The causes of electrical fatalities at work

摘要

Successful accident prevention relies to a large extent on knowledge about the causes of accidents. The Australian World-Related Fatalities Study pro- vided the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the causes of fatal accidents at work by summarizing the circumstances of all fatal accidents occurring in Australia over a three-year period. This paper reports on a fur- ther analysis of the immediate and wider circumstances of work-related deaths due to electricity. This analysis looked at two groups of cases: first, where the direct cause of death was contact with electricity(electrocution); and second, where deaths occurred in occupations with high exposure to elec- tricity(electrical and related trades)but where the cause of death was not necessarily electrocution.