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Open Journal of Safety Science and Technology (OJSST) is an openly accessible journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of safety science and tec…
Victoria Gitelman, Sharon Levi, Etti Doveh, Liri Endy-Findling
Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of injury-related death and disability in children in Israel. The use of safety performance indicators (SPIs) is common today for benchmarking road safety performance and monitoring of trends. This study aimed to deve…
Kofi Obeng, Md Rokonuzzaman
This paper analyzes pedestrian injury severity from automobile crashes at signalized intersections in a medium-size city. It estimates an ordered logit model of injury severity and finds that vehicle type, gender, land-use, speed limit, traffic volume, the pr…
Christopher A. Janicak
This study examined occupational fatality cases involving Hispanic workers that occurred from 2005 to 2009 in the United States . During this period, approximately 26 percent of all fatalities in the construction industry involved His panic workers resulting…
Ikechukwu A. Diugwu, Dorothy L. Baba, Ashem E. Egila
The preparedness of any organization to minimize the frequency and severity of work related accidents, ill-health, and damage to property is demonstrated by the adoption of a health and safety management system. By its nature, a health and safety management s…
Jessica Mueller, Laura Stanley, Kezia Manlove
Multi-stage training programs have been recommended to transfer knowledge and skills to high-risk novice drivers. However, some have suggested there is a link between skill training and an increased crash probability due to overconfidence. This project evalua…
Yuichi Otsuka, Takeshi Ishizaki, Yukio Miyashita, Yoshiharu Mutoh
Normal failure or risk analyses procedure contains the following steps; 1) modeing process, 2) assessment process of its hazardous extent. 1) Modeling process is the considering procedure that sets the sequence of happening failures or risks. 2) Assessment pr…
Ross Sparks, Chris Okugami, Sarah Bolt
Spatio-temporal surveillance methods for detecting outbreaks are common with the SCAN statistic setting the benchmark. If the shape and size of the outbreaks are known, then the SCAN statistic can be trained to efficiently detect these, however this is seldom…
Giovanni Bryden, Eric Catig, Wen Cheng
Although the proportion of bicycles to cars on the road remains low in the United States, it is on an upward trend. The high cost of gasoline and the re-introduction of bicycles as an attractive way to commute have contributed to an increase in ridership nati…
Dayse Duarte
For the last 20 years blackouts have been included in the list of major disasters that includes storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods. Therefore consumers have become increasingly aware of fires and explosions involving oil-filled transformers located in…
Qiang Chen, Yin-Ge Cao, Wan-Ki Chow
The legal system of occupational safety and health (OSH) and the supervisory organization in Mainland China and Hong Kong are briefly reviewed in this article. It appears that there are several similar areas of OSH between Hong Kong and Mainland China, such a…
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Open Journal of Safety Science and Technology (OJSST) is an openly accessible journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of safety science and tec… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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