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Industrial Safety 33
However the other general causes of accidents in workshops are listed under:
1. Because of ignorance to work with equipments, hand tools, cutting tools and machine
tools.
2. Operating machine and equipments without knowledge.
3. Extra curiosity to work without knowing.
4. Due to poor working conditions.
5. Because of speedy work.
6. Improper method to work.
7. Due to use of improper tools.
8. Because of lack of discipline.
9. Uninterested in work.
10. Due to carelessness.
11. Due to over confidence.
12. Bad working environment.
13. Because of excessive over times duty by industrial workers.
14. Dangerous materials with which to work.
15. Lack of cleanliness.
16. Due to poor planning.
In a conducted survey, it was observed that most of the accidents, to the tune of 98%,
could be easily avoided provided due precautions and care were adopted well in time. It was
stressed that accidents do happen but are caused due to the failure of one element or the
other. The most unfortunate and most common factor in occurring accidents is the human
element which occurs due to non-observance of the safety measures or safety rules. The past
statistics also reflects that the causes of accidents as well as the nature of accidents depend
entirely on the extent to which safety measures are adopted and not the manufacturing
processes or operation. The common causes which lead to accidents may be improper acts by
industrial personnel which result in violation of safety rules and non -observance of safety
precautions, due to improper tools, machinery and equipments or their unsafe or improper
use due to unsafe working position and unsafe working conditions in manufacturing areas.
Some major factors namely technical, unsafe working conditions, mechanical, environment,
human cause, unsafe acts and other personal factors are most responsible for accidents.
Technical causes or unsafe conditions involves deficiencies in plant, equipment, tools, machinery,
materials handling system, general work environment etc. Mechanical causes involve unsafe
design and construction of tools and devices, cutting tools, machines tools and mechanical
equipments, hazardous arrangement such as piling, over-loading etc, improper guards a against
dangerous machine components, defective tool and equipments, improper material handling,
leaking valves of acid and poisonous gases, and use of untested boilers and pressure vessels.
Environmental factors indicate improper physical and atmospheric surrounding conditions of
work which indirectly promote the occurrence of accidents These factors include too low
temperature to cause shivering, too high temperature to cause headache and sweating, too
high a humidity (in textile industry) to cause discomfort, fatigue and drowsiness, inadequate
illumination causing eyestrain, glares, and shadows, presence of dust, fumes and smokes in