Abstract
This paper discusses the unfortunately common occurrence of children being severely injured in home-related accidents. The paper contends that the majority of these accidents could have been prevented by implementing minimal safety measures. Statistics are provided regarding the number of children injured in accidents within the home in the United Kingdom. The paper outlines basic safety measures that should be taken to prevent these accidents.

From the Paper
"It is an unfortunate fact that accidents affect young children within their own homes everywhere in the world, and if the adults had taken a mite more care and acted more responsibly, countless number of lives would have been saved, and quite a few instances of injury involving small children could have been prevented. In the United Kingdom alone, it is reported that about 320 children under the age of fourteen died of home-related accidents, mainly by poisoning and injuries due to various other reasons, in the year 2002. This is a figure that shows that more children die due to home-related accidents than of fatal diseases like leukemia and meningitis. These are the types of accidents that may occur to a child within the home: a fall or a trip, either at the same level, or from one level to another. Burns and scalds was another major risk within the home, and either hot drinks or fires caused most of these accidents. Poisoning was another important cause for the death of small children, and this is something that can be easily prevented with the minimum amount of safety measures. (How Many Children are injured in Accidents?) "

Tags:safety, measures, burns, poison

Abstract
The paper looks at the federal and privates agencies that are charged with investigating aircraft crashes and discusses how investigators have a limited time period to compile a report. The paper explains the chemistry of fire, identifies the factors that investigators must learn and take into consideration in determining the cause of a crash and shows how fire is a deadly factor in accident investigation, whether it be the cause of the accident or a result from the accident. The paper emphasizes that understanding fire chemistry can help save more lives from fires in aircraft accidents. This paper contains a figure.

Outline:
Introduction
Federal Agencies
Accident Reports
Fires and Airplane Accidents
Aircraft Fires and Fire Chemistry
The Chemistry of Fire
What Investigators Need to Know
Conclusion

From the Paper
"In recent months there have been several major airplane incidents involving both commercial airplanes and military aircraft. One of the most infamous airplane accidents came in the beginning of the year when US Airways Flight 1549 an Airbus A320 landed in the Hudson River shortly after take off. In this instance all 155 passengers survived and there was no fire.
"However other aircraft accidents have been far more tragic in recent years. For instance, February of 2009 a Colgan Air flight involving a Bombardier DHC-8 airplane crashed when the de-icing mechanism either failed or was not properly implemented. In this case the crash resulted in a fire and killed all 54 passengers and one person on the ground (Wald & Robbin, 2009). The fire did pose some issues for investigators attempting to determine the cause of the crash. One of the primary reasons why fires pose a problem is because of the time required to reconstruct the scene of the crash. First fire fights and first responders must look for survivors and attempt to extinguish the fire as quickly as possible. This is particularly true when a crash occurs in a residential area. In some cases it can take a great deal of time to such a fire under control."

Tags:crash, explosions, cabin, evidence

Abstract
The paper describes four accidents; in Flagstaff, AZ, between Huntsville and Houston, TX, in Topeka, KS and near Whittier, Alaska. The paper looks at the causes of these helicopter accidents and relates that the primary causal group for these cases is operational error.
The paper then discusses how most helicopter crashes--70 percent according to the International Helicopter Safety Team --are caused by the human element.

Outline:
Accident Occurred Sunday, June 29, 2008 in Flagstaff, AZ
Accident Occurred Sunday, June 8, 2008 Between Huntsville and Houston, TX
Accident Occurred Tuesday, June 13, 2000 in TOPEKA, KS
Accident Occurred December 3, 2007 Near Whittier, Alaska
Common Causes of Helicopter Crashes

From the Paper
"The causes of these helicopter accidents can be grouped into two causal areas: Operational error and mechanical malfunction. Within these categories, there are multiple causes. But the primary causal group for the cases we looked at is operational error. And this is not at all unusual.
"Regardless of the cause of the accident, helicopter accidents and helicopter crashes do not occur unless something goes terribly wrong, and this inevitably means that someone did something they should not have done or they failed to do something they should have done.
"Most helicopter crashes--70 percent according to the International Helicopter Safety Team --are caused by the human element. Either the pilot is poorly trained, overloaded with duties and unable to pay attention or the helicopter is poorly designed," said Rhett Flater, executive director of the American Helicopter Society International. "If you have two professionally trained pilots, both instrument-trained, on board the helicopter, the statistics have shown you dramatically increase the safety and decrease the chance of pilot error" (Peveto, 2009).
"In addition, stringent safety and maintenance requirements must be met and these helicopters must meet and be maintained at the minimum federally recommended levels."

