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Assessing the Impact of Local Agency Traffic Safety Training Using Ethnographic Techniques
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Colling, Timothy K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Traffic crashes are a significant source of loss of life, personal injury and financial expense in the United States. In 2008 there were 37,261 people killed and an estimated 2,346,000 people injured nationwide in motor vehicle traffic crashes. State and federal agencies are beginning to focus traffic safety improvement effort on local agency…
Descriptors: Traffic Safety, Ethnography, Program Effectiveness, Local Government
Checking Safety in Technology Education
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Gunter, Robert E. – Technology Teacher, 2007
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS], n.d.) has shown that workers involved in accidents have little, if any, instruction on the equipment they were using while injured. Keep in mind that instruction on the safe operation of a piece of equipment may take place early in the school year,…
Descriptors: Laboratory Procedures, Technology Education, Laboratory Safety, Technological Literacy
Firearm Injury Prevention Skills: Increasing the Efficiency of Training with Peer Tutoring
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Jostad, Candice M.; Miltenberger, Raymond G. – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 2004
Gun play results in hundreds of childhood injuries and deaths each year in the United States. Behavioral Skills Training (BST) is used to teach children the skills needed to resist gun play when finding a firearm. Although effective, existing BST programs are time and resource intensive and therefore lack the efficiency required to be widely…
Descriptors: Safety Education, Child Safety, Accident Prevention, Injuries
Review and Evaluation of Current Training Programs Found in Various Mining Environments. Final Report. Volume I, Summary.
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Adkins, John; And Others – 1976
A project was designed to produce a broad description of current mining training programs and to evaluate their effectiveness with respect to reducing mine injuries. The research strategy was built on the ranking of mines according to the effectiveness of their training with an effective training effort being defined as that training which is…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Educational Programs, Industrial Training
Review and Evaluation of Current Training Programs Found in Various Mining Environments. Final Report. Volume II, Analysis and Recommendations.
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Adkins, John; And Others – 1976
A project was designed to produce a broad description of current mining training programs and to evaluate their effectiveness with respect to reducing mine injuries. Aggregate training and injury data were used to evaluate the overall training effort at 300 mines as well as specific efforts in 12 categories of training course objectives. From such…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Agency Role, Data Analysis
The Moped Report.
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Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1978
Designed to present the history and state-of-the-art of the moped (motorized bicycle) in Ohio and in the other states, to analyze the issues that have arisen regarding the moped and its impact on traffic safety, and to offer suggestions for future action, this report begins with a description of the current moped situation. The second section…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Environmental Influences, Equipment Standards, Federal Regulation