Despite twenty years of enforcement, the Danish work environment act of 1977 has failed in reducing accidents at work, despite its ambitious outline and empowerment of a number of institutions. A number of factors can certainly explain this disappointing status. One explanation of the maintained level of accidents is the lack of clustered intervention methods adapted to Danish workplaces. When several other Scandinavian countries during the seventies and eighties developed intervention methods and a accident prevention environment, Denmark turned its effort in the direction of the holistic understanding of prevention at work, and a tendency to give prevention of accidents, analysis of accidents, and learning from accidents a lower priority
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