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PURPOSE OF ACCIDENT REPORTS AND STATISTICS *
Author(s) -
RICHARD H.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2478.1957.tb01419.x
Subject(s) - accident (philosophy) , statistics , interpretation (philosophy) , summary statistics , computer science , forensic engineering , engineering , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
The President of the E.A.E.G. Safety Committee has stated that European geophysicists fail to attach sufficient importance to accident statistics. Nevertheless these statistics are the best means at our disposal for the study of the factors influencing the number and severity of accidents. It appears essential that two points should be stressed, firstly that the accident reports must be completed correctly, and secondly that the interpretation of each report and of the statistical data must be done systematically. If these conditions are fulfilled it should be possible to create, at all levels, a technical and psychological atmosphere which would do much to protect geophysicists against accidents.