Accident Prevention Techniques in Industry: Methods
Accident Prevention Techniques in Industry: Methods
Techniques In Industry
METHODS
• Failure to investigate a fatal accident thoroughly could cause an other employee to enter a
vital death trap. Ofcourse, learning by experience is the hard way, but when easier systems
prove inadequate, it may be the only remaining alternative.
• When conducting an investigation, the analyst should not stop after finding one cause to
account for the accident under study. Experience has shown that in most instances a
multiplicity of unsafe conditions and combine to cause mishaps. All may be important and
should beanalysed.
Use’s
• Investigation is to bring forth facts which can be used in preventing
other or recurring accidents.
• Records show that the method analyst breaks a job down its elements to analyse
individual motion and their time value, a safety analyst looks in each work
station and watch the duty of each operators to unearth possible hazards.
2. Plant safety inspection
• Constant inspection should be performed formally by the agement personnel and the
workers themselves.
• Full report should be submitted to the plant manager and the operating personnel at the
end of each formal inspection in order that recommended corrective actions can be taken.
3. Placement of workers
The worker should be assigned the jobs according to their:
2) Mental stability
6) Habits
7) Exposure to risk