Worker safety skill training – Foundation for a sustainable safe workplace
This study focuses on the importance of safety at workplace and OHS (Occupational Health & Safety) practices. It discusses the rationale behind why worker safety training is important for a safety management system, the existing challenges and the possible solutions and action points to overcome them. It also discusses the different means of people engagement in safety management both at a conceptual level as well as its actual implementation. Various facets of safe work culture have been examined through data analysis of nine elements of the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) which shows an interesting result. It depicts that supervision satisfaction and present work satisfaction of the workers have a direct correlation with the safety performance. The purpose is to empower the base of the pyramid where workers are exposed to real hazards.
Published by: Madhabi Guha Basu
Author: Madhabi Guha Basu
Paper ID: V4I4-1284
Paper Status: published
Published: July 19, 2018
Hand gripper design as an application of EMG measurement
The medical, rehabilitation and bio-mimetic technology demand human actuated devices which can support in the daily life activities such as functional assistance or functional substitution of human organs. These devices can be used in the form of prosthetic, skeletal and artificial muscles devices. Such devices are costly which is not affordable to every consumer so to overcome these we have designed a hand gripper which uses the electromyography (EMG)signals to control this device.
Published by: Sonali S Mali, Sapana B Moon, Arshad M Alam
Author: Sonali S Mali
Paper ID: V4I4-1270
Paper Status: published
Published: July 18, 2018
Experimental study on behaviour of reinforced concrete beam reinforced with BRFP rebar
FRP m is the material type that is increasingly used in the construction field in recent years. Due to their properties lightweight, high tensile strength and corrosion resistance and easy to implementation make these material preferred solutions for increased the strength of reinforced concrete structural elements. This paper presents the test results of an experimental study carried out on the chain of simply supported beams under flexure and torsion, concrete beam reinforced with BFRP bars compared to the concrete beam reinforced with steel bars. The tested beams were cast of concrete and BFRP bar having 10 mm diameter. Tensile strength Obtained from a tensile test. Deflection of beams, cracking, and torsional behavior has been analyzed and presented. The result shows that various characteristics of the load-deflection relationship of BFRP beams with conventional beam.
Published by: Akshay Digambar Khirodkar, Vishwajeet Kadlak
Author: Akshay Digambar Khirodkar
Paper ID: V4I4-1276
Paper Status: published
Published: July 18, 2018
Prospects of tourism in Nepalese economy
This article examines some of the tourism indicators and the contribution of tourism to the Nepalese economy. The number of tourists inflow through bus and air services and their percentages are discussed. Since 1985 to 2016 the contribution of tourism sector indicators such as the percentage of total foreign exchange earning and its share in GDP, average expenditure per visitor and average expenditure per visitor per day are discussed with annual data for the period 20001 - 2015/16. Further, the duration of tourist's stay and annual growth rate of tourist, and percentage change of foreign exchange earnings in the yearly basis are discussed. The data on the number of tourist arrival, their duration of stay and the growth rate in percentage, from 1985 to 2016 and the contribution of tourism sector to national economy is presented from 2000/01. The significance is tested using t-test. Further, this articles examines the prospects, and review of literature, review of tourism sector in periodic plan, and some problems facing tourism sector and some suggestion for the development of tourism sector. Nepal still is unable to recover its structures damaged by the earthquake of 2015, which has affected the tourist arrival in the country. Furthermore, the article describes the prospects for tourism industry in Nepal with reference to its biodiversity and natural beauty.
Published by: Bal Krishna Subedi
Author: Bal Krishna Subedi
Paper ID: V4I4-1247
Paper Status: published
Published: July 18, 2018
Mobile healthcare SMS service
Usage of mobile applications and wireless networks is growing rapidly in different sectors in the world. Mobile healthcare application is devotedly accepted by the healthcare organizations and also by patients. Providing health care and related services through the SMS, or e-health care is an emerging phenomenon. Wireless personal computing devices are finding a niche in the healthcare communities, promising point-of-care access to medical records and information ranging from patients to drug libraries. In this paper, we have presented a software-based application for health care centers entitled “Mobile Health Care SMS Service’.This project is a prototype of a wireless health monitoring system capable of sending SMS related to the health status of the patient. 1. The projects work at two different levels as follows 2.System provides the medical information used for the desktop on wired networks. The system has a mobile context server that re-configures mobile contents according to the mobile device. The mobile context sever applies context to the contents by using styles, a property override, and templates according to the resources of a given mobile device. In this way, the system serves reconfigured web contents to the mobile device.
Published by: Heena Kausar, Deepika Hugar
Author: Heena Kausar
Paper ID: V4I4-1272
Paper Status: published
Published: July 18, 2018
Fingerprint based security system for vehicles
In this age of soaring vehicle thefts, vehicle safety has become a matter of prime importance. Investigators owe this increase in thefts to the lack of proper parking spaces in residential areas and lack of availability of sophisticated security devices. As a solution to the aforementioned problem, we have developed a prototype model of fingerprint based security system for vehicles by interfacing Fingerprint sensor module R307 along with Arduino Uno. A person can start the vehicle, but only upon fingerprint authentication can the person put the vehicle into motion. On recognition of the fingerprint, the valve fixed in the outlet of fuel tank opens, thereby allowing the flow of fuel to the engine.
Published by: Dr. Saritha Namboodiri, Arun P.
Author: Dr. Saritha Namboodiri
Paper ID: V4I4-1269
Paper Status: published
Published: July 17, 2018
