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security and safety. So, I look if it's possible that extreme accidents occur in this sector. Finally, I evaluate the extreme …The freight rail deregulation have been considered, for long time, as a factor of security and safety reduction. This … accidents periodicity in freight rail. …
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and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used … improve the health and safety of workers. …
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traffic accidents are to be identified and initiated. Once an economic assessment of road safety measures has been made, work … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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traffic accidents are to be identified and initiated. Once an economic assessment of road safety measures has been made, work … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of injury and death in the U.S. The role of traffic law enforcement in … the reduction of accidents has been studied by relatively few papers and with mixed results that may be due to a … simultaneity problem. Traffic law enforcement may reduce accidents, but police are also likely to be stricter in accident …
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. However, previous research has failed to arrive at a consensus on the effect of mobile phones on traffic accidents yet has … concluded that the effect of hands-free and hand-held phones on accidents is similar. This paper uses state-level data from 1997 …
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damage costs. The major findings are that the safety impacts of seatbelt use outweigh the impacts of airbags deploying … increasing these costs. The types of accidents that we found to increase property damage costs are running into a fixed object … institutional suggesting that the accidents that occur in these areas are minor. …
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The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work … and sickness absence or accidents at work. …
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, redundancies designed for safety may lead agents to take substandard care. Finally, elected officials have an incentive to …
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Many accidents result in losses that cannot be perfectly compensated by a monetary payment. Moreover, often injurers … control the magnitude rather than the probability of accidents. We study the characteristics of optimal levels of care and …
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