Risk Management | Visual & Multimedia | Telecommuting | Testing
 

• Risk Management
  
  ARCCA assists corporate clients in the area of asset management - both physical and intellectual. In organizations that have vehicle fleets, two large assets are the actual vehicles as well as the workers who drive them.
  
  Ensuring that workers are productive and safe is a huge and growing challenge for all organizations. ARCCA's unique assistance takes several forms.
  
  Accident Prevention. Our safety experts proactively prevent accidents and injury by working closely with clients to help define the standards for vehicle fleets. This involves not only specifying the vehicle type, but also any custom designs or features that may be installed to cost-effectively increase the safety of the drivers. We rely not only on extensive research that we have conducted, but also on our years of experience investigating accidents and understanding what does and does not work in the "real world."
  
  Accident Investigation. Once notified of an accident, we dispatch an investigative team to the scene. Our safety experts then begin a detailed investigation of the accident. We gather information to accurately reconstruct the accident. Our biomechanics analyze the data and ascertain whether the injuries claimed by the occupants or other third parties could have actually occurred. This provides essential information for determining the appropriate course of action in managing both workers compensation and third-party claims.
  
  Safety Training. ARCCA develops customized safety training programs to supplement the client's existing programs. Driving safety, driver safety, and accident investigation are just some of the topics included in a training program. Our accident investigation training is particularly important to ensure that the proper information is gathered in a timely and proper manner in order to accurately assess any and all potential claims.
  
  
  
• Visual & Multimedia
  
  In the corporate world, when the stakes are high, you must harness the power of visual communication. Effective visual images reinforce, emphasize, and clarify your key points so that you can be sure the message you intend to deliver is received.
  
  ARCCA professionals have over 20 years' experience in communications consulting, graphic design, technical illustration, animation, and video and multimedia production. We have a proven, structured information design approach to ensure that your presentation is targeted to the right audience and tells the right story. Your audience will understand and remember the points that make the difference to you.
   
• Telecommuting
  
  ARCCA uses a structured assessment to determine client's readiness to capitalize on the extended workplace. We collect data focusing on business processes, communication, collaboration and information requirements. From this assessment, we develop a plan that lays out a migration path for a successful extended workplace program. The plan establishes timelines, defines critical success factors, identifies appropriate job functions for remote work and defines the approach to modifying policies and procedures. Once the plan is completed, we help clients implement. Implementation can be a full-scale project or a demonstration project. A key part of the implementation is effective training for remote workers, managers and work teams that may include employees who do not work remotely.
  
   
• Testing
  
  To be admissible in court any testing must follow sound engineering principles and must be performed using accepted scientific methodology. ARCCA engineers are skilled at static and dynamic testing and forensic assessments and have written numerous peer review articles and learned treatises based on our testing. Our staff has specialized ability to properly plan a test, establish the appropriate test conditions, conduct the test, and then analyze the results. In fact ARCCA's engineers are recognized leaders in the field of static and dynamic testing and have been called upon by several Federal agencies to conduct and support their testing efforts. Moreover, we have unique national expertise in horizontal accelerator testing (sled test) and the proper use of anthropomorphic test dummies.
  
  ARCCA's Pennsylvania office has the following test facilities and capabilities:
  • Static structural load test large payload
  • Seatbelt mini sled testing up to 1g
  • Drop tower to simulate dynamic loading up to 30 mph with a variable G profile
  • Precision structural testing for small payloads- digital test stand
  • Rollover fixture testing
  • Forensic inspection using video microscopy
  • Portable friction apparatus-Brungraber Mark II
  • Faro Arm digitizer for precision measurement of irregular 3-D objects
  
  Using outside laboratories, ARCCA regularly conducts:
  • Sled tests using a HYGE horizontal accelerator
  • Vehicle to vehicle crash tests
  • Serology testing, DNA assessment available
  • Barrier and pole crash testing
  • Full system rollover testing
  
  Another popular form of testing is conducting computer simulations of the event. A simulation is a mathematical computation of the events. For a simulation to be admissible in the court, it must be supported by scientific principle and scientific literature. ARCCA uses only validated and accepted simulation programs. ARCCA personnel have been involved in validating some of these programs for the federal government and in establishing their useful limits. One such example is occupant motion simulation. ARCCA's capability in this area enables us to conduct parametric studies of human performance under a variety of crash conditions. This helps our experts to confirm their opinions through established scientific means. Ultimately, this effort allows us to predict human motion and kinematic response.