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Article: Safety practices in high-risk industries: dangerous jobs challenge workers in extraordinary ways. They also provide safety experts valuable lessons. Here are some of them. (Cover Story).
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- Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
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- September 1, 2002
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Safety experts stress that accidents not random occurrences. They happen for a reason, usually resulting from interactions among people, machines and their environments. They're unplanned, unwanted--and nearly always preventable. Accidents are the leading cause of death for Americans under 45 years old, says the National Safety Council (NSC). Unfortunately, they're often the only signal that an industry's standards must change.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), all industries are not equal when it comes to worker risk. Meatpacking, auto building, shipbuilding and foundry work, for example, lead U.S. manufacturing jobs in injuries and ...