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The paper develops an age and developmentally appropriate lesson plan for a third grade class to promote the use of safety helmets when riding bicycles. The paper describes how the lesson will encourage class participation and will use the inherent developmental characteristics of eight year-olds to belong to a group to provide positive peer pressure. The paper explains that the lesson is also designed to provide reasons why the wearing of helmets is necessary for personal safety and to prevent injury.

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"There are 85 million bicycle riders in the United States, and 540,000 of them visited them emergency room, of those 67,000 had head injuries, 27,000 required hospitalization, and 45 to 85 percent of the brain injuries could have been prevented by a helmet. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) About half of the bicycle deaths were children under 15. The use of helmets vary greatly in different sectors of society by orders of magnitude, white collar communities helmet use in children is approximately 80%, where inner-city children the use is closer to 10%. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) The targeted community of Lacey, Washington would be classified as a white collar community with a white population of approximately 75% and a medium income of $43,848 (year 2000)."

Tags:class, participation, interaction, peer, pressure, injury, prevention

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This paper is a proposal for a lesson plan to instruct 3rd graders in an elementary school about the importance of wearing helmets for bicyling and skateboarding. The lesson is designed to be age appropriate and develop positive peer pressure to encourage 8-year-olds to wear safety helmets. According to the paper, there are no compulsory helmet laws in this jurisdiction.

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"This paper shall develop an age and developmentally appropriate lesson plan for a 3rd grade class to encourage the use of safety helmets for bicycling. The lesson will encourage class participation and use the inherent developmental characteristics of 8-year-olds to belong to a group to provide positive peer pressure. The lecture is also designed to provide reasons why the wearing of helmets is necessary for personal safety and to prevent injury. Bicycle Helmet Use Instruction There are 85 million bicycle riders in the United States, and 540,000 of..."

Tags:bicyle, helmet, lesson

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This paper discusses the purpose of accident prevention in truck fleet safety and explains all of the expenses associated with injuries and illnesses in fleet safety. Further, this paper identifies and explains the four elements of a small fleet safety program as well as lists employee selection considerations. Finally, the paper discusses the role of management in a successful safety program.

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"Driver recruiting and selection is stated in SafeReturns (ATAF 1999a) as "starting with the right people is key to overall safety performance." Those who use the 80-20 rule in hiring and who rarely or never hire from the bottom 20 eliminate the largest part of the potential crash risk and liability. Guidelines for recruiting methods for hiring safe drivers are laid out in the Truck Driver Risk Assessment Guide (ATAF 1996b) Included in these recruiting ads are (a) company practices relevant to safety (b) specific safety-related criteria for employment (c) specific "do and don'ts" for employment applications forms and structured interviews, and (d) federal regulations on required background checks as well as additional recommend background checks. Further used is a detailed driving road checklist that is used for screening drivers by fleets as well as commercial services that provide databases related to employment and personal inventories and psychological tests that are stated to be able to predict the safety of a commercial driver."

Tags:safety, directors, motor, vehicular, operations, competent, well-trained, work, force

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This paper describes how Canada is working hand-in-hand with the World Alliance for Patient Safety in trying to make patient safety the emphasis of health care around the world. The paper further discusses that while Canada is working on a global scale, theCanadian Ministry of Health is still working to assure patient safety as well. Additionally, the paper highlights guidelines drawn up by the Ministry as a foundation for various patient safety initiatives already in place in Canada.

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"People all around the world should not have to worry about their safety when seeking medical treatment. There should be no one adverse event that would put a patient in harms way as long as there is knowledge of how to keep a patient safe in existence. The problem with knowledge is that it requires action--putting knowledge into practice is the key to ensuring patient safety ("Patient Safety Solutions", 2007). The World Alliance for Patient Safety is making an impact in regards to patient safety around the world simply because they are translating practical solutions into safety solutions. The purpose of safety solutions..."

Tags:patient, safety, canada

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In today's increasingly complex and fast-paced work environment, safety and health is rapidly becoming one of the most important human resource functions. It follows that the current discussion examines the subject of health and safety in the workplace with specific emphasis on the following topics: 1) the general provisions of the Occupational and Safety Health Act (OSHA), 2) what management can do to create a safe work environment, 3) what can be done to control and eliminate health hazards, 4) organizational services and programs for building better health, and 5) methods for coping with stress.

