Prevention of accident at workplace, today is our toolbox topic. When there's an accident—whether it's the death of a man or a lady breaking a plate—someone always asks, "How did it happen?" The answer will invariably be the same: it was not by chance. Someone or several people caused the accident.
Accidents are not random. They are always caused, and the cause is almost always that some person failed in their task somewhere. Suppose you fell down the stairs of your own house and broke your leg. This is not a fluke. There was no imp waiting there to play a trick on him. Something brought it down and resulted from someone's action or failure to act when they should have.
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The fall is likely due to his fault. Perhaps you were in a hurry and went downstairs faster than you should have. Perhaps you tried to carry a bulky bundle that caused you to lose your balance. Perhaps his eyesight is defective and he didn't bother to put on his glasses.
But maybe someone did something to cause the accident. Maybe
the handrail was damaged and no one had bothered to fix it. Maybe it was dark
and you didn't bother to install your lighting. Or you probably started going up
when someone was speeding down and the crash knocked you off balance. It may
also be that the staircase had collapsed due to poor construction. And so many
other things.
Educate employees on how to prevent accidents and exposure
But in reality, if you fell and broke your leg, it is most
likely a combination of several things. This is equally true in workplace
accidents. Every accident is caused by someone and many accidents are caused by
a combination of human faults. This is an example of what happens with fire. If
a match is lit:
A match is lit and then thrown on the clean floor. See what
happens? It turns off by itself.
But suppose you do this:
Tear and shuffle some pieces of paper, put them in a can,
light a match and put it between the papers, making sure it burns paper. The
first match went out by itself because it was thrown to a clean place and the
second started a fire because it fell into the middle of combustible material.
So if a fire starts, what has caused it? The person who
carelessly dropped the lit match? Or was it the people who left the combustible
material lying around, instead of cleaning it up? The answer; Of course, it is
that both parties caused the fire. It was a combination of causes.
Incident prevention
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This is how most accidents happen. We know that safety rules
can be violated many times without causing accidents. But when a situation
involving the other parties to the combination is violated, everything is
ready, waiting to turn that act of theirs into a disaster.
The thing is simple. Not every dangerous act results in an
accident, but no accident occurs unless one or more hazardous acts have been
committed.
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"Never happen to something wrong"
This mindset is just what produces all the fatalities we
hear about from so-called "Unloaded Guns." sometimes we believe that
the revolver has no bullet. Point the gun at a friend and pull the trigger,
because an unloaded gun can never kill anyone. But at some bad moment, it gets loaded.
In your daily work, if you know the right way to do your job. Remember you will never be the person to cause an accident.
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What is the first step in accident prevention
