Child safety driver assistant system and its acceptance

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• Personal Author:
  Beranek E ; Boxberger J ; Buchegger T ; Diskus C ; Pohl A ; Quendler E
• Description:
  Farming machinery incidents frequently cause the injury and death of children on farms worldwide. The two main causes of this problem are the driver's view being restricted by construction and/or environmental factors and insufficient risk awareness by children and parents. It is difficult to separate working and living areas on family farms, and the adult supervision necessary to avoid work accidents is often lacking. For this reason, additional preventive measures are required to reduce the number of crushings. Electronic tools that deliver information about the presence of children in the blind spots surrounding vehicles and their attached machines can be very effective. Such an electronic device must cover all security gaps around operating agricultural vehicles and their attached machines, ensure collision-free stopping in risk situations, and be inexpensive. Wireless sensor network and electrical near-field electronic components are suited to the development of low-cost wireless detection devices. For reliable detection in a versatile environment, it is necessary for children to continuously wear a slumbering transponder. This means that children and adults must have a high acceptance of the device, which can be improved by easy usability, design, and service quality. The developed demonstrator achieved detection distances of up to 40 m in the far field and 2.5 m in the near field. Recognized far-field sensor detection weaknesses, determined by user-friendliness tests, are false alarms in farmyards and around buildings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Agriculture Automobiles Construction Industry Construction Materials Demography Environmental Health Family Farmers Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Children Children Construction-materials Demographic-characteristics Driver Assistant System Drivers Electrical Near Field Environmental-factors Equipment-operators Families Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation Machine-operators Quantitative-analysis Risk-factors Safety-engineering Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Sensor Network Statistical-analysis Tractors Warning-devices Warning-systems

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  82-89
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038817
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2009 Apr; 14(2):82-89
• Contact Point Address:
  Elisabeth Quendler, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Peter Jordan Straße 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria
• Email:
  elisabeth.quendler@boku.ac.at
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20090831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:73b8ba62b6da9eb0286fabed68b2d38413cd233e034490ac4a6ae06591d79feddc4cc83e17f5f545855802e9d8d1daebb25ec7d7a19e6767a567445f88aa8436
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192384/cdc_192384_DS1.pdf
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