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| Any undesired circumstance which gives rise to ill health or injury; damage to property, plant, products or environment |
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| An undesired circumstance or near miss that could cause an accident |
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| An incident that could cause injury or loss but does not |
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| [image]Accident ratio Triangle (F E Bird ) |
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| Trangle showing relationship between Acccidents, Incidents and Near Misses. There are always more events involving less serious accidents than there are major. |
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| [image]Domino Theory (Heinrich) |
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| A preventable accident is one of five factors in a sequence that results in an injury. The injury is invariably caused by an accident and the accident in turn is always the result of the factor that immediately precedes it |
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| Accident Factors ( Heinrich ) |
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1. Ancestry and social environment
2. Fault of the person
3. Unsafe act and/or mechanical or physical hazard.
4. ACCIDENT
5. INJURY |
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**Acident Factors ( Bird and Loftus )
BASIC IMPORTANCE TO LOSS CONTROL MANAGEMENT |
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1. Lack of control by management
2. Lack of control leads to the existence of basic or underlying causes ( i.e. personal and job factors.)
3. In turn, this leads to immediate causes (such as sub standard practices, conditions or errors.)
4.These are subsequently the direct causes of accidents.
Finally, this results in loss (Which can be catorgorised as negligible, minor,serious or catastrophic. |
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| If the accident sequence is interrupted by the elimination of even one of the factors that comprise of it, then the loss cannot occur and the accident will be prevented |
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| The immediate cause of an accident |
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| May be human or technical failure, but they usually arise from organisational failings which are the responsibility of management. |
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