Smart safety shoes: The next step in preventing occupational incidents

The construction and logistics sectors in the Netherlands are rapidly increasing in size, but unfortunately are also part of the most hazardous industries. One part of safety which needs to be addressed is manual handling related incidents. The moving of objects around a worksite through utilization of an employee’s body increases the exposure...

How cognitive biases influence the data verification of safety indicators: A case study in rail

The field of safety and incident prevention is becoming more and more data based. Data can help support decision making for a more productive and safer work environment, but only if the data can be, is and should be trusted. Especially with the advance of more data collection of varying quality, checking and judging the data is an...

The Incident Prevention Team: A proactive approach to Information Security

Information Security is an important aspect of decision making in organisations today. Organisations use Information Security Risk Management to assess, respond to and monitor risk to its information systems. Information systems are complex technical systems and the management of Information Security depends on technology, processes and people....

Theory of barrier crossing