Accident Prevention :

Basic Terminologies: Incident, Accident, Injury, Hazard.

Types of Accidents:

1. Injury and property damage (major).

2. Injury and not property damage (major or minor).

3. Properly damage and not injury (major or minor).

4. No property damage and no injury (near miss).

Theories of Accident Causation:-

Heinrich's Axioms and Domino Theory,

Frank Bird’s Domino Theory,

Ferrell’s Human Factors Theory,

Need of Accident Prevention,

1. Humanitarian or Basic Need for Safety

2. Economics or Cost of Accidents

3. Social

4. Legal

5. Productivity

Causes of Accidents:

1. Direct, Indirect and Basic causes

2. Heinrich Classification of Accident Causes

Principles of accident prevention

1 Types of Accidents:

2 Fundamentals of Accident Prevention:

3 Heinrich’s Model of Accident Prevention:

Five basic or fundamental steps for accident prevention suggested by H.W. Heinrich are:

1. Organisation.

2. Fact finding.

3. Analysis of the facts found

4. Selection of remedy and

5. Application of the remedy.

Unsafe acts and unsafe conditions-remedies and responsibilities.

MOTIVATION FOR SAFETY

ACCIDENT PRONENESS:Is it Myth or Reality?

ACCIDENT COST TO THE MANAGEMENT

Management suffers two types of costs due to accidents:

Direct or Insured or Tangible Costs and

Indirect or Uninsured or Intangible or Hidden Costs.

Role of Supervisor in Accident Prevention, Role of Workmen, Role of Management, Role of Trade Union, Role of Factory Medical Officer, Role of Safety Officer.