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KHURSANIYAH GAS
PROJECTS INSPECTION UNIT
Prepared by:Fouzi H. Al-Fayiz
VEHICLE AIRBAGS
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Outline Definition
How Does Air Bag Work?
Advantages of Using Airbags
Disadvantages of Using Airbags
Safety Precautions With Air Bags?
Seat Belt with Airbag
Eliminate Danger to Children From Airbags
Proper Seating Position
References
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Definition
An airbagis a vehicle safetydevice. It isconsisting of a flexible envelope designed to
inflate rapidly in an automobile collision, to
prevent vehicle occupants from striking hard
interior objects such as steering wheels.
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How Does Air Bag Work?
The bag is made of a thin, nylon fabricfolded into the steering wheel ordashboard.
The sensor tells the bag to inflate whenthere is a collision force.
The air bag's inflation system reacts
sodium azide with potassium nitrate toproduce nitrogen gas.
Hot blasts of the nitrogen inflate the airbag.
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AIRBAGS
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Advantages of Vehicle Airbags
According to USA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA).
Air bags save thousands of lives each year In frontal crashes andreduce deaths among drivers by about 30 percent and amongpassengers by 27 percent.
About 3.3 million air bag deployments have occurred and it wasestimated more than 6,377 lives saved and countless injuriesprevented.
Air bags, when combined with safety belts, have saved many lives
and prevented many injuries in motor vehicle crashes.
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Airbags are also designed to protect occupants'
heads, side impact, and in the back seat.
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Disadvantages of Vehicle Airbags
Airbag can present a serious danger to infants, smallchildren.
Airbag can seriously injure or even kill an unbuckled child
who is sitting too close to it or is thrown toward the dashduring emergency braking.
From 1990 to 2008, NHTSA identified 175 fatalities in USA,as because of Airbags. Most of these have been children.
Airbag inflate at speeds up to 200mph and the blast ofenergy can severely injure or kill passengers who are tooclose to it.
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Examples: Hearing Loss
Hearing loss may occur as a result of air
bag inflation in low speed crashes.
Pregnant Women Injuries
Potential harm to unborn children
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How airbag Cause Injury or Death
Your Body Momentum Push You Forward while Airbag Will BushYou Backward With High Speed And Force
Even after an accident when the airbags have not deployed,victims and rescue personnel must be cautious.
Airbags can deploy some time after the initial impact, causinginjury or death.
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Airbag Victim
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Safety Precautions
Keep occupants in the position where they receive the most benefitfrom the air bag.
Place yourself 10 inches from your driver air bag. This will give youa clear margin of safety. Measure this distance from the center ofthe steering wheel to your breastbone.
Replace Airbags that have never been deployed from an accident asa car begins to age. a 14-year life for an un-deployed airbag istypical.
Check indicator light usually located on the dashboard to see if thereis a problem with an Airbag (will become lit).
Most Air bags only inflate once, and do not provide protection pastan initial impact.
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Seat Belt with Airbag
Since 1998, all new cars have been requiredto have Airbags on both driver and passengersides.
Airbags Were Never Designed To ReplaceSeat Belts.
Airbags Are supplemental safety devices.
Those not wearing seat belts may slide or bethrown forward against the airbag module,and be seriously injured or killed if airbagdeploys.
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Eliminate Danger to children from
Airbags Place them in properly restrained devices in the
back seat.
Never allow Infants and children under 12 to
ride in the front passenger seat, even in a childsafety seat or booster chair.
For two-seater trucks with no back seats, usethe switch device that can turn an airbag off for
a passenger -- in the instance of a child in thefront seat.
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Proper Seating Position
Airbags are designed to operate withdrivers and passengers in the optimumposition. If drivers are not, they can beinjured when the bag fires.
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Proper Seating Position
Wrong Correct
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References
http://www.safercar.gov/airbags/
http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article8
35.html
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/airbags/airbags03
autotips.plentycar.com/airbag-safety-and-your-kids/ - 25k
http://www.whatprice.co.uk/cars/airbag-safety.html
http://www.cnn.com/
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WWW.CITIZEN.ORG
WWW.NHTSA.DOT.GOV
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