Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Publication Year
- Publication Type
Articles 61 - 90 of 114
Full-Text Articles in Public Policy
Ddasaccident456, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident456, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The demining pair were clearing a lane as a team with one doing the detection and the other clearing the vegetation. The pair had just changed around after detection. The victim moved to the top of the clearance lane to re-position the red string lines and begin clearing vegetation and spoil from the next part of the lane prior to detection. As the victim bent down to position the stakes with the red string attached, he stood on a mine with his left foot on the cleared left hand side of the lane. When the mine exploded, the victim’s partner …
Towards A Better Mine Action Programme: Master Of Science Dissertation, Tim Lardner
Towards A Better Mine Action Programme: Master Of Science Dissertation, Tim Lardner
Global CWD Repository
This dissertation sets out to assess how the global community has dealt with landmines and the damage they are having on the population. The study analyses the development of two programmes in particular in Cambodia and Mozambique - and then considers the influences that culture and organisational structure have on those organisations. Taking these lessons, the study analyses the best methods of implementation and recommends a number of areas worthy of consideration in the development of future mine action organisations.
Ddasaccident461, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident461, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Stood on PMN mine, after accidentally stepping over the front of lane marker. Mine did not function properly and so injuries not consistent with those expected from type of mine.
Veterans International Technical And Medical Rehabilitation Support Services In Cambodia, Usaid-Leahy
Veterans International Technical And Medical Rehabilitation Support Services In Cambodia, Usaid-Leahy
Global CWD Repository
Evaluates project to establish rehabilitation centers for people disabled by war in Cambodia. Interim evaluation covers the period 1996-10/01. Veterans International/Cambodia (VI/C) is the implementing agency. VI/C's USAID-funded rehabilitation efforts are providing highly successful and valuable interventions for people with disabilities. The grant support has enabled people with amputations, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, polio, and a number of other pathologies to receive high-quality rehabilitation and prosthetic and orthotic services. Numerous patients have had significantly positive functional and social outcomes, with particularly good outcomes for patients with amputations and clubfeet, and good outcomes for those with polio and spinal cord …
Gichd Evaluation Of The German Project Co-Ordination, Eric M. Filippino, Mark Yarmoshuk
Gichd Evaluation Of The German Project Co-Ordination, Eric M. Filippino, Mark Yarmoshuk
Global CWD Repository
After discussion with the German Government the terms of reference were decided to be the following: The evaluation team was to evaluate the German Project Coordination pilot project in Cambodia. The GPC Project is a staff development project in which Cambodian staff are to be trained in various information and TM disciplines. The IM people are intended to fit into an information cell that manages a “National Integrated Database” held and managed by CMAA. The TM personnel, who will eventually serve as part of an overall QA/QC system will ostensibly also fit into a CMAA cell of some type. It …
Ddasaccident355, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident355, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
At 0829 Hrs on Monday 29th January 200 1, a deminer from Mine Action Team Number 2 from Pursat Province, was injured by a small explosion, at Svay Donkeo minefield. He was conducting Electronic Clearance drills as part of a two man demining pair, when he found an as yet unidentified metallic item which exploded in his hand when he picked it up.
Mine Clearance By Villagers In Rural Cambodia: Spontaneous Demining Initiatives, Final Study Report, Ruth Bottomley
Mine Clearance By Villagers In Rural Cambodia: Spontaneous Demining Initiatives, Final Study Report, Ruth Bottomley
Global CWD Repository
This report presents the findings and conclusions of a six-month research project to investigate the occurence of mine clearance activities by villagers. The aim of the research was to provide reliable and accurate information on the subject of village mine clearance with the intention that this information could help to inform and expand the debate and perhaps suggest some viable solutions. The research was based very much on qualitative methodology. This methodology allowed the researchers to gather a more detailed, in-depth "street view" of the villages affected by mines and unexploded ordnances.
Ddasaccident159, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident159, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
At the time of the accident, Victim No.1 was excavating a detector reading. Victim No.2 was the detector man and had paused on his return to the safe area because he felt unwell and so had not left the vicinity when the mine initiated. Victim No.1 was excavating with a "trowel" [a locally made excavating tool] (after prodding) when (at 10:40) he initiated a mine. He had been a deminer for 13 months.
Ddasaccident165, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident165, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
On the morning of the accident the victim was working as a prodder man on an upward incline of 30o. The detector man got a reading, marked it and called to the victim to investigate. As the victim was excavating he saw a white metal tube about the size of a finger but did not recognise what it was. He continued to prod around it and he initiated the mine with the tip of his prodder
Ddasaccident160, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident160, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The working area was on the Cambodian mid-level (as opposed to flood plain and mountainous area) so there was a lot of bamboo. The victim was the prodder man and was called by his partner to investigate the source of a detector reading near some bamboo. The victim knelt on the ground and prodded the area for a short time. At 11:05 he initiated a mine and fell back into the cleared area.
Ddasaccident161, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident161, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The victim said that he did not find anything at the first marker, and then failed to find anything at the second marker with his prodder. He called his partner to check with the detector again and the reading was confirmed. He then started excavating with his "trowel" when the mine exploded. He estimated that the mine was buried to a depth of 4cm, but did not see it prior to the explosion.
Ddasaccident162, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident162, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The victim stated that he was prodding to a depth of about 8cm and did not feel the mine before it exploded. He said that normally when the ground was very wet they stopped operations because it was not comfortable to lie down. He maintained that he had been lying on his plastic sheet but was still getting wet and the ground conditions were not safe to work in.
