Journal of Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention
Year:2019 | Volume:7 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:7

Background and Objectives: ports as the gate of entry and exit of goods have a basic role in the economic progress in developing and developed countries. Compression and complexity of activities in ports have caused these areas to be dangerous with a high rate of vulnerability and high ratio of incidents. Areas which need establishing a suitable standard with the culture-making approach in the aspect of safety and resilience engineering, to minimize damages and to upgrade the safety level in ports, and also preparedness of ports for unpredictable incidents. Martials and Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conduct on 90 staffs of khormashar port in 2018. Participants were selected randomly and voluntarily participated in the study. Data was collected by a standard safety culture questionnaire. The collected data has been analyzed by using Single sample t test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and Friedman ranking test. Results: Six factors affecting the safety culture were identified which include: management commitment, transparency, learning culture, preparedness, flexibility, and knowledge. Results showed that management commitment (4. 69) and knowledge (2. 61) had the most and the least importance, respectively. Conclusion: for improvement of resilience and safety culture, one can focus on affective factors based on priority, and take action in the way of supervision and improving them. Modification and improvement of these indicators would lead to the progress in safety and resilience level and will facilitate the movement of this port in the way of reaching higher levels of safety.

Background and Objectives: Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common occupational injuries among healthcare workers currently. The aim of the present research was to evaluation the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among the medical staff of selected hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2018. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 80 medical staff of selected hospitals with 11. 2 ± 7. 87 years of work experience. The Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was assessed by Body Map Questionnaire and ergonomic assessment of posture status using REBA methods. The study was conducted with the necessary permissions and informed consent of the participants and confidentiality of the information obtained. Data was analyzed by SPSS software version 25. Results: The most prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in different organs were waist (71. 25%) and knee (68. 75%). The results of the REBA evaluation showed, the final risk scores of 50% with the medium level, 28. 75% with the high level and 7. 5% with the very high level. There was a significant direct relationship between REBA score and pain intensity in the neck and knee areas. Conclusion: The results showed that the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was relatively high in the waist and knees, with high and medium ergonomic risk levels. Therefore, correcting workstations through ergonomic interventions, raising the level of knowledge of staff about the risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders and proper working methods are essential for these people.

Background and Objectives: Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, and the lack of proper treatment of this disorder can cause pain and disability in people. Therefore, the purpose of this study was Comparison of stability training and Muscle Energy Technique on pain, disability and neck range of motion in men with chronic neck pain. Materials and Methods: Patients with chronic neck pain were randomly divided into three groups. The first group (intervention1), the stability training and the second group (intervention2) received the muscle energy technique. Exercises It was done for 6 weeks and 4 sessions in week and the control group only received posture correction guidelines at home. Pain was assessed on the basis of Visual analogue scale (VAS), disability by Neck Disability Index questionnaire and neck range of motion by inclinometer before and 48 hours after treatment. ANOVA with repeated measures was employed for data analyses and significant level was considered it p<0. 05. Results: There was a significant difference in pain severity, disability and neck range of motion after intervention in both groups (P <0. 005). Compared to the two groups after the treatment, there was a significant difference in the All variables (P <0. 005), in the other words More improvements were achieved in Stabilization Exercises group. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that in patients with chronic neck pain, both methods of stability training and muscle energy technique have been effective in improving pain, disability and neck motion. However, patients in the stabilization group have a greater impact.

Background and Objectives: Crossfit is one of the most appealing and popular sports that recently have been attracted by athletes. However, the risk of injury is one of the main concerns of the audiences in this sport. Background literature on injuries in this field is not very rich. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence and etiology of crossfit injuries in Iran. Materials and Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional descriptive with prospective information gathering method. Injuries information was collected from 163 Iranian crossfit athletes during 6 months with researcher-made questioner. Type, severity, cause, location and time of injury were the most important variables investigated. Prior to participation in the study, all subjects completed the informed participation consent form. After recording the data, Chi-square statistical method (x2) was used for statistical analysis of the research findings. Results: The results of this study showed that crossfit is a high-risk sport. So that 45% of injuries are musculartendon type. Most injuries were reported moderate (53. 5%). Do not warm-up and history of injury are the most important causes of injury (24%). The upper extremity was the most commonly occurring location for injury (42. 3%). More than half of the injuries occurred in the first and last 15 minutes of the training (62%). Conclusion: if you do not observe safety tips including proper warming-up and cooling-down of the body as well as increasing the knowledge and awareness of coaches and athletes in terms of the causes of injury, Crossfit sport could be a high-risk sport.

