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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?
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Industrial Safety and Health: Accident Causation
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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...
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