Slips, Trips, Missteps, and Falls

Résumé du livre

"The consequences of slips, trips, and missteps can range from losses of balance to severe injuries with costly, disabling, life-altering, or fatal outcomes. The third edition of this book is a comprehensive reference for all aspects of ambulation slips, trips, missteps, and falls. The authors have provided the material as a useful reference to assist in understanding how ambulating people slip, trip, misstep, and fall and a guide for implementing preventive or mitigating controls to reduce the likelihood of these incidents occurring. This third edition includes updated scientific literature bases, standards, codes, and guidelines; entirely new chapters on distracted walking and drug-induced falls; and ordering of chapters for more useful information flow. The previous versions are Falls and Related Injuries: Slips, Trips, Missteps and Their Consequences published in 2002 and Slips, Trips, Missteps, and Their Consequences (Second Edition) published in 2007. The first chapter provides an overview of the role of the human in the ambulation process and covers human factors and ergonomics principles. Chapters 2 through 8 address why people slip, trip, misstep, and fall; the different types of falls; the fall-inducing hazards; and other human components of the ambulation system. Chapters 9 through 11 discuss the effects of distractions, aging, and pharmacology on ambulation and falls. Chapters 12 through 22 apply human factors/ergonomics, biomechanical, and cognitive principles to ambulation environments. Also discussed are the standards of care to eliminate or control hazard exposure as well as to mitigate the severity of predictable or expected hazard exposure consequences. Chapter 23 addresses the role and value of an expert witness in the preparation of an ambulation fall related case. Chapter 24 is a fall prevention manual that contains checklists for inspecting and identifying premise ambulation hazards. Chapter 25 includes a list of codes and standards applicable to ambulation falls at publication time of this book. Gary M. Bakken, Cindy A. LaRue, and H. Harvey Cohen collaborated to author Chapters 1-10 and 12-25. Chapter 11 was co-authored by James J. O'Donnell III and James T. O'Donnell"--