OHS 608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Space Race, Management System, Household-Responsibility System
13 Jan 2017
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Look into getting a certificate in health and safety. Mainly about safety instead of health hygiene. People have their biases about how accidents occur, for example, accidents are caused by careless people. 90 to 95% of accidents occur from behaviour of people. 90 98% of accidents do occur from defects in management system. An accident theory explains how accidents are caused. People focus on the short immediate response to the accident, instead of the main root causes (factors that would lead to an accident through long bouts of periods) If (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) idea of the (cid:272)auses, (cid:449)e (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat to i(cid:374)(cid:448)estigate. Frederick taylor claims he can find efficiencies, the (cid:862)o(cid:374)e (cid:271)est (cid:449)ay(cid:863) He believes that people cannot be trusted to do things the best way. He visited a coal mine and conducted experiments to find the one best way to shovel coal. He looks at the posture, and the amount of weight.
