COl scripts, JDBCTM, and Java applets and servlets. This thesis leads the reader through the research and development process describing how each of these technologies is used. Thorough review of this material is necessary for lifecycle support and fliture project revisions. Complete source code can be found in the appendices.
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Randmaa, Maria. "Communication and Patient Safety : Transfer of information between healthcare personnel in anaesthetic clinics." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-278726.
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Communication errors are frequent during the perioperative period and cause clinical incidents and adverse events. The overall aim of the thesis was to study communication – the transfer of information, especially the postoperative handover – between healthcare personnel in an anaesthetic clinic and the effects of using the communication tool SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) from a patient safety perspective. The thesis is based on studies using a correlational (Paper I), quasi-experimental (Paper II and III) and descriptive (Paper IV) design. Data were collected using digitally recorded and structured observations of handovers, anaesthetic records, questionnaires, incident reports and focus group interviews. The results from baseline data showed that lack of structure and long duration of the verbal postoperative handover decreased how much the receiver of postoperative handover remembered; the item most likely not to be remembered by the receiver was anaesthetic drugs. The variation in remembered information showed that there were room for improvement (Paper I). Implementing the communication tool SBAR increased memorized information among receivers following postoperative handover. Interruptions were frequent during postoperative handover, which negatively affected memorized information (Paper III). Furthermore, after implementation of SBAR, the personnel’s perception of communication between professionals and the safety climate improved, and the proportion of incident reports related to communication errors decreased in the intervention group (Paper II). The results of the focus group interviews revealed that the nurse anaesthetists, anaesthesiologists and post-anaesthesia care unit nurses had somewhat different focuses and views of the postoperative handover, but all professional groups were uncertain about having all information needed to secure the quality of postoperative care (Paper IV). The findings indicate that using a predictable structure during postoperative handover may improve the information memorized by the receiver, perception of communication between professionals and perception of safety climate. Incidents related to communication errors may also decrease. Long duration of the handover and interruptions may negatively affect the information memorized by receiver. To ensure high quality and safe care, there is a need to achieve a shared understanding across professionals of their work in its entirety.
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Stokes, Charlotte Ellenor. "Investigating the Efficacy of Video versus Text Instruction for the Recall of Food Safety Information." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/nutrition_theses/28.
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Purpose: Teaching consumers proper home food safety practices is an important strategy to combat foodborne illness. Food safety educators with limited resources must do a cost-versus-benefit analysis before choosing the optimum medium to reach their target audiences. The objectives of this research were to determine whether presenting food safety information in a video format was more effective than text-only in terms of audience recall of the information one week later; to determine whether an intervention in text or video form increased students’ knowledge of food safety information as compared to no intervention at all; and to identify certain demographic factors that could have influenced performance on a food safety quiz. Methods: One hundred thirty-three Georgia State University undergraduate students were assigned to one of three groups. One group viewed a food safety video (n=59), a second group received the same information in text-only form (n=41), and the third group (n=33) served as the control and received no intervention. Students filled out a demographic questionnaire and completed a pre-intervention and post-intervention food safety knowledge test. Average scores were calculated, and the data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0 for Windows. Results: There was no significant difference between pre-intervention test scores among the three groups (p=.057). The video group scored significantly higher on the post-intervention test (p=.006) than the text group and the control group (p<.001). The video group (p<.001) and text group (p<.001) both scored significantly higher on the post-intervention quiz than the pre-intervention quiz, but the control group did not (p=.466). Video was superior to text overall and in conveying basic food safety principles; however, students in the text group demonstrated a better recall of more detailed food safety information such as proper internal cooking temperatures for poultry and ground beef. Previous food safety education in the classroom or online was found to be the only significant predictor of better performance on the pre-intervention test (p=.004). Conclusion: Video is more effective than text when used to deliver simple, direct food safety messages. More detailed information, such as proper internal cooking temperatures, might be best delivered in text form. Consumers are likely to benefit most from a multimedia approach to food safety education that includes videos, accompanying brochures, and Web site content.
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Ількова, Оксана Григорівна. "Формування професійної компетентності розроблення Поло-ження про конфіденційну інформацію підприємства у майбутніх фахівців спеціальності «Документознавство та інформаційна діяльність»". Thesis, Талком, 2015. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/22896.
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Ількова О.Г. РФормування професійної компетентності розроблення Поло-ження про конфіденційну інформацію підприємства у майбутніх фахівців спеціальності «Документознавство та інформаційна діяльність» / О.Г. Ількова // Історико-культурна спадщина: збереження, доступ, використання : матер. Міжнар. наук.-практ. конф., м. Київ, 7–9 квітня 2015 р., Національний авіаційний університет / редкол. Тюрменко І. І. та ін. – К. : Талком, 2015. – С. 339–342.<br>The attempt of construction of the system of indexes of qualities of the informative providing of process of decision-making administrative is carried out in the article. This system contains the exactness, plenitude, meaningfulness, efficiency and operativeness of informative providing of administrative activity.
