Citation

Saari JT, Lahtela J. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1979; 11(1): 51-60.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The study was conducted in nine light metal working factories in the Helsinki area. In four of the plants the accident frequency was less and in five it was higher than the average of this industry in Finland. Every sixth worker was selected for the study. Their jobs and places of work were described by a set of criteria related to accident potential. The results indicate that the dangers (e.g. unguarded machine parts) were more prevalent in the factories with the higher annual accident frequency. In the plants with higher accident frequency the jobs and tasks of individual workers were more varied, less frequently repeated, less preplanned, more mobile, and required assimilation of more complex information than those in the factories with low accident frequency. When the prevalence of the dangers was normalized for these factors very few differences remained between the two groups of plants.