Abstract
The severity and nature of industrial injuries vary with the type of job involved. In the steel industry where people are handling heavy, hot objects there is much danger and injury and strict codes of practice need to be provided and complied with if the hazards are to be avoided. The maintenance of a register of all injuries is essential but equally important is a register of incidents which do not involve personal injury but are still a potential hazard. Registers of this sort tend to reflect constant patterns of injury. For example, minor cuts are a steady feature of accident reports in histological laboratories. Accident and incident registers are the basis for improved patterns of work that should reduce injury at work.
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Gresham, G.A. (1986). Injury at Work. In: Colour Atlas of Wounds and Wounding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4123-6_4
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