Accidents can be major or minor, with major resulting in prolonged injury or disability. Accidents can also be internal, involving injuries like fractures or strains not visible externally, or external with visible cuts or burns. Safety is important for cost savings by reducing direct and indirect costs from accidents. It also improves productivity by allowing workers to focus on quality instead of safety. Providing safety is a legal and moral requirement, as management cannot legally or ethically endanger employees' health or lives. Lack of adequate inspections can contribute to accident rates, which are measured by incidence, severity, and frequency rates involving numbers of injuries and hours worked.

1. Accidents:-An accident says that it is a unplanned event in which an action or reaction of an object a substance a
person or a reaction result into personel injury.
Types of Accident:-
Major Accident-Which results into prolonged injury tune into disability.
Minor Accidents:-A Minor injury which does not results into prolonged disability or injury.
Accidents can be further classified as:
Internal Accidents: Injury which does not appears outside like injury in bone fracture or nerve strain.
External Accidents:The Injury that a worker faces and it is shown out is external injury like cutdown of arm
burndown.
Need For Safety:-
Cost saving:-By Implying safety measures one can save the cost incurred through Direct and Indirect cost.
Increased Productivity:-People working in safe environment can devote more time in improving quality and
quantity in order concentrating on their safety
Meeting Legal and Moral Requirements:
Management must minimize the pain and suffering the injured worker and his/her family is often exposed to as a
result of accident.
(Providing safety to the employees has moral dimensions in addition to being a legal requirement .An employer
has no right to cause accident to an employee which in capacitate him/her or kill the person .Monetary does not
bring the persons as a healthy person back.
Cause Of accident rates:
1:Lack of Adequate Inspection adds to problem of industrial accidents.
Acccident rates
Incidence rate=number of recordable incidence*1million /number of employee exposure hours.
Severity rate=total hours charged *1million/no.of employee hours worked
Frequency rate=no.of disabaling injuries*1 million/no.of employees worked