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Record W2283985076

Safety Of Machinery In Hospitals: An Exploratory Study

2012· article· en· W2283985076 on OpenAlexaffabout
François Gauthier

Bibliographic record

VenueComputers & Industrial Engineering · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicQuality and Safety in Healthcare
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPersonal protective equipmentMedical equipmentRisk analysis (engineering)EngineeringSafeguardingWork (physics)Hazardous wasteRisk managementOperations managementOccupational safety and healthRisk assessmentBusinessComputer scienceComputer securityMedicine
DOInot available

Abstract

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Machine related hazardous situations are still resulting in many serious accidents in industries.  For example, around 13000 accidents involving machines take place every year in the province of Quebec, Canada.  Even if safety of machinery is a major concern in the manufacturing sector, machines are also present in many other fields of activities, including healthcare.  Indeed, machine related risks and accidents are also present in hospitals.  In this particular environment, machines such as food preparation equipment, laundry equipment, HVAC equipment, lifts and elevators and maintenance related machinery and tools are commonly used.  With the importance of machine related accidents, the risk management practices for safety of machinery in the manufacturing sector are well known and documented.  However, there is very little knowledge about the importance of machinery related risks and their management practices in the case of hospitals.  The exploratory study presented this paper proposes to address (i) the detailed statistics of machinery related accidents in hospitals; (ii) the characteristics of the machines used and their inherent hazards; and (iii) the level of integration of risk management practices for safety of machinery in hospitals, such as risk assessment, machine safeguarding, safe work procedures, training and personal protective equipment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.789

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.139
GPT teacher head0.397
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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