Monthly Archive: April 2012

Apr
05

Heinrich’s theories challenged

In the 1930′s, William Herbert Heinrich, an employee working for Traveler’s Insurance Company, published groundbreaking theories about safety and health in the workplace. One such theory became known as Heinrich’s Law: that in a workplace, for every accident that causes a major injury, there are 29 accidents that cause minor injuries and 300 accidents that cause no …

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