Citation

Cempel C, Tabaszewski M, Ordysiński S. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2015; 22(2): 173-178.

Affiliation

a Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB) , Poland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2015.1131071

PMID

26655044

Abstract

Allometry is the knowledge concerning relations between the features of some beings, like animals, or cities. For example, daily energy rate is proportional to the mass of mammals rise of 3/4 [1]. This way of thinking has spread quickly from biology to many areas of research concerned with sociotechnical systems. It was revealed that the number of innovations, patents or heavy crimes rises as social interaction increases in a bigger city [2], while others urban indexes like suicides decrease with social interaction [3]. Enterprise is also a sociotechnical system, where social interaction and accidents at work take place. Therefore, do these interactions increase the number of accidents at work or, on the contrary, are they reduction-driving components? This paper tries to catch such links and assess the allometric exponent between the number of accidents at work and the number of employees in an enterprise.

Language: en