The Importance of Investigation WORK ACCIDENT
Safety and accident prevention work must have a very big concern of any party carrying out work, both in the laboratory and in other industries, or other workplaces. Several reasons can be is, one of them, because the number of work accidents was quite Surprising. For example in the United is the last year there were more than 6200 people died or above 6.5 million injured in workplace accidents. This means more than 8 cases per 100 workers in an accident at work. Even some of the work safety experts believe that the real figure even higher than the reported figures. Therefore many accidents that happen and are not reported.
The figures above showed the how the suffering of employees, families of employees, as well as any fees incurred by the management or managing the work place. In countries such as America to a serious accident cases usually cost more than $ 23,000, -. This is yet again taking into account the legal implications resulting from the accident.
The word "accident" in Indonesian is coincidence or accident. Giving this meaning is not appropriate because there is nothing in the workplace happens by chance or accident. In ancient Roman times things right this time because at that time governing law of cause and effect is not yet known by society and government. Thus believed that the physical events (including accidents) controlled by the gods. But entering the third millennium, human understanding of physical events developed too fast. As a result the society's belief that an "accident" does not happen just by chance. Communities have begun to Realize that such an accident and happened because of the existence of factors that cause. Factors that encourage the cause occurrence of an accident. Or in other words, an accident occurred because there are obvious reasons and can be expected (predictable). Most of the accidents Arise because of these factors that can be identified. That is why the investigation and identification of the reasons for the accident to be significant in order to avoid similar accidents in the future.
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