Citation

Sheehy NP, Chapman AJ. J. Occup. Accid. 1988; 10(1): 21-28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The incidence of robot and CNC related accidents has not been considered a significant occupational safety issue. It is suggested that this is partly due to a process of denial arising from the belief that accidents involving such machines cannot occur except in cases of gross negligence. It is argued that control processes founded on advances in information technology redistribute the risk of injury rather than eliminate that risk. This is likely to lead to the replacement of 'traditional' accidents, about which we know quite a lot, with information technology accidents, about which we know relatively little.