Abstract
IN this important little book Mr. Eric Farmer examines critically all the alleged causes of accidents and concludes that, even allowing for chance and for biased liability as factors, there are some people who are inherently more liable to accidents than others. As the people with a high accident rate also tend to have a high sickness rate and to be less efficient, he thinks that these are the people who find modern industrial conditions too great a strain. Accident-prone people should, if possible, be employed in occupations where there is little risk. For this to be effective, careful and detailed records of accidents in various occupations are needed and further research along the lines already started by Mr. Farmer into those personal factors which, the evidence shows, play such an important part.
The Causes of Accidents: Three Lectures on Recent Research into the Causes of Accidents given at the Royal Society of Arts under the Heath Clark Request to the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.
Eric
Farmer
By. Pp. vii + 88. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1932.) 3s. 6d. net.
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The Causes of Accidents: Three Lectures on Recent Research into the Causes of Accidents given at the Royal Society of Arts under the Heath Clark Request to the National Institute of Industrial Psychology . Nature 131, 895 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131895b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131895b0