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Bird’s Triangle

Danish translation: Frank Birds trekantsteori

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English term or phrase:Bird’s Triangle
Danish translation:Frank Birds trekantsteori
Entered by: Hanne Rask Sonderborg

13:29 Jul 30, 2008
English to Danish translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: Bird’s Triangle
it is just this term - nothing more

it has to do with safety at the work place
Jytte Crooks
Local time: 21:08
Frank Birds trekantsteori
Explanation:
"Bird (1969) - for EACH serious injury there are likely to be 10 minor injuries, 30 property damage accidents and 600 non injury accidents."
http://www.iosh.org.uk/index.cfm?go=discussion.view&forum=1&...

"As is typical throughout the nuclear industry, the UKAEA uses the Bird Triangle to emphasise the importance of reporting, investigating and correcting the causes of even minor events. A UKAEA Bulletin
10, describing their new (2003) management of an unusual occurrence system (UNOR), states that research carried out by Frank E Bird
who investigated 2,000,000 accidents showed that for every event leading to major injury there can be as many as 10 causing minor injury, 30 causing property damage.
http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/Accid...
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Hanne Rask Sonderborg
Denmark
Local time: 22:08
Grading comment
Thank you very much
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3 +1Frank Birds trekantsteori
Hanne Rask Sonderborg


  

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bird’s triangle
Frank Birds trekantsteori


Explanation:
"Bird (1969) - for EACH serious injury there are likely to be 10 minor injuries, 30 property damage accidents and 600 non injury accidents."
http://www.iosh.org.uk/index.cfm?go=discussion.view&forum=1&...

"As is typical throughout the nuclear industry, the UKAEA uses the Bird Triangle to emphasise the importance of reporting, investigating and correcting the causes of even minor events. A UKAEA Bulletin
10, describing their new (2003) management of an unusual occurrence system (UNOR), states that research carried out by Frank E Bird
who investigated 2,000,000 accidents showed that for every event leading to major injury there can be as many as 10 causing minor injury, 30 causing property damage.
http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/Accid...

Example sentence(s):
  • Jeg kan ændre på ting og sager, har haft meget lyst til at afprøve Hennings trekantsteori.
  • Ensvinklede trekanter, konstruktion med passer og lineal, "gammeldags trekantsteori", sinus og cosinus i den retvinklede trekant.

    Reference: http://kindir.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2478&start=75&sid=806...
    Reference: http://studie.aasg.dk/280_undervisningsbeskrivelse_etforloeb...
Hanne Rask Sonderborg
Denmark
Local time: 22:08
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you very much

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