Occupational Accident

Contact with overhead power lines is regarded worldwide as one of the leading causes of electrical fatalities. The analysis carried out in this paper refers to a real accident that occurred in Greece a few years ago, involving the contact of a heavy vehicle (concrete pump) with the medium voltage lines of the national distribution network. For a better understanding of the incident, a description of how the protection system of medium voltage distribution lines works when a fault occurs is given. Furthermore, emphasis has been laid on possible ways to avoid similar accidents in the future.► A heavy vehicle came into contact with an overhead power line with a fatal outcome. ► The analysis showed that the existing network protection system is anthropocentric. ► Technical and organizational proposals are made to reduce future accidents. ► Safer work ethic and an increased awareness in society should be promoted. ► The electrical community should support a global effort.

Objective: To determine the occurrence of occupational accidents into clinical practice of the dentist participants in the introductory courses for the postgraduates from Dental School Central University of Venezuela made in 2007 and 2008. Methods: For the accomplishment of this descriptive study was elaborated a questionnaire with which diverse aspects was investigated, namely, age, sex, time of professional practice, occurrence of any occupational accident, dental instruments involved in the same and affected area. This questionnaire was self-administered in a population of 160 dentist participants in the introductory courses for the postgraduates from Dental School of the indicated years. The collected data were processed with the SPSS software version 14.0 for Windows, in order to obtain the respective frequency distributions. The Chi-square test was applied to the variables operationalized from the questions "1" and "3" (age and time of professional practice), and the binomial test to the variables operationalized from the questions "2" and "4" (sex and occurrence of any occupational accident), both at a significance level α equal to 0.05, in order to determine the presence or absence of statistically significant differences between the observed frequency distributions and a hypothetical distribution in each case, where the categories would be represented by an equal number of observations. Results: Of the study population, 50.6% (81 dentists) were aged between 24 and 30 years at the time of data collection, and 90.6% (145 dentists) were women. In both cases were found statistically significant differences between the observed and expected frequencies. Again, 27.5% of the participants said to have between 1 and 5 years of professional experience in the clinical area, without statistically significant differences between the observed and expected frequencies. Also, 63.1% (101 dentists) reported to have had any type of occupational accident, having in this case statistically significant differences between the observed and expected frequencies. 70 of these 101 dentists said that the same occurred with the needle of the syringe to anesthetize. The most affected areas were the fingers (89.1%) and the forearms (7.9%). Conclusions: The results of this research confirm that the dentist is highly vulnerable to occupational accident, therefore must not only carry out the provision of oral health services attending to good hygiene and safety practices, but also must know the protocol for the management of the same in order to minimize the damage that a situation of this nature could cause

The dentists are exposed to various diseases and occupational accidents. The objective of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of occupational accidents and behaviour post-accidents among the dentists of the district of Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. It was ap- plied a questionnaire to 76 professionals, and 34,0% of them af- firmed to have suffered from some type of accident.

Objectives: To highlight the role of occupational physician (OP) in occupational injuries (OI) prevention and management. To suggest an approach beyond traditional focus on descriptive epidemiology, engineering interventions, administrative aspects of OI prevention. To promote a person- and enterprise-tailored approach, entailing greater attention to human factors and to practical problems of the specific workplace, with a call to a leading role played by OP. Methods and results: Analysis of the literature on the broader topic of OI prevention revealed thousands of publications; however, only a handful of them mention or describe the participation of OP in OI prevention. While recognizing that literature search is not the proper and only way to appreciate the current role of OP in this field, therefore, it seems necessary to call OP to a stronger effort in prevention and management of OI, through the context of a comprehensive intervention in cooperation with managers, supervisors, ...

The severity of occupational accidents suffered by construction workers at different hours of the day is analyzed in this study. It may be seen that the interval of time between 13:00 and 17:00 has incomprehensibly high rates of severe and fatal accidents in comparison with any other. We associate this higher accident rate with what we have termed the “lunch

In a large company in São Paulo State, two work accidents were investigated using the Causal Tree Method (CTM), leading to the accurate identification of factors related to work organization as the causal factors for the accidents. These cases pointed to the role of organizational factors, such as improvised and temporary assignments to work stations and/or jobs, decisions about the performance of tasks left to unprepared workers, unavailability of proper tools and/or materials, and faulty information distribution within the company. Analysis of the accidents allowed for the presentation and discussion of the method (CTM), its lengthy application, its demands in terms of training, and its potentialities for accident prevention.

