Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations: Administration and Programs

National Safety Council, Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations Administration and Programs, 10th ed. Itasca, IL, 1992... [Pg.34]

In the 1950s, studies made of accident experience in which all identified causal factors were entered into the analytical system produced greatly different results. (See the eighth edition of the National Safety Council s Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations Administration and Programs.) However, Heinrich continued to advocate his method and wrote this about it ... [Pg.56]

Heinrich recognized that other studies on accident causation identified both unsafe acts and unsafe conditions as causal factors with almost equal frequency. Those studies produced results different from the 88-10-2 ratios. For example, the National Safety Council s Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations Administration and Programs, 8th ed., cites two historical studies establishing that most accidents have multiple causes. [Pg.243]

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