Tags:pilot, safety, error, crash

Abstract
The paper provides analytical research into the causes of mining accidents in Ghana, and strategies for preventing them. The paper aims to determine if the age and length of service of the mining workers has any relationship to the injuries, accidents, and the severity of same that are seen at the mine. The paper also offers ideas for training by age group, and laments that most mining studies concentrate solely on profitability, neglecting the subject of human capital and miner safety. The paper concludes that ensuring that young people who come into the mining trade are safe and careful and do not cause accidents is a vital part of providing safety equipment and safety instructions, particularly in developing countries where the safety regulations are not as stringent as they are in more fully-developed countries.

Outline:
Introduction
Productivity and Mining - Human Capital
The Safety of Mine Workers - Training Ideas
Conclusion
References

From the Paper
"Larger companies, naturally, are much more sophisticated in the ways that they analyze their human capital budgets (Aspects, 1988). Companies that have sales greater than 500 million often use combinations of all three of the DCF techniques that are available (Alanen, 1979). Many of these companies also performed escalated dollar analyses and constant dollar analyses that depended not only on financing alternatives but also on time constraints (Alfaro & Huijbregts, 1974). Companies also used even more advanced techniques in performing various valuations into mining projects, but this was not seen to be on a consistent basis (Guzman, 1995). Some of these techniques included computer simulations on various investment activities similar to Monte Carlo analyses and a specific way of utilizing options pricing into valuing of copper properties (Guzman, 1995)."

Tags:metallurgy, mine, safety, cave-in, carbon, monoxide

Abstract
The paper discusses the dangers of inexperienced teen drivers and the issues facing elderly drivers and suggests that the requirements to get and keep a driver's license must be updated, while the way driving ability is tested must also be changed. The paper hopes that if teenage drivers must be supervised while driving until the age of 17 and the elderly will have regular license renewals with ability tests, age-based accidents will stop.

From the Paper
"Imagine throwing a ball at an upward angle. It travels up for a while, reaches its peak, and then falls back to the ground. The route it travels makes a sort of upside down "U" shape. Now transpose that shape onto a graph where the x-axis is a person's age. What could this graph show us? It could be the money a person makes, or the ability to control when they go to the bathroom, but for the purpose of this essay it is the ability to safely drive an automobile. There is a certain age at which teenagers become mature enough to pilot a car by themselves. In addition, there is an age at which a person becomes too old, whether because of physical or mental disability, to drive a car safely. Studies have shown that the most accidents per mile are caused by teenager and elderly driving (Cox)."

Tags:license, aging, cars

Abstract
This paper examines the many weather conditions that can precipitate an aircraft accident, such as windshear, thunderstorms, haze and more. Each of these conditions is explained in detail.

From the Paper
"Weather conditions influence the incidence of aircraft accidents in a number of ways. Aircraft can become directly impacted by weather when they are struck by lightning in storms blown off course, incur malfunctions due to the icing up of engine parts and wings or are bounced about in the air by turbulence. Wind shear and convective hazards can draw a plane off course where it can collide with another aircraft. Hailstorms can damage an aircraft's shell, thus altering its aerodynamic properties..."

Tags:aircraft, airliner, airplane, weather, accident, crash, environmental conditions, storm, thunderstorm, downdraft, microburst, hail, haze, tornado, convection, lightning, windshear, icing, precipitation, St. Elmo's Fire, water ingestion, altimeter interfer

Abstract
This paper explores a 2001 study of aircraft accident indicators, including pilot age, gender, education, flying experience, previous accident involvement and attitudes toward flying. The paper examines the study's methodology and findings in each of these areas before focusing on the role of the pilot's personality on airplane crashes. The paper shows how research indicates that personality is involved in decisions to stick to a flight plan regardless of weather, or abandon it in. The paper also examines whether gain (personal safety) or loss (money, time) is instrumental in those situations and concludes that these decisions do not disprove the function of personality, but rather reinforce it -- especially in light of the equivocal results of simulation experiments designed to test the hypothesis that it is the gain/loss continuum alone that determines whether a pilot will continue or abandon a flight plan in the presence of adverse weather information.

