Citation

Vernon HM. Int. Lab. Rev. 1936; 34: 772-781.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1936, International Labour Organisation)

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Abstract

Until comparatively recent years, it was supposed that the preveniton of industrial accidents depended chiefly on the adequate guarding of machinery and other mechanical appliances used in production; but it is now realised that the majority of the accdents incurred in most branches of industry are not connected at all with machinery.

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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