What Is Carelessness?

(4 min.) Carelessness should never be used as the cause of any accident. You need to determine the cause of all accidents and that means investigating the accident. There are always definable causes to accidents. The misuse of the word "careless" indicates a human factor that contributed to an accident. What does "careless" mean? Care-less...if that''s the meaning, careless about what: accidents, injuries, other employees? No, caring less was not the cause. What we''re leading up to is trying to redefine the many things supervisors and employees label as carelessness.

Topics included in this safety video are: examples of unsafe behavior, unsafe acts, or failure to do something that causes accidents.

Program comes with a CD-ROM of written materials, including test questions and answers. English title also includes PowerPoint presentation.