Haddon, William

Haddon, William, Jr. 1967. The prevention of accidents In Preventive Medicine, ed. Duncan W. Clark and Brian MacMahon, 591-621. Boston Little, Brown. 

Haddon, William J., Jr. On the Escape of Tigers An Ecological Note. Technology Review, May 1970. 

Haddon William J., Jr. The Prevention of Accidents. Boston Preventive Medicine, 1966. 

Dr. William Haddon, who was the first Director of the National Highway Safety Bureau, conceived the energy release theory. Its concept is that unwanted transfers of energy can be harmful (and wasteful) and that a systematic approach to limiting their possibility should be taken. 

One is the Air Force System Safety Handbook, a revision of which was published in July 2000. It is an adaptation of Standard Practice for System Safety, Department of Defense, known as MIL-STD-882D, 2000. And the second is William J. Haddon s energy release theory as set forth in his papers, such as The Prevention of Accidents and On the Escape of Tigers An Ecological Note. ... 

William Haddon worked primarily in the prevention of vehicle accidents. He developed a theory that involves... 

In the past, various methods were used to categorize road safety problems and the interventions to prevent them. One of the more popular methods is that of William Haddon, who viewed crash causation in two dimensions (Haddon, 1972). On one... 

Two months after the Vehicle Safety Act and Highway Safety Act were signed by President Lyndon Johnson, the National Traffic Safety Agency and National Highway Safety Agency were established within the Department of Commerce and William Haddon was appointed as Administrator of both. In April of 1967 the two safety agencies were transferred into the Department of Transportation and three years later became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). 

The pioneering work of the public health specialist William Haddon Jr. brought the epidemiological discipline of host, agent, and environment and the time frames of before, during, and after the crash to the search for preventive measures in traffic safety, and the Haddon matrix revolutionised the way traffic safety professionals thought about both causes and interventions. An example is depicted in Table 5.1 of ways in which measures to help prevent—or minimise injury in—single-vehicle run-off-road crashes into fixed objects. Only one of the several potential measures in each box of the matrix is shown. Once all potential measures were conceived in a... 

A classic strategy to reduce the potential for injury was developed by William Haddon and provides a systematic approach to controlling hazards. His concept list a series of actions that reduce the consequences of what he termed energy transfer. ... 

A classic strategy to reduce the potential for injury was developed by William Haddon and provides a systematic approach to controlling hazards. 

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