From the Paper
"Hunter used data obtained in a national survey of pilots c completed in 1994 with the purpose of examining the validity of measure for predicting accidents and those that occurred after. Hunter used those finding to address two issues: "the relationships among the various measures and accident involvement" (Hunger, 2001, p. 509+). The population Hunter had at his disposal was significant; 561,485 active pilots (those who had been issued a valid airman medical certificate in the preceding 25 months) were used to draw 19,657 participants representing a cross-section of private, commercial and airline transport certificate holders. Those participants then filled out an extensive questionnaire, and, while it was not a personality inventory per se, it did contain 27 questions concerning attitudes about flying."

Tags:airplane, crash, flight, pilot, personality, investigation, airline

Abstract
This paper examines how there are special laws protecting both the consumer and the worker who have to deal with electricity, particularly California Public Utilities section 8031 and 8033. It looks at how any person who is injured by an electrical accident can sue if the accident was caused by the negligence or wrongdoing of another. It also discusses how, in the case of the electric companies, they must make frequent inspections to insure that the lines are not defective or pose a threat to the safety of the consume ; they are responsible for protecting against any forces of nature or foreseeable threats that could result in injury or death. It also shows how, according to the law, the power company has a "non-delegable" duty to construct and maintain its facilities in a safe condition.

From the Paper
"In the case of Pappert v. San Diego Gas & Electric (186 cal. Rptr 847), the plaintiff. Susan A. Pappert and her children, appealed the wrongful death of her husband, Charles, arising from his electrocution while trying to cut a tree close to the uninsulated 12,000-volt power line. Were the findings correct in stating that SDG&E could not have reasonably foreseen that the defendant's own acts would cause him harm? It cannot be proved that the tree pruner ever came in contact with the power line because no one witnessed it. So therefore, who can say what truly happened? There are some that say the tree itself may have been energized by the wire."

Tags:safety, electricity, injury

Abstract
The following paper examines how the news media has been changed from a brave, controversy-seeking faction to a community of self-censoring, congress-fearing puppets of whom the politically powerful are the puppeteers. The writer argues that the media is not the same establishment that once looked for the extra, but it is merely a reserved, timid society, a society that has ignored its once unquenchable thirst for the truth in order to satisfy its hunger for the more material things, money and power.

From the Paper
"It is a calm, cold morning in Maine and the news is blaring in one household. The family hears that there has been another violent plane crash. Little Jimmy is quaking in his shoes, because he knows that the story will be covered constantly for most of the week, if not longer. Violent images will be shown on the television that his parents bought for Jimmy s favorite educational television shows. Jimmy decides to change the channel, but almost all of the channels are covering the same information about the plane crash. Then, an image of a man who died in the crash appears on television. Little Jimmy bursts into tears. Jimmy grows up to detest the news, and to hate plane crashes. Why must the news cover tragedies so extensively?"

Tags:american, coverage, crash, crashes, event, media, news, newspaper, overcoverage, television, tragedy

Abstract
The paper explains that the purpose of the research is to ascertain the effects of aviation resource management survey (ARMS) inspections on aviation accident rates in the U.S. army. The paper presents the hypothesis that ARMS inspections decrease Army aviation accidents and proposes to look into the United States Army Europe and Seventh Army (USAREUR) aviation accident statistics over a four-year period. The paper provides an extensive literature review and outlines the exact research methodology to be utilized.

Outline:
Abstract
Chapter One - Introduction
Chapter Two - Review of Literature
Chapter Three - Methodology

From the Paper
"United States Army aviation resources are an expensive, finite product in the budget of the United States government. The numbers of helicopters required in war fighting deployments have a direct impact in peacekeeping missions and waging war in global conflicts. The loss of United States Army helicopters directly impact the mission, capability, and accomplishment of Army aviation in deployments and support missions to ground forces. The expenditure of these valuable assets, to include loss of life, directly impact the strategy of the United States Army. If present aviation accident trends continue, coupled with combat losses, the expectation of over one billion dollars in United States Army aviation accidents, Class A through C, will become a reality. This downward spiral in aviation accidents must be stopped."

Tags:safety, aircraft, helicopters, pilots, crashes, risk, oversight