incident data Articles
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Insurer Uses Telematics to Defend Policyholder Liability Claim in UK First
A UK court has used telematics data in a landmark case, ruling that a driver should not be held liable for a car accident. The case concerned a collision, for which the third party claimed fault lay with the Insure The Box customer. During the trial at Wandsworth County Court a judge heard evidence from both parties who each gave a very different version of events. Telematics data from the ...
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Evaluation of incident management strategies and technologies using an integrated traffic/incident management simulation
This paper describes Rutgers Incident Management System (RIMS) software that is developed to evaluate the benefits of various incident management strategies and technologies. This tool can generate incidents and test various response strategies and technologies. South Jersey highway network is used as a test network due to the available historical incident data. The evaluated incident management ...
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Empowering safety programs with real-time data visualization
An ongoing reality for safety managers and frontline personnel in almost any industry is the need to record safety incident data. When all incident data is inputted into a centralized database, a safety coordinator doesn’t have to wait for the completion of monthly safety reports to identify trends and weaknesses within an organization’s safety program. Rather, since a robust incident ...
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How the Inertial Labs Kernel Tilt Sensors are Shaping Construction Safety
The Price of Safety As of today, the leading cause of fatalities and injury in the construction industry is due to a falling related incident. Data that was gathered by the United States Department of Labor and published by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) found that in 2017, falling incidents alone contributed to 39.2% of the total construction tragedies. But how do ...
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Study on failure rate analysis for water distribution pipelines
Many of the waterworks facilities in Japan were constructed during the rapid economic growth period. Today, the deterioration and renovation of these aged facilities have become a pressing issue. There are approximately 600,000 km worth of water pipelines laid out across Japan, accounting for about 70% of the nation's water-related assets (totalling ¥40 trillion). To provide water that is safe to ...
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Redlist Health & Safety App Reduces Incidents by 50% - Case Study
Steel Manufacture, Portage Indiana Situation A global steel production company with sites in the US and over 90 years in the business has 53,000 employees globally. The company has a wide scope, handling everything from the mining of raw iron ore to all levels of steel production. Many organizations rate them as one of the best steel companies in the world. To continue operating at such a high ...
By Redlist
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IT Security Audits: Strengthening Weak Links in the Security Chain
In today’s business world, data is a driving force to make major decisions across all sectors. Any incident of data breach can lead to irreversible financial and reputational damage for company-owners. As per IBM’s Cost of Data Breach study, the global average data breach cost stands at $3.6 million or $141 per data record. The world has recently faced massive implications of ...
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Visualizing Your Data with EHS Software
When you're teaching teams about environmental, health and safety (EHS) metrics, data visualization is essential because you're reaching people of different ages, educational levels and they might even speak different languages. As you are presenting safety statistics, you want to make sure all stakeholders are responsive, alert, and in tune with your materials to help the environment, prevent ...
By EHS Insight
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Flood risk modelling based on tangible and intangible urban flood damage quantification
The usual way to quantify flood damage is by application stage-damage functions. Urban flood incidents in flat areas mostly result in intangible damages like traffic disturbance and inconvenience for pedestrians caused by pools at building entrances, on sidewalks and parking spaces. Stage-damage functions are not well suited to quantify damage for these floods. This paper presents an alternative ...
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Colorado Dot’s Visionary Investment: TrafficVision Video Analytics
Background In 2015 the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) issued a request for proposals to the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) community for a proactive incident detection and data collection system that would leverage their existing highway CCTV cameras. TrafficVision was selected for award and is currently in the second year of a five-year contract. Like other states using ...
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5 Tips for Managing EHS Compliance Across Global Tech Company Operations
Environment, health and safety (EHS) professionals know their job isn’t simply achieving compliance, but rather sustaining compliance in an ever-changing regulatory environment. But staying on top of changing regulations and requirements is difficult at best. For tech companies with facilities around the world, the challenge to stay current on changing requirements can be incredibly ...
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IndustrySafe safety software case study
Introduction IndustrySafe Safety Software is a web-based safety data management solution developed by TRA so organizations can track incidents, corrective actions, OSHA reporting, training, claims, inspections, hazards, behavioral based safety, and more. IndustrySafe clients include leaders in manufacturing, construction, government, and transportation. General IndustrySafe Overview ...
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Ten keys to an effective RCA program
Many organizations struggle with implementation of an effective root cause analysis (RCA) program. In working with hundreds of organizations to develop and implement RCA programs, we have noted a few common threads that seem to emerge regardless of the business type or size. Here are 10 keys to an effective RCA program: 1. Think long term — Most organizations focus on the short-term because ...
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Do You Know the 4 V’s of Big Data?
From professional sports, to advertising, to investment banking and almost everything in between. Big data is driving thousands of decisions each day that impact us all in areas big and small. But what is big data exactly, and how or why should it impact efforts in the realm of health and safety? First a definition of big data itself. Big data is a term that began to emerge over the last decade ...
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A look ahead: how real-time data helps organizations maximize performance
Real-time data can provide agencies with a deeper understanding of your organization’s performance and provide valuable insight into future training needs. How can your department benefit from greater “intelligence”? Real-time analytics change the way organizations see themselves and influence future performance. Utilizing real-time data for fire departments deepens the ...
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Innovations in Archway Metal Detector Technology and Their Impact on Security Measures
### Innovations in Archway Metal Detector Technology and Their Impact on Security Measures The continual evolution of archway metal detector technology marks a pivotal advancement in the landscape of security measures. From advanced sensing capabilities to seamless integration with broader security infrastructure, innovations in archway metal detectors are revolutionizing security screening, ...
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Transforming Health & Safety
What got us to where we are today will not get us to where we want to be tomorrow. Decades of awareness building, training, and record keeping on Occupational Health and Safety – spearheaded by private and public enterprises and prodded along by governments – have got us to where we are today. These efforts have moved us incrementally along a path over the past four decades from ...
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North Dakota Pipeline Release Data Collection and Communication - Case Study
Challenge A North Dakota pipeline released an estimated 21,000 bbls of crude oil. Antea Group was challenged by the client to assemble a team of specialists capable of effectively and efficiently collecting and communicating extent and migration data to key stakeholders. Due to the magnitude of the spill, spatial and environmental data needed to be collected electronically to expedite analysis ...
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Enhancing Public Safety: The Role of Archway Metal Detectors in Secured Environments
### Enhancing Public Safety: The Role of Archway Metal Detectors in Secured Environments Maintaining public safety in today's dynamic security landscape is paramount, and archway metal detectors have become a pivotal tool in fortifying security measures across a diverse array of environments. By understanding the multifaceted role of archway metal detectors in secured environments, we can ...
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Six technologies that shaped EH&S
This year, the Air & Waste Management Association celebrates its centennial. The past 100 years have yielded remarkable technological advances, especially in the area of information technology (IT). Within our professional lifetimes, we have shifted from using manually typed memos and reports, pink telephone message slips and pagers to computer-generated reports, Internet data exchange, e-mail, ...
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