What is an accident?
1. Oxford Dictionary
An unforeseeable event often resulting in injury.
2. British Safety Council
A management error; the result of errors or omissions on the part
of management.
3. Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Any deviation from the normal, the expected or the planned usually
resulting in injury.
4. Frank Bird, American Exponent of ‘Total Loss Control’
An unintended or unplanned happening that may or may not result
in personal injury, property damage, work process stoppage or
interference, or any combination of these conditions under such
circumstances that personal injury might have resulted.
5. Health and Safety Unit, University of Aston
An unexpected, unplanned event in a sequence of events that
occurs through a combination of causes. It results in physical harm
(injury or disease) to an individual, damage to property, business
interruption or any combination of these effects.