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ENGG5103 Week 2 Lecture Notes 2021: 1. What Types of "Incidents or Accidents" Can You List?

The document contains lecture notes from an ENGG5103 Week 2 class. It lists various types of incidents and accidents such as vehicle accidents, falling, natural disasters, and more. It also lists potential causes of accidents like human error, mistakes, lack of supervision, and engineering errors. Finally, it provides an example risk assessment of lawn mowing, identifying hazards, associated risk levels, and suggested risk controls.

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ENGG5103 Week 2 Lecture Notes 2021: 1. What Types of "Incidents or Accidents" Can You List?

The document contains lecture notes from an ENGG5103 Week 2 class. It lists various types of incidents and accidents such as vehicle accidents, falling, natural disasters, and more. It also lists potential causes of accidents like human error, mistakes, lack of supervision, and engineering errors. Finally, it provides an example risk assessment of lawn mowing, identifying hazards, associated risk levels, and suggested risk controls.

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ENGG5103 Week 2 Lecture Notes 2021

These notes are created during the lecture by student discussion to question prompts

1. What types of “incidents or accidents” can you list?


• Vehicle accident
• Falling
• Natural
• Electric shock
• Air crash
• Earthquake
• Fire
• Building failure
• Terrorist
• Electric grid
• Ground subsidence
• Drowning
• Tripping
• Explosions
• Poisons
• Mine blasts
• Man made
• Nuclear
• Mechanical failure
• Flood
• Train derailment
• Gas leakage
• Crane collapse

2. Possible accident/incident causes?


• Miscommunication
• Human errors
• Mistakes
• Lack of supervision
• Lack of management
• Wrong operation
• No safety controls
• System failures
• Overconfidence
• War
• Design flaw/deflect
• Engineering error
• Aging components
• Cover up the truth
• Fatigue
• Substandard materials
• Lack of training
• Lack of skills
• Lack of back-up plan and contingency planning
• Aging facilities
• Quality problem
• Lack of legislation
Example risk assessment: Lawn mowing
1. What are the possible hazards?

2. What are the associated levels of risk?

3. What are the suggested controls?


a. Elimination
b. Substitution
c. Engineering
d. Administrative
e. Personal Protective Equipment

https://www.bestmowerreview.com/are-lawn-mowers-age-restricted/
No Hazard Risk Controls
1 Falling
2 Slips and trips Possible, minor/moderate -> medium risk Eliminate – robots etc, PPE – better shoes, Admin – mow
when not wet
3 Entanglement
4 Noise Almost cert/insignificant -> medium PPE - Hearing protection, Admin – training/doc, ELIM –
electric
5 Overheat
6 Skin irritation
7 Can’t control the machine
8 Cuts
9 Irritation breathing from grass
10 Electric shock

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