Infant life jacket donning trials using children and their parents: Comparison to the Canadian standard

MacDonald, Conor V; Brooks, Christopher J.; Kozey, John W.

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2015.12.003

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“…Our third experiment using new subjects was to validate the donning times and accuracy of the lifejackets on their children. We reported [6] that the findings were consistent with manikin findings for both best and worst performing jackets. But they were not consistent for 'mediocre' lifejackets.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…Fifty-five children started the original donning trials [6] and were randomly assigned to the four lifejackets A, B, C or D. Only 25 (45%) adults and children chose to continue in the study and participate in the in-water performance trials. This was a drop-out rate of 55%, as illustrated in Table 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, our second paper [6] examined the effect of familiarity on lifejacket donning on the pass/ fail process. Regardless of lifejacket type, this showed a significant effect on the first donning, but not with subsequent donning attempts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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In-Water Performance of Infant Lifejackets: Freeboard Height and SelfRighting Time: A Failure!

MacDonald¹,

Brooks²,

Kozey³

2016

J Ergonomics

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confidence: 99%

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In-Water Performance of Infant Lifejackets: Freeboard Height and SelfRighting Time: A Failure!

MacDonald¹,

Brooks²,

Kozey³

2016

J Ergonomics

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“…Most infant deaths happen in swimming pools and hot tubs, as well as open water recreational activities [7]. Starting from this same scenario, it is in environments like these that we should intensify efforts to prevention and protection of children.…”

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confidence: 99%

Study and Development of a Preventive Drowning Fashion Vest for Small Children

Carvalho¹,

Catarino

2022

Advances in Science and Technology

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Drowning is a dramatic situation, with very serious consequences and with economic impact, since when it does not cause death, causes sequelae that will affect the victim throughout his life. With regard to children, the prevalence of drowning death is higher than deaths caused by tuberculosis or measles. Considering the context of these accidents, it is known that the immersion occurs without shouting or "noises", which makes it even more difficult to detect and rescue. Rescue agility is crucial for the survival of victims, as after being submerged for only 2 minutes, the victim loses consciousness and after 4 minutes brain damage can become permanent and unalterable. Even if they survive from being submerged for some time, the victims may suffer from severe and often irreversible neurological sequelae [1, 2]. From this perspective, developing safety mechanisms for children requires knowledge of the unique needs of these individuals, arising from the cognitive and motor development of this stage of human development [3, 4]. To foster this problem, the work proposes to develop a usual garment that contains an integrated rescue device for children. The main design challenge is the harmonious matching of the rescue device's function with the fashion item, making it unnoticed. The work presented is feasibility study (online survey), which aims to verify the acceptance of parents/guardians regarding the launch of such product concept, which is presently under development, and the requisites that it should comply with.

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“…Life preservers often play a vital role in ensuring passenger safety in water-related accidents and are required on an airplane in overwater operations by the regulations of many countries [ 1 ]. However, the difficulty of donning life preservers had been repeatedly proven by accident reports [ 2 ], research papers [ 3 – 5 ], and donning tests [ 6 – 8 ]. In the accident ditching on the Hudson River in 2009 [ 2 ], only 4 out of 150 passengers were able to correctly don their life preservers, which highlighted the unreliability of life preservers.…”

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Evaluating the influential factors for life preserver donning tests

Yang

Qian

2021

PLoS ONE

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Life preservers often play a vital role in ensuring passenger safety in water-related accidents, while the difficulty of donning life preservers has been repeatedly proved even in a donning test. To evaluate the influencing factors for life preserver donning tests, 109 college students and 42 villagers were chosen as subjects. A total of fourteen variables with seven categorical variables and seven continuous variables were considered as potential influencing factors. T-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA, for three or more categories) were used to judge whether grouping in categorical variables had a significant effect on the donning performance. Then all variables were offered into the stepwise linear regression (SLR) to evaluate the influential factors for life preserver donning tests. Results showed that four of fourteen variables, including gender, instruction condition, age group, and tool test time (representing the subject’s flexibility), had a significant effect on the donning performance. To evaluate the relationship between the donning performance and influencing factors, models of the retrieving time, the opening time, and the donning time were built based on the SLR analysis. The paper also highlights recommendations for modification of the donning test procedure, which helps to improve the validation and reliability of life preserver donning tests.

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Infant life jacket donning trials using children and their parents: Comparison to the Canadian standard

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

In-Water Performance of Infant Lifejackets: Freeboard Height and SelfRighting Time: A Failure!

In-Water Performance of Infant Lifejackets: Freeboard Height and SelfRighting Time: A Failure!

Study and Development of a Preventive Drowning Fashion Vest for Small Children

Evaluating the influential factors for life preserver donning tests

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