...healthy male soccer players ages 17-22 will be initially selected from 8 division three soccer teams. The players would be screened prior to the study with a questionnaire that will rule out individuals with a previous history of lower extremity injuries hip down, as well as recording their heights and weights to calculate a BMI score between 18-25 (the normal BMI range). After the completion of the screening, participants with any history of lower extremity injuries, or a BMI above 25 or below 18, would be excluded from the experiment. This study would also require that each participant be a registered college student and have to participate for at least 1000 hours of soccer in their season, unless the ankle injury that they sustain ends their upcoming soccer season. From there, the 100 players would be randomly assigned to a control group and an experimental group, each consisting of 50 players. There would also be a semi-random representation of all teams in each condition. This will insure that the reason for people getting ankle injuries is from the experiment itself, and not due to different players having different coaches with different training techniques to influence the likelihood of the players to obtain an ankle injury. Materials...
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...Herrera’s motion for summary judgment and dismiss Plaintiffs’, James and Carina Malone (“Malones”) and their daughter, Maria Malone’s, (“Malone”), personal injury claim under the Attractive Nuisance Doctrine (“AND”). Malone injured her leg on Herrera’s land art. The Malones are not able to establish facts that support Malone’s personal injury claim. Arizona has adopted AND, which holds landowners liable for injuries to children that were harmed due to an artificial condition on their land. Norton v. Black, 469 P.2D 101 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1970). Amongst other things, the Malones must show that the natural land art was artificial and not natural. Absent the factual showing, the Malones cannot prevail in their personal injury claim under AND. The...
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...Compensation Claims According to an essay published online by CCH Incorporated, the first step in reducing workers’ compensation costs involves ensuring that your company has effective safety and accident prevention programs in place to reduce the amount and severity of workplace illnesses and injuries. In addition to those programs, there are policies and procedures that should be implemented to help supervisors and Human Resources professionals in handling workers’ compensation claims in the most expedient manner possible. Having an active safety program has a number of benefits. Some are obvious. Others are not. A safety program gives employees a sense that their employer cares about them. Issuing personal protective equipment should be part of the safety program as should periodic inspection and replacement of worn or damaged safety equipment. Rotating work schedules or job duties can reduce repetitive-stress injury problems. An additional benefit is that doing so keeps workers more interested in their work and more focused on the job they are doing which also tends to reduce injuries. A mandatory safety training program also lets your employees know that any work related injury is bad for them and bad for the company. All employees should participate in safety activities including those workers in administrative positions or performing office work. Ideally, the message employers want to deliver is that everyone has a vested interest in minimizing these costs. When employees...
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...nearest and safest exit leaving belongings. -If the fire is large, very smoky or rapidly spreading, evacuate the building immediately, activating the nearest fire alarm to warn other occupants. -Assess the situation and decide on the safest exit, taking the roll book. -Move members quickly in an orderly manner to the designated assembly area outside the building. -Seat members and call roll. Report any missing to the supervisor. -Do not re-enter the building until directed by Emergency Services. -Attend to those in need of first aid. Designated Assembly Areas: Grassy area on west side of parking lot, next to Pep Boys for those in the Gym, Preschool Gym, Lobby, and Office areas. Back retention pond for those in the ASAP and Bounce areas. 2) Accidents All accidents causing bodily injury must be reported. An Accident Report must be filled out completely. Use the back of the form or additional paper, if necessary. Be detailed in your report, and write down all the facts you are able to recall. Reports should be completed within 24 hours of the incident. 3) Serious Injury/Life Threatening These...
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...Could an injury be prevented by have mental toughness, social support or less stress? I read the article Mental toughness, social support, and athletic identity: Moderators of the life stress–injury relationship in collegiate football players. By: Petrie, Trent A., Deiters, Jay, Harmison, Robert J., Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 21573905, 20140201, Vol. 3, Issue 1. In this research they take on football team and see the relation between life stress. Think that reduce stress could possibly reduce the number of injuries and that increased of life stress would increase the injuries. Also, they see if that mental toughness helps players deal with the stress and persevere and deal with it and not affect them. They also see if different...
