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Improving work-related road safety in New Zealand : a research report
No full textWork-related road safety remains a significant risk faced by New Zealand employers and employees. There are organisational, business, legal and cost implications. The AA Driver Education Foundation in New Zealand, and several government and industry agencies, invited Dr Will Murray to run a series of risk management workshops on work-related road safety during October 2005, to identify how to improve occupational road safety in New Zealand.\ud
The workshops were hosted in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Representatives from industry and government attended. The workshops focused on why work-related road safety in New Zealand is important for both government and industry.\ud
This report focuses on several areas:\ud
x100078 The extent of the work-related road safety problem in New Zealand\ud
x100078 The main contents of the workshops, including application of the WIPE, Haddon Matrix and PROACTIVE models at the organisational level\ud
x100078 Participant pledges which form a list of useful ideas for audit and improvement\ud
x100078 Government-level opportunities and initiatives in New Zealand\ud
x100078 Recommendations for improving occupational road safety.\ud
This report provides a comprehensive review of, and guidance for the development of workrelated road safety in New Zealand, based on the outcome of Dr Murray's research. It is designed to assist in the development of fleet safety policy for government and industry
Worldwide Occupational Road Safety (WORS) review project
No full textOccupational road safety has grown in importance in recent years as the extent of the\ud
problem has emerged, and increasing numbers of researchers, practitioners and government\ud
agencies have become interested in it. One example is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the USA, which has undertaken a great deal of work to understand and improve the safety of workers. NIOSH has identified that one of the biggest risks that workers face is using the road, and as a result has focused a great deal of attention on occupational road safety.\ud
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The aims of NIOSH in sponsoring this particular project were two-fold:\ud
1. Contribute to its research program on occupational road safety.\ud
2. Facilitate the enhancement of global workplace safety and health.\ud
In meeting these aims a literature review (Chapter 2) was undertaken. Contact was then made\ud
with a range of participants from 15 countries around the world, all of whom completed a\ud
questionnaire and provided a range of other information (Chapter 3). Two main gaps emerged\ud
in the participants group: mainland European and less developed countries. Both should be\ud
encouraged to take part in any future follow-on projects.\ud
A large number of findings emerged from the project, which are summarised below.\ud
• Where data on the extent of the occupational road crashes is available, it accounts for\ud
a significant proportion of both road and workplace fatalities and injuries. This\ud
suggests that more attention should be given to the issue by both transport and\ud
occupational safety and health-based agencies.\ud
• Good quality ‘purpose of journey’ information should urgently be included in the road\ud
safety data collection processes in many participant countries to allow at-work\ud
collisions in smaller vehicles such as cars and vans to be identified, as well as those in\ud
larger vehicles. Based on recent experiences in the UK, this requires a detailed\ud
briefing and training program for the police officers who collect the data at the front\ud
line.\ud
• Occupational safety and health (OSH) data and responsibility encompass on-road\ud
driving incidents in some countries, but not in others. There is a strong argument for\ud
OSH agencies to undertake more data capture, leadership and enforcement on\ud
occupational road safety, which appears to be one of the major at-work risks in many\ud
jurisdictions.\ud
• Other data sets, including workers’ compensation, insurance, coronial records and\ud
hospital admissions also hint at the scale of the problem, but there was no obvious\ud
sharing of data standards between participant countries.\ud
• Currently, only limited data linkages exist, for example, between road safety statistics\ud
and hospital admissions, or between health and safety or insurance data. Better\ud
linkages via common coding and interagency collaboration would enable a more\ud
complete picture to be obtained.\ud
• Governments themselves are one of the largest purchasers of vehicles in many regions\ud
around the world, and should be seen to lead by example in the effective and safe\ud
management of their own vehicles and drivers. Publishing highly detailed case-studybased\ud
program evaluations should be a key element of this process. At present there\ud
are many public and private sector programs, but few have been effectively evaluated\ud
and documented in detail.\ud
• An important next step should be to organise an international conference on\ud
occupational road safety that brings together researchers, policy makers, key\ud
government agencies, industry practitioners and other stakeholders to agree on\ud
definitions, share best practice and guide future actions including leadership on a\ud
larger collaborative project to be led by a well-resourced research group to explore\ud
and compare the available data and processes around the world.\ud
Overall, the extent on the occupational road safety problem identified suggests that focusing some time and investment of the recommendations in the report would be a very good use of road safety, OSH and business improvement research and project management resources
Crash counting: a review of fleet crash reporting in the UK
No full textAlthough the true extent of crashes involving company vehicles is unclear in the UK, it is known to be disproportionately high and a major financial and human cost. This paper summarises recent UK-based research into company vehicle reporting, investigation and recording.\ud
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50+ companies were interviewed and a new reporting, investigation and recording system developed and pilottested. Current systems tend to include pre-crash information, at-scene information, post-crash procedures and crash analysis. They are strong on claims management, but weak on investigation and risk analysis. Poor quality reporting, few comparable standards or key performance indicators (KPIs), regulation falling between or outside of several Government agencies and no formalised system of auditing company performance are problems.\ud
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The paper recommends that the pilot study should continue in a small number of case study companies to identify further system improvements and the change management processes required for wider implementation. A crash reporting and recording self-audit and KPIs are proposed, to allow companies to identify ‘where they are now’ and areas for improvement
A Best Practice Process for Fleet Safety Training
No full textThis paper outlines a process for fleet safety training based on research and management development programmes undertaken at the University of Huddersfield in the UK (www.hud.ac.uk/sas/trans/transnews.htm) and CARRS-Q in Australia (www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/staff/Murray.jsp) over the past 10 years
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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