Objectives: To highlight the role of occupational physician (OP) in occupational injuries (OI) prevention and management. To suggest an approach beyond traditional focus on descriptive epidemiology, engineering interventions, administrative aspects of OI prevention. To promote a person- and enterprise-tailored approach, entailing greater attention to human factors and to practical problems of the specific workplace, with a call to a leading role played by OP. Methods and results: Analysis of the literature on the broader topic of OI prevention revealed thousands of publications; however, only a handful of them mention or describe the participation of OP in OI prevention. While recognizing that literature search is not the proper and only way to appreciate the current role of OP in this field, therefore, it seems necessary to call OP to a stronger effort in prevention and management of OI, through the context of a comprehensive intervention in cooperation with managers, supervisors, safety personnel and workers, focusing on specific needs of each enterprise. The following areas of OP intervention were examined: risk assessment, health surveillance, management, scientific research and health education. Within each of these topics, possible contributions, methodologies, instruments available for the OP were discussed, taking into account the relevant literature. Pathways for practical applications were illustrated, e.g., OI data generation and analyses, predictors of OI, fitness for work, case management, team work, educational issues, first aid, suggestion for OP contribution in specific research questions. Conclusions: OI continue to take a remarkable toll from individuals and society. New multidisciplinary interventions are needed to prevent OI. Focused activities at the single worksite with a central role from OP are definite options. OP is an effective interface between workforce and management and may offer, through a proactive approach, valuable practical and cultural contributions, while respecting technical and ethical guidelines of occupational health professionals.

A series of Mannich bases of 2-alkyl-3-hydroxy-pyridine-4-ones, namely 2-alkyl-3-hydroxy-5-N-piperidylmethyl or N,N-dialkylaminomethyl pyridine-4-ones 9, 10 and 15–18, two derivatives of N-aryl-2-methyl-3-hydroxy-pyridine-4-ones 19, 20 and two N-alkyl derivatives of maltol, 21 and 22 were prepared. They were screened for their antibacterial and antifungal activities against a variety of microorganisms using micro plate Alamar Blue® assay (MABA) method. Multiple linear regressions (MLR) analysis was performed for the synthesized compounds as well as a series of pyridinone and pyranone derivatives 23–43 which have been synthesized and evaluated for antimicrobial activity by other researchers previously. Studied compounds showed a better quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) model for the antimicrobial activity against Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus in comparison with other tested microorganisms.

Oil and gas accident statistics reveal that workers' potential for injury or death from occupational accidents is at least as high as that associated with explosions, fires, and other major incidents. The authors' contribution to the ongoing efforts to improve the situation is ...

Introduction:Occupational accidents result in pain, suffering, death of workers in some cases, many financial losses, reduce production levels and so forth; thus it is counted as a national loss. The aim of this study was to investigate the causes of occupational accidents in the industries and plants supported by the Social Security Organization of Ilam during the years 2010-2012.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 462 occupational accidents occurring for employees covered by the Social Security Organization were evaluated. Data were collected using the pre-designed checklist filled out with the records of the accidents available in the Social Security Organization by the researcher. Data were analyzed by SPSS (ver. 23) software.
Results:The results of the study showed that 42.6% of the accidents occurred in 2010. The most accidents occurred in the age group of 21-30 years old (46.8%) and 461 of injured people (99.8%) were male. The majority of the people (62.55%) were married and 90% had work experience less than five years. Unsafe acts were the most cause of the incidents (57.1%). The most important type of the incident was dropping and slipping (37.9%). There was significant correlation between the cause of incident, type of incident and type of injury (P <0.001).
Conclusion: According to the results, most of the injured people had work experience less than five years, indicating that improving the safety needs monitoring and cooperation of relevant organizations and recruit training.

... Changes in the work environment may contribute to a greater probability of occurrence of major accidents in major hazards plants affecting workers and the public, as well as the environment ([Zwetsloot and Hale, 2002], [Zwetsloot et al., 2007], [Uth and Wiese, 2004], [Attwood et ...