Ddasaccident163, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident163, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Signed by an expatriate specialist and dated 5th September 1998, the report stated that demining had started at the site on 10th June 1998 and fourteen Type 69s and two PMNs had been recovered. The victim had worked for 40 minutes on the morning of the accident and in that time had cleared 4m and located and excavated four metal fragments. He was prodding to investigate another signal from his "Ebinger 420H" when at 07:50 he detonated a PMN.
Ddasaccident164, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident164, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The mined area was a road that linked Malay with National Route 5. The victim was working as a prodder man in one of the ditches that ran along both sides of the road. He was squatting at the bottom and working his way up the side. The ground had a very hard crust to a depth of 2cm and was soft underneath. The victim's partner marked a reading and then moved back to allow the victim to investigate. Because the ground was hard, the victim used a "trowel" to break up the surface, but initiated the mine.
Ddasaccident166, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident166, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The victim's partner placed a start stick about 25cm away from the marked edge of the safe lane from which they were advancing, and a second stick half a meter in front of that (so marking the working area). The victim checked his detector, then started to sweep the first 50cm in front of the start stick. This took about one minute. On finding the area clear he bent down to pick up the start stick and moved it forward, taking a step forward as he did so. He stepped on a mine that had been in front of or …
Ddasaccident167, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident167, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The working area was covered with dense vegetation and the clearance work involved the removal of thick bushes and small trees. The victim had been working as the vegetation cutter and prodder man on the morning of the accident and had completed the clearance of his lane just before the lunch break. As he was returning he noticed that one of the stakes holding the marking tape was not straight so he attempted to put it right by pulling the tape. In trying to do so he walked along a fallen log near the edge of the lane but his …
Ddasaccident169, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident169, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
Victim No.1 was carrying a DK2 fuse to the collections pit and dropped it. It exploded when it hit the ground. The victim was leaning over slightly when it fell and received injuries to his cheek and nose. The other two victims were close by and were hit on the back by fragments and small stones.
Ddasaccident168, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident168, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The victim was a prodder man and he and his partner had already cleared about 20m and had found about 30 fragments. At 08:30 the victim was returning along the lane after clearing some vegetation and trod on a mine that was about 11m into the lane.
Ddasaccident170, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident170, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The victim was the vegetation cutter and prodder man. He cleared 50cm of vegetation at the end of the lane and then handed over to his partner, the detector man. The detector signalled so a marker was put down and the detector man returned to the umbrella. The prodder man investigated the source of the signal and then shouted that he had found a mine. He started to excavate around the mine in preparation for placing a TNT charge next to it. There were a lot of roots around the mine but the victim was not aware that there were …
Ddasaccident171, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident171, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
A medical report indicated that the accident occurred at 11:50 and the victim was given first aid for 15 minutes. He arrived at Mongkul Borey Provincial Hospital at 12:40. He had suffered a traumatic amputation of his right foot above the ankle, minor fragment wounds along the length of his left leg and superficial wounds on the back of his left hand.
Ddasaccident172, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident172, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The primary cause of this accident is listed as a "Field control inadequacy" because the victim was apparently in breach of SOPs (habitually) but had not been disciplined or appropriately corrected.
Ddasaccident173, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident173, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The accident occurred at a site with "laterite contaminated soil" and several strong signals were found with the detector. The detector man informed his colleague and was making his way back to the rest area when there was an explosion.
Ddasaccident174, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident174, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The victim was told to get a marking stick by his supervisor. While he was doing so, he stood on the "booster" of a PMN-2 that had been "destroyed" on 20th December 1996. The "booster" had lain hidden in a clump of grass 2m (or 4m on an attached sketch-map) from where the mine was "destroyed". The "booster" left a crater of 10cm diameter x 5cm deep.
Ddasaccident175, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident175, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The demining team were clearing land so that an NGO could build a road. There was a deserted house at the site. The area was densely vegetated and strewn with a large number of fragments. Victim No.1 was a detector man. His partner cleared some vegetation and then returned to the rest area. Victim No.1 tested the detector a second time and went to sweep the area.
Ddasaccident176, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident176, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The two men were close to the detonation and both suffered severe hand injury so a handling accident is inferred. Light face injuries including eye "burns" imply that their safety spectacles were not worn. If the victims were handling the device, the control failure is compounded because the demining group's SOPs did not allow them to handle devices.
Ddasaccident177, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident177, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The Medical report recorded the time of the accident as 18:00, which is long after work stops for the day. From this it is inferred that the victim stepped on a mine in an area believed safe. That area may or may not have been previously cleared.
Ddasaccident178, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident178, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
At approximately 09:00 the victim detonated a PMN while investigating a detector signal with his prodder. He sustained a traumatic amputation of his left thumb and forefinger, grazing to his left upper arm and to the lower half of his face, and "a slight laceration to the cornea of his left eye" that caused 50% blindness in this eye. He was also bleeding from both ears. The victim was wearing body armour and a visor.
The Norwegian People's Aid Mine Clearance Project In Cambodia, Gichd
The Norwegian People's Aid Mine Clearance Project In Cambodia, Gichd
Global CWD Repository
The objective of this report is to assess the project results of NPA in Cambodia and their use of costs and resouces. A further objective is to provide a quantitative review of the extension of demining for NPA's mine clearance project from 1992 to 1996. The report focuses on demining, mine awareness, training, capacity building and funding.
Ddasaccident179, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident179, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The primary cause of this accident is listed as a "Field control inadequacy" because the victims were close together when the device initiated which indicates a breach of safety distance SOPs that went uncorrected.
Ddasaccident180, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident180, Hd-Aid
Global CWD Repository
The demining team uncovered three Type 72a mines and called the supervisor to deal with them. The victim was walking over a cleared area at 10:30 when he detonated another Type 72a mine. He received injuries described in the field as "light". He was taken to Mong Kol Borey hospital arriving at 11.20.