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- Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injuries Control (CAPIC) - Supports injury prevention initiatives across Wales; information about their programmes, statistics, and events.
- Child Accident Prevention Trust - National charity committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled and injured as a result of accidents. Includes information on their campaigns and projects, news, publications, factsheets,and a directory of online resources.
- RoSPA : The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - Promotes safety at work, in the home, on the roads, in schools, at leisure and on or near water. Information about their training and consultancy services, campaigns, statistics, and downloadable factsheets.
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) - Information about the organisation, its services and activities promoting accident prevention at work, home, driving, in school, on water and at leisure. Includes downloadable fact sheets.
- Environmental and Occupational Safety - Designed to provide students with skills and knowledge in the development of accident prevention programs in the workplace. Accident prevention techniques such as failure minimization, fail-safe design insulation, lockouts, screening, personal protective equipment, redundancy and timely replacement are studied. In addition, the improvement of environmental working conditions is discussed.
- National Water Safety Forum - Allows organisations involved in water safety to have a strong voice with Government on water safety issues, mainly preventative action and water safety education. Includes resources on different aspects of water safety.
- FingerKeeper - An accident prevention product that covers the exposed gap between door and hinge to prevent finger trapping injuries.
- Fire Kills - Advice on fire prevention offered; includes multi-lingual resources, information on their campaigns and for people with a range of special interests, and downloadable leaflets.
- IAEA: Safety Assessment Section - Involved in the establishment of safety standards for accident prevention and migration in nuclear power plants, and in the application of these standards.
- WHO Ionizing Radiation Section - Information about WHO's programs, public forum, previous accidents and prevention and preparadness for future incidents.
Wikipedia Articles
- Monash University Accident Research Centre - The Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) is a leading injury prevention and control research institute. It is the largest and most influential injury prevention centre in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Accident Compensation Corporation - The Accident Compensation Corporation (, ACC) is a New Zealand Crown Entity responsible for administering the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act ; which supports citizens, residents, and temporary visitors who have suffered accidental injuries. ACC is the sole (and compulsory) provider of accident insurance for all work and non-work injuries.
- Human Factors Analysis and Classification System - The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) identifies the human causes of an accident and provides a tool to assist in the investigation process and target training and prevention efforts."The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS)," Approach, July - August 2004.
- Herbert William Heinrich - Herbert William Heinrich is an American industrial safety pioneer from the 1930s. He was an Assistant Superintendent of the Engineering and Inspection Division of Travelers Insurance Company when he published his book Industrial Accident Prevention, A Scientific Approach.
- Nuclear criticality safety - Nuclear criticality safety is a field of nuclear engineering dedicated to the prevention of an inadvertent, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Additionally, nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the consequences of a nuclear criticality accident.