Industrial Safety and Health

User Generated

gx2018

Engineering

Description

Industrial Safety and Health

Spring 2018

Assignment III

Assigned: 02/28/2018

Due: 03/07/2018

Employees in a warehouse go to bins, retrieve materials needed to fill orders by hand, carry the materials to loading docks, load materials on customer’s trucks. The employees are required to use PPE such as hard hats, gloves, steel-toed boots, back supports. During the summer, injury rates go up because the heat makes wearing the PPE uncomfortable.

a) How would you describe what happened using Domino Theory? Epidemiological theory? Human Factors Theory? Behavioral theory?

User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.

Explanation & Answer

Attached.

Running head: ACCIDENT CAUSATION

Industrial Safety and Health: Accident Causation
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation

1

ACCIDENT CAUSATION

2

Industrial Safety and Health: Accident Causation
How would you describe what happened using Domino Theory? Epidemiological theory?
Human Factors Theory? Behavioral theory?
Domino Theory
The change in atmosphere in summer creates a series of events at the warehouse that
eventually result in high rate of injury. As proposed by Herbert Heinrich in the Domino theory, it
is the actions of preceding factors that eventually results in injuries (Goetsch, 2011). During the
summer, the atmosphere in the warehouse became hot making it uncomfortable for the
employees to keep the per...


Anonymous
Excellent resource! Really helped me get the gist of things.

Studypool
4.7
Trustpilot
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4

Related Tags