Accident Prevention

Accidents by definition are unplanned and unexpected events which cause harm through injury, ill health, disability and death; losses through property damage and production losses; negative impacts on the environment or any combination of these. Accident prevention refers to the plans and actions taken to avoid or to stop these events and requires a multi-disciplinary approach where various strategies are implemented to protect lives, lessen the severity of injury or disability, reduce losses, and improve morale, the basis of which is effective risk management.

As SCAP members we believe that proactive risk management is the key to all preventive strategies, and we will expand our programme with this concept in mind.

The focus for the past two years has been the investigation of adverse health outcomes as a means of identifying adverse health outcomes, investigating these and implementing corrective action to prevent a recurrence.