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• Staff Morale–investigating accidents and implementing corrective actions will enhance a
positive safety culture in an organisation, if the organisation fails to investigate accidents, the
workers may have thought their life is not valued by the employer.

• To review and update risk assessment–investigation may suggest the weakness in the risk
assessment, hence the risk assessment may be reviewed.

• Disciplinary actions–due unacceptable behaviour of the workers, disciplinary actions must be
taken against the worker who failed to follow the standards.

Types of Incidents

Accident is an unwanted, unplanned event which results in injury, damage to property, plant
and machinery or environment.

Injury Accidents is an unwanted, unplanned event which results in injury

Injury Accidents is an unwanted, unplanned event which results in damage to property, plant,
and machinery.

Dangerous Occurrences ILO defines the term dangerous occurrence as a “ readily identifiable
event as defined under nation laws and regulations, with potential to cause an injury or disease
to persons at work or to the public”

Dangerous occurrences describe significantly hazardous incident which has the potential to
cause injury or death, failure of lifting equipment, electrical incident causing fire and explosion,
collapse of scaffold, failure of breathing apparatus etc., must be reported to the enforcement
authority.

Near Miss is an undesired event which did not result in physical injury or property damage, but
has the potential to do so if it is going to happen again. E.g. hammer falling off a trestle and
landing on the floor.

Work related ill health ill health caused by their work including physiological and psychological
aspects. The work-related ill health examples are:

• exposure to noise causes Noise induced hearing loss.

• exposure to asbestos caused asbestosis where the ill health is developed gradually over
several years.

• excessive work pressure causes Stress is also a work-related ill health.

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