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...____________________________ Joseph Sceviour ____________________________ Jennifer Hosker ____________________________ Courtney Hardy In partnership with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. In cooperation with: Mark Kumagai Director, ESME Directorate for Engineering Sciences U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ____________________________ Professor El-Korchi, Co-Advisor ____________________________ Professor Servatius, Co-Advisor Unless otherwise stated, any views or opinions expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission or Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Submitted on: 1/11/2006 1 Abstract This report, prepared for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) of Washington, D.C., outlines our approach to investigating the increase in injuries related to inflatable amusement rides. Using data from surveys, interviews, injury databases, archival research, and product testing, we completed three goals: We developed a five category system to classify inflatable amusement rides; determined ways the CPSC and other involved parties can improve the safety of inflatable rides; and recommended how future CPSC investigations can be handled. 2 Acknowledgements We would like to thank the people and organizations who have aided us in this project: our advisors Professor Tahar El-Korchi and Professor Brigitte Servatius, Professor David Dibiasio...
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...1.0 Abstract Artificial turf is becoming increasingly more commonplace within football. When studying artificial turf versus natural grass turf research can be split into three areas; Injuries, Play Style/Game Play and Player Impressions. The aim of this report is to look into these three areas to assess the effect that playing surfaces have on the game of football. Many studies into the risk of injury on artificial turf compared to natural turf have come to the same conclusion. They have found that for the most part there isn’t a significant increase in risk of injury on artificial surfaces comparatively. However it is suggested that there may be an increase in ankle injuries due difficulties when turning/twisting on artificial turf. This...
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...always been a very physical game with large injury risk, but as the years go on the game continues to become more and more dangerous. Even with the helps of pads and the newest, safest helmets players still have an extremely high probability of sustaining a minor or serious injury. Some of these injuries can create long lasting health problems that can affect an athlete throughout the rest of their lives. Football is to dangerous of a sport for high school students, because it can cause serious injuries like concussions and also leaves many players with multiple long term health issues. Concussions are a very serious injury that many students experience while playing football. The total number of concussions throughout a season maintains a rapid increase, as it develops into a more frequent and dangerous injury. Over 9500 concussions occurred throughout the 2014 high school football season, and...
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...The greyhounds are also at an extremely high risk for different types of different orthopedic injuries while competing. In 1999, Sicard and Short, found that “In the first year, there was a total of 788 orthopedic injuries reported from five greyhound tracks and 22,975 official races. This represented a 3.4 percent injury rate when data from all of the tracks were combined,” and that “In the second year, there were a total of 1099 orthopedic injuries reported from four greyhound tracks from approximately 20,285 official races. This represented a 5.4 percent injury rate when data from all of the tracks were combined.” These injuries are extremely common in dog racing and represent a real threat to these dogs, considering most injured dogs are swiftly disposed of since they are no longer of financial value to those that choose to race them....
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...Microsoft Dynamics™ GP Human Resources Sample Reports Copyright Copyright © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the licensee of the software with which this document was provided may make a reasonable number of copies of this document solely for internal use. Trademarks Microsoft and Microsoft Dynamics are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. FairCom and c-tree Plus are trademarks of FairCom Corporation and are registered in the United States and other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered marks - in the United States and/or other countries - of their respective owners. The example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred...
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...then be derived from the collective number of incidents reported and will serve as a basis for adverse patient trends, patient safety issues, or other risks and hazards to be identified, and risk reduction programs implemented. In order to promote a culture that promotes patient safety, the hospital’s Incident Reporting Policy is based upon a foundation of nonpunitive approach to incident/occurrence reporting. The hospital leadership will encourage open and honest reporting of injuries and hazards to patients, visitors and staff, this process will be nonpunitive in nature for all persons reporting incidents throughout the organization. Incidence/occurrence investigations will be viewed as an opportunity for education/process improvement, and will focus on processes and systems, rather than human error. Disciplinary action will be limited to only those employees who engage in willful or malicious misconduct, or those occurrences in which the employee failed to report an incident or hazard to patients in a timely manner. II. Responsibility A. All hospital employees, medical staff members, volunteers, and contract service members will participate in the hospital-wide incident reporting program. All incidents such as those listed as follows will be reported to the department of quality management: 1. Incidents involving inconsistencies with written hospital policies and procedures—informed consent, bedrails...
