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Accident Prevention

Definition - What does Accident Prevention mean?
Accident prevention refers to the plans, preparations, and actions taken to avoid accidents or stop them from taking place.

Accident prevention includes all measures taken in an effort to save lives, escape from injury, lessen the degrees of injury, avoid damage to property, reduce treatment and compensation costs, and prevent the loss of productive time and morale.
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OSH explains Accident Prevention
The old proverb that "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure" holds true for workplace accidents. It is much better to prevent an adverse event from happening than to try to fix the damage after it has already happened.

While it's impossible for employers to predict every single accident, it is their duty to anticipate that accidents will happen and put control measures in place to prevent them or lessen the damage they cause. They have a legal obligation to comply with the laws, standard practices, and safety observations to avoid emergencies and accidents.

Many accidents occur due to human factors, such as:

1.Unsafe behavior
2.Inattention
3.Negligence
4.Lack of knowledge
5.Inadequate training
6.Working conditions is another leading factor of accidents. Unsafe working conditions can include faulty machines, bad work design, substandard processes, and occupational hazards.

Accidents will continue to happen if preventative measures are not taken. Accident prevention can be achieved by commitment and cooperation between management, safety programs, safety culture, and accountability. Prevention requires the following actions:

Conducting a risk assessment to identify hazards
Using research and development to optimize work processes and eliminate hazards
Taking unsafe machinery and tools out of service immediately
Improving working conditions and the workplace environment
Ensuring trainings

Construction site safety is one of the most overlooked things during a construction project. In most workplaces, accidents are a nuisance for the worker and a headache for HR. However, at construction sites, accidents have the potential to be life-threatening. With every new story about environmental disasters, earth-shattering explosions, and trapped laborers, construction sites become less and less appealing — even as the population grows and demands new, updated structures increases.
Construction work is one of the most dangerous professions. And work on the job site is where most accidents occur. Employers do need to mitigate safety hazards to construction workers, but workers need to keep in mind a lot of precautions themselves when working in such hazardous conditions. Thus, construction industry leaders must strive to safeguard their employees — if not for ethical reasons, then for the economic ones. Here are eight ways construction businesses can reduce workplace accidents and promote construction site safety.

1. Awareness

Before any worker — no matter his or her role or experience level — can set foot on a construction site, he or she must be fully aware of the possible hazards. Ignorant workers are perhaps the biggest dangers in any industry, as their unknowing mistakes put everyone else at risk. Understanding of perils at hand and sustaining a perpetual state of alertness is perhaps the number-one best way to prevent accidents. To become aware of such risks and how to avoid them,
OSHA Safety Check Lists. Every single person that steps foot onto a construction site should be aware of the risks associated with the job and how to prevent them with their knowledge of construction site safety.

It is the construction managers job to make sure that every worker is aware of the dangers that come with working on a construction site and they must protect workers from these dangers.

Construction work is a hazardous land-based job. Some construction site jobs include: building houses, roads, tree forts, workplaces and repair and maintain infrastructures. This work includes many hazardous task and conditions such as working with height, excavation, noise, dust, power tools and equipmen.