Occupational risk quantification owing to falling objects

Safety Science

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-70

  Aneziris, O N ^a   Papazoglou, I A ^a   Mud, M ^b   Damen, M ^c   Bellamy, L J ^d   Manuel, H J ^e   Oh, J ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b RPS Nederland   (Netherlands)

^c RIGO   (Netherlands)

^d WhiteQueen   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^f Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accident scenarios; Cranes; Falling objects; Occupational risk

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CRANES; METAL DRAWING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENT SCENARIOS; FALLING OBJECTS; LIFTING DEVICES; OBJECT PROTECTION; QUANTIFIED RISK ASSESSMENTS; RISK QUANTIFICATION; RISK REDUCTIONS; SURFACE CONDITIONS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; FALLING OBJECT; FATALITY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MACHINE; MANUAL LABOR; MATERIALS HANDLING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84903899866     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.02.017     Document Type: Article

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