scholarly journals Experiences of Injuries and Injury Reporting among Swedish Skydivers

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Jong ◽  
Anton Westman ◽  
Britt-Inger Saveman
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
Injury Reporting ◽  
The Individual

The objective was to illuminate the experience of injuries and the process of injury reporting within the Swedish skydiving culture. Data contained narrative interviews that were subsequently analyzed with content analysis. Seventeen respondents (22–44 years) were recruited at three skydiving drop zones in Sweden. In the results injury events related to the full phase of a skydive were described. Risk of injury is individually viewed as an integrated element of the recreational activity counterbalanced by its recreational value. The human factor of inadequate judgment such as miscalculation and distraction dominates the descriptions as causes of injuries. Organization and leadership act as facilitators or constrainers for reporting incidents and injuries. On the basis of this study it is interpreted that safety work and incident reporting in Swedish skydiving may be influenced more by local drop zone culture than the national association regulations. Formal and informal hierarchical structures among skydivers seem to decide how skydiving is practiced, rules are enforced, and injuries are reported. We suggest that initial training and continuing education need to be changed from the current top-down to a bottom-up perspective, where the individual skydiver learns to see the positive implications of safety work and injury reporting.

scholarly journals Individualized religion and the theory of learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Claire Wanless
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Structural Instability ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

Individualized or postmodern religion, that prioritizes subjective experience and places ultimate authority with the individual, has increased in prevalence over recent decades. Secularization theory views individualized religion as a secularizing phenomenon, due to its supposed inherent structural instability. It is claimed that religious frameworks that locate authority within the individual cannot inspire commitment, create consensus or cohesion, or motivate evangelization, and are thus rendered unable to transmit their ideas, values and practices over time or to have significant impact on wider culture or society. Such a view assumes that effectively functioning religion requires a top-down, hierarchical organizational structure in which members are passive and obedient recipients of knowledge rather than being its active and dynamic co-creators. This article puts forward an alternative, arguably more plausible, way of theorizing individualized religion. Instead of hierarchical structures, individualized forms of religion tend to adopt unplanned and undirected rhizomatic networks of producer-consumers, which both result from and enable their culture of radical personal autonomy. Instead of transmitting values, ideas and practices down vertical lines, they do so horizontally, for example through the creation of spontaneously generated communities of practice. In this way, it is argued, these forms of religion are in principle at least able to transmit themselves effectively both within and between generations.

Quantitative indicators of air traffic controllers’ attitude to the danger of errors

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
O. M. Reva ◽  
V. V. Kamyshin ◽  
S. P. Borsuk ◽  
V. A. Shulhin ◽  
A. V. Nevynitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Human Factor ◽  
Differential Method ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Aviation Accidents ◽  
Air Traffic Controllers ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

The negative and persistent impact of the human factor on the statistics of aviation accidents and serious incidents makes proactive studies of the attitude of “front line” aviation operators (air traffic controllers, flight crewmembers) to dangerous actions or professional conditions as a key component of the current paradigm of ICAO safety concept. This “attitude” is determined through the indicators of the influence of the human factor on decision-making, which also include the systems of preferences of air traffic controllers on the indicators and characteristics of professional activity, illustrating both the individual perception of potential risks and dangers, and the peculiarities of generalized group thinking that have developed in a particular society. Preference systems are an ordered (ranked) series of n = 21 errors: from the most dangerous to the least dangerous and characterize only the danger preference of one error over another. The degree of this preference is determined only by the difference in the ranks of the errors and does not answer the question of how much time one error is more dangerous in relation to another. The differential method for identifying the comparative danger of errors, as well as the multistep technology for identifying and filtering out marginal opinions were applied. From the initial sample of m = 37 professional air traffic controllers, two subgroups mB=20 and mG=7 people were identified with statisti-cally significant at a high level of significance within the group consistency of opinions a = 1%. Nonpara-metric optimization of the corresponding group preference systems resulted in Kemeny’s medians, in which the related (middle) ranks were missing. Based on these medians, weighted coefficients of error hazards were determined by the mathematical prioritization method. It is substantiated that with the ac-cepted accuracy of calculations, the results obtained at the second iteration of this method are more ac-ceptable. The values of the error hazard coefficients, together with their ranks established in the preference systems, allow a more complete quantitative and qualitative analysis of the attitude of both individual air traffic controllers and their professional groups to hazardous actions or conditions.