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Silvano, Ary P. "Impacts of Speed Limits and Information Systems on Speed Choice from a Safety Perspective." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Trafik och logistik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-133991.
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Driving a vehicle is considered a demanding task in a complex dynamic environment. For instance, driving a vehicle on urban roads, where motorized vehicles meet vulnerable road users (VRUs) creates a multifaceted environment with difficult trade-offs and interactions. Additionally, in-vehicle technology developments are being introduced to ease drivers with the driving task. However, these developments are changing “traditional” driving increasing drivers’ response in terms of information processing, thus making the driving task more demanding in some respects. Therefore, the aim of the present research is to further investigate drivers’ speed choice under varying traffic management regulations and in-vehicle warning systems.<br><p>QC 20131114</p><br>New Speed Limits in Built-Up Areas<br>COOPERS
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Yin, He, A. Afaneh, and A. N. Kalashnikov. "Using ultrasound velocity in liquids as rapidly measurable parameter for food safety information systems." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2012. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/28810.
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Abstract – Information systems dedicated to food safety include many parameters, and some of them can be difficult to rapidly measure in the field using inexpensive instrumentation. Use of the ultrasound velocity as such an information parameter is discussed here along with some preliminary experimental data that backs this use.
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Rasheed, Morad. "Creating a safety lighting zone on the subway platformUsing light as an information giver." Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280079.
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Stockholm’s subway system is considered one of the longest art galleries in the world.Each station has its own identity, but at the same time, all metro stations have the sameuniform functional light approach.This light could not prevent the passengers from gathering and walking randomlyat the subway station’s platform. Moreover, the uniform light is neglecting the artwork onthe station’s platform; hence, this could lead to losing the identity feature of the station. Ingeneral, the demand for using public transportation in sustainable urban cities is increasing.This thesis studies how to use light as an information giver for the passengers on the subwaystation platform:By creating light safety zones and by enhancing the wayfinding to minimize conflict points.From the result of the questionnaire and the observations in two case studies, adesign principle with eight parameters has been developed to be applied in new lightingdesign for the T-Centralen platform station. It aims to restore the identity of the station,and create different zones at the T-Centralen subway platform, to enhance the movementof the passengers and to make it more organized by combining different layers of functional,atmospheric and dynamic light.
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Sathar, Farzana. "Demographic determinants of chemical safety information recall in workers and consumers in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16865.
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Includes bibliographical references<br>Chemical hazard communication is intended to alert users of the potential hazards of chemicals. Apart from the fact that hazard information should be understood, it is also important that it should be recalled. Recall of hazard communication is critical when the written form of the information is not available at the time it is required. A cross-sectional study investigating predictors of the recall of chemical safety information on labels and safety data sheets amongst 315 workers (industry, transport and agriculture sectors) and 87 consumers in two provinces of South Africa was conducted. The recall of participants was tested using two modules (module 2 which relates to the demographics, and module 3 which relates to the recall of the participants) from the Hazard Communication Comprehensibility Testing (CT) Tool developed by the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Cape Town. Respondents were predominantly male (67.7%), the median age was 37 years (IQR: 30-46 years) and less than half of the participants completed high school (47.5%). The majority of participants were blue collar workers outside of industry (55.5%). The skull and crossbones symbol was the label element most recalled, both unprompted (79.6%) and prompted (94.8%), and the first aid and treatment measures the least frequently recalled (6.0%-29.9%). Multivariate analysis showed the predictors that were found to increase the recall of all the label elements were, industrial sector, transport sector, agriculture sector, gender, home language English and Afrikaans, reading English and Afrikaans, completing high school and non-industry white collar occupations. The predictors that were found to decrease recall were further education, not wearing glasses and non-industry blue collar occupations. This study found demographic factors to influence the recall of hazard information. Policy should ensure the implementation of procedures that promote the recall of hazard information to protect workers from hazardous exposures.
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Gardner, John Wallace. "Improving Hospital Quality and Patient Safety - An Examination of Organizational Culture and Information Systems." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1348805699.
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Tzou, Tzu-Lien. "A methodology for assessing the performance of safety information management in the process industry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34629.
