ABSTRACT
The failure to assess risks and institute the necessary controls causes basic causes to exist. They in turn create the unsafe act and unsafe condition which, as Luck Factor 1 would have it, results either in an incident or a contact. In referring to the Bird and Germain accident ratio discussed previously, the determining factor among the 30 property damage accidents and the 11 that resulted in personal injury is largely fortuitous and is as a result of the domino entitled Luck Factor 2. Traditionally, most safety efforts were directed at one specific type of loss – injury to people. The outcome could be injury to people, damage to property or process interruption.” In the first instance, the brick falls to the ground and causes neither damage nor injury but minor process interruption, as the brick has to be picked up and returned to its original position.
