Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments Improved Understanding on Slip Re
This book examines pedestrian shoe-floor slip resistance from an engineering standpoint in order to better understand friction and wear behavior. This analysis includes an extensive investigation into the surface properties of shoes and flow, and the meas
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Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments Improved Understanding on Slip Resistance Measurements and Investigations
Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments
In-Ju Kim
Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments Improved Understanding on Slip Resistance Measurements and Investigations
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In-Ju Kim Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management University of Sharjah Sharjah United Arab Emirates
ISBN 978-3-319-56241-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56242-1
ISBN 978-3-319-56242-1
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To my parents, Young-Kyun Kim and Chang-Rae Kang, and my wife, Eun-Eun Oh, and my daughter, Sho-Young Sabrina Kim
Foreword I
Significant impacts and concerns caused by fall incidents have been globally recognized due to a large number of fatal and non-fatal injuries and the heavy burden of associated costs. There have been prolonged efforts in order to reduce the frequency and severity of fall incidents especially in advanced countries, where accidental falls are increasing year by year. Most people are liable to consider as accidental falls as unavoidable incidents and to blame themselves for being careless, when they slip or trip while walking. We, safety researchers, think that those accidental falls may not necessarily lie with pedestrians, and we are convinced that accidental falls with respect to slips, trips and falls can be reduced if we can keep on sharing multi-disciplinary efforts to prevent the fall incidents. Dr. In-Ju Kim is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of industrial ergonomics especially fo
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