PSYCH-105 Industrial Psychology
Chapter 13: Accident and Safety
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Appendix
Accident Proneness
Accident proneness is a condition in which human being is mentally inclined, strongly disposed, attitudinally addicted or personally destined to become continually involved in an ongoing and never-ending series of accidents or injuries. Thus, some people may be more often involved in accidents than other. In other word, they are accident prone. They get involved in accidents, muscular weakness, emotional instability visual disability, recklessness, hostility and indifference. A person who is prone to accidents is also known as ‘accident repeater’.
Measurement of Accidents
There two major factors which are used for measuring accidents
- Accident frequency rate: it is defined as the number of injuries which has disabled an employee per 10,00,000 man – hours worked
accident frequency rate = \frac{number of injuries}{number of human hours worked} \times 10,00,000 - Accident severity rate: it is defined as a total number of days lost because of accidents per 10,00,000 man – hours worked
accident severity rate = \frac{number of human days lost}{number of human hours worked} \times 10,00,000
Author – Dr. Niyati Garg
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