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...million dollars due to rig’s averaging 3 lost time injuries per month and 9 non-lost time injuries. In May 1987 one of the rigs reached a milestone of working one full year without a lot-time injury. The president of the company was so impressed with the crew on the rig that we flew in personally to present the crew with a bronze plaque. On top of that the crew was awarded prizes averaging about $200 which were to be delivered in July 1987. But in June 1987, Joe Herbert a supervisor on the rig informed the human resource that he had an unreported accident in November 1986 and due to the accident he is going to need back surgery. Even though it was the company’s policy to record all accidents this accident was not recorded. To make things worse Joe had at ATV accident in May and due to him not reporting the accident right away. PART 2: POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS There are four key issues that need to be addressed; should the crew still be awarded the prizes, ,why wasn’t the incident reported, is there any way to prove that Joe’s back injury is caused from the ATV accident verse the work incident, and lastly are there any other safety programs should be in place. The easiest issue to resolve is to decide if the crew should still be awarded the prizes. Should the crew still earn the rewards or should the entire right be punished because of one person. The next issue would be to determine why Joe did not report his injury. The management needs to decide if the crew is being...
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...In this task, I will give a clear and detailed description of the main principles in respect to reporting and recording accidents or incidents within the workplace. I will explain the differences between, RIDDOR reportable accidents and Non-RIDDOR reportable accidents. RIDDOR stands for Reporting Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations and is a main body to report certain types of injuries to such as: If someone has died or has been injured because of a work-related accident this may have to be reported. But not all accidents need to be reported, a RIDDOR report is required only when the accident is work related or it results in an injury of a serious nature. Any deaths must be reported if they arise from a work-related accident, this does...
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...defective guards. b) Reporting procedure for workplace safety and health issues Firstly they have to identify for examples unsafe equipment, unsafe condition/environment, injuries, near misses or even illnesses. Report to the immediate supervisor on site. The supervisor will write a report and the management will provides feedbacks on the issues and addressed it quickly. Before that the supervisor and the workers will act on the issues on hand immediately. c) The identification and reporting of potential hazards and resolving risk associated with work The 3 steps that are being used are hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control. Workers that observed and identify the potential hazards will report to the supervisor or manager seen in that area. Supervisor or manager will write a report and sent it to the safety department. All hazards reported are reviewed at the end of the month. Monthly hazard inspections are conducted every month using a hazard checklist. Job safety checks to see potential hazards while the workers are working and safety audits conducted by the safety department would result in written report and recommendations for improvement. d) Activation of emergency services In case of emergency such as illnesses or injuries the person at scene first will call for ambulance and...
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...Defects Failed to be Reported by Honda Honda failed to report 1,729 incidents where the deployment of an air bag in one of its vehicles caused an injury or death. Honda blames the failure on “inadvertent” data entry and computer programming errors. Too, Honda said an independent audit of its records between 2003 and 2014 discovered and failure to provide an accurate incident reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The issue at hand is the Takata air bag that NHTSA says has been installed in at least 5 million Hondas, as well as millions of vehicles made by other major auto manufacturers worldwide. Statistic reports at least five people have died and many were injured when Takata air bags sprayed them with shrapnel when they deployed during crashes. Honda, Takata’s biggest customer, has recalled 6.2 million cars with Takata air bags worldwide, and 4.1 million in humid regions of the United States. Instead of reporting all 2,873 claims of air-bag malfunctions over the 11-year period, the audit found that Honda told NHTSA only about claims that had been denied. The 1,729 it failed to report were those it paid and counted as warranty claims. One of the incidents involved a death. Takata has resisted the call for a nationwide recall, suggesting it should focus on more humid regions where replacement air bags are most needed. If the recall goes nationwide, it will be one of the largest in U.S. automotive history. Takata air bags are installed in 1...
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