Présentation de la nomenclature des préjudices réparables en cas d'atteintes à l'environnement by Aude-Solveig Epstein

“…Not solely classical personal injuries caused via the environment (environment-related damage) but also damage to the environment itself are from now on taken into account. …”
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C-ITS Relevant Critical Vehicle-to-Vehicle Accident Scenarios for Accident Analysis by Maximilian Bauder, Klaus Böhm, Tibor Kubjatko, Lothar Wech, Hans-Georg Schweiger

“…In this study, vehicle-to-vehicle scenarios with high frequency and/or severe personal injuries are therefore determined with the help of the CISS database and linked to the use-cases of the safety-relevant Day 1 applications. …”
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Weather-Related Flood and Landslide Damage: A Risk Index for Italian Regions. by Alessandro Messeri, Marco Morabito, Gianni Messeri, Giada Brandani, Martina Petralli, Francesca Natali, Daniele Grifoni, Alfonso Crisci, Gianfranco Gensini, Simone Orlandini

“…The main aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between weather types (WTs) and the frequency of floods and landslides that have caused damage to properties, personal injuries, or deaths in the Italian regions over recent decades. …”
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Lightning accidents in Uganda by Mary, Ahurra Kulyaka, Gomes, Chandima

“…During the five-year period from January 2007 to December 2011, there were 91 reported lightning accidents which accounted for a total number of 150 deaths and 584 cases of personal injuries to which the victims did not succumb. …”

Study of a New Software Reliability Growth Model under Uncertain Operating Environments and Dependent Failures by Dahye Lee, Inhong Chang, Hoang Pham

“…For example, software has extensive applications in areas such as transportation, aviation, and military systems, where reliability problems can result in personal injuries and significant financial losses. Numerous studies have focused on software reliability. …”
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SPATIOTEMPORAL VISUALIZATION OF TSUNAMI WAVES USING KML ON GOOGLE EARTH by H. Mohammadi, M. R. Delavar, M. A. Sharifi, M. D. Pirooz

“…Risk is defined as the expected losses, including lives, personal injuries, property damages, and economic disruptions, due to a particular hazard for a given area and time period. …”
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Smart Sensors for Smart Grid Reliability by Monica Alonso, Hortensia Amaris, Daniel Alcala, Diana M. Florez R.

“…When a short circuit takes place in a smart grid it has to be sensed as soon as possible to reduce its fault duration along the network and to reduce damage to the electricity infrastructure as well as personal injuries. Existing protection devices, which are used to sense the fault, range from classic analog electro-mechanics relays to modern intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). …”
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Assessing road accidents in spatial context via statistical and non-statistical approaches to detect road accident hotspot using GIS by Yegane Khosravi, Farhad Hosseinali, Mostafa Adresi

“…Road accidents are among the most critical causes of fatality, personal injuries, and financial damage worldwide. Identifying accident hotspots and the causes of accidents and improving the condition of these hotspots is an economical way to improve road traffic safety. …”
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Work–related injuries in trade apprentices by Tim Driscoll, Margaret Hanson

“…Overall rates of injury were 222 (95 per cent confidence interval (CI) = 193 to 256) injuries per 1000 full time equivalents (FTEs) and 169 (95% CI=147 to 193) injured persons per 1000 persons. Injury rates adjusted for stage (year of course) were significantly different between schools and were highest in the construction and engineering trades groups (X25= 57.30, P < 0.001). …”
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Framework conditions of occupational safety: Comparing Norwegian maritime cargo and passenger transport by Tor-Olav Nævestad, Kristine V. Størkersen, Alexandra Laiou, George Yannis

“…Moreover, results indicate that work pressure and poor organizational safety culture are closely related to unsafe working behaviours, which in turn is associated with personal injuries on board. However, as a positive organizational safety culture is related to safer working behaviours, future research should examine how organizational safety culture can be employed to reduce the impact of negative framework conditions in maritime transport on occupational safety. …”
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Procedure Negligence in Coastal Cargo: What Can Be Done to Reduce the Gap between Formal and Informal Aspects of Safety? by Tor-Olav Nævestad, Kristine Vedal Størkersen, Ross O. Phillips

“…It is also related to outcome measures like personal injuries and perceptions of risk and safety. A positive organizational safety culture is experienced by respondents reporting of less procedure negligence. …”
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Numerical simulation of the stress-strain state of snow and ice layer on the road when it is destroyed under the influence of the proposed device by Vasilyev Alexey, Vitaly Zemlyak, Protasov Nikolay, Babashov Daniel

“…In the winter season, we can observe the increased number of personal injuries and road vehicle accidents because of ice coating on paved roads. …”
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Societal landslide and flood risk in Italy by P. Salvati, C. Bianchi, M. Rossi, F. Guzzetti

“…For the assessment, we used an improved version of the catalogue of historical landslide and flood events that have resulted in loss of life, missing persons, injuries and homelessness in Italy, from 1850 to 2008. …”
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Analysis Regarding the Risk of Injuries of Soldiers Inside a Vehicle during Accidents Caused by Improvised Explosive Devices by Grzegorz Sławiński, Piotr Malesa, Marek Świerczewski

“…This article presents the outline of the problem regarding the creation of personal injuries of soldiers inside armored vehicles. …”
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Clothoid: An Integrated Hierarchical Framework for Autonomous Driving in a Dynamic Urban Environment by Saba Arshad, Muhammad Sualeh, Dohyeong Kim, Dinh Van Nam, Gon-Woo Kim

“…Several accidents have been occurred with autonomous vehicles, including Tesla and Volvo XC90, resulting in serious personal injuries and death. One of the major reasons is the increase in urbanization and mobility demands. …”
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A simulation experiment study to examine the effects of noise on miners’ safety behavior in underground coal mines by Jing Li, Yaru Qin, Lei Yang, Zhen Wang, Ke Han, Cheng Guan

“…Abstract Background Noise pollution in coal mines is of great concern. Personal injuries directly or indirectly related to noise occur from time to time. …”
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The association between exposure and psychological health in earthquake survivors from the Longmen Shan Fault area: the mediating effect of risk perception by Jiuping Xu, Jiuzhou Dai, Renqiao Rao, Huaidong Xie

“…Abstract Background In this study, exposure refers to survivors who suffered from life-changing situations, such as personal injuries, the deaths or injury of family members, relatives or friends or the loss of or damage to personal or family property, as a result of the earthquake. …”
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Complex regional pain syndrome: medical and legal ramifications of clinical variability and experience and perspective of a practicing clinician by Lazaro RP

“…Physical traumas that triggered CRPS were job-related, vehicular accidents, and personal injuries. The presence of vasomotor symptoms (eg, swelling, skin discoloration, and temperature changes) and allodynia in the affected extremity was the basis for clinical diagnosis in all the patients. …”
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Short-Term Segment-Level Crash Risk Prediction Using Advanced Data Modeling with Proactive and Reactive Crash Data by Branislav Dimitrijevic, Sina Darban Khales, Roksana Asadi, Joyoung Lee

“…Highway crashes, along with the property damage, personal injuries, and fatalities that they cause, continue to present one of the most significant and critical transportation problems. …”
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A Robust Construction Safety Performance Evaluation Framework for Workers’ Compensation Insurance: A Proposed Alternative to EMR by Maha Al-Kasasbeh, Osama Abudayyeh, Hosam Olimat, Hexu Liu, Rabia Al Mamlook, Bilal Abu Alfoul

“…The costs resulting from personal injuries, combined with the associated financial impact resulting from schedule disruptions, insurance hikes, and workers’ compensation, can impact a project’s profitability. …”
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