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SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE Introduction In today's increasingly complex and fast-paced work environment, safety and health is rapidly becoming one of the most important human resource functions. It follows that the current discussion examines the subject of health and safety in the workplace with specific emphasis on the following topics: 1) the general provisions of the Occupational and Safety Health Act (OSHA), 2) what management can do to create a safe work environment, 3) what can be done to control and eliminate health hazards, 4) organizational services and programs for building better health, and 5)

Tags:hr, safety and health, osha

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This paper discusses the issue of patient safety with regard to nursing and nursing leadership. As highlighted in this paper, nurses are the driving force behind patient safety. This paper examines the statistics surrounding the need for patient safety followed by a brief literature review and recommendations for implementing nursing leader based patient safety education and cultural changes.

Tags:leadership, safety, nursing

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This paper examines and assesses patient safety goals at Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles Medical Center Hospital. It looks at the importance of patient safety goals to older patients. and reviews the tasks that must be done to achieve patient safety goals.

Tags:JCAHO, Kaiser

Patient Safety Program

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The writer examines the strengths and weaknesses of her lesson on bicycle safety to third grade students. The writer commends the lesson's interactive nature and criticizes its occasional halting delivery and the over-abundance of statistics. The writer concludes that overall, she learned a great deal about working with young children.

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"The implementation of the project (the teaching seminar or lesson) was complicated by the students to the extent that they were quite young - they were chiefly eight years of age. This is an interesting age to be a child, for it is at this age that they really begin to articulate a desire to learn things (they can almost converse at an adult level) and they also are emotionally turbulent, happy one moment, displeased and brooding the next (Destefanis & Firchow, 2004). Given this, and given the general developmental stage of the children involved, the teacher was actively encouraged to participate in the "guiding phase" of the proceedings. Happily, Mrs. Jones proved a most congenial and professional assistant and facilitated the smooth operation of the activities comprising the lesson."

Tags:children, activities, material, classroom, information

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This paper is a case assessment and narrative on the assessment protocols for initial and primary assessment of a pediatric head trauma case. Bicycling safety and laws are identified in the paper, however the differences in children's perception is highlighted as interfering with the execution of the laws. The paper also presents primary and secondary neurological assessment protocols and risks.

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"Mike is an 8-year old boy brought into your small community hospital ER in Rural Town, SUA by the paramedics. He was riding his bicycle on the street when a car hit him. The driver did not stop, but other motorists summoned the paramedics. Mike was not wearing a helmet. The paramedics have controlled the facial bleeding, but Mike has facial and head trauma. It appears he has no fractures of the extremities. He is awake and semi-alert. Pediatric head trauma is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity in the US pediatric population occurring as the result of accidents where the skate boarder or bicyclist is stuck by an oncoming motorist. It is both common sense and often law that bicyclists and skateboarders wear safety helmets ("Mandatory Helmet Laws," 2005)."

Tags:trauma, assessment, abcd

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The paper looks at how individuals choose between transportation modes. The paper discusses the work of Verbeek and Slob (100) who list several possible decision factors, including speed, independence, comfort, cost, physical safety, environmental friendliness, and luggage capacity. The paper explains that the decision factors can be seen as either constraints or incentives to choosing a particular mode of travel. For example, the high cost of traveling by plane may be a disincentive when alternative options are available over short distances, and the speed of traveling by car could outweigh the lowered environmental footprint of using a bicycle. The paper shows how government is a major source of both constraints on and incentives for the transportation mode decision space, for example, government planning, taxation, and subsidization are all factors that can influence individual transportation choices.

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"How do individuals choose between transportation modes? Verbeek and Slob (100) list several possible decision factors, including speed, independence, comfort, cost, physical safety, environmental friendliness, and luggage capacity. The decision factors can be seen as either constraints or incentives to choosing a particular mode of travel. For example, the high cost of traveling by plane may be a disincentive when alternative options are available over short distances, and the speed of traveling by car could outweigh the lowered environmental footprint of using a bicycle. Government is a major source of both constraints on and..."

Tags:urban, economics, planning