Tales of the unexpectec

摘要

In recent years, health and safety practitioners have increasingly been questioning the validity of the Heinrich Triangle, which claims that reducing unsafe acts and unsafe conditions will eventually lead to a reduction in severe injuries. The fundamental question is: if the Triangle is correct, why hasn't the decline in injury rates been reflected in the fatality rate? (According to HSE statistics, over the last five years the major-injury incidence rate has gone down from 113.5 per 100,000 workers to 99, while the fatality rate has seen a much smaller decrease, from 0.8 to O.5.)