Definition of Occupational Incident

A incident it is what happens in the course of an affair and that has the force, due to the implications that it entails, of completely changing its course and of course hindering the situation from developing normally as it had been doing.

Event that modifies the normal course of events

Among the most common incidents we can cite a fight or fight between two or more people, or in his default groups, who confront each other because they do not agree on something and then such confrontation derives on verbal violence or physical, or both.
Also those unexpected events such as a fire or earthquake can be considered as incidents that they change the normal course of things and of course cause severe havoc and consequences dire.

Depending on the severity of the incident, it will be necessary to reschedule the activities that were taking place or to start all over again ...

Then, incidents can occur in various contexts and situations, one of the most common is the field of work that will occupy us in this review.

Event that is not sought but that happens in the development of a work task and produces slight consequences to the worker's health

Meanwhile, in the work environment, a work incident It is an unwanted event or caused during the normal performance of the work activities that are carried out normally and that could lead to physical harm, injury, occupational disease, of the worker in question.

It is because of this situation that workplace incidents are often referred to as near misses or white accidents, because they do not produce a specific injury or illness in the worker as it does in the case of the work accidents, to put it in clearer terms, in the work incident all the circumstances were combined so that the event ended in an accident but This finally does not happen and there is no serious and irreversible damage to the worker, such as death or the inability to work for life.

Difference with the work accident

On the other hand, the work accident is an event that alters the normal functioning of the company and causes specific injuries to workers. It may be the result of human error, for example, the worker carried several glass boxes in his hands and did not see a step on the road and trips over it, dropping the contents of the boxes completely on his legs, causing several cuts to his legs. themselves. Or, failing that, it may be a mechanical error, that is, a structural or functional deficiency in a machine that causes an employee accident. The fastener of a metal curtain is released and it falls on a worker causing him several cuts.

In some way, we could say that the labor incident is a call for attention so that the measures of safety and for workers and employers to become aware of the risks of their work.

We must say that beyond the risks and dangers that each activity may imply, that they exist and cannot be erased no matter how much they extreme security precautions, we must say that having the proper security measures and instruments that serve to mitigating an incident will obviously reduce the possibility of incidents, and if they do occur, their consequences can be minimized without place to doubt.

Extreme security

Given the seriousness that a workplace accident can have and also to prevent an incident from turning into an accident is that the same companies, the organisms Governments and other specialized agencies in the field, have been dedicating themselves especially in recent years to the development of effective measures of prevention, including training and improvements in working conditions to completely eradicate this type of event and obviously a lot of control in the workplaces to determine effectively and on site if the safety protocols that each activity are followed holds.

Obviously an office worker will not be subjected to the serious dangers to which a worker in the workplace is usually affected. building.
The latter may suffer more incidents due to the risky activity that he carries out.
Those who are sitting in an office doing administrative tasks only will of course not have so many risks to suffer a priori.