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Research Update: Outdoor Education Fatalities in Australia
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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
Seniors Falls Investigative Methodology (SFIM): A Systems Approach to the Study of Falls in Seniors
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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
Adventure Program Risk Management Report: 1998 Edition. Narratives and Data from 1991-1997.
Leemon, Drew, Ed.; Schimelpfenig, Tod, Ed.; Gray, Sky, Ed.; Tarter, Shana, Ed.; Williamson, Jed, Ed. – 1998
The Wilderness Risk Managers Committee (WRMC), a consortium of outdoor schools and organizations, works toward better understanding and management of risks in the wilderness. Among other activities, the WRMC gathers data on incidents and accidents from member organizations and other wilderness-based programs. This book compiles incident data for…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Adventure Education, Data Collection
Psychogenic Dyspnea and Therapeutic Chest Radiograph
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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
Safety in the Chemical Laboratory. Epidemiology of Accidents in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, Part 1. Accident Data Survey.
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Hellmann, Margaret A.; And Others – Journal of Chemical Education, 1986
Addresses the history and philosophy of accident prevention in chemistry laboratories. Presents the results of a statewide survey done in Colorado designed to investigate the etiology of academic chemistry laboratory accidents in institutions of higher education. Patterns of accident characteristics identified by the student are discussed. (TW)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Chemistry, College Science, Etiology
Safety in the Chemical Laboratory. Epidemiology of Accidents in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, Part 2. Accident Intervention Study, Legal Aspects, and Observations.
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Hellmann, Margaret A.; And Others – Journal of Chemical Education, 1986
Reports on a chemistry laboratory accident intervention study conducted throughout the state of Colorado. Addresses the results of an initial survey of institutions of higher learning. Discusses some legal aspects concerning academic chemistry accidents. Provides some observations about academic chemistry laboratory accidents on the whole. (TW)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Chemistry, College Science, Etiology