High rates of occupational injuries and diseases lead to significant financial losses for companies the state. The article considers a systematic approach solving this problem proposes ways reduce level at production enterprises.

The work has been aimed at an analysis of accidents at work occurring throughout 1981-1982 at the Bełchatów Industrial District. The most common causes of accidents at work have been direct factors resulting mainly from workers' inadvertence or recklessness, improper performance of occupational tasks, lack of appropriate tools, and settlement of private affairs at work. The incidence of acciden...

In all safety critical industries, catastrophic accidents can happen, and have happened in the past. These accidents are not industry specific and the obvious commonality is the high inherent risk associated with the activities undertaken. However, other common themes can be identified in the root causes of the ten accidents in seven different industrial sectors reviewed in this paper. These ar...

Ionizing radiation is used in many industrial practices such as industrial radiography, nuclear gauges, petroleum well logging and industrial irradiators. These practices can result in radiation exposures whose intensity can be foreseen with some level of certainty. They are called normal exposures. Nevertheless, in routine practices other type of exposures can also occur. They are called poten...

some of the most destructive accidents of 1980s and 90s which occurred in process industries were domino accidents. although domino accidents are among the most destructive industrial accidents, there are not much pioneering works done on quantification of them. the analytical formulation of the domino accidents is usually complex and need a deep knowledge of probability rules. even if the case...

An analysis of accident records provides a usef~l means for identifying patterns in the incidence of aCCIdents in large populations. Supplemented by the examination and evaluation of isolated variables likely to be related to accidents, it has also been used in studies of accidents in smaller groups of industrial employees. Thus studies on accidents in relation to. the influence of fatigue, ill...