Accident Prevention

“Accident Prevention are measures implemented to reduce the chances of incident to a minimum”
• To prevent the causes of accidents
• If an accident does occur to prevent recurrence
Therefore, accident prevention can be achieved by understanding simple applications to include:
• Compliance with legislation
• Introduction of standards
• Risk assessment and loss control systems
• Development of prevention techniques

The development and application of accident prevention techniques can result in solutions, to realize an improvement in the activities and relationship in the workplace.

Another important observation that can assist in the development of prevention techniques are the lessons learnt from the tragedies in other workplaces.
This reveal that there is a need to apply techniques that will identify to eliminate or reduce the hazards, assess and control the associated risk, and influence the behaviour and attitudes of persons, since accidents are caused by the shortcomings in people, process and management applied systems.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this training, persons should be able to;
• Know the legislative requirements for accident prevention
• Use identification tools to assist in its prevention.
• Know the causes of accidents and the application for prevention.
• Know how to complete an accident report
• Use an assessment to eliminate, reduce or control accidents in the workplace.

When addressing accidents, remember, accidents do not happen, they are caused.