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duty to report accidents at present. In the fourth quarter of the year there were over 5100 accidents reported by new entrants of which 22 were fatal.
The study by Pira, the research association for the paper and board printing and packaging industries, will be surveying the current progress in speech input and recognition systems and their potential applications in the communications industries. The study is scheduled for completion by the end of 1979. Sponsoring companies will receive a report covering the following topics:
For comparison with previous years it is necessary to exclude new entrants as figures for these have not been available before. On this basis there were 551 deaths and over 324 200 bajuries in 1978 compared with 514 deaths and 325 700 injuries in 1977. The increase in fatalities in 1978 is within the range of year-to-year fluctuations which have been of the order of as much as 100 in three out of the last seven years.
1 Technology The theory and history of development in speech input and recognition systems. Concepts behind equipment design and any support technology relevant to commercial implementation. 2 Companies Profiles of companies involved, their location and major product range. 3 Products Major products under development. Commercial, prototype and laboratory models. Information on specifications and standards required. Sales of particular products and customers. 4 Applications Implementation of speech input and recognition systems by industry or industry sectors. How are they being used and for what purpose? 5 Potential applications The unique characteristics of speech input and recognition systems and their potential. application areas. 6 Patents The indentification of recent trends, new organisations, new concepts and consolidation of patents. Major development programmes and licensing and litigation. A patent list covering the UK, US and other countries. The participation fee for the project is £750 (Pira members £500) + VAT for UK organisations only. For further information please get in touch with Dr Manning at Pira, Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7RU (Tel: Leatherhead 76161 Telex: 929810).
Moulded machine guards help to keep machinery tree from dust and dirt. Certain materials carry Class [ Fire resistance rating (BS 476 Pt 1), and all show varying degrees of impact resistance. Thermoplastic guards can be designed to be free standing, and a useful degree of noise alternation can be achieved. Two very different machine guarding problems solved recently by Williaam Cox's General Fabrication Division include (A) the automatic Heenan Multiform, manufactured by P & R Metals Ltd of Coventry, which features a close fitting wrap around Lexan polycarbonate guard to protect the operator, and (B) A.M. International's Multilith 1250, with a 6 mm acrylic guard in the form of a deep drawn press moulding, drilled and routered and with polished edges.
Deaths in mining and quarrying rose from 54 to 84 and in the construction industry from 130 to 144. Deaths in manufacturing industry were slightly down from 179 to 175 and in agriculture, forestry and fishing from 32 to 25. There were 110 cases of industrial disease reported to the Executive during 1978 of which 32 were during the last quarter. There were 1813 prosecutions by the Executive's Inspectors and other enforcement agencies during the year, of which 613 were during the last quarter. There were also 15 621 enforcement notices issued; 4309 of these were in the last quarter.
Biorhythm alarm for drivers A report in the May issue of ILO Information states that traffic accidents have been cut in Romania as a result of an ILO-assisted improved drivertraining programme pioneering new safe-driving techniques. The number of deaths from accidents involving taxi-cab drivers - the main users of the programme so far has dropped by 83% in two years. The number of injured has been almost halved, and if the trend in the early months of 1979 is sustained only 244 people will be injured this year in taxirelated mishaps, compared with 3600 in 1977.
Machine guards
Accidents at work killed 651 in 1978
Transparent thermoplastic sheet materials such as acrylic, pvc or polycarbonate are claimed by Williaam Cox Ltd, Birmingham, to offer advantages in providing solutions to machine guarding problems. The materials are tough, lightweight and c a n be readily moulded to complex shapes. Operators' limbs and clothing and even adjacent equipment can be properly protected and guards can be designed to repel liquids, glass fragments and other flying particles which may be thrown up during the manufacturing process. Transparency allows the operator an uninterrupted view of moving parts. Thermoplastics are easy to clean and a close fitting guard can
These results follow the creation Provisional figures issued by the of the Centre for Intensive Training of Health and Safety Executive show Urban Vehicle Drivers in Bucharest that 651 people were killed at work with the aid of ILO consultants and and another 340 294 injured last year. the United Nations Development The numbers for the fourth quarter of Programme. Its job is to improve the the year were 171 and 90 535 training of bus, truck, trolley, tram and respectively. These figures include taxi drivers. The report refers accidents, so far as they were reported, particularly to two experimental aspects among 'new entrants', the seven to of the centre's work. One is the eight million employees who were application of the biorhythm theory: brought within the scope of safety the theory that three regular cycles legislation for the first time by the physical, emotional and intellectual Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Nearly 16 800 accidents, 70 fatal, - affect every human being and that the days when they fluctuate from involving new entrants were reported last year but it is not known how positive to negative states are periods representative this figure is as employers when the individual's performance is of new entrants have no statutory likely to suffer. The other is the use
Applied Ergonomics September 1979
189
The study by Pira, the research association for the paper and board printing and packaging industries, will be surveying the current progress in speech input and recognition systems and their potential applications in the communications industries. The study is scheduled for completion by the end of 1979. Sponsoring companies will receive a report covering the following topics:
For comparison with previous years it is necessary to exclude new entrants as figures for these have not been available before. On this basis there were 551 deaths and over 324 200 bajuries in 1978 compared with 514 deaths and 325 700 injuries in 1977. The increase in fatalities in 1978 is within the range of year-to-year fluctuations which have been of the order of as much as 100 in three out of the last seven years.