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The relationship between mismanagement of information and its adverse effect on plant safety in the process industry is now widely recognised. Ignorance of essential facts and messages will lead inexorably to a catastrophic outcome. This process has been called an 'information disaster'. Many incidents provide lessons on improving Safety Information Management (SIM). Evaluating SIM performance can provide interventions to prevent disasters and improve plant safety. In order to improve SIM performance for the process industry, this research adopted the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) concept to design a performance measurement framework. The framework includes four 'perspectives' and twenty-eight 'indicators' with their own measures. The framework has been developed from an extensive literature review, a plant investigation and two incremental surveys, one of professional opinion in the process industry in Taiwan and the second a broader verification from experts.
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Gomli, Dastan, and Erik Lindström. "Visual Communication Console : Sharing Safety-Critical Information between Heavy Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för maskinteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18371.
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Background. Over the years, between 2013 and 2017, accidents between HeavyGoods Vehicles and Pedestrians have come to increase. Leading causes stem frominattentiveness and lack of communication between driver and pedestrians. Withthe advent of Autonomous vehicles, set to be able to reduce accidents, uncertainties in how communication and trust between humans and machines will be formed re-mains. Objectives. The research aim has been to understand the difficulties and problemssurrounding heavy vehicles, and the problems that today’s heavy vehicle operators faces, from which a technical solution that addressees the uncovered needs, is devel-oped. Methods. Design Research Methodology and MSPI Innovation Process has beenused in combination for acquiring and validating information around the problem.Shadowing sessions, unstructured interviews has been used for acquiring information.Literature reviews have been done to find academic validation in hypotheses statedthroughout the research. From the information gathered, iterative prototypes havebeen built. Results. From the needfinding that was conducted, safety around trucks was thefield on which the scope of the research was focused around. Due the larger size oftruck, decision-making through eye contact and intention determining is set to beharder when dealing with heavy vehicles, leading to an uncertainty around heavyvehicles residing with pedestrians in how to act around these. With the operatorsof these vehicles finding the unpredictable nature of pedestrians and cyclist in trafficto be troublesome and safety imposing, the research aim was set around addressing these needs. A communication console was developed, that is able to communi-cate safety-critical information between heavy vehicle operators and vulnerable road users, as means of reducing front collisions between said parts. Conclusions. The console has been developed through iterative prototyping andtesting, with design requirements being acquired through learnings and feedbackgathered from each iteration. The resulting communication console being presentedis able to share critical information being sought by pedestrians for decision-making,primarily that of eye contact and intentions of oncoming vehicles. The system servesas a proof of concept, that could through extensive traffic safety testing, help reducefront collisions between Heavy Goods Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users, as well as, through further development, become the central communication console for au-tonomous vehicles to ensure partnership and intuitive communication between these and the surroundings.
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Bukelwa, Ngoqo. "The establishment of a mobile phone information security culture: linking student awareness and behavioural intent." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/657.
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The information security behaviour of technology users has become an increasingly popular research area as security experts have come to recognise that while securing technology by means of firewalls, passwords and offsite backups is important, such security may be rendered ineffective if the technology users themselves are not information security conscious. The mobile phone has become a necessity for many students but, at the same time, it exposes them to security threats that may result in a loss of information. Students in developing countries are at a disadvantage because they have limited access to information relating to information security threats, unlike their counterparts in more developed societies who can readily access this information from sources like the Internet. The developmental environment is plagued with challenges like access to the Internet or limited access to computers. The poor security behaviour exhibited by student mobile phone users, which was confirmed by the findings of this study, is of particular interest in the university context as most undergraduate students are offered a computer-related course which covers certain information security-related principles. During the restructuring of the South African higher education system, smaller universities and technikons (polytechnics) were merged to form comprehensive universities. Thus, the resultant South African university landscape is made up of traditional and comprehensive universities as well as universities of technology. Ordinarily, one would expect university students to have similar profiles. However in the case of this study, the environment was a unique factor which had a direct impact on students’ learning experiences and learning outcomes. Mbeki (2004) refers to two economies within South Africa the first one is financially sound and globally integrated, and the other found in urban and rural areas consists of unemployed and unemployable people who do not benefit from progress in the first economy. Action research was the methodological approach which was chosen for the purposes of this study to collect the requisite data among a population of university students from the ‘second economy’. The study focuses on the relationship between awareness and behavioural intention in understanding mobile phone user information security behaviour. The study concludes by proposing a behaviour profile forecasting framework based on predefined security behavioural profiles. A key finding of this study is that the security behaviour exhibited by mobile phone users is influenced by a combination of information security awareness and information security behavioural intention, and not just information security awareness.
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Mauwa, Hope. "Information security awareness: generic content, tools and techniques." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/560.
