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Design Improvements for School Bus Emergency Evacuation Systems 

Gunter, Leslie A (2019-04-18)
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to: (1) Evaluate a rear emergency door intervention designed to improved passenger flow rate during evacuation. Two school bus mock up test fixtures were fabricated ...

The Effects of Behavior-based Safety Techniques on Behavior Variation, Targeted and Non-Targeted Safe Behaviors, and Productivity and Quality in Manufacturing Facilities 

Godbey, Jessie (2006-12-15)
In the field of occupational safety and health, worker behavior is often associated with the immediate cause of workplace accidents and injuries. As a result an understanding of worker behavior is a major area of concern ...

The Effects of Lean Manufacturing on Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 

Brawner, Joel (2022-11-29)
The association between Lean Manufacturing (LM) and occupational safety and ergonomics (S/E) is a widely disputed topic in scientific literature. This study attempts to add clarity to this controversial relationship through ...

Human Performance in Cyber-Vulnerable Highly Automated Unmanned Aerial Systems 

Stutts, Isaac (2020-02-05)  ETD File Embargoed
Automation is ever present in today’s complex systems of systems. Originally created to ease workload and burden on the human operator and to increase safety by automating dangerous tasks, automation has become practically ...

Seat Belt Safety in Rollover Accidents: Investigating Buckle Release Force and its Impact on Occupant Protection 

Nageswaran, Shivaprasad (2023-05-02)
Seat belts have been a crucial safety feature in vehicles for over a century. They undoubtedly remain the most effective safety device in a vehicle for reducing both fatal and nonfatal injuries resulting from motor vehicle ...

Validation of MRI-Derived Morphometric Estimations of Biomechanical Inputs to Improve Low Back Pain Risk Assessment 

Salar, Menekse (2017-11-30)
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders facing the working world. Previous LBP studies have focused on exposure to physical risk factors in the workplace such as lifting, pushing, pulling ...