Accident, in general, refers to an unforeseen situation that causes death, illness, injury, damage or other loss.
The meaning of accident includes:
1. Accident is a kind of special event that occurs in human production and life activities, and accidents may occur in the course of any human production and life activities.
2, the accident is a kind of sudden occurrence, unexpected unexpected events. Because the causes of accidents are very complex, often including many accidental factors, and thus the occurrence of accidents has a random nature. Before an accident occurs, people can not accurately predict when, where and what kind of accident.
3, the accident is a forced production, life activities temporarily or permanently stop the event. Accidents interrupt and terminate people's normal activities, will inevitably bring some form of impact on people's production and life. Therefore, the accident is an event against people's will, is an event that people do not want to happen.
Expanded Information
Accidents are divided into production accidents and casualties among enterprise workers:
Production accidents refer to the process of production and business activities (including activities related to production and business), the sudden occurrence of injuries to personal safety and health or damage to equipment, facilities, or cause economic losses, resulting in the original activity temporarily suspended or permanently terminated accident.
The Provisions on Reporting and Handling of Accidents Involving Injuries and Deaths of Enterprise Employees have been repealed by the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation of Production Safety Accidents (Decree No. 493 of the State Council), which was promulgated on April 9, 2007, and are now in force.
Equipment accidents refer to equipment officially put into operation, in the course of production due to damage to equipment parts and components so that production is suddenly interrupted or caused by the interruption of the energy supply, causing damage to equipment so that production is interrupted.
Which in the production process of equipment safety protection device normal action, safety parts damage to production interruption without causing damage to other equipment is not classified as equipment accidents.
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