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In today’s computing environment, awareness programmes play a much more important role in organizations’ complete information security programmes. Information security awareness programmes are there to change behaviour or reinforce good security practices, and provide a baseline of security knowledge for all information users. Security awareness is a learning process, which changes individual and organizational attitudes and perceptions so that the importance of security and the adverse consequences of its failure are realized. Therefore, with proper awareness, employees become the most effective layer in an organization’s security defence. With the important role that these awareness programmes play in organizations’ complete information security programmes, it is a must that all organizations that are serious about information security must implement it. But though awareness programmes have become increasing important, the level of awareness in most organizations is still low. It seems that the current approach of developing these programmes does not satisfy the needs of most organizations. Therefore, another approach, which tries to meet the needs of most organizations, is proposed in this project as part of the solution of raising the level of awareness programmes in organizations.
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Perry, Donnie. "Protecting small communities through domestic policing adopting an information analysis system to recognize potential terrorist activity." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep%5FPerry.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Rasmussen, Maria ; Simeral, Robert. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 5, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Outcome Based Policing, Intelligence Sharing, Terrorism Prevention, Triangle of Terrorism, Public Safety Assessment Triangle, Domestic Preparedness Performance Model Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77). Also available in print.
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CARVALHO, CLAUDIA A. Z. de. "Sistema de gestao integrado: melhores praticas para laboratorios radioecologicos." reponame:Repositório Institucional do IPEN, 2010. http://repositorio.ipen.br:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/9573.
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Nugraheni, Fitri. "The use of construction images in a safety assessment system." Thesis, Curtin University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1727.
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This thesis sets out research carried out to investigate the usefulness of a descriptive database of construction methods for safety assessment. In addition, it investigates the possibility of utilising construction images as sources of safety related information.The construction industry has been recognized as a hazardous work environment with a high accident rate for years, hence, site safety is a problem. Nowadays, the use of construction images in the form of photographs is commonplace and they are used as sources of information. The literature review reveals that they have never been used as sources of information concerning construction safety practice.A preliminary investigation is conducted to study the possibility of utilizing construction images as sources of safety related information. The findings revealed that it is possible to use construction images as sources of information for construction safety assessment however, there were problems related to image interpretation and dissimilar safety judgment. It was assumed that those problems were arising from lack of safety knowledge and experiences, also no safety assessment method existed that could be used when using images as sources of information.To overcome problem related to the existence of safety assessment method, the research developed a method to assess safety by using information observed from images. As a similar safety judgment would be obtained from a same guideline therefore, a safety guideline was established, including safety checklist and safety scores. To give meaning of sets of safety score, two methods of conditional probability approach from Artificial Intelligence that quantitatively deal with uncertainty, the Bayes’ Theorem and the Fuzzy Logic Theory, were employed. The Bayes’ Theorem formula was adopted for calculating a likelihood of a hypothesis being true based on evidence or P(H/E). The hypothesis used in this research that a safe construction practice being used. The evidence used to test this hypothesis is information collected from construction images. This method allows construction practices shown in the images to be defined as having a high level of safety or low level of safety.The construction practices with low level of safety do not need to analysed further. Fuzzy logic theory can then be used for further classifying those images identified as having a high level of safety into one of three classifications: “most likely safe”, “fairly safe” or “most likely unsafe”.To overcome problem related to lack of safety knowledge and safety experience, one method of reasoning based on reuse past experience was employed, called the Case- Based Reasoning (CBR). The CBR method will allow safety information stored in database to be reused for reasoning process to give safety scores. As CBR works based on stored information from database therefore an image database has to be developed.Following works (or researches) have been done to overcome problems revealed from preliminary investigation therefore those works have to organize in a structured and systematic system. The research was developed a safety assessment system called SAFE AS.The safety assessment system worked in two processes, manual calculation and information storage into database. Manual calculation worked as follows: First, a construction practice judgment is given based on image data, safety checklist and using safety scores provided. Secondly, a construction practice is defined into one of two definitions provided: a high-level and a low-level of safety based on Bayes’ Theorem formula and given safety scores. Third, a high-level of safety of construction practice is classified into one of three classifications: most likely safe, fairly safe and most likely unsafe, which are developed, based on fuzzy sets formula. Following manual calculation process, the result from the process then become an input for the second process: information storage. All information of images and their safety practices are stored in an image database. These two processes are done separately and manually.Problem is arising from manual safety assessment system, that the processes are time-consuming. To overcome this problem, even to make a safety assessment system practically more benefit, the system is developed in a Web-based system, which allows safety assessment process and information storage process done comprehensively and automatically. All users can share their safety knowledge and experiences, and reuse stored experience as a basis of reasoning process from anywhere.As a result, the research has developed a Web-based safety assessment system to show how to utilize construction images to assess safe construction practice, store information from assessment process, and reuse this information for safety knowledge enhancement. Two experiments using 69 images and a set of detailed images have confirmed the application of a Web-based safety assessment system and verified its reliability.Another benefit from the safety assessment system is the safety likelihood scores obtained, which can be used to detect safety trends that are developing in construction project over time. These trends were used to predict the likely safety of the construction practices in use on the project in future so it can be used as indicators to monitor and control safety in construction projects. With this process construction images can be used as sources of safety related information and the safety assessment system can be used in future for predicting, monitoring and controlling of on-site safety.Areas needing future research are suggested, including providing advance search features in the assessment system to retrieve closer relevant cases for case-based reasoning and automated hazard recognition and identification feature to avoid accident occurrence as the result of human carelessness.
