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  • Spatial consumption and risk of lower back disorder during assisted toilet transfers on board an aircraft

    Creator:
    Philbrick, Kenneth Alan
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    A major barrier to air travel for people with disabilities is the general lack of accessible lavatories on board commercial passenger aircraft. A primary reason for this lack of greater accessibility is related to space. To design an airplane lavatory that is accessible, minimizes the risk of injury to both...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Feasibility study of a surface vehicle utilizing a unitary control system

    Creator:
    Bassett, David Arthur
    Abstract:
    A feasibility and practicality study was made of an automotive-type surface vehicle that employed a centralized or unitized means of control. The control functions consisted of: steering, acceleration, deceleration, clutch actuation, gear changes, turn signal operation and horn actuation. These controls were arranged in such a manner that the driver...
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    Masters Thesis
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    patience with the construction and testing phases as did Professors W. W. Smith and C. E. Smith with the

  • Sustainable construction safety and health rating system

    Creator:
    Rajendran, Sathyanarayanan
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    The main objective of this research study is to incorporate construction worker safety and health into sustainable design and construction practices. This can be fulfilled by the development of an innovative construction worker safety and health planning tool, called Sustainable Construction Safety and Health (SCSH) Rating System that will: •...
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    Dissertation
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    construction worker safety and health into sustainable design and construction practices. This can be

  • The evolution of practical safety audits in the United States

    Creator:
    Houghton, Tegan Marie
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    This thesis evaluates pre-construction auditing procedures used in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in order to help create post-construction auditing procedures for the state of Oregon. It was funded as part of the development of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Safety Investigation Manual, and also evaluates content...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Introduction Pre-construction safety audits have been prevalent in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New

  • Design and analysis of radiation shielding eyewear

    Creator:
    Spackman, David A.
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    The recent reductions to the international dose limit recommendations for the lens of the eye have renewed interest in radiation protection strategies in interventional fluoroscopy, where eye-lens radiation exposure occurs frequently. Radiationshielding eyewear can significantly reduce lens dose in these scenarios, but accurate protection factors are elusive because they depend...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Health Physics presented on June 11, 2013. Title: Design and Analysis of Radiation Shielding Eyewear

  • Impact of access density on number of crashes at commercial roadways

    Creator:
    Yi, Xiang
    Abstract:
    Numerous research efforts have proven the safety benefits of access management. There are several access management techniques, including unsignalized access spacing, signalized intersection spacing, left-turn lanes, right-turn lanes, Two-Way Left-Turn lanes (TWLTLs), nontraversable median, U-turns, interchange access separation distances and so on. This project explores the correlation between access density...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering

  • Direction, method, and model for implementing design for construction worker safety in the US

    Creator:
    Tymvios, Nicholas
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    The construction industry employs about 7% of the total US workforce, and yet it accounts for 15.7% of all occupational fatalities. Specifically in 2011, there were 721 deaths in construction, second only to transportation with 733. The cause of a large number of these construction deaths can be attributed to...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    “Designer, Owner, and Contractor Views on Design for Construction Worker Safety”. It includes a literature

  • Design for construction safety : a case study with architect's perceptions

    Creator:
    Christianson, Carl R.
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    Designing for construction safety is a collaborative process that combines the field experience of builders with the design skills of architects to improve construction safety. Research studies have shown that the design of a project is a factor in approximately fifty percent of jobsite deaths. To reduce this problem it...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Safety 5 II. LITERATURE REVIEW 7 Construction Design and Management Regulations 9 Other Previous

  • Cross-section fatal crash type prediction models

    Creator:
    Zhu, Hong
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    The rural two-lane highway in the southeastern United States is frequently associated with a disproportionate number of serious and fatal crashes. The major research objectives are to investigate the relations between probabilities of fatal crash type occurrence and potential contributing factors from road geometric design characteristics and roadside, environmental features....
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    Dissertation
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    road geometric design characteristics and roadside, environmental features. This dissertation

  • A formal model of construction safety and health risk management

    Creator:
    Hallowell, Matthew R.
    Abstract:
    Despite recent efforts to improve site safety, construction still accounts for a disproportionate injury and illness rate. According to the 2007 injury and illness data released by the National Safety Council, the construction industry has a fatality and disabling injury rate that is approximately three times higher than the all-industry...
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    Dissertation
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    released by the National Safety Council, the construction industry has a fatality and disabling injury