ABSTRACT
Many home and work injuries involve falls from heights. The human body is not designed to resist impacts well, and the resulting injuries are unpredictable in their extent. This is where luck has a place in safety – the outcome of fall injuries is mostly dictated by chance. People have failed to survive a fall from as little as a metre; others have survived unbroken falls from 10m. Because the outcome in any individual case cannot be known in advance, the only course to follow must be one of prevention.
