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Zecevic, Aleksandra A.; Salmoni, Alan W.; Lewko, John H.; Vandervoort, Anthony A. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2007
An in-depth understanding of human factors and human error is lacking in current research on seniors' falls. Additional knowledge is needed to understand why seniors are falling. The purpose of this article is to describe the adapting of the Integrated Safety Investigation Methodology (ISIM) (used for investigating transportation and industrial…
Descriptors: Investigations, Systems Approach, Accident Prevention, Safety Education
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Brookes, Andrew – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
This paper is part of an on-going project to examine outdoor education related deaths in Australia since 1960. It records eleven incidents not included in previous papers in this series. A total of 14 students or staff died in the incidents. The paper reviews the incidents and identifies what further lessons can be learned about fatality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Death, Risk
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Kaufman, Kenneth R.; Endres, Jennifer K.; Kaufman, Nathaniel D. – Death Studies, 2007
Conversion disorders, the physical expression of unresolved psychological pain, can be associated with mourning. This case report is third in a series of articles by the authors on childhood mourning reflecting the effects of multiple losses (K. R. Kaufman & N. D. Kaufman, 2005; K. R. Kaufman & N. D. Kaufman, 2006). In this case report, perception…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Accident Prevention, Children, Adolescents