Citation

Bailey P. Ment. Hyg. 1917; 1(2): 196-210.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1917, National Association for Mental Health)

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Abstract

At the risk of saying something that everyone knows, I should like at the onset to hazard a definition of efficiency, as production which secures a full output in the shortest time with the least effort, and which reduces waste to a minimum.... The conclusion of the whole matter seems to lie in this, that the principles adopted in industrial production may be applied with advantage to affairs purely human...To this may be answered that idleness has long been recognized as the short cut to ruin and its pleasures have never proved enduring. Even under a program that seems at first sight severe, work that taps a man's best energies, regularity and order are the most certain of happiness.

Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.



Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".

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