Chris Johnson, Index

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Incident Reporting:
Why Bother?

• Heinrich ratio:
  - 300 near miss incidents;
  - 29 minor injuries;
  - 1 major injury.
  
  
• Contentious...
  - but general ball-park figures;
  - accidents are the tip of an iceburg.
  
  
• UK HSE reported incident data...

H.W. Heinrich, Industrial Accident Prevention, 1931 (4th edition D. Peterson and N. Ross, McGraw Hill, New York, 1969).

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