A accident is a random event , fortuitous, which involves damage with respect to the nobody S, of the goods or the Environnement.
Description
The term “Incident” indicates an accident having benign Conséquence S (concept of gravity being complex and related to the social meaning of the consequences). It can be used without negative connotation, such as for example in the Clinamen.
An accident of great width concerning a great number of people is called a Catastrophe (an example is the Catastrophe of Tchernobyl).
The accident can be of physical nature:
- a Collision (nondesired) between two cars;
- a ball lost involving the Dead or the Disability of a person;
- a nonintentional and which had Explosion, for example, with a technical Failure.
It can also be of a different nature:
- the revelation of a secrecy;
- a disagreement on a subject (Diplomatic incident).
Taking into account
The analysis of the accidents and their Statistique S is largely used to take measures:
- of Prevention, in order to decrease their probability of occurrence;
- of Protection, in order to limit their consequences.
In addition, the accident risk at the time of the realization of new building S, works of art, infrastructures, installations, means of Transport, equipment, products, etc, are controlled by the respect of provisions either lawful, or necessary (what is determined by the studies of Sécurité) to achieve the contractual goals of safety. These provisions can include/understand tests of safety, making it possible to make sure of the validity of the design or the realization of a product, a machine, a work. It is the case in particular for the machines of handling (for example, a slide bridge), which could not be brought into service before a test of handling carried out with a Charge higher than the Nominal load of the machine.
In philosophy
In Metaphysical, the accident is the opposite of the gasoline. It is what can be modified or removed without the thing in itself changing or disappears.
It is about a philosophical concept of origin aristotelician. It indicates all " what belongs to a thing and that one can tell truth of it but not in a way necessary nor of way générale" : accidental is for example the discovery of a treasure by that which digs to plant a tree; indeed that always occurs neither (or necessarily) nor generally ( Métaphysique 30, 1025a14 and following E21026b and following). Aristote makes the difference between accidental properties (occasional) and essential properties (persistent or eternal) of a being: the accident is what belongs to each thing for oneself but which does not enter its gasoline.
See too
accident|Accident
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