No Injury,

No Accident?

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No Accident?
OR
No Injury?

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Accident v. Injury

Accident
Mishap or Near Miss
Injury
Accident that Hurts
Someone

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 Accidents
• Many Accidents Occur

• Most Cause No Injuries

• Most are not Reported

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An Accident or Injury?

• Which Accidents will

Cause Injuries?

• We Don’t Know!

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Accident Research

W. H. Heinrich
A Pioneer in Industrial
Accident Prevention,
found that, out of
330 Accidents …

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330 Accidents

300: No Injury

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330 Accidents

29: Minor Injuries

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330 Accidents

1: Serious or Fatal
Injury

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Your Chances
Your Chances of being
Seriously Injured or
Killed in an Accident are:

11 out
out of
of 330
330
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 Chances
The Difference Between
Near Miss and Injury?

LUCK

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Near Miss or Injury?

Because We Don’t Know Which

Accidents will Cause Injuries…

The Goal is to
Prevent All Accidents

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 To Prevent Accidents
Prevent Unsafe Acts
• Unsafe Act
• Coworker Exposed
• Accident or Near Miss
• If Cause Not Corrected,
• Unsafe Act Will Happen Again

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Repeated Unsafe Acts

• Will Cause Accidents

• Will Eventually Lead to

Injuries

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 Accidents
• Accidents Are:
Free Warnings

and

Opportunities

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Accidents Are Free Warnings

Accidents are a Glimpse

at
What Could Happen if …

We Don’t ACT NOW!

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Accidents Are Opportunities

Opportunity to:

Recognize Hazard

And

Take 3 Steps

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Step 1: Reporting Accidents
Realize that it Happened:

• Practice Incident Recall

• Report Accidents Immediately

• Any Free Warnings Today?

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Step 2: Investigating Accidents

Determine the Cause:

• 2% - “Acts of God”

• 10% - Unsafe Conditions

• 88% - Unsafe Acts of People

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 Unsafe Acts
Examples:

• Inattentiveness

• Carelessness

• Creating Unsafe Conditions

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Step 3: Eliminating Accidents

Eliminate the Causes:

• Removing Unsafe Conditions

• Changing Unsafe Behavior

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 Luck
Illustrating Randomness:

• 300 Sugar Pills

• 29 Laxative Pills

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 Luck
Lethal Randomness:

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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

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Avoid Disaster

Stop Passing the

Jar Around

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 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

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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

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 No Excuses
Accept No Excuses:
• Report Every Accident
• Investigate Every Accident
• Eliminate Accident Causes

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