Two Streams - Egocentric and Ergonomic: In Which One Are You Swimming?
1. New Zealand OHSIG Conference –
26-28 October 2011
Two Streams _ Egocentric and Ergonomic –
In Which One Are You Swimming?
Roger Kahler
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2. Classes of Damage
Classes of Damage
Permanent - Multiple Fatalities
- Single Fatality
- Non-fatal Permanent Damage
Temporary - Temporary e.g. LTI
Minor - Minor e.g.MTI
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3. Vision
Zero Harm
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4. A Strategic Pathway to the Vision of
Zero Harm
• Elimination of Permanent Personal
Damage
• Systematic reduction of Temporary and
Minor Damage
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5. Cost & Size of Personal Damage
Australia 2005/2006
100 30,900
$40.2B
80 $1301k av.
227,000
60 33,100 $0.7B 231,897
164,000
$10.5B $4.3B $3k av. ≈$0
40 $317k av. $26k av.
2,603
$1.9B
20 $730k av.
0
Permanent Permanent >5 days, <5 days, Minor
Fatal no return to reduced full duties full duties
work income
% of all occurences % of all costs
Total Incidents = 689,500 Total Cost = $57.6 billion
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6. Class I Non-Fatal Damage
(Injury and Disease – All Industries)
Percentage Percentage
Number of Number of
Change in Change in
Class I People in
Numbers Workforce
Year cases – No Workforce –
from Size from
Return to Full and Part
Previous Previous
Work* Time (million)
Period Period
1991-92 19290 - 7.5 -
2000-01 26900 28% 9.9 32%
2005-06 30900 15% 10.16 2.6%
* Excludes Permanently Reduced Income
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7. Likelihood of Class I Non-Fatal Damage
(Injury and Disease – All Australian Industries)
Likelihood (1 case per
Number of Class I
Year ‘x’ person years of
Cases*
exposure)
1992-93 50,000 1:150
2000-01 48,900 1:202
2005-06 64,000 1:158
* No Return to Work and Permanently Reduced Income
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8. New Zealand – 2007-2008
• Work-related Fatalities: 119
• Work-related Injuries (> 1 week): 37,700
• Workforce Numbers: 2.26 million
• 91.6% returned to work within year
• 82.3% returned to work within 6 months
• Does the 18% cost the most?
Source: ACC Facts Sheet
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9. New Zealand – 2007-2008
• Fatality Likelihood: 1:18,700 worker years
• Injury Likelihood: 1:60 worker years
Permanent Impairment Likelihood ?
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10. GOAL
Organisational
Psychology
≈ 80 years ≈ 60 years
1930 1950
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16. Egocentric Stream
• Failure model
• Unsafe acts model
These models are useful if fixing the point
of failure / unsafe act is an effective
solution
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17. The Bird accident ratio study - 1969
1 Serious or Disabling ANSI Z16.1
10 Minor Injuries
30 Property Damage Accidents
600 Incidents with No Visible Injury or Damage
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19. The Ergonomic Stream Attributes
(compared with Egocentric Stream) cont.
5. “Is” thinking (versus cause-effect)
6. Damage as a consequence of an Energy Exchange
7. Energy Management Strategies (versus Hierarchy of
Control)
8. Pareto Focus (versus Zero Harm)
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21. Key Dates / People / Concepts
– prior to 1970’s
• 1949 – Gordon and Gibson
– Injuries can be researched same as
infectious disease
• 1961 – Gibson and Haddon
– Injury as a consequence of an
energy exchange
• 1960s – Haddon – Pre Event / Event / Post Event
– 2D Matrix formed when he added
Human, Vehicle and Environment
• 1962 – Haddon – 10 Energy Management Strategies (“Escape of
Tigers”)
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23. McDonald’s Contribution
(1960’s and 1970’s) cont
5. Essential and Contributory Factors
6. Classifying Damaging Energies → Class I, Class II, Class
III
7. Accidents / Incidents → Damaging and Non-
Damaging Occurrences
8. The Taxonomic Process
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