Safety climate and related factors in rehabilitation nurses of hospitals in Iran

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Javad vatani ◽  
Zahra Khanikosarkhizi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Shahabi Rabori ◽  
mohammad khandan ◽  
Mohsen aminizadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Climate Assessment ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Individual

BACKGROUND: Safety climate is a common insight of staff that indicates individuals’ attitudes toward safety and priority of safety at work. OBJECTIVES: Nursing is a risky job where paying attention to safety is crucial. The assessment of the safety climate is one of the methods to measure the safety conditions in this occupation. The aim of this study was to assess the safety climate of rehabilitation nurses working in hospitals in Tehran. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study which was carried out on 140 rehabilitation nurses selected from all hospitals and clinics in Tehran in 2019. To collect the required data, a two-section questionnaire was used. The first section was related to demographic factors and the second part (22 statements) was to measure the safety climate using nurses’ safety climate assessment questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS V16 using independent t-test, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U test at the 5% level. RESULTS: Findings showed that the total mean of safety climate was 3.06±0.56. According to the results, a significant difference was found between the positive and negative satisfaction of nurses with safety climates (P-value = 0.03), communication with nurses (P-value = 0.01) and supervisors’ attitude (P-value = 0.02). Furthermore, a significant difference in safety climate between the individual with the second job and the individual without second could be observed (P-value = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The results indicated that the safety climate was not at an acceptable level. Thus, it is essential to introduce safety training courses (e.g. safety, work-rest balance, and so on) and to improve the safety performance at work.

scholarly journals Method engineering to increase labor productivity and eliminate downtime

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Mildrend Montoya-Reyes ◽  
Alvaro González-Angeles ◽  
Ismael Mendoza-Muñoz ◽  
Margarita Gil-Samaniego-Ramos ◽  
Juan Ling-López
Keyword(s):  
Human Factor ◽  
Dead Time ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Manufacturing Cell ◽  
Future Harm ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Machine Interaction

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to present a method based on the application of method engineering, in order to eliminate downtime and improve the manufacturing cell.Design/methodology/approach: The research strategy employed was a case study applied to a manufacturing company to explore the causes of excessive dead time and low productivity. The methodology used was divided in five steps. The first corresponds to the analysis of the lathe and grinding process; the second is the elaboration of the man-machine diagram to identify dead times; the third is the application of the improvement proposal; the fourth is the redistribution of the cell to optimize the process; the fifth is to conclude from the results obtained.Findings: With the proposed method, the downtime was reduced by 41% and only 50% of the available labor is required, therefore, it is concluded that the method can be used to redesign manufacturing cells.Research limitations/implications: This research was limited to analyzing and improving human-machine interaction, since work is not just the machine, or the individual alone, or the individual manipulating the machine, therefore, no other tools were used to improve the time of machines operation.Practical implications: Designing a manufacturing cell that allows the operator to do his job with less fatigue and not adapt the operator to the job, as commonly happens.Social implications: Companies must show a greater interest in occupational health by including human capital in their optimization plans to avoid future harm to workers.Originality/value: The key contribution of this paper focused on developing a novel and practical methodology to design or re-design manufacturing cells to improve productivity considering the human factor, inspired by the main concepts of method engineering.

scholarly journals Characterizing biospheric carbon balance using CO<sub>2</sub> observations from the OCO-2 satellite

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot M. Miller ◽  
Anna M. Michalak ◽  
Vineet Yadav ◽  
Jovan M. Tadic
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Atmospheric Transport ◽  
Synthetic Data ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Co2 Fluxes ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Future Improvement ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hemisphere Winter ◽  
Atmospheric Transport Modeling

Abstract. NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite launched in summer of 2014. Its observations could allow scientists to constrain CO2 fluxes across regions or continents that were previously difficult to monitor. This study explores an initial step toward that goal; we evaluate the extent to which current OCO-2 observations can detect patterns in biospheric CO2 fluxes and constrain monthly CO2 budgets. Our goal is to guide top-down, inverse modeling studies and identify areas for future improvement. We find that uncertainties and biases in the individual OCO-2 observations are comparable to the atmospheric signal from biospheric fluxes, particularly during northern hemisphere winter when biospheric fluxes are small. A series of top-down experiments indicate how these errors affect our ability to constrain monthly biospheric CO2 budgets. We are able to constrain budgets for between two and four global regions using OCO-2 observations, depending on the month, and we can constrain CO2 budgets at the regional level (i.e., smaller than seven global biomes) in only a handful of cases (16 % of all regions and months). The potential of the OCO-2 observations, however, is greater than these results might imply. A set of synthetic data experiments suggests that observation or retrieval errors have a salient effect. Advances in retrieval algorithms and to a lesser extent atmospheric transport modeling will improve the results. In the interim, top-down studies that use current satellite observations are best-equipped to constrain the biospheric carbon balance across only continental or hemispheric regions.

