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The triangle shows a relationship between the number of accidents resulting in serious injury, minor injuries or no injuries. The relationship was first proposed in 1931 by Herbert William Heinrich in his Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach. [1] Heinrich was a pioneer in the field of workplace health and safety.
Heinrich's classic work was refuted by a 1980 book Industrial Accident Prevention, by Nestor Roos, H Heinrich, Julienne Brown and Dan Petersen. [6]Heinrich Revisited: Truisms or Myths by Fred A. Manuele, CSP, PE [2002, ISBN 0-87912-245-5 published by National Safety Council offers the following in the last chapter.
A red link to the socalled "heinrich's law" also called "heinrich's principle" or "Heinrich's triangle" or "Heinrich's accident triangle" or "Heinrich ratio" or "Heinrich’s Pyramid". this law say that for one accident with major injury, there are 29 accident with minor injury und 300 no injury accident. It's from the 1930s.
Accident triangles have been proposed to model the number of minor problems vs. the number of serious incidents. These include Heinrich's triangle [9] and Frank E. Bird's accident ratio triangle (proposed in 1966 and shown above). Many models to characterize and analyze accidents have been proposed, [10] which can be classified by type.
English: Bird's accident ratio triangle: This presents the ratio between the number of accidents causing various levels of injuries, near misses, and unsafe acts in an industrial setting Date 24 March 2010
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