The Causes of Work Accidents
8 planned deliberately. Also, the accident is commonly followed by material
damage and suffering from the lightest to the heaviest ones.
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Generally, the causes of an accident in the workplace are: 1.
Fatigue; 2.
Environmental aspects and unsafe working conditions; 3.
Lack of control over the job of workers, the pre-cause is the lack of training;
4. Characteristics of the work itself.
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According to Suma’mur, 80-85 of accidents are caused by
negligence unsafe human acts and human errors. Accidents and human errors include age, gender, work experience and education. Errors will
increase when workers are under stress due to the workload which is not normal or when the working capacity decreases due to exhaustion.
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The sources of accident causes can be divided into 2 two groups, namely:
a. Immediate Causes
This group consists of two factors, namely: 1
Unsafe Acts such as the use of a safety device that is not appropriate or is not working; attitudes and ways of working that are not
appropriate; the use of unsafe equipment; and dangerous movements. 2
Unsafe Conditions such as the unavailability of safety equipment or ineffective safety equipment, a dirty and messy workplace, improper
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Ibid, p. 76
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I Gede Widayana and I Gede Wiratmaja, Op. Cit., p. 9
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Cecep Dani Sucipto, Op. Cit, p. 77
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environment which do not qualify. b.
Contributing Causes 1
Safety Management Systems such as unclear instructions, violations of the rules, the absence of safety planning, absence of work safety
socialization, unidentified danger factors, unavailability of safety devices and others.
2 Workers’ Mental Conditions such as poor awareness of work safety,
the absence of coordination, bad attitudes, slow work pace, lack of attention to safety, unstable emotion, anger and others.
3 Workers’ Physical Conditions such as frequent seizures, ineligible
health conditions, deafness, eye myopia and others.
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