scholarly journals PROBLEMAS PRÁTICOS PROFISSIONAIS:

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 124-147
Author(s):  
Ismael Donizete Cardoso de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Geography Teaching ◽  
The Individual

Este estudo teve como propósito discutir alguns resultados da pesquisa intitulada “Problemas práticos profissionais: aportes teórico-metodológicos do ensino de geografia na formação continuada de professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental”. Nesse sentido, o objetivo geral consistiu em compreender se a formação continuada, centrada nos problemas práticos profissionais, contribui para que as professoras superem o ensino empírico dos conteúdos geográficos. Em consonância, os objetivos específicos visaram: discutir os principais conceitos da teoria histórico-cultural e do Ensino de Geografia; mediar a elaboração dos planos de aula; e entender a formação continuada como possibilidade de superação do ensino empírico dos conteúdos geográficos. A pesquisa qualitativa e os procedimentos de análise dos planos de aula, de observação e de narrativas foram utilizados para levantamento dos dados junto às professoras durante o curso de formação continuada, que contou com os conteúdos de paisagem, lugar, urbano e cidade. Como resultado, mesmo diante da complexidade do tema, houve mudanças nas práticas pedagógicas das professoras, entre as quais se destacaram: o avanço na apropriação desses conceitos, na contextualização dos conteúdos, na articulação destes com os conhecimentos cotidianos dos alunos, na organização de textos e imagens e nas tarefas dos alunos do coletivo para o individual. PALAVRAS-CHAVE Teoria histórico-cultural, Problemas práticos profissionais, Ensino de Geografia, Conceitos.   PRACTICAL PROFESSIONAL PROBLEMS: theoretical and methodological contributions of teaching Geography in continuing training of teachers from the early years in the Elementary School ABSTRACT This study aimed to discuss some results of the research entitled" practical professional problems: theoretical and methodological contributions of teaching geography in continuing training of teachers from the early years in the elementary school". Therefore, the general objective was to understand if continued training, focused on practical professional problems, contributes to teachers surmount empirical teaching of geographic contents. In harmony, the specific objectives aimed to: discuss the main concepts of historical-cultural theory and geography teaching; mediate the preparation of lesson plans; and to understand continued training as a possibility of surpassing the empirical teaching of geographic contents. Qualitative research and procedures for analyzing lesson plans, observation and narratives were used to survey data with teachers during the continuing education course, which included the contents of landscape, place, urban and city. As results, even before the complexity of the theme, there were changes in the pedagogical practices of the teachers, among which stood out: the advance in the appropriation of these concepts, in the contextualization of the contents, in the articulation of these with the knowledge students' daily lives, in the organization of texts and images, and in the tasks of the students from the collective to the individual. KEYWORDS Historical-cultural theory, Professional practical problems, Geography teaching, Concepts.

scholarly journals Character drawing style in cartoons on empathy induction: an eye-tracking and EEG study

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3988
Author(s):  
Yong-il Lee ◽  
Yeojeong Choi ◽  
Jaeseung Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Central Area ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Behavioral Measures ◽  
Attentional Processing ◽  
Total Fixation ◽  
Empathy Score ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Gamma Power ◽  
Social Empathy ◽  
The Individual

In its most basic form, empathy refers to the ability to understand another person’s feelings and emotions, representing an essential component of human social interaction. Owing to an increase in the use of mass media, which is used to distribute high levels of empathy-inducing content, media plays a key role in individual and social empathy induction. We investigated empathy induction in cartoons using eye movement, EEG and behavioral measures to explore whether empathy factors correlate with character drawing styles. Two different types of empathy-inducing cartoons that consisted of three stages and had the same story plot were used. One had an iconic style, while the other was realistic style. Fifty participants were divided into two groups corresponding to the individual cartoon drawing styles and were presented with only one type of drawing style. We found that there were no significant differences of empathy factors between iconic and realistic style. However, the Induced Empathy Score (IES) had a close relationship with subsequent attentional processing (total fixation length for gaze duration). Furthermore, iconic style suppressed the fronto-central area more than realistic style in the gamma power band. These results suggest that iconic cartoons have the advantage of abstraction during empathy induction, because the iconic cartoons induced the same level of empathy as realistic cartoons while using the same story plot (top-down process), even though lesser time and effort were required by the cartoon artist to draw them. This also means that the top-down process (story plot) is more important than the bottom-up process (drawing style) in empathy induction when viewing cartoons

