Wybrane metody analityczne redukcji ryzyka wypadkowego w górnictwie

Ustalenie okoliczności i przyczyn wypadków przy pracy jest jednym z podstawowych obowiązków pracodawcy zapisanym w art. 234 §1 kodeksu pracy. Celem procesu badania wypadku jest zidentyfikowanie przyczyn i okoliczności w jakich miał on miejsce, a następnie na tej podstawie podjęcie działań naprawczych, zapobiegających podobnym zdarzeniom w przyszłości. W tym kontekście w artykule omówiono wybrane metody badania wypadków oraz podano przykłady ich zastosowania dla celów redukcji ryzyka wypadkowego.

One of the employer’s basic duties is to investigate the circumstances and causes of work-related accidents as stated in Art. 234 §1 of the Polish Labour Code. The aim of the investigation is to identify causes and circumstances of an accident, and then, on that basis, take corrective actions, preventing similar accidents in the future. According to the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP), approximately one third of companies inspected by PIP, either fails to identify all causes of accidents or identify different causes than PIP inspectors. The reasons for such a situation are twofold: “practical” and “technical”. The first one, “practical”, represents employers’ natural unwillingness to show causes of an accident which are their own fault. The second one, “technical”, results from the lack of knowledge of methodology to investigate accidents which would enable a full analysis of all hazards and causes of accidents, both the direct ones and the indirect ones. Without identifying all of the causes of an accident, proper correction actions cannot be taken i.e. similar recurring accidents, will not be prevented in the future. In this way an employer misses information on possible ways to reduce occupational hazards. One of the ways to prevent such situations is employing methods of analyzing workplace accidents available in the literature. This paper discusses the selected methods of investigating accidents and presents examples of their use to reduce the risk of accident occurrence in the future.