Background and Objectives: The heavy losses that occur annually due to occupational accidents and illnesses require the careful and effective monitoring of the HSE subject. In the meantime, the importance of deploying an integrated system called the Health and Safety Management System (HSE-MS) and its audit as a means of ensuring a lasting move in the right direction and compliance with the requirements is essential. However, the occurrence of fraud in the HSE audits, in addition to reducing its returns, can lead to significant financial and financial losses. The purpose of this study was to identify the causes and factors of fraud in these audits (to prevent fraud) and to identify the signs of fraud, along with the introduction of a new strategy for fraud detection. Methods and Materials: In this study, after conducting field research and interviewing the experts, a questionnaire containing 60 possible factors of occurrence of fraud in five general categories including: That included ethical issues such as (dependence on auditors, lack of relevant experience and education, lack of behavioral health responsibility for health, safety and the environment, indifference of senior managers etc). Organization management, industry status, organization requirements, HSE unit and audit team. Also, in order to help auditors to identify fraud in the audit, another questionnaire including 13 possible fraud cases was prepared and using the Cronbach's alpha method, the reliability of both questionnaires was confirmed. Then, 58 HSE specialists completed The questionnaires were developed in phase 17 and 18 of South Pars Gas Complex. . Results: The analysis of the first questionnaire shows that among the five factors of fraud, the factors related to the "audit team" and the factors related to "management" are the most influential cases in the occurrence of fraud audits. Also, using the results of the second questionnaire, a checklist for fraud detection was developed. Conclusion: In this study, by carrying out a case study, in one of the HSE audits in Phase 17-18 of the South Pars Gas Complex, while examining the factors of fraud in health, safety and environmental audits in these units, a checklist was established to identify the signs and causes of fraud. The results were matched with preliminary prediction. It is possible to use this checklist as a complementary tool to increase the efficiency of HSE audits.

Backgrouna and Objectives: Injuries and damages caused by traffic accidents in road networks have become a dilemma. According to statistics, a significant part of the total number of accidents occurs due to the convergence of traffic flows at intersections. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the safety of the intersections, evaluate them, and provide a statistical model for predicting the number of accidents and ultimately provide solutions for the safety of intersections in order to reduce the number of injured people at the intersections. Material and Methods: In order to predict the number of traffic accidents based on traffic parameters, geometric design and traffic control features, three statistical models were used in this study: Poisson Log-Linear, Negative Binomial Log-Linear, and Linear Models. Modeling and analyzing data in this study was done based on SPSS software and Excel. The goodness of fitting was controlled by Deviance/Degree of Freedom and x2 Pearson/Degree of Freedom. Results: According to the results, the reduction in volume, exclusive right turning lane, camera and increase in length of the exclusive right turn lane, reduce crashes by 190. 37%, 52. 06%, 27. 09%, and 1. 06%, respectively. As the mid-block width in the intersection increases by 1 m, the frequency of accidents will increase by 2. 02%. Adding a lane in an intersection will lead to an increase in accidents by 18. 55%. If two intersections have completely identical conditions and only the number of phases differs, then an intersection with two phases will have a reduction of crashes of 35. 649% over the intersection of three phases. Therefore, it is necessary to take appropriate steps regarding to strength of each variable in the reduction of crashes. Conclusion: According to the results of the Poisson model, it has a better accuracy than the negative binomial model. It was also found that the seven above-mentioned variables affect the safety of intersections, which is suggested to be considered in urban immunization programs.

Background and Obgectives: One of the criteria for measuring the development indicators of a country is the rate of health in accidents and disasters. Every year a large number of people in Iran suffer from drowning for various reasons. Materials and Methods: This study is a longitudinal time series study, using forensic statistics from the country forensic medicine from 2005 to 2016, predicting the future using the Arima time series method. Box Jenkins models used to estimate the drowning process include the Auto Regression (AR) process of moving average (MA) the moving average auto regression process (ARMA) and the cumulative moving average autoregressive process (ARIMA). ITSM software was used for data analysis. Results: During 2005-2016, a total of 14127 people died in drowning in the country, which is an average of 1086 deaths per year. . Survey of the last year of drowning study in this study (2017) shows that the highest number of deceased was related to Khuzestan province with 161 people and the lowest was related to South Khorasan province with one deceased. Estimates of the drowning trend show that the number of drowning in the country will continue to decline in the coming years. Conclusion: The trend of the number of deaths from drowning in the descending country is indicative of the effectiveness of measures to reduce drowning accidents, so by continuing and improving drowning mortality programs, the downward trend can be reduced. Lowered.