Becoming a Police Community Support Officer and Being Institutionally Undermined

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-100
Author(s):  
Megan O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Foot Patrol ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the process of becoming a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO), from deciding to apply for the position to the initial training experiences and the first few months of shadowing experienced colleagues on foot patrol. The focus of this chapter is on the relationship between the individual PCSOs and the police institution. It considers the stages of initiation into community policing which PCSOs experienced and how the organization failed to fully equip these new recruits with the ‘tools’ needed. While work as a PCSO initially was attractive to these individuals, the reality upon entering the occupation was that many were left to learn for themselves how to do the work. The organization did not give consistent messages in this regard or adequate support in order for them to learn in a formal capacity how to do the job: this process will be called ‘institutional undermining’.

scholarly journals Risk of Injury in Physically Active Students: Associated Factors and Quality of Life Aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2564
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Sieńko-Awierianów ◽  
Monika Chudecka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Pain Threshold ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Physical Domain ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Locomotor System ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the potential factors of hypermobility and pain threshold on the risk of injury in physically active students and to verify which domains of quality of life are rated lower by young people with a history of injuries. Methods: The study included 278 students (138 women and 140 men) who regularly undertake physical activity. Anthropometric measurements, body composition, pain threshold, incidence of hypermobility syndrome, information on the history of injuries to the locomotor system, and the quality of life of the study participants were collected. Results: In the group studied, hypermobility and pain threshold had a statistically significant related on the risk of injury. Participants with a history of injuries had lower scores for an individual’s overall perception of their own health and the physical domain. There were also significant differences in the psychological domain of the quality of life between males and females with a history of injuries. Conclusion: In the studied group, the risk of injuries was related to diagnosed hypermobility and pain threshold measured on the lower limbs. The study also showed that people with a history of injuries had statistically significantly lower scores in the individual general perception of their own health and in the physical domain. Gender had a significant impact on the quality of life of people with injuries.

scholarly journals Soccer-related head injuries—analysis of sentinel surveillance data collected by the electronic Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 378-384
Author(s):  
Sarah Zutrauen ◽  
Steven McFaull ◽  
Minh T Do
Keyword(s):  
Prevention Program ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Surveillance Data ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Closed Head Injuries ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
Ed Visits ◽  
Injury Reporting ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Background Participating in sports is a great way to gain physical, psychological, and social benefits. However, it also carries the risk of injury. Soccer is one of the most popular sports worldwide, and in recent years, there have been concerns about potential vulnerabilities to head injuries. Objectives To investigate soccer-related head injuries (SRHIs), using data from the electronic Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (eCHIRPP) surveillance system. Specifically, we aim to compare characteristics of SRHI cases to all head injury cases within the eCHIRPP database. Methods Descriptive analyses of emergency department (ED) injury surveillance data (2011 to 2017) for individuals aged 5 to 29 years from all participating eCHIRPP sites. Computation of proportionate injury ratios (PIR) comparing SRHIs to all head injuries reported to eCHIRPP, and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results A total of 3,970 SRHIs were reported to eCHIRPP. Injuries were from contact with another player, the ball, ground, goal-post, and other causes. Of the injuries caused by contact with the ball, 9% were from purposely directing the ball with the head (heading). A higher proportion of concussions (PIR=1.32, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.27 to 1.37) and minor closed head injuries (PIR=1.20, 95% CI: 1.15 to 1.26) were observed in soccer players. Higher proportions of head injuries occurred in organized soccer and soccer played outdoors. However, admission to the ED for a SRHI was rare (PIR=0.40, 95% CI: 0.30 to 0.55). Conclusions Overall, elevated proportions of brain injuries were observed among soccer players, however, these injuries were unlikely to result in a hospital admission. Moreover, purposely heading the ball contributed to few ED visits.

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