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Safety is traditionally seen as accident prevention, i.e. avoiding unwanted events from occurring. Safety can also be seen as a basic value in the workplace. If one adopts a proactive way of thinking, then safety can be viewed as resilience engineering,…
Many organisations and companies take extensive proactive measures to identify, evaluate and reduce occupational risks. However, despite these efforts things still go wrong and unintended events occur. After a major incident or accident, conducting an…
The models used in accident investigation can typically be grouped into three types: sequential, epidemiological, and systemic models. Although the sequential and epidemiological models have contributed to the understanding of accidents; they are not…
Workplace transport is important to most businesses, whether it be a retail outlet, a farm or a large manufacturing plant, they all rely on workplace transport to move products, materials or people from one place to another. Workplace transport is the…
Ensuring safety at work essentially means preventing accidents at work. An accident at work can be defined in different ways depending on the context in which it is used. Often also the word incident is used, sometimes as a broader term encompassing ‘an…
Safe maintenance work requires proper planning, a safe work area, appropriate equipment, careful work execution and diligent final checks.
A growth in the number of manufacturing workplaces at which people work very closely with robots is expected in the coming years [1]. By combining human abilities and dexterity with the precision, strength and speed of the robot, highly efficient…
Commuting refers to the trip from home to the workplace or from the workplace back home. Accidents that occur during these trips are called commuting accidents. In the first part of this article, the risk factors related to commuting accidents are…
For many people driving is an important part of their job. And although work related road accidents mostly happen on the public road, employers are also responsible for the safety of their employees outside the workplace. Employers can manage work-…
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the most common work-related health problem in Europe[1], affecting millions of workers. MSDs represent one of the most frequent causes of work-related incapacity to work in Europe and cover a broad range of health…
A great diversity of personal fall protection systems are used by workers who have to work at height to position the worker or to restrain his/her movements in order to prevent falls or to protect him/her in case of fall. A fall arrest system is used…