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Williams, Josh Holbrook. "Investigating the Impact of Specific, Global, and Social Comparison Feedback on Safety Behaviors." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27718.
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Behavior-based safety feedback is increasingly used by organizations to reduce the frequency and severity of work-related injuries. Improvements in safety performance have been demonstrated in numerous settings following behavior-based (BB) safety feedback. The relative impact of global, specific, and social comparison BB feedback on safety behaviors was assessed in the current study. A 2 Feedback Level (Specific, Global) X 2 Feedback Type (Social Comparison, No Social Comparison) analysis of covariance was used to test the hypothesis that specific, social comparison feedback would lead to the greatest improvement in safety percent safe scores. Participants were 97 employees from Shifts 1 and 2 of a soft-drink bottling company in southeastern United States. Results from the study demonstrated a main effect for feedback type. Social comparison feedback led to significantly higher percent safe scores than no social comparison feedback conditions (M=.78 and .68, respectively). Follow-up chi-square analyses and practical considerations suggest global/SCF is optimal for improving safety performance. Limitations of the study and future implications for BB safety feedback research are provided<br>Ph. D.
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Huang, Chun-Hao, and 黃俊豪. "Onboard Integration of Maritime Safety Information." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30035003430558394533.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣海洋大學<br>通訊與導航工程學系<br>101<br>The thesis is based on a premise to develop e-navigation.Safe navigation will come true by intelligent integration of the Maritime Safety Information (MSI),Electronic Chart Display and information System (ECDIS), and Navigation System onboard vessels.
In this thesis, a procedure is developed to analyze the MSI received from SafetyNET System, a method and Satellite-based Enhanced Group Call(EGC) communication service, as well as the NAVTEX System. So that the weather forecasts and navigational warnings in free-format plain text form can turn into temporal and geo-spatial information ready for integration. And the Navigation System can correlate such spatial data with route plan and give warning if necessary, so that the sailor can clearly revise route plan and avoid dangerous areas.
Finally, the onboard system is developed as a dynamic software module system that integrates ECDIS, MSI, Automatic Identification System(AIS), Global Positioning System(GPS), and Gyrocompass. The system listens to all sensor output broadcast over the vessel’s local area network and displays the received sensor data on the dashboard of onboard system. The system components are designed to be remotely deployed and updated via internet connection from the shore side server.
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Chen, Po-Kai, and 陳柏愷. "Fuzzy RFID Information Processing in Home Safety." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33307115553996376269.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>資訊工程學系碩士班<br>98<br>Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) becomes a popular research topic in recent years, because the cost has been reduced. The government actively promoted, and the industry started to do research and develop. RFID can be applied to many areas like Easy Card, ETC, access control cards, tickets, electronic health records, logistics and warehouse, chip of anti theft, tracking and identification.
We aim at enhancing home safety in our research that provides a service to issue dangerous alarms at home. We use the RFID technology to detect possible dangerous objects and locations for the elderly and children at home. First, we deploy active tags in dangerous locations and attach them to objects. The reader detects the signal strength, namely RSSI values, from the tags. We use wireless network to deliver the RSSI values to the computer. Finally, the computer processes the data and performs fuzzy inference. The fuzzy inference includes both locations and objects. There are three membership functions based ages and RSSI values (location tags and object tags). The inference can result in a dangerous degree. If the dangerous degree is over the threshold, the computer will issue an alarm. We also propose a feedback mechanism to revise the membership functions for personalization, and it is applied to both location and object membership functions.
We simulated a few situations for both children and the elderly. At first, we did not give any feedback. The system issued alarms as expected. Then we gave the system a few times of feedbacks to simulate no-danger situations. After a few feedbacks, the membership functions were adjusted to an extent that the alarm was not issued any more for the same situation. RFID is cheaper than cameras and the privacy issue can be avoided.