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No Injury, No Accident?. No Accident? OR No Injury?. Accident v. Injury. Accident Mishap or Near Miss Injury Accident that Hurts Someone. Accidents. Many Accidents Occur Most Cause No Injuries Most are not Reported. An Accident or Injury?. Which Accidents will Cause Injuries?
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Accident v. Injury Accident Mishap or Near Miss Injury Accident that Hurts Someone
Accidents • Many Accidents Occur • Most Cause No Injuries • Most are not Reported
An Accident or Injury? • Which Accidents will Cause Injuries? • We Don’t Know!
Accident Research W. H. Heinrich A Pioneer in Industrial Accident Prevention, found that, out of 330 Accidents …
330 Accidents 300: No Injury
Your Chances Your Chances of being Seriously Injured or Killed in an Accident are: 1 out of 330
Chances The Difference Between Near Miss and Injury?LUCK
Near Miss or Injury? Because We Don’t Know Which Accidents will Cause Injuries… The Goal is to Prevent All Accidents
To Prevent Accidents PreventUnsafe Acts • Unsafe Act • Coworker Exposed • Accident or Near Miss • If Cause Not Corrected, • Unsafe Act Will Happen Again
Repeated Unsafe Acts • Will Cause Accidents • Will Eventually Lead to Injuries
Accidents • Accidents Are: Free Warnings and Opportunities
Accidents Are Free Warnings Accidents are a Glimpse at What Could Happen if … We Don’t ACT NOW!
Accidents Are Opportunities Opportunity to: Recognize Hazard And Take 3 Steps
Step 1: ReportingAccidents Realize that it Happened: • Practice Incident Recall • Report Accidents Immediately • Any Free Warnings Today?
Step 2: Investigating Accidents Determine the Cause: • 2% - “Acts of God” • 10% - Unsafe Conditions • 88% - Unsafe Acts of People
Unsafe Acts Examples: • Inattentiveness • Carelessness • Creating Unsafe Conditions
Step 3: Eliminating Accidents Eliminate the Causes: • Removing Unsafe Conditions • Changing Unsafe Behavior
Luck Illustrating Randomness: • 300 Sugar Pills • 29 Laxative Pills
Luck Lethal Randomness: 1 Arsenic Pill
Ignoring No Injury Accidents Is Like Passing the Jar of Pills Around: • 300 People will have Accidents • 29 People will be Slightly Injured • One Will Be Seriously or Fatally Injured
Avoid Disaster Stop Passing the Jar Around
Minor Accident? • There’s No Such Thing As a Minor Accident • The Same Accident That Causes No Injury Today May Take Someone’s Life Tomorrow
Remove the Causes If We Fail to Remove the Cause of the No-Injury Accident, Then We Fail to Remove the Cause of the Accident That Does Result in Injury
No Excuses Accept No Excuses: • Report Every Accident • Investigate Every Accident • Eliminate Accident Causes