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Slips, collisions and other accidental movement disturbances are very common in work situations and occur in every occupational activity sector. Research into these accidents was conducted at a hospital, based on analysing collectively and…

Prevention of occupational accidents today no longer seems the overriding concern in the prevention of occupational risks. Yet they still cause each year about 700 000 lost-time accidents. The decrease in their number was notably accompanied…

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In the first part, after discussing the specificity of risk taking in the work place, itsÊdifferent components are examined : danger, the worker, and the circumstances likely to join them together.
Risk taking is thus an…

Reviewing the evolution of the main national safety results (frequency and gravity rates) from 1974 to 1994 highlights an improvement in accident levels at work.
Beyond this observation, several points in question can, however, be distinguished…