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F orensic Specialties  ? Types of accidents and incidents that we work        links to Forensic Specialties, summaries and details

?  consumer products, product liability  ................................................................ ? equipment and equipment systems  - including machinery, instrumentation,  controls, and connections - at industrial, commercial, extraction, farm & forest,  and construction facilities and sites  ........................................................................ ? workplace accidents, incidents and operations at industrial, commercial  and extraction facilities  .......................................................................................... ? workplace accidents, incidents, operations, activities and conditions at  construction, and farm & forest sites ................................................... ? premises accidents, premises liability , including building and property  safety, slips & falls, trips & falls, falls into voids, falls from heights ......................... ? traffic crashes, traffic accidents, motor vehicle accidents,  including  on-road and off-road, road construction sites - and involving vehicles,  pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists - with potential issues of roadway  maintenance, design, and safety, including signage, traffic light operation,  roadway configuration and roadway condition ................................. ....................... ? chemicals, gases and materials , including chemical explosions, chemical  contact, e.g. from concrete, and materials and fastener failures ............................ ? fires and explosions involving equipment and industrial facilities  ........................ ? hazardous combustion, including furnace and boiler explosions and  equipment & system operations causing carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning *.........   *equipment operations causing CO poisoning most commonly involve combustion equipment, such as furnaces, heaters, grills, emergency power generators, etc. and HVAC systems (heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems) in residential, commercial and industrial facilities

Work in the forensic specialties listed above often may involve work in the Basic Specialties below.

B part of much of the work with other Forensic Specialties

In all the Forensic Specialties that are listed above, a significant aspect of the analysis is often the involvement of one of more of the Basic Specialties which are discussed below, whether as an integral part of the particular Forensic Specialty, or of the accident being considered. These Basic Specialties, which are involved in so many other Forensic Specialties are:

? human factors  in relation to accidents involving premises, machinery,  equipment, products, facilities, workplace activities, driving, etc. .......................... ? safety design and the safety design hierarchy, in relation to engineering  analysis of accidents and the safety of consumer products, machinery,  equipment, facilities, etc. ...................................................................................................................... ? warnings for consumer products, machinery, equipment, workplace activities,  public, private and workplace facilities, etc. ............................................................................... ? safeguards , including barrier guards, light curtains, dual operating buttons,  safety instrumentation, etc., for consumer products, machinery, equipment,  public, private and  workplace facilities, etc. ........................................................... ? codes, standards, safety regulations and recommended practices , including ADA, OSHA, ANSI Codes and Regulations - applicable to products, machinery,  equipment, workplace activities, operations and facilities, etc. ...............................

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