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Many diseases and most accidents are similar in that almost all accidents, like many diseases, are preventable by reducing exposure or eliminating the conditions which create them. Therefore, the principles of epidemiology may be applied to accident analysis (174) to identify areas of deficiency in organizations desiring to reduce the incidence of accidents or exposure to accidents among its staff.
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Rayburn, S.R. (1990). Accident Reduction and Emergency Planning. In: The Foundations of Laboratory Safety. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3320-6_22
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