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Industrial Safety 31
product. Also, the financial burden of disabled persons and their dependents have to be born
by society. Thus every citizen in a nation has to bear a proportion of the cost of accidents.
Every care and prevention therefore should be evolved adopted to prevent accidents to the
maximum possible extents. Accidents do not just happen but they are caused because of
failure to follow the needed safety precautions and safety rules. If someone is honest with
himself, he cannot think of a single accident that could not have been prevented by care.
There are various types of common accidents needing due attention to prevent them which
are as follows:
1. Near Accident
An accident with no damage or injury is called near accident.
2. Trivial
An accident with very less damage is called trivial.
3. Minor Accident
It is an accident with damage and injury more than trivial.
4. Serious Accident
An accident with heavy damage and lot of injury is called serious accident.
5. Fatal
It is an accident with very heavy damage. There may be loss of lives also.
3.4.1 Effect of Accidents
The adverse effects of the accident are given as under—
(A) Effect on the owner of factory
(i) Direct cost of an accident
1. Cost of the compensation paid to the workers.
2. Cost of the money paid for treatment.
3. Cost of the monetary value of damaged tools, equipments and materials.
(ii) Indirect cost of an accident
1. Cost of the lost time of injured worker.
2. Cost of the time lost by other employees.
3. Cost of the delays in production.
4. Cost of the time lost by supervisors, safety engineers etc.
5. Cost of the lowered production due to substitute worker.
(B) Effect on worker
1. The industrial workers may get temporary or permanent disability.
2. If the industrial worker dies, his family loses the earner and the compensation
never equals to his earnings.
3. Accident also affects the morale of the employees working in the manufacturing
environment.
(C) Effect on society
Work connected with injuries put a considerable burden on society also as given as
under: