M3 M3: Explain how accurate data on accidents and incidents contributes to improving health‚ safety and welfare in the workplace Introduction Accidents are unplanned events that results in injury‚ could’ve resulted in injury‚ where equipment is damaged or damage to the environment. In modern day construction reducing the amount of accidents on site is important as there are a large amount of negative effects of an accident. These range from the financial cost of the job such as the uninsured costs
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school’s first XV against Blundell’s School from Tiverton‚ Devon. Another case of an incident such as this is Ben Robinson‚ On 29 January 2011‚ 14 year old Ben Robinson played rugby union for his school. After being treated several times for hits to the head and sent back to the pitch on each occasion‚ he collapsed and later died in the hospital. Behind his awfully tragic story is another of a sport in denial‚ where authorities at all levels decide over treating concussion while all the time‚ players grow
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lap belt restraints. What human injuries may result? This is where the lap belt rides over the pelvic brim and compresses the soft tissues of the abdomen resulting in serious abdominal and spinal injuries. Submarining occurs due to the pelvis rotating under the lap belt‚ usually due to inappropriate location of the lap belt anchors or due to poor design of the seat bottom or a combination of both. Lap belt only restraints so commonly inflicted serious injuries on users in automobile crashes that
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Sports medicine‚ also known as sport and exercise medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Sports physicians diagnose‚ treat‚ and help prevent injuries that occur during sporting events‚ athletic training‚ and physical activities. Diagnose or treat disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.Sports medicine physicians
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certain period of time. Depending on how well you treat this situation will deplict on how bad things may turn. An injury can get worse over time depending how a person treats them self mentally and physically. In the story “The Death of Ivan Ilyach” Ivan’s physical health went from bad to worse due to his mind. When a person gets an injury how they themselves will show how the injury will heal. For example‚ when a person gets a wound on their body it should be treated or an infection will be created
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at several aspects of the injury not just the size of the wound. • Prescence or absence of neurovascular injury • Degree of contamination (farmyard injuries are grade III injuries) • Energy transfer (Degree of comminution and periosteal stripping) • Wound dimensions Grade I The wound is less than 1cm long. It is usually a moderately clean puncture‚ through which a spike of bone has pierced the skin. There is little soft-tissue damage and no sign of crushing injury. The fracture is usually simple
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STATEMENT Acute musculoskeletal injuries are typically managed using the combination of ice‚ compression‚ and elevation. There is reasonable body of research describing the effects of ice and a smaller body describing compression‚ however there is very little research describing the role of elevation. Elevation is typically used in an attempt to retard edema formation. However‚ the effects of elevation in retarding edema formation following acute phase injury are nonexistent. In fact‚ the small
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triathlon people need to understand what they are getting into and just just thinking that they could wing it. Before becoming a triathlete‚ it is important to know how to begin participating in triathlons‚ how they can help your life‚ and what potential injuries are involved so that a person
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Fatigue Gradual onset injuries 6. Suggest ways that the potential hazards above might be eliminated or controlled? Inform the staff about health and safety procedures and priorities‚ train the staff in health and safety procedures and skills necessary to carry out these procedures and supervision will be necessary to be certain that all staff are following the health and safety rules that have been put in place. 7. What are overuse injuries and how might these types of injuries by avoided? Overuse
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This is the case in Homer’s Epic The Odyssey and Annie Dillard’s vignette from The Fixed. The Cyclops Polyphemus from The Odyssey and the Polyphemus moth in The Fixed have some similar physical attributes‚ as well as some differences. Also‚ their injuries in the stories are similar‚ but have different outcomes. The Cyclops and the moth are similar and different in their physical attributes. Homer compares the Cyclops to "a shaggy mountain‚" meaning that it is large and hairy‚ which it is. Dillard
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