1 Technology The theory and history of development in speech input and recognition systems. Concepts behind equipment design and any support technology relevant to commercial implementation. 2 Companies Profiles of companies involved, their location and major product range. 3 Products Major products under development. Commercial, prototype and laboratory models. Information on specifications and standards required. Sales of particular products and customers. 4 Applications Implementation of speech input and recognition systems by industry or industry sectors. How are they being used and for what purpose? 5 Potential applications The unique characteristics of speech input and recognition systems and their potential. application areas. 6 Patents The indentification of recent trends, new organisations, new concepts and consolidation of patents. Major development programmes and licensing and litigation. A patent list covering the UK, US and other countries. The participation fee for the project is £750 (Pira members £500) + VAT for UK organisations only. For further information please get in touch with Dr Manning at Pira, Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7RU (Tel: Leatherhead 76161 Telex: 929810).
Moulded machine guards help to keep machinery tree from dust and dirt. Certain materials carry Class [ Fire resistance rating (BS 476 Pt 1), and all show varying degrees of impact resistance. Thermoplastic guards can be designed to be free standing, and a useful degree of noise alternation can be achieved. Two very different machine guarding problems solved recently by Williaam Cox's General Fabrication Division include (A) the automatic Heenan Multiform, manufactured by P & R Metals Ltd of Coventry, which features a close fitting wrap around Lexan polycarbonate guard to protect the operator, and (B) A.M. International's Multilith 1250, with a 6 mm acrylic guard in the form of a deep drawn press moulding, drilled and routered and with polished edges.
Deaths in mining and quarrying rose from 54 to 84 and in the construction industry from 130 to 144. Deaths in manufacturing industry were slightly down from 179 to 175 and in agriculture, forestry and fishing from 32 to 25. There were 110 cases of industrial disease reported to the Executive during 1978 of which 32 were during the last quarter. There were 1813 prosecutions by the Executive's Inspectors and other enforcement agencies during the year, of which 613 were during the last quarter. There were also 15 621 enforcement notices issued; 4309 of these were in the last quarter.
Biorhythm alarm for drivers A report in the May issue of ILO Information states that traffic accidents have been cut in Romania as a result of an ILO-assisted improved drivertraining programme pioneering new safe-driving techniques. The number of deaths from accidents involving taxi-cab drivers - the main users of the programme so far has dropped by 83% in two years. The number of injured has been almost halved, and if the trend in the early months of 1979 is sustained only 244 people will be injured this year in taxirelated mishaps, compared with 3600 in 1977.
Machine guards
Accidents at work killed 651 in 1978
Transparent thermoplastic sheet materials such as acrylic, pvc or polycarbonate are claimed by Williaam Cox Ltd, Birmingham, to offer advantages in providing solutions to machine guarding problems. The materials are tough, lightweight and c a n be readily moulded to complex shapes. Operators' limbs and clothing and even adjacent equipment can be properly protected and guards can be designed to repel liquids, glass fragments and other flying particles which may be thrown up during the manufacturing process. Transparency allows the operator an uninterrupted view of moving parts. Thermoplastics are easy to clean and a close fitting guard can
These results follow the creation Provisional figures issued by the of the Centre for Intensive Training of Health and Safety Executive show Urban Vehicle Drivers in Bucharest that 651 people were killed at work with the aid of ILO consultants and and another 340 294 injured last year. the United Nations Development The numbers for the fourth quarter of Programme. Its job is to improve the the year were 171 and 90 535 training of bus, truck, trolley, tram and respectively. These figures include taxi drivers. The report refers accidents, so far as they were reported, particularly to two experimental aspects among 'new entrants', the seven to of the centre's work. One is the eight million employees who were application of the biorhythm theory: brought within the scope of safety the theory that three regular cycles legislation for the first time by the physical, emotional and intellectual Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Nearly 16 800 accidents, 70 fatal, - affect every human being and that the days when they fluctuate from involving new entrants were reported last year but it is not known how positive to negative states are periods representative this figure is as employers when the individual's performance is of new entrants have no statutory likely to suffer. The other is the use
Applied Ergonomics September 1979
189