Introducing the concept of SHE information systems

In pre-industrial society, human muscles accounted for much of the energy used in production of goods and services. The individual and the work group had hands-on control of the hazards associated with these energies. At the same time, humans were at the mercy of nature and its hazards, as represented by weather extremes, wild animals, etc. Accidents were viewed as a phenomenon beyond human control. They were determined by fate or were a punishment for sin. 

Accidents are infrequent events in modern industry, and accident prevention is usually not at the top of the agenda of management, supervisors and operators. Accidents belong, however, to a set of unplanned and unwanted events that in all are relatively common. Production stoppages, substandard 

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